I met Slightly Reckless Games at the UK Games Expo this year and put them on TikTok with Ronin in min as Berserkr! This was just a teaser.
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RuneQuest TTRPG Humble Bundle: Go from zero to Red Book of Magic hero
Chaosium’s popular Bronze Age fantasy tabletop RPG RuneQuest is on offer as a bundle in Humble. It’ll run until about the 26th of July. Update: The bundle has been extended to the 3rd of August. The offer enables new players to embark on their RuneQuest journey with the Starter Set, which is equipped with everything […]
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #265
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Megathread: Prime Day for D&D and TTRPGs
Will next week see a convergence of powers? Update: Called it! D&D has big discounts, sometimes more than 50%, this Prime Day. July 16th and 17th is Prime Day. This year, we’re getting new editions of D&D with D&D 2024, which means the old Dungeons & Dragons 5e books become much less attractive. Could this […]
Helluva Town – A Cuphead-esq cartoon gangster RPG
Acheron International asked for €10K to fund Helluva Town, and with a week on the clock, they have more than €100K in pledges. On offer is a wacky and rules-light that gives me Cuphead-vibes. You can see progress on this Italian and English project on Kickstarter. [Back this Campaign] The promise is that you can […]
Interview with Vortex Verlag: Serenissima Obscura, Shanarel and life after The Straight Way Lost
Vortex Verlag sent 5e characters to Hell and from a fantasy version of Renaissance Italy.
Where do you go from there?
SAKE (Sorcerers, Adventures, Kings, and Economics) blends RPG with strategy game
SAKE is just about how brave you are in raiding dungeons but also how smart you are with that loot. Can you save up for a mercenary company of your own, an army? Can you balance the books?
Peckers: Scottish school class trying to crowdfund this creepy-cute RPG
The gameplay has one person, the Pecker, who is trying to catch and scratch the other players. These players, known as Survivors, have to stay in the game until the timer runs out to win.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #264
Here’s the TTRPG summary of summaries with new releases, interviews and reviews.
Superhero Week: The core rules for Transdimensional Adventures are free to download
The original rules came out in 2021 and have been revised since then and cover dimensional travel across worlds.
