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Broken Cities is a diceless, GMless RPG in ZineQuest
The diceless and GMless zine RPG asked for €2,500 and has hit that target. There’s still two weeks left to get involved.
Shield Maidens: Yggdrasil burns, Daughters of Freya, raise your shields as Mongoose releases a new RPG range
Mongoose’s first new IP is Alison Cybe’s Viking-cyberpunk Shield Maidens.
Dungeon Denizens from Goodman Games crosses 1/4 of a $million by expanding DCC and 5e with 500 monsters
Non-5e publishers have had an excellent start to the year, thanks to the OGL crisis. Goodman Games, the publisher of Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC), has timed Dungeon Denizens well.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Random Rambling Press
Let’s get indie RPG publishers some attention. Writing, designing, producing and publishing a game is especially hard. Imagine trying to market it at the same time?
The Rot: 1880 – Horror RPG comes to the golden age of the wild west
The townsfolk have been disappearing without a trace in the night. No one knows what evil is lurking on the outskirts of town, but one thing is for sure- don’t go out at night.
R’lyehwatch: Lifeguards and elder gods in a rules-light RPG
R’lyehwatch will be an RPG zine, 40-page and 5.5″ x 8.5″, full colour, saddle-stitched print and have a PDF version too.
Geek Native tracks the hottest RPG week on Kickstarter since records began
The idea is Kickstarter Heat is a measure of how bullish publishers are feeling. If confidence is high, it is more likely that there will be many launches asking for higher campaign targets.
It’s a bundle deal! Arcana of the Ancients is Numenera for 5e
A successful Kickstarter in 2019 took the Numenera world and shaped it into the 5e-powered Arcana of the Ancients.
Drama Llamas: A reality TV tabletop RPG – except everyone is a llama
Yvris Burke is the designer of the solo RPG Bumbling, and in that game, you’re a bee, a baby bumble bee. Inspired by a love for actual reality TV, in Drama Llamas, Yvris is doing what she knows – reality TV.
