The spiritual successor to Warhammer 40K’s Dark Heresy is Cubicle 7’s Imperium Maldedictum. The core rules are out, available for a quick purchase at DriveThruRPG, and there is more on the way.
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Aether Nexus: High fantasy and mecha RPG powered by The Mecha Hack
The Mecha Hack is a 44-page Platinum bestseller based on The Black Hack. As the name implies, Absolute Tabletop’s RPG is that of giant war machines and their pilots.
UK Games Expo: Dig into this SBG Editions preview of the RPG Cursed Empire 3e
SBG Editions are at UK Games Expo and stand 1-452. If you’re at the mega event, check out some previews and their current games. Titles include the Heroes of Thargos CG and Undead Expansion 2nd Edition, which is out in French and English.
Free to Download: Don’t Play This Game says Parable at UK Games Expo
There are some reasons why you might not play, but they also include reasons why you might be tempted anyway.
Soulmist: Unspoken Tales of danger and darkness for 5e
The Soulmist setting is one where the Light does not shine, and Unspoken Tales adds 200+ pages of hardcover for two adventures.
Free to Download: Girl by Moonlight RPG – Become a Magical Girl resisting oppression
As a Magical Girl you will clutch your tragic struggles tight, seeking to score defiant triumphs against the darkness of an oppressive society.
Stone Punk: A rules-lite prehistory-inspired fantasy RPG
There’s always the idea of using Kickstarter to support new and emerging talent, so let’s focus on Will Hillard, a student at UCSD, writing RPGs for fun and who has just smashed their funding goal on the platform. The tabletop RPG is called Stone Punk, designed to be easy to start playing and is set […]
New DCC Lankhmar on offer in the Bundle of Holding
For more than 50 years, Fritz Leiber chronicled the adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. The two rogues gallivant across their fantastic realm of Nehwon from their home base in the City of Seven-Score Thousand Smokes, Lankhmar.
Controversial horror author Brian Evenson pens Mork Borg adventure setting for Severed Books
The Wikipedia entry on American academic and horror author Brian Evenson outlines the ‘BYU controversy in which his novel Altmann’s Tongue prompted complaints from the restrictive university.
Free to Download: 5e Spells from The Curse of Er’Mah’Gerd
When Good Company ventured into the Funk a year ago to retrieve the fabled Staff of Er’Mah’Gerd, the heroes hoped to bring prosperity to a land long fraught with peril.
