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Manage Hope and Doom: Tide Breaker RPG the cinematic system funds on Kickstarter
In Tide Breaker, there’s always the option to roleplay your way around problems with anyone using your masterful diplomacy and persuasion skills, if cinematographic combat is not your style.
The ultimate guide to buying and selling magic items in 5E D&D
Magic items play a huge role in 5e D&D – and I love handing them out to my players. But answering even simple questions such as what an item costs in 5e, where and from whom it can be bought, and how to haggle for a better price, is no easy task for the DM due to the lack of official rules and guidelines for doing so.
The new TSR Games clarify position as key names appeared to distance themselves
E. Gary Gygax confirms Gygax-family feud is a legal battle, that he’s taken control of a TSR Games trademark while also allowing another company to use it.
Floria: The Verdant Way – Journeying into a mystic wood with this Japanese indie RPG
In the mystical forest, there are plants with roots that reach down into the Fount of Magic. These plants, known as Herbs, are eaten by the human dwellers of this world.
Good Strong Hands: Face the corrupting Void as a fantastic creature or human ally
Geek Native was fortunate enough to quickly catch up with Craig Campbell, the founder of NerdBurger Games and designer of the RPG Good Strong Hands.
Free to Download: Star Trek Adventures – Anomalies
The third offering in the Briefs series is designed by Al Spader and is all about the weird and wonderful Anomalies that those brave explorers on the final frontier might come across.
Grim & Perilous Studios hire Jeff Heising and bundles Dark Below with Blade and Bone
Leather, Steel, Blade & Bone is an electrum best-selling Zweihander RPG supplement by Jess Heising et al. Heising now works for Grim & Perilous, the studio has announced.
Scoundrel Game Labs and The Wondrous Tome of Wands hope to fix a D&D deficiency
Sentient wands and cursed artefacts are included in the carefully balanced and thoroughly indexed loot.
TSR Games announces a reboot of the sci-fi RPG Star Frontiers
The original Star Frontiers was published in 1982 by TSR and was a sci-fi setting in which four sentient races formed the United Planetary Federation and used The Void to travel between worlds.
