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Thousands of backers for Dangerous Destinations
Nord Games’ Dangerous Destinations is a Kickstarter project for Gamemasters and Dungeon Masters. The hardback guides helps adventure designers craft interesting and hazardous locations for characters to visit.
Management Change as Funagain Games’ employees asks the CEO to step down
Let it be known that we, the 25 full-time employees of Funagain Games and Funagain Logistics, do not condone in any way the words of Jeff DeBoer, the company’s CEO/Owner in his recent social media comments.
Dungeons & Dragons expand its design team
Wizards of the Coast have hired Makenzie De Armas as an associate game designer. De Armas has written for MCDM and The Islands of Sina Una a Philippine mythology-inspired 5e campaign setting.
Free to Download: Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game (AD&D 2e core rules)
Originally a boxset, the Adventure Game uses a simplified ruleset that would be sufficient until characters hit level 2.
It’s popular! Pathfinder for Savage Worlds
This Kickstarter uses the Savage Worlds engine for Pathfinder’s Golarion setting. You can back the project at the pitch page.
Braincrack Games split from Funagain Games after sexism row
Braincrack Games has released a statement to say they will no longer work with Funagain Games.
Free League to publish the Symbaroum Starter Set: Treasure Hunts in Davokar
ALIEN and Vaesen publisher Free League is taking pre-orders on the Symbaroum Starter Set: Treasure Hunts in Davokar.
Gore, nudity and sexuality: Dungeon Bitches carve into Kickstarter
Dying Stylishly Games’ crew of Emily Allen, Sarah Carapace and Mxtress Khan have a Powered by the Apocalypse Kickstarter success on their hands with Dungeon Bitches.
The Forbidden Lands retro-fantasy RPG comes to The Bundle of Holding
In the Forbidden Lands, characters are not heroes; they are rogues. The open-world game is about discovering ancient ruins as you explore the map, fighting monsters and trying to live long enough to build a stronghold.
