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Fearful Ends: A Horror RPG About Existential Tragedy plans to channel Mazes and Monsters
The RPG Fearful Ends itself is rules-light and story-centric with the goal of heart-pounding horror. It’s not just about monsters, but emotional turmoil, too.
Tales from the Loop: They Grow Up So Fast
In addition to adventures, They Grow Up So Fast and Our Friends the Machines cover a new setting in the world of Tales from the Loop. Norfolk Broads is a United Kingdom-based Loop.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #225
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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.
