Chivalry and Sorcery favours realism, historically, and while C&S 5e has been streamlined, it is still true to that original desire. The game also leans into medieval life, with priests, feudal system rules, courts and tournaments rather than dungeon crawling.
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$10 bundle for over $90 worth of RPGs: Help game designer Tiago Rolim out
The bundle is raising money for Tiago Rolim, an RPG designer best known for the OSR inspired game NUMA. NUMA is about samurai frogs fighting for revenge.
Death in Space wows Kickstarter with its bleak blue-collar sci-fi RPG
Death in Space is two things; it’s a bleak view of life in space powered by capitalism and a work of art.
Anime and everything with bioengineered chrome: A review of LokDown RPG
LokDown is an RPG about the generations of survivors on planet LokDown who adapted to survive outside.
Genre Police: Player Roles
While it is useful to recognise those skillsets and use them to add extra elements to your game, it is easy to overlook the other skill set that people bring to your table: social roles.
Apocalypse 5E by Blue Phoenix Games picks up 700 years after the fall
Was your world torn asunder by war, famine, or terrible storms that scorched the sky?
UFO Press merges into Rowan, Rook and Decard
UFO Press may be best known for the post-apocalyptic Legacy game, the second edition of which was published three years ago, but there is a string of successes since then.
Free to Download: Horror sci-fi RPG – Incoming Call
Incoming Call is a sci-fi RPG for 1 to 3 players, no GM, and it’s free to download.
Striking map of Theros’ Meletis
Meletis is a city Magic: The Gathering and now D&D setting of Theros.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #94
In this week’s RPG news round-up, we have pre-orders on a giant dragon “mini”, the Fallout 2d20 RPG, a Scion RPG TV series and Free League Publishing converting Symbaroum to D&D’s 5e.
