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The dark art of the Tomb of the Colossus Gods Free to Download: Talisman Adventures – Quick Start Guide and Curse of the Rat Queen Cthulhu Mythos horror in dangerous RPG lore: Tentacles 6 in a bundle RPG Tips: 5 ways to hook players into a dark murder mystery Relic’s impressive titans transformed into animated virtual tabletop tokens [exclusive]

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The dark art of the Tomb of the Colossus Gods

October 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tomb of the Colossus Gods is a Kickstarter slated for February 2022 and a dark campaign setting for 5e.

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, lion banner games

Free to Download: Talisman Adventures – Quick Start Guide and Curse of the Rat Queen

October 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The quick start is a condensed version of Talisman Adventures comes with some the rules and with four pre-generated characters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download

Cthulhu Mythos horror in dangerous RPG lore: Tentacles 6 in a bundle

October 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Titles include the survival-horror Apocthulhu and Cthulhu Reborn’s historical sourcebook, Convicts & Cthulhu, set in An Australian penal colony.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Call of Cthulhu, cthulhu, tiny cthulhu, Trail of Cthulhu

RPG Tips: 5 ways to hook players into a dark murder mystery

October 25, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

But how do you get players interested in a challenge that can’t be dealt with steel or silver weapons?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips

Relic’s impressive titans transformed into animated virtual tabletop tokens [exclusive]

October 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native has an exclusive look at the animated versions of the RPG Relic’s titans.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bandit camp, relic, virtual tabletop

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Grim & Perilous Studios

October 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Grim & Perilous Studios are a group of independent contractors who collaborate on creating, reviewing, and playing games for ourselves, as well as other companies on a for-hire basis.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adam rose, Andrews McMeel, daniel d. fox, grim & perilous studios, spotlight, zweihander

Genre Police: Not The Destination, but the journey

October 24, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

So you have a group of wandering heroes. They need to get from a village in a woodland to the far north, an orcish settlement surrounded by ice and snow, to see if they can treat with the leader of the clan.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragons, genre police, rpg tips

Inspired by the myths and cultures of Africa: Kalymba RPG from Craftando Games

October 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Craftando Games has been publishing RPGs in Brazil for five years, and now with this English-language version of the Kalymba roleplaying game, they’re going international.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous is an adult game of playing with your food

October 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s hard to believe that Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous is just the third Kickstarter tied to Pelgrane Press’ account, but it is.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: banana chan, kickstarters, larp, Pelgrane Press

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #123

October 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A bullet-point summary of RPG news in the week of D&D reviews, Paizo freelancers forcing a halt to Pathfinder and Star Wars RPG’s future confirmed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis, arc, astral tabletop, Atlas Games, battleground games, brw games, Chaosium, Cowboy Bebop, cubicle 7, czrpg, deadlands, degenesis, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, earthdawn, edge, fasa, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, game wizards, Green Ronin Publishing, hyper light drifter, iron kingdoms, kobold press, Labyrinth, Mana Project Studio, masks, Metal Weave Games, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mothership, Paizo Publishing, Privateer Press, realmwarp media, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, star trek adventures, the red opera, traveller, warhammer

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