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Free to Download: Vampires & Claymores

February 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Vampires & Claymores, you play as vampires but what that means is entirely up to you.

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

Free to Download: Heroic Tales core rules

February 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Heroic Tales Core Rules is a new RPG with a Pay What You Want price tag at DriveThruRPG. Garrett’s set the recommended price to $0.

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

Our Traveling Home: Queer RPG, Ghibli-style

February 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ash Kreider’s RPG of oddballs and misfits promises always to end happily. That feels appropriate for a tabletop story inspired by Ghibli.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Studio Ghibli

RPG Publisher Spotlight: EN Publishing

February 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

EN Publishing is the tabletop force behind Judge Dredd & The World of 2000 AD, the game system What’s OLD is NEW (WOIN), lots of 5e goodies and, as we find out in this spotlight, with plans for plenty more.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, en publishing, judge dredd & the worlds of 2000 AD, level up, Russ Morrissey, spotlight

5e evolved: Farsight takes the D&D system to space

February 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s been a great 12 months for innovation out of Italy, and Lightfish Games make no bones about how their sci-fi RPG Farsight takes the basics of D&D 5e system and evolves it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, sci-fi

Legend of the Five Rings card game to finish

February 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fantasy Flight Games has announced the end of the Legend of the Five Rings card game. Organised Play for the game will also finish.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Alderac Entertainment Group, card games, edge, fantasy flight games

Humble bundles up $301 worth of Fallout RPG and 3D mini files

February 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Three tiers of Fallout Wasteland goodies from Modiphius offering up over $300 on Humble Bundle.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 3d printers, bundles, fallout, fallout: wasteland warfare, humble bundle, sales

Lex Arcana: The legions march on Kickstarter with “Dacia and Thracia” and “Italia”

February 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If one way to judge whether a Kickstarted game has been a success is to look at the popularity of the next campaign, the crowdfunder for the first supplement, Lex Arcana is doing well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Francesco Nepitello, kickstarters, lex arcana, quality games

Coming Full Circle: Reviewing The Expanse RPG and AGE

February 17, 2021 by Graham Gibson 2 Comments

This roleplaying game takes place during the events of the first two books, Leviathan Wakes and Caliban’s War. It uses the AGE (Adventure Game Engine) system, and this was my first experience of it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Green Ronin Publishing, reviews, sci-fi, the expanse, the expanse rpg

The Very Good Dogs of Chernobyl become an RPG

February 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

9th Level Games are on a roll this Zine Quest session at Kickstarter with a series of quick to close, but attractive, RPG pitches.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, kickstarters, polymorph, zine quest

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