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The Towninator smashes it
A year after not hitting Kickstarter goals, The Towninator from Andreas Barbesgaard is back. It’s an approach to generating single-sheet towns and tracking how RPG PCs interact.
XII: Occult Eye is an RPG in which you and your demon hunt truth and help others
The game is a horror investigation where PCs are witches, with demonic pacts growing stronger by hunting the truth. Truth is hard to find.
Studio Agate vs OGL: Fateforge becomes a Pay What You Want protest
The ENnie-winning fantasy that took years to make is a love letter to Sword & Sorcery and (once) Dungeons & Dragons. The game is set in the world of Eana, which while familiar, is also exotic with new twists and turns.
Project Phoenix: RPG developers adopt Paizo’s new open game license
Bastion Press is financing a new open game license, putting some money in so publishers can use it without reinventing the wheel.
One GM and one player RPG: Beowulf – Age of Heroes bundles victories, wyrd and heroes into a discount deal
As studios like Handiwork look to decouple from 5e and investigate their alternatives, we might see more of this; quick bundles of ‘days before’ content put up on offer.
RPG Essentials: Acrylic Creature Tokens for TTRPGs raise thousands
Where are you with virtual tabletops versus meat space and battle maps? Coping with a growing miniatures collection alongside the dice?
Playtest Zero bundle: Showcase of indie games from Thomas Manuel
Designers arisia, Caro Asercion, goobernuts, KTPie, Takuma Okada, and Zuhayri Mohamed have all contributed DRM free material to the deal which offers $24 worth of indie content for $15.
Free League double whammies with two new OGL alternatives
It’s clear that it is high time for Free League to have an OGL that is fully our own
Free to Download: Denizen! The Magonian Edition
The RPG is a 282-page full-featured core set. It’s about dungeon crawls and heroics with the usual set of six stats but different rules for character generation and skill testing.
