Johnstone Metzger’s innovative RPG has one further twist in that it is centred around community. The PCs invest Loot from the dungeon into her home village, making it more robust so that the PCs can buy better gear and return to the nightmare bubble.
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Sanction RPG engine: A first look at the settings and goals
Sanction is a simple system for challenge-driven games, with player characters who are usually anything but heroes.
Love Mutants and the Idylls of the Rat King: Goodman Games brings DCC back to Humble
A $25 spend will get you $1,047 in DCC value and a 20% coupon. We have until August 23rd to bag the deal.
Beyond Cataclysm Games bought every d13 in the world for a solo RPG
First, said Dave, they bought up all the d13s in Europe and then had to go further afield to acquire enough dice. Beyond Cataclysm Games got to the point where they believed they had bought every spare d13 in the world.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #219
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Handiwork Games hit by thieves and respond with Free to Download: King Beowulf – Of Kingdoms and Ring-Givers
US law enforcement are investigating theft of £25K worth of 5e RPGs from Scottish indie publisher
Free to Download: Mazes Zero Prep Introduction to Fantasy Roleplaying
Mazes uses the Polymorph system, which does away with any form of maths. Each Polymorph game player only uses a single polyhedral die: a d4, a d6, a d8, or a d10.
Historica Arcanum brings the deadly Crusades to 5e
The two books, Era of the Crusades and The Sigil of Jerusalem, include a large adventure and details on fantasy 1182 Jerusalem and Cairo. There are new character creation options, subclasses, a bestiary, rules for the Deck of the Damned, professions and Knight Orders.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Gamenomicon
In this interview, we dare a little close to Lovecraft controversies and talk about All4Two mechanics and the Ozarks. I’m embarrassed to say this Scottish blogger had never heard the word “Ozarks” before…
Rowan, Rook and Decard want you to Eat the Reich and drink the blood of Hitler
EAT THE REICH is a tabletop roleplaying game in which you, a vampire commando, are coffin-dropped into occupied Paris and must cut a bloody swathe through nazi forces en route to your ultimate goal: drinking all of Adolf Hitler’s blood.
