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Exit, Pursued by a Bear – An RPG about a bear on a drug-fueled rampage
Cocaine Bear is still on some screens, and Stephanie Bryant’s Kickstarter “Exit, Pursued by a Bear” is on Kickstarter for the next fortnight.
Imperium Maledictum is out: Cubicle 7 makes the latest Warhammer 40K RPG available
Imperium Maledictum’s intrigue, betrayal, and conspiracy stories use a revised d100 mechanism.
Therapeutic RPG Guild Chronicles funds core rules for everyday gamers on Kickstarter
Harris says Guild Chronicles is not just for first time-gamers or veterans but people feeling disenchanted with big-name games.
Flash sale on the Lampblack & Brimstone world-building bundle
Designed for Dungeon World but entirely appropriate for general world-building techniques, travel tips for RPGS and dungeon creation, the books look great.
Legends Never Die: A tabletop RPG that embraces PvP and the MOBA vibe
Tyson Burruss has run three other Kickstarters, all for an RPG called Aether and Steamworks; the first, the 1.5 and then the expanded edition. There are no comments on the latest which often means no complaints.
Free to Download: Magpie Games’ and Whistler’s Rapscallion Quickstart
Rapscallion is a game about pirates, and it comes from a boredom-baked story the author and some high school friends made up in our senior year. T
Mythcraft flies towards $100k for an eon-spanning tabletop RPG
“The Homebrew” podcast host Grant Mielke has smashed the campaign target for the Kickstarter MythCraft.
Free to Download: Unofficial Highlander tabletop RPG
Eric explains that their unofficial Highlander RPG uses a rules-lite system where only the players roll dice. Pools of d12 are used in conjunction with a mechanic called the Quickening.
Maladum: Dungeons of Enveron heads towards £500k for a terrain/crawler combo
The world is not as it was. The ancient magics stir within the earth, and their return heralds a new age of opportunity for those bold enough to seize upon such glorious times.
