Bringing Assassin’s Creed to tabletop RPG is an exciting challenge with near endless potential. The video game’s highly original premise — combining modern-day reality with period adventures, offers such an incredible opportunity for us to bring players a variety of gameplay that is unprecedented in most RPGs.
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Rebels of the Outlaw Wastes: A RPG with stickers about overthrowing fascist overlords
This tabletop game is a sticker-fueled post-apocalypse of misfit outlaws fighting tyranny in a rock-n-roll retro-dystopia.
Koriko: A Magical Year is a solo RPG about being an adorable witch taking Kickstarter by storm
Mousehole Press asked for £5,000 to fund and, with more than three weeks on the clock, has secured more than £120,000 in pledges.
Nightfall Games secures the SINS RPG line of tense supernatural apocalypse
Nightfall Games has big plans for SINS, including publishing the new material already written by the FFL team and developing the IP with new material and campaigns.
DCC Horror bundles up RPG dire temptation in time for Halloween
Goodman Games’ Dungeon Craw Classics has no shortage of candidate material for Halloween.
Free to Download: The 64-page Eternus sci-fi RPG Quickstart
Would you have a folder in your RPG library called The Black Orifice? Perhaps Eternus will tempt you.
Genre Police: Players And Positivity
The story has stuck in my head, not only as a laughably bad example of how not to respect player agency but also as an interesting thing that can happen during games.
The Quintessential Fighter: A d20 blast from the past seeks Kickstarter 5e success
Before D&D 5e, even before 4e, Wizards of the Coast opened up 3e’s d20 rules to third-party publishers.
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Nevermore Roleplaying Game: Free quickstart and gothic horror Kickstarter
Channelling Melville, Gilman, Wharton, James, Bierce, and, as you’d expect given the title, Poe, Nevermore is set on the eastern coast of America in the late 19th century.
