The RPG will use Monte Cook Games’ excellent Cypher System. It is embedded in a challenging (to survive) setting and yet manages to evoke some hope.
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Next-gen virtual TTRPG site One More Multiverse has a Humble deal
The charity partner, The Trevor Project, will also be familiar to the TTRPG family, as it’s been a worthy cause the community has supported before. The Trevor Project works to end suicide among gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning young adults and youngsters.
YZ World Building: Dragonbane
The Dragonbane system is a d20 roll under slimmed down from a previous d100 system. I want to create a world using this system with an old-school fantasy feel using a modern system.
Unsolved Mysteries: The Portal Tomb RPG
My favourite part of this indie RPG pitch to the Kickstarter community to fund a game trying to fill in the gaps in our Irish history is the dread “video voice”. The creative team of William Hellwarth and Karin Malady hear it too and can barely stifle the giggles.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #199
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The ORC-licensed Basic Roleplaying: Universe Game Engine is out now
Written by Jason Durall and Steve Perrin, the rules offer character growth based on what the PCs do in the game and have a pretty brutal combat system in which every action matters.
Tales of the Valiant: Project Black Flag gets its official name
The Player’s Guide includes 13 base classes, lineages and heritages from classic fantasy roleplaying, and the rules you need to play or GM, all between two covers. The Monster Vault includes every dungeon-crawling and fire-belching fantasy creature you need to craft compelling fantasy encounters.
Vagabond: An ambitious Kickstarter for a solo and group RPG with an autonomous system
The project allows Taron as Rebel Rouser Games to actually make the Vagabond TTRPG.
Fan-made alternative D&D height chart is impressive
Redditor man_bored_at_work has a great username and a simple mission. Man said; I made a new height comparison chart, because I didn’t like the ones I found online [Reddit] The chart has had over 10 thousand upvotes, but one comment has received a healthy dose too. Snownova added this on halflings. I still object against […]
Dicetale Games’ dark fantasy Blood and Doom slaughters the RPG’s Kickstarter target
€35,000 was a pretty high Kickstarter target for an RPG indie coming out of Europe, but Netherland’s Dicetale Games has hit it with Blood and Doom.
