First up are a Great Spider and a Monstrous Water Spider. Following that are the three siblings of Shelob. These siblings are inspired by three of Shelob’s spawn detailed in The One Ring First Edition. While these spiders are similar, they are tougher and far more dangerous with servants and far reaching webs of terror they spin in Shadow.
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Hex-crawl your way into tabletop RPGs: The Scourge of Northland
The Scourge of Northland low-level adventure asked for $3,000 to fund, and with just under two weeks on the ZineQuest clock, it’s raised more than $25,000 already.
So many monsters: Victorian-era Hunters of the Occult
Stuart Wilding is writing a 120-page book about hunting monsters professionally in the 19th century. The illustrations we’ve seen so far from Ruben Mocho and Byron Andreu look great.
Legend of the Five Rings goes 5e: Adventures in Rokugan is out
Edge Studio, the new guardians for the Legend of the Five Rings, has released its 5e conversion Adventures in Rokugan through DriveThruRPG.
Dead Gods Hunters: Dark, gloomy and power-hungry
Flamberga is an indie Italian RPG publisher and timed with ZineQuest, they’re bringing Dead Gods Hunters to Kickstarter.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #164
It’s August, it’s ZineQuest, it’s GenCon, it’s the Edinburgh Festivals, and this is your summary of RPG news!
Planet Bimbo: Billionaire Brawl is an art game inspired by RPGs, body positivity and anti-capitalism
Nyusha Iampolski works as an artist in an educational game company, wants you to feel better about yourself and is taking part in ZineQuest this year.
Some of the official Marvel TTRPG now comes bundled in Marvel Unlimited
Marvel Unlimited is a digital comic book subscription service complete with a 29,000-strong archive. It’s available via iTunes and Google Play.
Pay what you want for mythic adventures and old-school RPGs
Essential Classic Fantasy RPG Collection is a five-tier Humble offer with Necrotic Gnome’s OSE goodies, Classic and Advanced Fantasy.
Answer the Mother and back the Last Sabbath, a witches’ RPG
Last Sabbath is an early darling of this year’s ZineQuest and offers a GM-less, rules-lite and coop RPG experience, and it’s a solo game too.
