Ubique Publication’s Welcome to Grimsbury: Player’s Guide is 60 pages of folk horror, rated 4.5/5 and entirely free from DriveThruRPG.
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The best selling RPGs from new publishers on DriveThruRPG in 2022
Another cut of the data is to look at which RPGs from new publishers have had a good year. The definition of “new” should be explained; it’s publishers who hadn’t published on DriveThruRPG before.
A second chance: Fate Worlds and Toolkits offer
Evil Hat Productions’ rightly popular Fate system is included along with Fate Cthulhu, and a host of other worlds.
Free to Download: TGS Games’ Vault Peddlers Core Rules
Consumed by avarice, division and calamity. Where once the Glittering Courts stood resolute – lauding over the collapsing systems below, now a wildness and Quickreef have taken root; subsuming off the edifices of the past.
The best selling miscellaneous RPGs published on DriveThruRPG in 2022
Previously, we’ve had family, sci-fi, modern, horror and fantasy. Miscellaneous is everything else, including historical, anime and other genres that might overlap or standalone from the ones previously.
Genre Police: Passing Down(time)
Last article, I talked about the narrative session structure (‘NSS’ for short), a way of viewing a game session so you can think about pacing in a constructive way.
Two times the grim RPG: Shadow of the Demon Lord deals
In the game, you’ll have to be quick, or you’re dead and clever, or you’re dead and lucky too. It’s grim heroism against cosmic horror, evil cults and oblivion.
The best selling family RPGs published on DriveThruRPG in 2022
As is common in many English-speaking cultures, DriveThruRPG’s “family” genre generally means “suitable for kids”.
Dungeon Crawl Classics: Humble’s New Perils bundle
The bundle is live now and expires around 11th January, depending on time zones. It’s split over three tiers, with the smallest starting below a quid.
Download for Free: Christmas giveaway of Lost in Dungeon’s “Journeys into the Unknown”
The game, inspired by Ben Milton, Brandish Gilhelm, Chris McDowall, and Gavin Norman, has 10 lineages but no classes and uses diegetic advancement (rewards for actions, not just kills) and an item slot approach.
