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Lander: After The Crash offers free rulebook now (and UKGE demo) as Intrepid Games returns Nightfall Games to develop 5e setting with Anne Stokes’ Lillithea Darrington Press brings “For the Queen” and exclusive queen cards to UKGE UKGE game preview: Take the Throne Grab the Crown and Skull bundle: Unleash your creativity and save big on this innovative RPG

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Lander: After The Crash offers free rulebook now (and UKGE demo) as Intrepid Games returns

May 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lander has hundreds of notes of interest on the Kickstarter launch page, a free to download rulebook for the game and, right now, Intrepid Games is at GameLand’s stand at Hall 1 #631 at UK Games Expo.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, uk games expo

Nightfall Games to develop 5e setting with Anne Stokes’ Lillithea

May 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

The Lillithea Quickstart print edition and some impressive collectable coins debuted at the UK Games Expo 2024.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Nightfall Games, uk games expo

Darrington Press brings “For the Queen” and exclusive queen cards to UKGE

May 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Critical Role is in the UK through its publishing arm, Darrington Press, which has a booth at the UK Games Expo. I don’t think anyone famous is here, though.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, critical role, darrington press, uk games expo

UKGE game preview: Take the Throne

May 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“Take the Throne” promises a thrilling experience where players must outsmart their opponents and secure the throne to earn valuable victory points.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, uk games expo

Grab the Crown and Skull bundle: Unleash your creativity and save big on this innovative RPG

May 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Crown and Skull emphasize player creativity, featuring deep point-buy character creation and systems that empower players to build custom characters, equipment, and even spells.

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

Tome of Terror: London is a solo/up to 5 hybrid gamebook/lite-RPG

May 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Players have investigator characters, each with their own stats, to explore the dark side of London.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, oliver mcneil, solo rpgs

Genre Police: The Adventure Begins

May 30, 2024 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Since I went full professional as a GM in 2020, not including any planning time, I’ve been at actual tables running games with players for a rough total of 2,544 hours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, genre police, planescape, the children of fear

Dream City Knights is a garagepunk TTRPG

May 30, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dream City Knights invites players to navigate the complex world of adolescence while exploring a fantastical dreamscape.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Guillaume Tavernier brings another Collection of Fantasy Maps to Kickstarter, and Geek Native has an exclusive sample

May 29, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Emerging from the unfathomable Mists of Premices, the Swallowed has always been known to the locals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters, virtual tabletop

Rifts Coalition Wars comes to the Bundle of Holding

May 29, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The return of magical energy has shattered reality, opening portals to other dimensions and unleashing a plethora of supernatural beings.

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

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