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Convincing gamers: The Ultimate Game Master Screen crosses 1,500 Kickstarter backers
An account created by Forged Gaming and RealmSmith called The Ultimate Game Master currently has over 1,600 backers and over a quarter of a million American Dollars pledged.
Free to Download: The official Lara Croft’s Tomb Raiders tabletop RPG and campaign
The download bundle contains the 215-page RPG by Matthew Gaston and the 74-page Mark of the Phoenix campaign.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #206
Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly overview of RPG news. Critical Role and Kobold Press both release their D&D alternatives, there’s some big discounts and UK Games Expo is nearly here.
Tales of Kings & Dragons: How Roleplay Elixir deal with magic in Ancient China, Arthurian Britannia and the Crusades
When dragons killed many of the other powerful beings and forced others into exile and hiding, the surviving “old” gods and goddesses then taught what magic they could to their followers who still secretly worshipped them.
Freeport Pathfinder: Make off like a pirate with this RPG bundle
Pathfinder is the RPG engine of the Freeport Collection, on offer this week.
Anno Domini 1252: An interview with Giovanni Poli on the solo RPG
Thirteenth-century Christian Europe was a decidedly hostile place to live. Brutality, violence, corruption, had cast their grim shadow over everything, and everyone.
Free to Download: Kobold’s Tales from the Valiant crosses half a million dollars with ease
Tales of the Valiant keeps all the best of 5E D&D and adds a Kobold Press spin to the well-loved game. It combines the Creative Commons foundation of 5th Edition with new elements to create a powerful Kobold-style 5E with teeth.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Zotiquest Games
In this Spotlight, we talk briefly about solo TTRPGs aka playing a traditional game or a specialised by yourself, the RPG scene in Italy and Zotiquest’s plans for the future.
Bug out with a free adventure: Sentima – Sundered Wilds goes insectoid on Kickstarter
Sweden’s Yubi’s Adventures are on Kickstarter with a rules-light and classless RPG with a novel approach – insectoid PCs and behemoth horrors.
