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TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Strangelight Workshop TTRPG: Steamforged move swiftly with Iron Kingdoms
Set in the Iron Kingdoms, supported by Privateer Press and with the original lead designer Matt Goetz will attached, Strangelight Workshop is a standalone game of otherworld and occult investigation.
Dark Age of Theer: Todd Stashwick and David Nett Progcore aims to hack your RPG style
Todd Stashwick and David Nett are actors and writers with a combined 85 years of tabletop RPG experience. They founded ProgCore Fantasy LLC to focus on progressive, collaborative creative endeavours in RPGs and other media.
Genre Police: The Adventure Is Butchered
I’ve watched those long-form adventures slowly destroy their desire to use written adventures of playing D&D ever again.
Nightbound: A TTRPG where you embrace the darkness to survive the night
The line between good and bad is blurred in this Hellblazer-inspired personal hell. The Kickstarter community has backed it, and with a week to go, the game is well over funding targets.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #263
Andrea Sfiligoi from Ganesha Games has safely left Ukraine, WotC is facing accusations of using Hillary Clinton as a model for D&D, D&D’s new VP Jess Lanzillo is doing interviews with AdWeek, Kobold Press’ CEO provided a company update, and I’ve finally had my broadband restored.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Ganesha Games
Geek Native’s RPG Publisher Spotlight is all about raising the profile of TTRPG makers, contributors, or curators who might not otherwise get it, so promoting Ganesha Games seems appropriate.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #262
It’s convention season and Origins is on, which might explain why Kickstarter isn’t busy, and we finally have D&D 2024 pre-orders.
Songs of the Spellbound Sea: Run seafaring campaigns like a breeze
Today we’ve a helpful guest post from designer and author somanyrobots. Robots have a 5e Patreon offering rules, advice and content that’s attracted over 100 subscribers.
Castles & Crusades Reforged smashes through the crowdfunding portcullis
Castles & Crusades was first created in 2003/2004 and debuted in Christmas of that ’04. It was the first to use a simple attribute based system as its key mechanic. It predated and in many ways sparked the OSR publications that followed and heavily influenced D&D 5th edition.
