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D&D’s Crawling Hand and the smartphone dilemma
While Anne is cautious about letting players spend too much time paying attention to the small screen rather than the gaming table, the overall mood of D&D fans is generally in favour of the smartphone.
D&D inspired fantasy tarot deck smashes $150,000 on Kickstarter
You’re not getting cards like The Tower, and there’s no easy conversion to it. Instead, you’re getting cards like The Bard, The Ranger and The Cleric.
Hag Priestess revealed for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Soulbound
Hag Priestesses are plucked from the Witch Aelves by Morathi the Hag Sorceress of Ghrond.
Free to Download: Castle Falkenstein – Babbage’s Engine
Written by Steve Kenson (The Expanse RPG) and J Gray (Cyberpunk Red) the steampunk adventure puts characters on the Babbage Engine powered Duchess Elisabeth.
Age of Ambition: A fantasy RPG in era saying farewell to fantasy
Tab Creations suggests that Age of Ambition is different from other RPGs in that the characters are heroes of social change.
New D&D game spotted at the London Toy Fair
The sighting at the Toy Fair is only one piece of confirmation. Asmodee’s 2020 catalogue also includes a mention of Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure Begins.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #32
RPG news summary of the surprise announcement of a Dishonored RPG and the most anticipated games of 2020.
R. Talsorian Games updates The Witcher TTRPG
The corrections and updates now extend to 9 pages of errata.
The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth expansion leaked
The new addition to the game will focus on the darker areas of Middle-earth such as the Mines of Moria and Mirkwood. The Shadowed Paths campaign includes 13 scenarios.
