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.
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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.
Alternatives to D&D race into the Bundle of Holding
It’s rare to see the Bundle of Holding so busy, but it’s unusual times in the tabletop RPG world – and in the marketplace of games.
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.
