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Smörgasbörg: The Flagellant & The Fool add cannibalism to the world’s darkest RPG
Published by The Flagellant & The Fool, who released the mini-game of duelling HEADS earlier this year, Smörgasbörg is described as the “All you can eat cannibal RPG.”
SARIL: An indie RPG that deserves a second chance at a chance
Here’s a game without the traditional combat rounds and a system for replacing them with gaming strategy.
Typhon Games launches and starts with ‘When We Die’
Benn Graybeaton, of Nightfall Games and project lead on RPGs such as StokerVerse and Terminator; Jason Juta, a freelance illustrator on Star Wars, Marvel, D&D and Legend of Five Rings, and Garry Harper who’s worked with Modiphius and Son of Oak have founded Typhon Games.
Adventurer Conqueror King System funds the Imperial Imprint on Kickstarter
The ACKS II RPG will be huge, 560-pages of full colour, 18 character classes, 110 proficiencies and hundreds of spells.
A plague of horror TTRPGs: Palladium Apocalypse
All of the RPGs in the bundle are standalone, but they can also be used together with any game based on Palladium’s Megaversal rules system.
Evil Hat’s Deathmatch Island crowdfunder breaks through $100,000
The deliberately sterile corporate design of Deathmatch Island hints at something subversive lurking beneath the surface.
Your 3D printer is itching for these printable tabletop minis from Humble Bundle
Humble Bundle have just released a 3D printable tabletop bundle containing an eye-watering 161 miniatures/sets – for just a $25 donation to the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Sneak Peek: Astral Hunt TTRPG
What we are trying to do with the game is not a traditional sword and sorcery adventure game but rather an exploration of desperation as well as players being both hunter and hunted.
The Gun Belt offers up an RPG of robot cowboys, aliens and dinosaurs
The world of The Gun Belt features human, robot, and alien cowboys riding dinosaurs across an interstellar Wild West.
