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ENnie award-winning 5e Arkadia takes its mythic Greece to the Bundle of Holding
Arcana Games picked up the Silver ENnie for best setting with the 5e Arkadia.
World’s first micro-RPG: Outland acquires Pocket Odyssey and Dice Odyssey
In Pocket Odyssey players assume the roles of legendary heroes embarking on epic quests, defeating monsters, finding loot and pretty much anything the players mind can imagine.
The Rift to Rhymorra: A Guide to the Spirit Realm opens to Kickstarter success
TheAlphineDM’s 5e sourcebook with a new class, 30 new monsters, 40 magic items, and an adventure has been funded on Kickstarter. There’s still about a month left on the clock for The Rift to Rhymorra: A Guide to the Spirit Realm.
Free to Download: 5e’s Realm of Myztros Player’s Guide
The Realm of Myztros setting is somewhere between the wild arcane high fantasy or epic fantasy settings that exhibit magic in every
home, flying cities, and people using magic much in the same way technology is used today and low fantasy setting that are simply an
altered reality that features some small magical elements but is mostly grounded in truth.
Behemoths: Paths of the Koru cover revealed by Pelgrane Press
Pencilled by Rich Longmore and painted by Lee Moyer, the cover for the kaiju-sized monsters has been revealed.
Storybrewers crowdfund no-prep RPGs in travel boxes
The two new games are Decaying Orbit and Saltfish & Almanacs. You can find out more or join in from the Kickstarter page.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #149
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Free to Download: Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners Preview
In support of their Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners Kickstarter, Knight Vision Creative has released a free to download and 10-page preview.
Edge Studios share the release date and air the Midnight 5e video trailer – when the baddies win
Is your fantasy RPG a dark one? Are the heroes or anti-villains caught up in shades of grey and the world succumbing to the darkness?
