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Get started with the iconic sci-fi RPG Traveller with this paired bundle Free to Download: Blood Sword 5e quickstart Kill aliens and get paid: The Savage Worlds edition of Four Horsemen Universe Kickstarts Die by d100 and the bronze sword: A review of the Jackals fantasy RPG Free to Download: Routers RPG

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Get started with the iconic sci-fi RPG Traveller with this paired bundle

May 31, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The starter set and companion are available at the cheapest tier in the first deal, and then the second offer introducing Gareth Hanrahan’s Pirates of Drinax.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Mongoose Publishing, sales, traveller

Free to Download: Blood Sword 5e quickstart

May 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blood Sword is the sword of life, the only weapon capable of opposing the power of the evil Wizards of Krarth who threaten the Lands of Legend.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blood sword, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download

Kill aliens and get paid: The Savage Worlds edition of Four Horsemen Universe Kickstarts

May 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The aliens did not appreciate humanity’s growing successes on the galactic battlefield, especially as the personal mechas known as CASPers (Combat Assault System, Personal) evened the odds and let Humans bring the fight to powerful and deadly aliens.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, mecha, savage worlds

Die by d100 and the bronze sword: A review of the Jackals fantasy RPG

May 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jackals is a bronze age fantasy, and it’s a gritty high fantasy at that. It’s sorcery and sandals in the style of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and it gets the thumbs up from this ancient one.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jackals, john-matthew defoggi, osprey games, reviews

Free to Download: Routers RPG

May 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routers is a tabletop RPG or a roll and write from clutterArranger, and it’s entirely free.

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

Jungle Tomb of the Mummy Bride gets the DCC treatment

May 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The module has four levels of the Mummy Bride’s ziggurat, which means one extra has Planet X’s 5e original only had three. That’s proof this adventure is more than money for old rope.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, kickstarters, Planet X Games

Free to Download: Dune – Adventures in the Imperium Wormsign Quickstart

May 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Welcome to the last years of the Imperium, an era tens of thousands of years into the future.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dune, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, free to download, Modiphius Entertainment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #102

May 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet point speed for fast-find new releases, interviews, reviews and bundle deals. An at-a-glance catch-up of the recent RPG headlines.

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An introduction to a non-Tolkien fantasy: Exalted – Essence on Kickstarter

May 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Onyx Path had enormous figures for the Kickstarter for Exalted 3 and learnt a lot from it. Now, years later, they’re back with Exalted: Essence. This RPG is a streamlined version of the game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: exalted, kickstarters, onyx path publishing

Solo roleplaying game Journey releases bundle deal ahead of Dungeon Con

May 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A non-D&D game looks like it’ll have some sort of presence at Dungeon Con Online as Graycastle Press has released Journey – Dungeon Con 2021 bundle.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, convention, drivethrurpg, journey, solo rpgs

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