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Free to Download: Macuahuitl Quickstart Rules
RPG publisher The Basic Expert has a Kickstarter lined-up for an OSR-style game called Macuahuitl.
Bloat Games goes weird retro with Greasers & Ghouls RPG
Greasers & Ghouls is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game set in a small town in the 1950s. Players take on the roles of normal high school-aged teens, who encounter B-movie monsters lurking in the shadows, all while trying to go to high school, the drive-in, and still make it to the sock hop dance.
Project Blue Moon: R. Talsorian Games confirm secret TTRPG
Last week’s RPG news summary, Routinely Itemised, speculated that Cyberpunk and The Witcher tabletop RPG publisher R. Talsorian Games’ secret project was something Blue Moon related.
The Trouble Engine for Forged in the Dark gets a Creative Commons License
We’ve had several really kindly requests to be allowed to make use of the mechanics, and rather than get into anything complicated, we figured an SRD and CC license was the way to go.
Eisner Award-nominated Atomic Robo as a comic book and RPG bundle on offer
For decades, Robo and the Action Scientists of Tesladyne have been the go-to defence force against the unexplained, using their high-octane, full-contact hypothesis testing to battle all manner of weirdness.
Cthulhu Dreamt tabletop RPG: Hundreds sign up to hear the heavy metal sounds of Cthulhu
Geek Native has exclusive preview access, which you can check out below. You’ll also hear plenty in the pitch video for the goal-met Kickstarter.
Free to Download: Adventure College Student Handbook Sample
The full and final Adventure College Student Handbook expands that offering to five complete playable species, adding the Nagandr, Pookahs, Hels and Reebies.
Onyx Path scores “Project We Love” with Kickstarter Titans Rising for Scion 2e
The first clash of the Titans, the Titanomachy, ended a millennia ago in the Scion world, but now the Titans are back, some refusing to stay dead, and rather than a holy war, it’s a mythic cold war.
The “Dice” Debate Has Got to Die
“Die” goes back far enough, that we aren’t completely sure of the deepest roots. At least that gives us a clear indication of how long mankind might have been obsessed with odds and gaming.
