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Combat-hacking: How to Make Your 5th Edition Combat Iconic
Joshua Raynack is Lead Game Designer and co-founder of Alea Publishing Group.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Sixel Publishing
It’s great to see something so positive has come about from the Spotlight, Mike’s time and Patreon support.
Free to Download: To Change RPG from trans authors and artists
You can download a free demo of To Change from US Ducktape.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #152
Let’s do the RPG news super-summary and reduce this week’s bullet-point headlines to fewer bullets. This week;
Goth Jumanji: Travel into your RPG with DIE
It’s taken years, but now Kieron Gillen, Rowan, Rook and Decard with Stephanie Hans have the DIE comic on Kickstarter for DIE: The Roleplaying Game.
Free to Download: Deck of Fates from Black Forge
The Deck of Fates is a powerful set of cards crafted by the old gods for use in rituals long forgotten.
Teenage memories? Mutants in the Next TTRPG leans into nostalgia for a Kickstarter
Once, there was a tabletop RPG about mutant animal warriors who fought ninjas and other enemies.
Find love and success, and avoid scandal! Regency RPG comes to Kickstarter
The game feels like a conversation between the writer and these characters who often stray from the plot.
Indie RPG darlings Nobilis and Chuubo return to the Bundle of Holding
We were warned that the Bundle of Holding would have a busy 2022, and gosh, there’s another offer already. Do let me know if it’s getting spammy but highlighting a chance to get Jenna Moran’s Nobilis and Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine feels worthy. Jenna worked on Exalted and Weapons of the Gods, and in Nobilis, […]
