If you follow Tidebreaker’s creator, Nick Butler, he always presents as a humble, down-to-Earth, and positive guy. These qualities come through in the game’s writing.
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When the Wolf Comes RPG: Viking doom never looked so Ragnarokking good
It is harsh across the Empire, whoredom rife —a gene age, a machine age —mankind is riven— a restless age, a deathless age— before the Nine Worlds go headlong. No longer is there mercy among what once were men.
An RPG about hope and zombies: Death Throes
Death Throes quips, “Oh. Great. Another zombie roleplaying game. Just what the world needs”, and then adds a “But wait.” before explaining why this RPG is different.
Hieronymus RPG is a Garden of Earthly Delights Edition inspired by Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch is a mysterious real-life historical figure, a painter from the 15th century whom we would like to know much more about.
Free to Download: D&D – Spelljammer Academy
Wizards of the Coast, the new owners for D&D Beyond, have promised that there will be further adventures for Spelljammer Academy. To get those, you must first unlock one adventure and then you’ll automatically get the next.
First 48-hour bonus: The Big Squirm is a hard-boiled Troika adventure on Kickstarter
Daniel Sell has brought Luke Gearing’s Troika adventure The Big Squirm to Kickstarter. If you back for a physical copy in the first 48 hours, then you’ll get a secret dossier.
Fancy 6,000 pages of OSR RPG? You must confront the Castle Oldskull bundle
The Bundle of Holding has a deal on the OSR Castle Oldskull RPG from author Kent David Kelly.
YZ Worldbuilding: Twilight: 2000
World War III has ended, and everyone lost. The PCs, caught up in the final battle, flee the carnage.
Tolkien unburdened from Tolkien: Back Again from the Broken Land RPG
The world of RPGs owes so much to Tolkien. But it feels sometimes like only the surface of his work shows up in major fantasy rpgs—Elves, Dwarves, magic swords, yes, but what about the terrible cost of facing despair, the small acts of mercy that keep hope alive?
Dicecovery: Space Delirium’s glowing dice fund in a day
French twins William and Alexandra needed only a day to push through their €15,000 crowdfunding goal for Discovery. The result will be sets of glow-in-the-dark mathrocks.
