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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #131

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A look at which games published this year have sold the best and other RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, Asmodee, Autarch, carbon 2185, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darrington press, demiplane, dragon turtle games, everway, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, foundry vtt, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, Independence Games, invisible sun, lightspress media, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, mcdm, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, rebellion unplugged, roll20, root, routinely itemised, salvage union, sine nomine publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, strixhaven, the between, the expanse rpg, the merciless merchants, TSR, warehouse 23, warhammer, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, wrath & glory

The best selling horror RPGs of 2021

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Horror is more straightforward of an RPG genre to assign to games; if the designer says, “this is supposed to be horror, ” it’s horror with less debate.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, Arc Dream Publishing, Chaosium, Cults of the Blood Gods, Delta Green, drivethrurpg, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, greg gillespie, joseph mccullough, mothership, Necrotic Gnome, onyx path publishing, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, Tuesday Knight Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, wyrd miniatures

What are the highest-rated Strixhaven D&D supplements?

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are community content Strixhaven downloads any good? Short answer; yes, it seems so!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, strixhaven

R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk TTRPG classics back on Humble Bundle

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s over £375 worth of tabletop RPG content here, with the low tier starting at the traditional £0.76 and the top collection asking £13.27 or more.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2020, cyberpunk red, humble bundle, R. Talsorian Games, sales

Wizards of the Coast urge people to actually read the latest D&D errata as they update it again

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I urge all of you to read the errata documents for yourselves. A lot of assertions about the errata we’ve noticed in various online discussions aren’t accurate.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Ray Winniger, wizards of the coast

The best selling historical RPGs of 2021

December 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

What’s certain is that this table is a way to get an exciting look at games newly out this year and perhaps see names new to us.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, Achtung! Cthulhu, Andrews McMeel, beowulf, brancalonia, drivethrurpg, edge, fantasy age, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hearts of wulin, jackals, Legend of the Five Rings, Modiphius Entertainment, osprey games, stats, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Design Mechanism, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, wyrd miniatures

Trinity Knot Studio: Gorgeous 5e character journals find success on Kickstarter

December 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The campaign has been successful enough to unlock the GMs Campaign Journal. This is a larger book, will be spiral-bound and have sections for players, NPCs, locations, factions and notes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: character sheet, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Outland announces TTRPG Hopeless, Maine for the Tombpunk system

December 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Take some time to travel round an island locked in time, an island where Werewolves run the local stores, where magic and strange mechanical devices run hand in hand and where the island itself watches every move you make.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, Outland Entertainment, steampunk, tombpunk

Asmodee will sell for €2.75bn to the video game owner of Gearbox, Koch and THQ Nordic

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Embracer Group is lined up to buy the board game powerhouse for €2.75bn. The sale was expected but it looks like they got €0.75bn more than initially thought.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, Borderlands, Catan, darksiders, embracer, fantasy flight games, Gearbox, money

The best selling family RPGs of 2021

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We have got the 20 best selling “Family” TTRPGs published this year. What makes a game a Family one, though? The need for kids? Of course not.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing heroes, amazing tales, Atlas Games, bandit camp, Chaosium, drivethrurpg, fairy trails, Fat Goblin Games, gallant knight games, jay dragon, My Little Pony, nerdburger games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Renegade Game Studios, river horse, silver vine publishing, summon skate, tinyd6, wanderhome, wardlings

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