Routinely Itemised: RPGs is a regular RPG news summary which, this week, looks at D&D Beyond’s founder joining a new gaming start-up, virtual virtual tabletops, an utter mess over at Kickstarter and a solved mess with The Palace of the Vampire Queen.
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Bully Pulpit Games’ The Blue Way is about cultural assimilation
In The Blue Way, the war has been lost, and your village now belongs to Lord Gjerch Bravn and his wife, Lady Kløyk Bravn.
Free to Download: Kevin Crawford’s Worlds Without Number
Worlds Without Number and its fantasy tools are built to be fully compatible with the sci-fi gaming of Stars Without Number and other OSR games, using classic old-school mechanics such as the traditional six attribute scores, hit points, AC, classes, and levels, along with certain modifications and refinements meant to accommodate more modern tastes.
Eight DM voice clips: The Badlands 5e setting inspired by the USA’s National Parks
Each of the 5e National Park packs has 1 battle map, 5 photos, 1 piece of point of view art, 1 video, 5 monsters, 4 encounters and 200 words of voice acting.
Cyberpunk Red, Delta Green and Vampire lead the GM’s Day sale
Today is International GM’s Day, the anniversary of Gary Gygax’s passing and the largest sale on DriveThruRPG.
Free to Download: RIFTS – Welcome to the Post-Apocalypse
The free supplement is full-colour and contains plenty of striking images and text to whisk readers through the Golden Age, to the Great Cataclysm of 2098 and up to Lazlo’s Call to Arms three hundred years later.
A dubious bestiary: Mari Zellout’s Gay Survival Guide
Heed the suspect wisdom of feisty grifter trainwreck Mari Zellout as she explains how to totally dunk on all those stupid monsters and sell their organs for change.
Barbaric! mutates the sci-fi of the Cepheus Engine into brutal sword & sorcery
The 57-page lightweight RPG uses an evolution of the Cepheus Engine, but the ruleset has become quite distant now, especially with character generation, as the engine is crafted to suit fast play – ideal for conventions, one-off games, and mini-campaigns.
The Darkest House: Monte Cook Games invents a new type of RPG product
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.
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.
