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TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Weight-bearing Dungeon Pops offer pop-up RPG battle maps
It’s just a step to $28 for the Traveler level and the option to pick any one pop battle map for a thank you.
Shiver brings its Pop-culture horror tabletop roleplaying to the Bundle of Holding
I like the indie RPG Shiver, and now the pop-culture horror tabletop roleplaying game is up at the Bundle of Holding.
ENnie-winner, Nebula-finalist Basheer Ghouse goes Guns Blazing with a combat RPG
This is a world on the cusp of change. The old system, tyrannical and ruinous, cannot hold. The new is unknown, to be defined in the decades to come, in the wreckage of the old.
Phil Reed steps aside as CEO of Steve Jackson Games, Meredith Placko steps in
My excitement at joining the team at Steve Jackson Games is something I cannot express in words. Mostly dinosaur-esque screeching noises.
Bundle offer: Hold-up! Mork Borg 2 isn’t what you might think
Stand down. There’s no Mork Borg 2 RPG, and Mork Borg 2 is the name of an all-new third-party Bundle of Holding offer. It’s love until April 24th and has titles like Cthork Borg, Dire Mutterings and Galgenbeck: Sacrifice.
Putting the D&D into BDSM: Kinks and Cantrips funds
Not everyone is comfortable openly playing with kink themed 5e content, but many might wish to use the rules found in this book in their normal games
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #198
It’s nearly the end of the month and I’ve not yet seen D&D: Honour Among Thieves (spelt with a U in the UK, officially). Why haven’t I? It’s only just come out.
Swords & Wizardry: A tabletop RPG using D&D’s original 1978 rules crushes its crowdfunding
The tabletop game uses the original rules from D&D, and the pitch promises easy-to-learn rules
Bundle: Independence Games explores the Clement Sector with this Cepheus Engine deal
The Cepheus Engine, a popular OSR sci-fi, is based on the first edition of Mongoose Publishing’s Traveller tabletop RPG.
