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Exciting news this week for Trail of Cthulhu fans, as the game is getting a second edition – and you may even get to have your say in it.
Interestingly, the original edition’s creator Kenneth Hite and writer-designer Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan are teaming up as part of the revision process, under the influential eye of Pelgrane publisher Cathriona Tobin.
The game pits you against the elements of an everlasting winter and challenges you to rebuild a community.
Class spell lists are added again, with magic no longer grouped under Arcane, Divine and Primal. Wizards said it was a fun experiment. The sorcerer-exclusive spells, arcane eruption and sorcerous burst return, with changes and are joined by updated counterspell and jump.
The TTRPG uses the new Match System, which uses two sets of custom d6 (available as an official app) for fast-paced and fiction-first gameplay.
There’s a free-to-download and 19-page preview of Demon Ascendents available without email capture to check out if you are curious.
Arc Dream Publishing’s Delta Green is a standalone RPG born from a Call of Cthulhu one. It’s a tabletop experience of conspiracies and horror.
Monte Cook Games now has a Cypher System-powered version of The Magnus Archives on the way, running the crowdfunding project on BackerKit.
Mansters is a tabletop roleplaying game that uses caustic wit and humor to reveal certain dark blots of the real world.
Yikes! Eldritch Tabletop merges tech with woodcraft and bold ideas. The digital display DM screen is impressive, but the Mimic dice box has blown me away.
The tabletop RPG Cities Without Number is designed to bring the chrome and misery of a dystopian future to gaming groups with sandbox adventure in mind.
