The core rules are in OSRIC, and that’s usually free, available here to be handy and with $70 worth of downloads.
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Bronze Age: Collapse merges Lovecraft with Homer in an RPG and open sources the rules
Join Achilles and actual gods in the siege of Troy, and confront the sorcerers of Babylon as they attempt to conclude a devastating ritual and become legendary monster slayers.
RPG Worlds: Grow your library and support Kobold Press and friends
Right now, presumably months (or more) that game engine is ready to look at, you can boost your library for current systems and support the publisher and allied third parties by investigating the Humble RPG Worlds bundle.
Cloud Empress RPG: Nausicaa meets Mothership horror
Cloud Empress is a tabletop RPG by watt that’s smashed Kickstarter goals and takes a far future world inspired by the likes of Dune and the manga Nausicaa and applies it to the sci-fi horror of Mothership.
Savage Worlds’ Legend of Ghost Mountain: Martial Arts RPG kicks Kickstarter target
The Ghost Wardens draw magical power from strong emotions. Rage. Fear. Joy. Disgust. Sorrow. Only a handful of candidates pass the harrowing trials to harness these emotions—a process that turns their hair white. Those who succeed are privy to mystical martial arts techniques.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #188
A brief recap of RPG news and (more) OGL drama from around the TTRPG. This week mass and finance media are in on the news.
FandomSpot benchmark: One in ten D&D players have quit for good
FandomSpot wisely run a survey to benchmark the impact of the D&D OGL crisis.
The Väruld RPG comes to Kickstarter with a system-agnostic world core book
Screenwriter Désirée Nordlund is back on Kickstarter with an RPG that lets you pick the rules you want. Väruld is system agnostic and book one is the world book.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Catilus
Catilus is an artist whom you can support through Patreon, but there’s also a growing collection of tabletop RPG successes.
Wizards of the Coast backtrack on OGL 1.1
Wizards of the Coast have seemingly backtracked on most of the most egregious changes to the document.
