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Free to Download: Cyberpunk RED gets a single shot pack

February 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You don’t want to spend the entire session rolling up new characters just for the one-shot, though. That’s the problem the Cyberpunk RED Single Shot Pack aims to solve.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, free to download, R. Talsorian Games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #89

February 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Keep up with RPG news, Wizards of the Coast’s new promotion with Hasbro, the many D&D TV shows, an Altered Carbon RPG review and interviews from around the web.

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Pericle is a tabletop RPG that replaces the GM with software

February 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pericle is an epic fantasy role-playing game that utilizes software-driven, choose-your-own-adventure mechanics to allow you and your friends to enjoy a classic Dungeon & Dragons or Pathfinder style adventure without requiring anyone to act as game master.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

The Fantasy Character Kit from Roll & Play finds an audience

February 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

So, you’re playing in a new RPG campaign next week. You have some ideas for the character you want to play, but coming up with their detailed appearance, unique personality and fleshed-out backstory can be difficult! Your previous character’s parents died in a fire, so you can’t use that again…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, roll & play press

Hundreds eagerly flock to the Crypt of the Devil Lich

February 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An ancient prophecy sends your heroes into the crypt of the Devil Lich. They must destroy her, before she can return to power. Once inside, your heroes face horrors that could only be dreamt of by a mad half-drow half-fiend lich!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, goodman games, kickstarters

Magpie Games hire Liz Chaipraditkul

February 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Award-winning RPG designer Liz Chaipraditkul has joined Magpie Games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, magpie games, powered by the apocalypse, The Legend of Korra

A Divorce of Druids: Destroy this two-player RPG as you play it

February 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Long Tail Games describes A Divorce of Druids and the Division of their Domains as an I-Cut, You-Choose, Print-And-Destroy, Craft-RPG-Game subscription web zine for two players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, long tail games

Apocalypse World’s Vincent Baker takes The Wizard’s Grimoire to Zine Quest

February 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Wizard’s Grimoire upends the normal player-GM relationship.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, powered by the apocalypse, vincent baker, zine quest

Free to Download: Far Away Land RPG – Tome of Awesome

February 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Far Away Land is a world where noknil clones are part of a hive mind, where clown plants hurl terrible jokes while stabbing their victims, where a cataclysmic event of the past has sewn together the various realms of creation to forge a nexus point on a fantasy world known as Far Away Land.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: far away land rpg, free to download, humour

WizKids grows official D&D and Magic: The Gathering product range

February 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

WizKids make miniatures and tabletop games, prepainted or otherwise and already have deals in place with Wizards of the Coast for D&D ranges and Magic.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, magic the gathering, wizards of the coast, wizkids

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