This game was created to provoke creativity, adaptation, and improvisation while exploring the darker parts of the psyche.
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #133
It’s the end of the week, the month and the year. It is, therefore, time for one last look back at the RPG news from 2021 with Geek Native’s Routinely Itemised: RPGs.
D&D and Darkness: A review of Light of Winter
This is a brief review of Lindsey Bonnette’s Light of Winter. Don’t read it if you might play the supernatural mystery.
D&D has a British variant of the iconic detective board game
It’s a pub quiz fact that Cluedo is known as Clue in North America. Or, if you’re reading this in North America, the rest of the world knows the detective board game Clue as Cluedo.
Nirmala City Tiles is an excellent example of the STL Kickstarter boom
The campaign has hit its funding goal, so we’re on track for digital delivery. It’s the 7th campaign for Ola and builds on a previously established track record.
This bold pink crate is Steve Jackson Games’ Ogre Bundle
It takes some chops to put your board game in a bright pink box, with barely any illustration and “Made in China” stamped across the front.
Free to Download: Destined preview
The Design Mechanism publishes the mithral best-seller Mythras and has announced that their next game will be Destined.
Pay What You Want for this handy Beginner’s Guide to D&D
The guide isn’t intended to replace the Players Handbook, and it’s more like a summary of it.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Forgotten Adventures and 45,000+ free map assets
For free, Forgotten Adventures give away Mapmaking Assets under license. It’s over 5gigs zipped and so don’t download that on a mobile metered internet connection.
Gallant Knight Games launches GallantFunding as discontent with Kickstarter grows
Publisher of the TinyD6 system, Cold Shadows, Zorro and others Gallant Knight Games has launched GallantFunding as an alternative to Kickstarter or Itchfunding.
