There’s no setting other than an assumed high fantasy one, and therefore, space in the download goes to sections like Waterborne Travel Traveling by Air, Becoming Lost, Judging Wishes, Missiles That Miss and Oil. You might recognise some of these are hot topics for rules discussions, and I think inclusion is welcome.
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Year Zero Worldbuilding: Forbidden Lands – The Bloodmarch
Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month looks at The Bloodmarch, a realm in the world of the Forbidden Lands.
Eco Mofos!!: Miyazaki meets Mad Max in a psychedelic RPG
Play as a group of misfits who have found each other in the wastes and ruins of the fallen world.
Superhero Week: Titanic Triumph RPG out now
With details for over 47 different Powers, you can create nearly any kind of super character you want!
D&D Belongs to You: Use Foundry and Roll20 et al but not WotC’s VTT, argues 5e publisher
Chris Dias owns Dias Ex Machina and created Ultramodern5, the most successful non-fantasy book for 5th Editoins D&D not published by WOTC.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #211
It’s Geek Native’s news round-up with news of Paizo and partners finally agreeing on the ORC text, the latest D&D playtest and 20 years of Savage Worlds.
Final ORC: Paizo present the finally final version of the ORC License
The license is a system-agnostic, perpetual, and irrevocable open gaming license that provides a legal “safe harbor” for sharing rules mechanics so as to encourage collaboration and innovation in the tabletop-gaming space.
Download for Free: STRONG RPG core system
Our free STRONG RPG is a classless, open source roleplaying game that is just as deep and fulfilling as many major commercial RPG systems you might have already played.
Stellagama Publishing and William Murakami-Brundage fund Barbaric! 2e
The Barbaric RPG is a lightweight beer and pretzels tabletop requiring neither booze nor baked snacks. In fact, the idea is that it requires very little to play – just 2d6, some writing material and some ideas.
Pendragon 6e Starter Set now available to launch you into a brutal medieval RPG
In October 2020, Chaosium marked the second anniversary of the death of the legendary Greg Stafford by announcing a 6th edition of the Arthurian RPG Pendragon.
