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The refreshing touch of change and death: A review of The Elephant and Macaw Banner The next season of the Broken Compass RPG is on Kickstarter and running wild Critical Role confirms international release for Darrington Press’ Uk’otoa board game A Lugubrious Lullaby is an RPG about innocence lost A free introduction to the irradiated meta-wizards of the Icosa RPG

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The refreshing touch of change and death: A review of The Elephant and Macaw Banner

May 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I learned more about Brazilian mythology and related stories from this RPG than I had read in years.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Elephant & Macaw Banner, Porcupine Publishing, reviews, Supernatural

The next season of the Broken Compass RPG is on Kickstarter and running wild

May 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Broken Compass you play as an Adventurer in search of great Treasures, a man or woman of action, ready to risk it all every day, just so they can get to the finish line before their bitter Rival!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: broken compass, kickstarters, pulp, two little mice

Critical Role confirms international release for Darrington Press’ Uk’otoa board game

May 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first game from Critical Role’s Darrington Press is a battle of life and death on the high Lucidian seas called Uk’otoa.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, critical role, darrington press, ivan van norman

A Lugubrious Lullaby is an RPG about innocence lost

May 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A Lugubrious Lullaby prints onto a single sheet of paper, and when folded up, becomes a zine RPG about innocence lost.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: reviews

A free introduction to the irradiated meta-wizards of the Icosa RPG

May 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the world of Icosa, irradiated meta-wizards stroll forgotten halls of subterranean chrome. Knights hunt dragons across toxic skies in ancient biplanes retrofitted with alien technology.

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

You Are the Dungeon offers a novel twist on fantasy adventure

May 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You Are the Dungeon is a single-player journaling experience that puts you in the role of a living, sentient dungeon–eternal and indomitable.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Icons superheroes fly through the Bundle of Holding

May 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Steve Kenson (Mutants & Masterminds) and Ad Infinitum Adventures have the Icons superhero game in the Bundle of Holding. Not once, but twice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ad Infinitum Adventures, bundle of holding, bundles, ICONS, Steve Kenson

Broken Tales offers a dark RPG of upside-down fairytales where villains seek redemption

May 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Broken Tales reinterprets traditional fairytales through a dark lens, upending their premises. Players belong to the Order, a secret group operating on behalf of the Papacy, whose duty is to investigate events and threats beyond human understanding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: broken tales, kickstarters, the world anvil publishing, World Anvil

Fantasy festival generator

May 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Even in a sleepy village on the quiet corner of a fantasy map, it need not be the case that every day is the same. A GM or worldbuilder can insert a fantasy festival to shake things up a bit.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: generators, rpg tools

The People at the End of Time: An impressive fan-made Mutant Year Zero RPG trailer

May 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The People at the End of Time is a fan-made trailer from the artist MMK for the game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, mutant: year zero, trailers

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