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Kalymba: An African-inspired Brazilian RPG is coming to Kickstarter

September 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Fed up of Western RPGs? Kalymba is an RPG written by Daniel Pirraça, from Brazil.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Adventures in Rokugan: Legend of the Five Rings comes to D&D’s 5e

September 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Edge, the Asmodee owned RPG studio that picked up tabletop roleplaying games from Fantasy Flight, has announced Adventures in Rokugan.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, edge, Legend of the Five Rings

A knockout zine: Warhammer FRP’s Archives of the Empire Volume 1 review

September 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Archives of the Empire Volume 1 is a high production quality, relatively thin 100-page hardback accessory for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, reviews, warhammer

Chris McDowall, Johan Nohr and Free League launch the Into the Odd Remastered Kickstarter

September 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The rules-light, flavourful, tabletop RPG of industrial horror with cosmic weird woven in.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Free League Publishing, Into The Odd, Johan Nohr, kickstarters

New Feywild Companion gives DMs new rules for developing portals to the fairy realm

September 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Timed to coincide with the official release of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure the YouTube channel Splinterverse has released the Feywild Companion.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons

All new Mutant Crawl Classics bundle to get you started as a mutant robot-killer

September 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Goodman Games’ tabletop RPG of post-apocalyptic adventure Mutant Crawl Classics is in the Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, goodman games, mutant crawl classics

Weird of Hali RPG: What you think you know about the world of H.P. Lovecraft is wrong

September 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Everything you think you know about history is wrong. H.P. Lovecraft knew part of the truth, but even he didn’t know enough to survive.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cthulhu, kickstarters, lovecraft

As good as the first: Knock! 2 is a gazette of weird OSR insight

September 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The art is incredible and frequent, and enough to push Knock! 2 firmly into that impressively professional look that some zines never reach.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: knock!, Old School Renaissance, reviews, the merry mushmen

Free to Download: Children of Midnight RPG quickstarter

September 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Children of Midnight is a gender-inclusive urban fantasy RPG. In the game, characters are Wyld Witches who, with their Familiars, form a Coven of support.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: forged in the dark, free to download

Dark Veil: An RPG about survival in a universe fractured in time

September 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dark Veil is a TTRPG that centers on a universe splintered in time cohesively connecting eras of medieval fantasy, Victorian era steampunk, cyberpunk space age, and the infinite realms of the Veil.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, sci-fi, time travel

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