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Savage Worlds 20th Anniversary: New updated printing available
It’s $45 to get the fifth printing of the core rules, and that’s the 20th-anniversary run with the badge on the cover.
New and old: Old-School RPGs Warlock! and Warpstar! get a bundle
Fire Ruby Designs’ Warlock! is a popular old-school vibe tabletop that is inspired by early British roleplaying games. You might think of titles like Warhammer or perhaps even Fighting Fantasy.
Longshot City: A superhero tabletop RPG with the TROIKA! engine
Longshot City, the place, is a dangerous town and the players are protecting it. Build your own hero team from a huge selection of Archetypes and Origins, covering almost anything you can think of!
Free to Download: Faces of Evil for Blood and Doom!
In Athyr, a world in which prophecies warn of impending doom, a dozen cults compete to spread their corruption.
Grimdark indeed! Clerk & Dagger is a roleplaying game about rogue… accountants
Described by Dice Kapital as “Oceans 11 wrapped in a grungy cartoon of medieval fantasy”, Clerk & Dagger is a unique system with inspiration from Forged in the Dark.
This new tabletop RPG supplement will help you build more fully-developed characters
Creating a character for any tabletop RPG can be quite an in-depth, involved and – usually – fun experience.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #210
It’s been a strange week, and sexy goblins have swarmed us. No foolin’! Let’s take a look at the RPG headlines.
Night Work: An occult RPG set in Victorian London
It’s up to the Night Workers, those brave souls who visit the In-Between each night, to protect the innocent and hunt down the monsters that take refuge within.
Witches of Midnight: Tarot and RPG of urban horror
Balsamic Games, an indie RPG publisher, has made their funding target for a gender-inclusive game about witches. Or, at least, centred on witches and powered by Forged in the Dark.
