The Darkest House, if the Kickstarter is successful, will be a download that offers up details of many rooms in a house. It’s a GM’s tool designed to be used during online gameplay.
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Magpie Games and Avatars: Bending four elements across five eras
Geek Native has been lucky enough to get some questions to Mark Truman, CEO of Magpie Games, who are making the official roleplaying game based on Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.
Tournament of Pigs: A medieval game show adventure for 5e & DCC
Weird Works have launched an ambitious Kickstarter for a boxed set adventure, complete with standees and suitable for 5e or DCC.
Palace of the Vampire Queen: The strange history of D&D’s first standalone adventure
The Palace of the Vampire Queen is the very first standalone commercial adventure for Dungeons & Dragons.
The innovative Index Card RPG gets a Bundle of Holding deal
The Starter Collection, the first of the customary two tiers in the bundle, costs $12.95. In exchange, you’ll get $54.40 worth of DRM free PDF downloads.
Diesel RPG: Cinematic action with an emotional core
The Diesel RPG, launched today on Kickstarter by Steven Pankotai, promises cinematic action alongside an emotional core.
Kickstarter’s Head of Community Luke Crane cancels their own RPG zine after controversy backlash
Sometime after launch, at the bottom of an oddly-reversed alphabetical list of contributors, it was noticed and discussed that Adam Koebel’s name was included.
Exalted Funeral lands exclusive Head Lopper dice set and GM screen
The bundle comes with one dice set, a custom Agatha dice bag, 5 character cards with system-neutral stats on the flipside and 1 GM screen.
Agents of BAMF bring SWORD and SHIELD style agents to tabletop RPGs
The acronym in question for this Kickstarter is Bureau of Abnormalities, Mutations and the Fantastic. It’s an agency that takes on criminal groups like NEST, Sky Pirates and other threats.
Don’t be a Forever GM: DM Yourselves
The phrase “Forever GM” describes one kind friend who always ends up running tabletop games night, never getting to play and always weaving the story. There’s nothing wrong with that approach, it is often fun being the GM, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
