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Bite Club bundle of RPG material to pay vet and ER bills
The Bite Club bundle offer represents 66% off, which equates to savings of about $21.66. There are several bestsellers in the collection as well.
Night Train turns 25: PEG brings the dreaded Deadlands adventure back to Kickstarter
Pinnacle Entertainment Group (PEG) have the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition and anniversary update of Night Train on Kickstarter.
Onyx Path’s post-apocalypse 5e setting lands in the Bundle of Holding
Once, the gods and titans warred for supremacy, and vast armies of mortal creatures fought beside their creators.
Headless horrors and local writers: Backwards: Regional American Gothic Horror
Backwards Tabletop publishes the 5-star rated Backwater: Southern Gothic Horror Tabletop Roleplaying and has expanded it once through Kickstarter.
Mattel wins the race to sell the first board game with integrated AI
It’s Google tech. Mattel’s new Pictionary uses the “Quick, Drawl!” artificial intelligence, which I’ve used loads and helped train the AI. It’s free to play.
A look inside: Dungeons & Dragons Lore & Legends
The book has more than 900 artworks, including photography, digs into the history of D&D and has been sculpted by an impressive team of writers and researchers.
Can an RPG go viral? Don’t Play This Game horror chain letter might
Once an Event is completed the Entity will select another. This repeats and your story unfolds until either you complete the game and are free, or you lose and, well, then really bad things happen…
Competition: Win a deluxe Cocaine Owlbear (yes, really!)
The new edition adds spells. That’s right, your wildlife creature can be high on drugs and casting spells. What could go wrong?
Defenders of the Wild is animals against machines in a TTRPG and board game
Defenders of the Wild also has over 1,000 backers and is $10,000 through its funding target. There’s a little under two weeks to
