If that had been a power that we wanted to reserve for Hasbro, we would have enumerated it in the license.
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Free to Download: Tower of the Vampire for Legends of Gildor
Tower of the Vampire is the first in a series of sword and sorcery fantasy adventures involving characters driven by duty, vengeance, devotion, curiosity, or plain greed. It comes with pre-genned characters, so you can get going quickly.
Game Designers’ Workshop’s 80s classic RPG 2300 AD bundles an offer
Specifically, 2300 AD is set 300 years after the Twilight War, and you can grab it between now and Monday the 23rd from the Bundle of Holding.
Starset: The Great Dimming – Hoodwink brings a grimdark isolation RPG to Kickstarter
Josiah Mork notes that some gamers of their generation, post-COVID-19, are relatively satisfied with light isolation. This isn’t the core pitch for Starset, but it caught my attention.
Which tabletop RPGs are people looking forward to the most this year?
I think EN World started this, and they’ve done it again with thousands of votes. It makes sense to share their results rather than reinvent the wheel.
Stillfleet: Grim and vibrant sci-fi RPG with fantastic art
Stillfleet takes place in a gloomy, lively, zany, and politically charged future when the Earth has two (super)continents instead of seven.
Vaesen and Free League’s Forbidden Lands in bundle? You betcha
The offer runs until about the 19th, starts with a Forbidden Lands card deck and scales up to a 10-item £14.55 tier. At that top end, there are over £130 worth of downloads.
Roll20’s top 10 best selling RPG products of 2022
2022 also saw OneBookShelf and Roll20 coming together to work as one. The result? We can also see the top 10 at Roll20. Actually, I’ve data for the top 12. So let’s do that!
Free to Download: Empty, a Distemper jumpstart
Distemper takes place a year after the peak of the dog flu, a devastating and highly contagious mutant of canine distemper that killed 80% of humanity in a matter of months.
Thirteenth Moon Games crowdfunds a game of witchcraft with Coven & Crucible
Non witches know about magic the same way they know about taxes and dry cleaning and movies. Most people just hire a witch if they need something they can’t get through other means.
