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The D&D version of Lord of the Rings gets one last bundle

February 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today an Adventures in Middle-earth bundle launched on Humble, and it’s called The Lord of the Rings – Final Encore. So, yeah. I’m calling it. It’s the final encore.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventures in middle-earth, cubicle 7, humble bundle, lord of the rings

The gorgeous Elephant & Macaw Banner RPG

February 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Elephant & Macaw Banner is a game of muskets and magic and already an award-winning fiction series.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Elephant & Macaw Banner, kickstarters, Porcupine Publishing

Basic D&D Compared to Forbidden Lands: Layout and Format Matter

February 2, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody 1 Comment

I vastly prefer an RPG book with a layout meant to facilitate use at the table rather than written like a book with blocks of paragraphs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, forbidden lands, old-school essentials

5e’s Tome of Beasts approaches a quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter

February 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There will be 400 new monsters in the book with a diverse range of style and challenge level.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, kobold press, tome of beasts

Random Encounter Tables RPG Blog Carnival wrap-up

February 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Troll Cook by Lucas Örström

A summary of the contributions to the RPG Blog Carnival all about random encounter tables.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Jon Hodgson returns to Kickstarter for more map tiles

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can also select tile designs from the first Kickstarter, and that’ll make selecting your tiles quite a challenge.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, Jon Hodgson, kickstarters

Beasts & Barbarians returns to Bundle of Holding

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The 2018 hit for Savage Worlds is back on Humble Bundle, and it is raising money for Ocean Conservancy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #33

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summary with another D&D leak, free downloads and Matthew Mercer’s 2020 update to the Blood Hunter 5e class.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2000 AD, baldur's gate, board games, Call of Cthulhu, castle falkenstein, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, conan the barbarian, Coriolis, critical role, cubicle 7, deadlands, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, Jim Zub, laidback dungeon master, Matthew Mercer, Mike Myler, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, Shades of Vengeance, soulbound, starfinder, Strontium Dog, Symbaroum, The One Ring, traveller, Vampire: The Masquerade

Wizards of the Coast’s Archetype project is a non-D&D sci-fi

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A multi-platform roleplaying game set in a new science fiction universe.

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: Archetype Entertainment, James Ohlen, sci-fi, wizards of the coast

A giant family tree of tabletop RPGs

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Let’s say you had the time to investigate hundreds of tabletop games, plug in their publication dates and work out how each one was related to another.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: stats

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