Itch, the retail platform for game-makers, is increasingly getting into tabletop RPGs. Today, the Tabletop Selects Bundle launches and offers 6 games for $12.
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Blood Sword brings 80s grimdark to Dungeons & Dragons
The Blood Sword 5e Handbook will contain approximately 250 richly illustrated and colored pages with maps, characters, opponents, monsters and other evocative images of Legend, a land of adventurers threatened by unspeakable horrors.
World’s oldest tabletop RPG company, Flying Buffalo, to be sold
Flying Buffalo is being sold to an undisclosed backer. The news was revealed in a post on Trollbridge by current owner Steve Crompton.
Add the world’s second-oldest RPG to your collection on the cheap via the Bundle of Holding
Created by Ken St Andre, Tunnels & Trolls was inspired by D&D and came out shortly afterwards. It’s still going, and Ken is still active.
Black Armada announce Lovecraftesque 2nd edition and playtest
The core of the game is the same as ever: you play a lone, isolated Witness who stumbles upon a cosmic secret and (probably) meets a terrible end.
Economic horror, plagues and lockdowns: Best-selling Red Markets RPGs get an Itch-hosted quickstart
In Red Markets, characters risk their lives trading between the massive quarantine zones containing a zombie outbreak and the remains of civilization.
The grimdark life of a Sharper: Synthicide comes to Forged in the Dark
A mutant war destroyed every civilized world in the Galaxy, and the only survivors were located on the outer rim.
Most D&D fans can’t correctly answer “Who owns D&D Beyond?”
When this post first went live, the data says that most D&D fans can’t correctly answer “Who owns D&D Beyond?”. Does it matter?
Not a vanity purchase: Death on the Reik Companion review
The Companion itself extends the “director’s cut” metaphor to describe the re-release of the Warhammer Fantasy RPG adventure by using terminology such as “Deleted Scenes”, “Guest Commentaries”, and “Behind the Scenes”.
The secret history of Monopoly is as relevant today as it ever was
Hasbro has taken down an official timeline of the origins of Monopoly.
