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Brancalonia for 5e is out in PDF Secure, Contain, and Protect: The SCP gets a tabletop RPG Free to Download: Deluxe D&D 3.5 character sheets Palladium Books’ Mutants and Ninjas bundle RPG Publisher Spotlight: Parts Per Million

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Brancalonia for 5e is out in PDF

January 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Brancalonia is rooted in Italian tradition and folklore, with history, landscapes, and literature and pop-culture mixed in.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, brancalonia, Dungeons & Dragons

Secure, Contain, and Protect: The SCP gets a tabletop RPG

January 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s X-Files meets Creepypasta and its funded many times over on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 26 letter publishing, kickstarters, scp

Free to Download: Deluxe D&D 3.5 character sheets

January 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

These designs make use of a folio-style layout to maximise room for notes and records. The generic D&D sheet is four pages long.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: character sheets, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, wizards of the coast

Palladium Books’ Mutants and Ninjas bundle

January 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As usual, there are only three weeks to claim the two-tiered bundle and the cost of the Bonus Collection rises or lowers in line with how people shop.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Palladium Books, sales

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Parts Per Million

January 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once upon a time Parts Per Million was simply PPM. It started out as Peter, Paul & Marcus.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: parts per million, solo rpgs, spotlight

A deadly raypunk RPG: XENOSCAPE – extreme sci-fi survival

January 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Xenoscape characters are the rarest creatures on the planet Materia – they’re the sentient ones.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Genre Police: Working From The Same Playbook

January 24, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

This time we’re going to look at a mechanic that changed the way I look at the process of character creation: the playbook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

Those Who Wander: Adam Hancock’s fantasy adventure born from versatile parentages Kickstarts

January 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Those Who Wander, a name born from Tolkien’s “Not all those who wander are lost,” starts with a character creation of two based on parentages.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adam hancock, kickstarters

Free to Download: Godtale a Norse mythology RPG

January 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Characters in Godtale are deities on adventures that encounter different trials to test them and grant bragging rites afterwards.

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

Crystalpunk: Preview the College of Momentum bard subclass

January 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Spells, souls, demons and infused crystals are used to power a brutal and unique technology. There are some great looking previews already available for Crystalpunk and Geek Native can add one other.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, exclusive

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