83, 193 backers pledged $12, 969, 608 to make the game happen. That’s right; nearly $13m.
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Are digital RPG books about to become 20% cheaper in the UK?
By 2021, the UK government wants to make ebooks like digital tabletop RPG rulebooks 20% cheaper.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #46
Tabletop RPG news for a week squished into a series of easy scan bullet-point lists. Dungeons & Dragons fights, Starfinder dice and more Kickstarters than you can shake a magic item at.
Laid off because of COVID-19; The Grinning Frog launches the Adventure Pack
The Grinning Frog’s Kickstarter funded in three hours and with two weeks still on the clock is currently at 200% of its very modest goal.
An Unexpected Party: Weta to release a new The Hobbit board game
The game is designed for ages 10 and up, lasts around 50 minutes and is all about being a messy dwarf and annoying Bilbo!
The Design Mechanism shows off the Jack Vance RPG Lyonesse
Mythras publisher The Design Mechanism has been working on a Lyonesse RPG.
Pelgrane Press’ GUMSHOE Cthulhu Confidential lurks in the Bundle of Holding
The Starter Collection has a retail value of $46, and the Bonus Collection adds another $53.
Roleplaying not Rollplaying: What We Were review
What We Were is a game about fully developing and understanding characters through exploration of their personal story.
Games Workshop secure £25 million overdraft to help weather COVID-19
This overdraft will help Games Workshop manage its finances, in particular, to make sure it can pay bills when it needs to.
Call of Cthulhu publisher picks up Würm – The Ice Age Roleplaying Game
Chaosium will be disturbing the game. There are limited numbers of the book in the publisher’s UK warehouse, but they will be sending more, and a supply to their space in Poland as well.
