Lovecraft meets the X-Files, or, as the game itself encourages us to imagine the Unworld as 50% The Force and 50% The Upside Down from Stranger Things.
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Danger and reward with Through the Veil: Treasure of the Feywild
One of the successes of Treasures of the Feywild is to get the balance of breadth and depth right. There’s a range of different types of equipment here and then, for the popular styles, plenty of items.
Looking for a big baddie for your RPG? Liches: Dance Macabre offers the Sorrow Lords for 5e and Pathfinder
Everyone hates liches – the Sorrow Lords – more than vampires, dragons, and demons. They are sentient, free-willed open wounds in reality who corrupt everything they touch.
Free to Download: At One With Nature a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror
Graham James suggests the game suits two to three players and the Keeper. I think it’s much better with two players. These two characters are ideally newlywed and taking a honeymoon to 1920s Scotland.
WizKids to launch paint range and sprue-based miniatures range this year
We’re trying to develop a paintline that is mainly aimed at people who are not pro painters.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #111
Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s mixed news with $30,000 injected into the hobby but sadness as Brian Fitzpatrick passes away.
Wickerpunk RPG: Spooky backwater horror comes to D&D
We talk about what the genre is, about expectations players will have and how to carefully build a wickerpunk world of dark forest, ancient circles of stone, creeping mists and dark green mountains and hills and fens.
Start your Starfinder adventures and help ComicBooks for Kids with unusual Humble Bundle
Unusually, there’s a $50 tier with all 32 PDF products and physical copies of the Beginners Box and Pact Words hardcover. Shipping, though, might be as much as $65.
SoulMuppet Publishing’s space western Orbital Blues RPG hits trailer
Published through a successful Kickstarter, a project that even a cassette tape, Orbital Blues is a space western homage to vintage music. This is the rock and roll future of yesteryear that never was—and nobody wanted. It is an intergalactic age of cowboys, outlaws and bandits playing on an interstellar stage. It is a time […]
The servant has become master: Warp Games funds Banality
The future is 200 years from now, and it feels like technology is everywhere, and MALIS helps out. Except, the alien intelligence MALIS isn’t a friend.
