Written by Jason Durall and Steve Perrin, the rules offer character growth based on what the PCs do in the game and have a pretty brutal combat system in which every action matters.
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Tales of the Valiant: Project Black Flag gets its official name
The Player’s Guide includes 13 base classes, lineages and heritages from classic fantasy roleplaying, and the rules you need to play or GM, all between two covers. The Monster Vault includes every dungeon-crawling and fire-belching fantasy creature you need to craft compelling fantasy encounters.
Vagabond: An ambitious Kickstarter for a solo and group RPG with an autonomous system
The project allows Taron as Rebel Rouser Games to actually make the Vagabond TTRPG.
Fan-made alternative D&D height chart is impressive
Redditor man_bored_at_work has a great username and a simple mission. Man said; I made a new height comparison chart, because I didn’t like the ones I found online [Reddit] The chart has had over 10 thousand upvotes, but one comment has received a healthy dose too. Snownova added this on halflings. I still object against […]
Dicetale Games’ dark fantasy Blood and Doom slaughters the RPG’s Kickstarter target
€35,000 was a pretty high Kickstarter target for an RPG indie coming out of Europe, but Netherland’s Dicetale Games has hit it with Blood and Doom.
Jack Vance’s Dying Earth RPG is out for Dungeon Crawl Classics
The sky is painted weird colours by the light of the dying red Sun, and strange plants and animals exist.
Weight-bearing Dungeon Pops offer pop-up RPG battle maps
It’s just a step to $28 for the Traveler level and the option to pick any one pop battle map for a thank you.
Shiver brings its Pop-culture horror tabletop roleplaying to the Bundle of Holding
I like the indie RPG Shiver, and now the pop-culture horror tabletop roleplaying game is up at the Bundle of Holding.
ENnie-winner, Nebula-finalist Basheer Ghouse goes Guns Blazing with a combat RPG
This is a world on the cusp of change. The old system, tyrannical and ruinous, cannot hold. The new is unknown, to be defined in the decades to come, in the wreckage of the old.
Phil Reed steps aside as CEO of Steve Jackson Games, Meredith Placko steps in
My excitement at joining the team at Steve Jackson Games is something I cannot express in words. Mostly dinosaur-esque screeching noises.
