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Legacy of the Soul Flame offers up a “noble-dark” RPG Wicked Ones gets solo RPG rules Inhospitable Settings: Darkness encounter table Dungeons & Doom: A review of the 5e-powered Hellboy RPG Apotheosis Studio’s Sirens: Battle of the Bards sings on Kickstarter

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Legacy of the Soul Flame offers up a “noble-dark” RPG

April 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s countless undead in this world, but they’re slumbering in the snow and ice unless a dozen or more humans get together.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, undead

Wicked Ones gets solo RPG rules

April 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You’re trying to build your dungeon, stock it and defend it. You’re trying to follow orders from the master, and those annoying heroes keep invading.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bandit camp, forged in the dark, parts per million, peter rudin-burgess, solo rpgs, wicked ones

Inhospitable Settings: Darkness encounter table

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Darkness can be hard to describe beyond telling the players to imagine their characters cannot see anything.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: nor cal mythos, rpg tips

Dungeons & Doom: A review of the 5e-powered Hellboy RPG

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

I backed Mantic Games and Red Scar’s Hellboy RPG on Kickstarter and am pleased with the output.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, hellboy, mantic games, red scar publishing, reviews

Apotheosis Studio’s Sirens: Battle of the Bards sings on Kickstarter

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sirens: Battle of Bards has a Project We Love tag from Kickstarter, is endorsed by Luke Gygax, the first celeb guest writer announced was none other than the fantastic Deborah Ann Woll, and they’ve more partners in place than a Gen Con hall.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, Dungeons & Dragons, jamison stone, kickstarters, Satine Phoenix, sirens: battle of the bards

Lightweight dystopia: A review of Space Street RPG

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In Space Street vast cities house humanity, beset by spying aliens, cosmic horrors, broken androids and insane criminals lurking in every dark starlit alley and dirty street.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itch.io, sci-fi, sr 16

Free to Download: Tension RPG

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tension is an one page RPG from Late Night Zen. The RPG blog introduces the ghost hunting one-page system by explaining how several years of thought found a home in this one game. Tension is a game of hunting ghosts. Once you start, you’re committed because ghosts can hunt you too. The pressure keeps rising […]

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

Dice of the Dead: Gamer dice that contain tiny little skulls!

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These “dice of the dead” pair perfectly with Call of Cthulhu or Vampire: The Masquerade.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, skulls, storm crow

The walls are closing in! – or How to wrangle players and puzzles when the time is running out

April 25, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Sometimes players are gonna overthink things for a multitude of reasons and get stumped by a puzzle in the heat of the moment.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips

Free to Download: Sölitary Defilement solo RPG rules for MORK BORG

April 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Solitary Defilement from 1d10+5 is a solution. The free download contains comprehensive rules for exploring the dying lands and end of the world by yourself.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, itch.io, mork borg

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