Based on Robert E. Howard’s fiction and the rule system behind so many franchise titles, not limited to Infinity and Mutant Chronicles, the TTRPG takes players into Hyboria.
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Botanists and Hobble Pollen in D&D: Digging into the Herbal Journal with Sarsen Games
Sarsen Games are based in Wiltshire. Dave and Matt, the couple behind the company, have the nearby 5,000-year-old Stonehenge where ancient Druids told stories and held festivals as inspiration.
Free to Download: Artifacts & Adventure – Modern-Day Treasure Hunters RPG
Some treasure hunters work for profit, others for a sense of discovery, or simply because they believe recovering relics is the right thing to do. Treasure hunting is a life of danger, excitement, and globe-trotting adventure.
The Heart of Chentoufi: An adventure from Luke Gygax of Gary Con
The Kickstarter is straightforward, funded not just because of the Gygax name but because of a very humble campaign goal and, I imagine, the popularity of D&D 5e adventures.
Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)
Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?
Wizards of the Coast re-release the popular TSR Jam 1999 compilation
In 1999 TSR put together a compilation of popular adventures from their Adventures Guild.
The mythpop RPG of unworthy gods Epigoni launches on Kickstarter
Unlike the Entities that gave birth to them, forever bound to their role in the story, these Epigoni are dangerous anomalies in the World of Myth: they’re free from the constraints of a pre-written plot.
Galdr and chrome, Vikings and cyberpunk: The Shield Maidens RPG funds in a day
You are a daughter of Freya, blessed by the divine. It is your task to free Yggdrasil from the tyrannical forces that control the greatest source of power: Ymir’s Blood.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #146
I’ve tried my best not to include any pranks in this news summary. I am stupid, though, and may have been tricked. I don’t think so…
Scarlet Republics TTRPG: Outland acquires the rights to a failed computer game
Scarlet Republics is a failed computer roleplaying game. A post from Audacity Interactive, the developer, last year began with “We have failed…” and detailed the end of the project.
