This changes the dynamic instantly, altering our attitude, throwing us into conflict, one against the other for dominance, where before there had been a shared story.
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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ACE! The Awfully Cheerful Engine is a loving parody of 80s games
Think of ACE! as an irreverent, fun-packed movie. You might play as ghost hunters in New York City, a band of plucky galactic guardians, vampire slayers, or soldiers of fortune in the Los Angeles underground.
The alien neo-noir post-post apocalypse: Favor RPG
Favor is a futuristic, cyberpunk noir role-playing game that takes place on a distant planet and its struggle to discover its own identity as it examines its past.
Make monsters your prey: A review of Wolf Hounds
Wolf Hounds is inspired by real-life history. The Benandanti, in the game, are a society of werewolves who defend their communities from a nasty range of supernatural horrors, often by taking the proactive approach of hunting them down.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #101
It’s been a busy week, so sit back and treat yourself to a scroll through the headlines; sales, reviews, interviews and stats from the RPG-scene.
Twitch backed Into the Mother Lands actual play takes their RPG to Kickstarter
Twitch’s Into the Mother Lands is a rightfully popular actual play. Now, the POC-created and Cortex-powered RPG is on Kickstarter.
Paizo’s Humble Bundle includes the 2e core rules for a couple of quid
Paizo has today launched a compelling offer on Humble. The core 2e Pathfinder rules and many other downloads are in the very cheapest tier, and the physical edition of the Bestiary is in the highest.
Amazon drops price on D&D’s Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft was published this week, the latest official D&D book. As the round-up of reviews in Routinely Itemised: RPGs #100 shows it is going down very well with reviewers.
The official Naruto Shippuden Monopoly is out today
The Monopoly game has six collectible items; a shuriken, a Kakashi Anbu Mask, Gaara’s Sand Gourd and the Akasuki’s Cloud.
Using the undead as slaves: Necrobiotic’s dark charm lures in the RPG crowd
In Necrobiotic, the decay started (wait for it) around 2020. Within thirty years, the world had changed, shrinking back until everything we once took for granted had gone.
