Curt Covert is back on Kickstarter with success called “Adventure Party: The Role-Playing Party Game”.
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Cease & Desist: Renegade Game Studios issues legal threat to “Renegade City” indie creator
Renegade Game Studios, which publishes RPGs like Power Rangers and Transformers with Hasbro, and Vampire, Hunters and Werewolf with Paradox, are threatening legal action.
Now you can play as a guinea pig for your next Dungeons & Dragons character… because why the hell not?
Cavies are small humanoid rodents; they tend to walk on their hind legs but are actually quadrupeds. Their ears are soft and folded over to protect the delicate tissue inside. Their eyes protrude slightly with colours ranging from dark brown to burnt umber, and on rare occasion, bright pink.
As the Sun Forever Sets: Evil Hat opens playtest new Forged in the Dark RPG
The Forged in the Dark game is set in Victorian Britain as the aliens invade. The overpowering force from Mars forces the player characters into a desperate battle for survival.
Genre Police: Seizing The Initiative
A while back now, I talked about different dying mechanics in systems and enjoyed the difference the mechanics made to how a game felt.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #209
It’s Geek Native’s news round-up with news about the end of the company calling itself TSR, dragon queens and D&D and some very big bundle deals.
Buy that for a dollar? Cocaine Owlbear RPG
One thing your newly warped brain can tell is that there’s a plan in the satchel alongside the magical cocaine – it’s a complicated heist plan.
The UK Games Expo Awards 2023 award winners
Be Like A Crow and Critical Foundation take the Best Role Playing Game top prizes at the UKGE Awards and there are plenty of other others.
Collaboration, not substitution: 5e’s most successful non-fantasy publisher on AI in RPGs
Chris Dias owns Dias Ex Machina, the creator of Ultramodern5, the most successful non-fantasy book for 5th Editions D&D not published by WOTC.
Celtic animal knot dice win over Kickstarter’s gaming community
These beautiful dice aren’t just regular dice, although they come in some (but not all) of the RPG/wargame dice range, because they’re also a game in their own right.
