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Free to Download: Hero Kids – Fantasy RPG
Justin Halliday’s adamantine best-seller Hero Kids is free to download, but only until April 1st.
Game Start funds the world’s first interactive miniatures on Kickstarter
The concept is this; the minis have unique bases on which you can attach or remove, accessories such as special effects, game status or even hit point counts.
Osprey Games announce The Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror
The award-winning designer of Frostgrave, Joseph McCullough, has teamed up with the illustration team at Brainbug Design and Osprey Games to release The Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror.
After surviving COVID-19, Steve Jackson Games may not release any new games in 2021
Steve Jackson Games made money in 2020, although slightly less than in 2019 and managed to keep all staff employed despite the devastating effect global lockdowns have had on the tabletop gaming scene.
HC SVNT DRACONES expands as the 2nd edition gets a companion book
HC SVNT DRACONES is a transhuman RPG. All that’s left in space are races born from genetic manipulation, sentient AI and astral horror.
If Blizzard did D&D: Auroborus – Coils of the Serpent
Chris Metzen left his position as vice-president and Blizzard last year to set up Warchief Gaming and publish the D&D 5e high-power fantasy setting Auroborus: Coils of the Serpent.
Solemn Vale is a spooky RPG about folk horror in isolated England
The RPG uses a system called “Wyrd Abacus” that involves attribute pools and a bidding mechanic. As characters get more involved, they risk getting caught in the Wyrd itself, a force of fate.
Free League details The Haunted Waste of Alberetor in a new Symbaroum adventure
Alberetor – The Haunted Waste is the fifth part in The Chronicle of the THrone of Thorns campaign for the dark fantasy RPG Symbaroum.
OSR classic Astonishing Swordmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea in Bundle of Holding
Designer Jeffrey Talanian worked with Gary Gygax on a game called Castle Zagyg and then started North Wind Adventures to push his own modules.
