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Babes in the Wood RPG wanders into Kickstarter for a second edition Wizards of the Coast make two old map supplements free to download The psychedelic fantasy RPG Troika lists in the Bundle of Holding D&D: Candlekeep Mysteries is the next official D&D book Post-apocalyptic fantasy Out of Ashes rises on Kickstarter

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Babes in the Wood RPG wanders into Kickstarter for a second edition

January 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Adam Vaas’s tabletop RPG of lost kids and critters lost in an endless wood on Halloween is in Kickstarter to fund a second edition. It’s going well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Wizards of the Coast make two old map supplements free to download

January 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Krynn map covers the continent of Ansalon, with locations like elven-stronghold of Silvanesti, high plains of Palanthus, Sancrist Isle and the realms of the minotaurs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Dragonlance, maps, mystara, wizards of the coast

The psychedelic fantasy RPG Troika lists in the Bundle of Holding

January 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Players travel by eldritch portal and non-Euclidean labyrinth and golden-sailed barge between the uncountable crystal Spheres strung delicately across the hump-backed sky.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Melsonian Arts Council, sales, troika

D&D: Candlekeep Mysteries is the next official D&D book

January 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast used their new and improved techniques to stop the name Candlekeep Mysteries leaking, but it didn’t work.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: candlekeep mysteries, Dungeons & Dragons, penguin random house, wizards of the coast

Post-apocalyptic fantasy Out of Ashes rises on Kickstarter

January 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Player characters in Out of the Ashes are heroes with magic who defend the community. However, even after the Nameless Emperor’s fall, the land is corrupt, and monsters are plentiful.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, fantasy, Jon Hodgson, kickstarters, paul mitchener

Download for Free: 1 million square feet of forest battle maps

January 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This cartographer produces dozens of maps for free. The latest is an in-game 1 million square feet of forest battle maps.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, free to download, Zatnikotel

Genre Police: Bring Me the Horizon

January 10, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

This article is about one of D&D three pillars. The previous articles, an introduction, combat and social pillars.

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

Watch the premiere of Dune: Adventures in the Imperium

January 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Line editor Jason Durall and players included Dungeon Dudes’ Kelly McLaughlin and Monty Martin and Taking 20’s Cody Lewis.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, dune, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium

Free to Download: D&D Unleashed – The Elements & Beyond

January 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The supplement contains 23 subclasses, 8 spellcasting feats, 134 spells, 213 spell variants, 85 monsters, 30 magic items, 4 races and 12 new subraces.

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

City of Mist is for people who are afraid of D&D

January 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The roleplaying game City of Mist is perhaps closer to a TV show than an old school roleplaying game.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amit moshe, city of mist, Son of Oak Game Studio

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