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TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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D&D will have two SRDs by 2025 in a massive new update
Wizards of the Coast has announced that by 2025, D&D will have an updated Systems Reference Document.
Delve: Design and survive dungeons (easy) but get into a new system (gasp!)
There’s also a whole bunch of free to download Delve samples with monsters, treasure and player races/ancestries for D&D and Shadowdark.
Calling all space explorers: Discover the Moon Toad Cepheus bundle
Inspired by the original 1977-81 “little black books” of Classic Traveller, the Cepheus Engine draws from Mongoose Publishing’s Traveller (2008) released under the Open Game License.
What do we know about the Edge of Mythos and the Dream City Knights?
Dream City Knights is an immersive role-playing game that transports players to a world where the boundaries between dreams and reality are blurred.
Cyberpunk meets cosmic horror at the hands of Alexander Marc Yanis: eXistential eSsential (XS) kickstarts
MoMoDi’s cyberpunk meets cosmic horror has been funded on Kickstarter, and the pitch video lets you know it will be a bit different.
Blueberry Wine: The 5-star rated horror hexcrawl birthed from PocketQuest
You’ve found yourself in the last place that most would willingly go, the Sinking Fens.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #255
Wizards of the Coast revisits AI art policy amidst ongoing OGL backlash. PocketQuest ends, Arkham Horror RPG details revealed, and Hasbro commits to digital games.
Sarah Newton on ‘The Chronicles of Future Earth’: Fate Core, cosmic fantasy, and zombies
Thematically, The Chronicles of Future Earth is “cosmic fantasy”. It’s about epic dooms, summoning demons, dealing with weird and ancient technologies, dimension-hopping, and saving the universe.
L.S.Dice with the lysergic Black Rainbow Society TTRPG
Gavriel Quiroga’s TTRPG, a tribute to 80s zines and William Burroughs, has smashed its humble $3,000 Kickstarter goal.
