In some exciting and unexpected news, The National Space Centre in Leicester is teaming up with the UK Games Expo to bring us a board gaming event unlike anything we’ve ever seen! The event is called To Boldly Game and will be an entire weekend ‘celebrating the best of table-top gaming’ – as well as […]
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Twice as far: Mongoose release two Traveller RPG bundles
From skirmishes across the vast expanse of the cosmos to the gritty depths of cyberpunk metropolises, from daring exploits as free traders navigating the nebulous legalities of the universe to grand narratives woven across entire galaxies, Traveller provides the tools to explore the cosmos in ways that resonate with your imagination and gaming preferences.
The MCDM RPG approaches $3,000,000 as their custom VTT unlocks
The publisher also said they’ll custom build a new virutal tabletop. That could be even more disruptive and interesting to the RPG market than a popular new core rule set.
Genre Police: Reading The Intent
It might be obvious but I think it is worth mentioning that any roleplaying game ruleset are a ‘text’, much as we would look at any sort of media.
Steve Jackson Games’ Dungeon Fantasy hack-n-slash TTRPGs are on offer
Dungeon Fantasy was designed to be the best of both worlds, to lure in D&D players or those dungeon-crawling curious, with off-the-shelf equipment load-outs and crib sheets while still having that core GURPS feel.
The North Pole Under Siege! A holiday hex crawl uses ‘Christmas cheer’ as a strategic resource
The assault has come at a terrible time. Santa’s reserves of Christmas cheer are nearly expended, and a good deal of what he was relying on to bring Christmas to the world this year have been captured by various foes.
Everything you need for Pathfinder 2e – The bundle offer
Money from the Pathfinder 2e Legacy bundle goes to support Comic Book for Kids, and more than £7,500 has already been raised.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: DR Games (with 2D6 Realm live on Kickstarter)
Roll 2D6 for timing. Crit success! Last month, Geek Native’s Patreons voted for DR Games for the last RPG Publisher Spotlight of 2023.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #234
Holla! How’s the RPG news cycle this close to the end of the year?
New Zealand lawyers dismiss murder trial defence D&D submission as ‘ludicrous’.
Angela Blackmoore, a woman from Christchurch in New Zealand, was murdered in 1995. In 2019, Jeremy Powell confessed to the killing.
