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Free to Download: 115 battle maps Dune RPG: Modiphius reveals character sheets for Dune: Adventures in the Imperium The Dark Crystal RPG announced The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2020 Quick, dirty to the point: Tombpunk RPG launches on Kickstarter

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Free to Download: 115 battle maps

December 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can print the colour maps out for actual tabletop use or use them in virtual tabletops to help visualise the battles your PCs take part in.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, Patreon

Dune RPG: Modiphius reveals character sheets for Dune: Adventures in the Imperium

December 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dune: Adventures in the Imperium uses Modiphius’ 2d20 system, as been written by a large and diverse team and produced in connection with both Legacy Entertainment and Herbert Properties LLC.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: character sheets, dune, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Modiphius Entertainment

The Dark Crystal RPG announced

December 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game will be written by World Anvil’s Janet Forbes and River Horse’s Jack Caesar.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dark crystal, Jim Henson, river horse

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2020

December 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a 3:2 tussle between Modiphius with Star Trek and Catalyst with Shadowrun and BattleTech to see which publisher appears the most often.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, Catalyst Game Labs, cyberpunk red, Dias Ex Machina Games, edge, Modiphius Entertainment, R. Talsorian Games, Shadowrun, star trek adventures, Tuesday Knight Games, ultramodern5

Quick, dirty to the point: Tombpunk RPG launches on Kickstarter

December 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Alan Bahr’s Tombpunk as Outland look to bring the 102-paged, 5.5×8.5 black and white ruleset to life as a way to power a bunch of micro-settings.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, kickstarters, Outland Entertainment, tombpunk

Megagames and COVID-19

December 16, 2020 by Guest Writer 1 Comment

Megagames are a large scale game with aspects of board game, political roleplay, and resource management game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gencon

The best selling modern RPGs of 2020

December 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If the setting is broadly contemporary, then the fact that characters are witches does not disqualify it as a game with a modern environment.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alice is missing, Dias Ex Machina Games, drivethrurpg, game machinery, hunters entertainment, night horrors, onyx path publishing, stats, ultramodern5

Free to Download: Vampire: The Masquerade Companion is out

December 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the first supplement for the World of Darkness from the company after moving responsibility for the roleplaying games back in-house.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires, world of darkness

Combat Zone: Cyberpunk Red gets a skirmish game

December 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Set in the dystopian future of 2045, under the red sky, players take control of teams of punks looking to earn some street cred.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, skirmish game

The best selling horror RPGs of 2020

December 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As we approach the end of the year, Geek Native and DriveThruRPG are looking back at RPGs that did well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, drivethrurpg, Free League Publishing, Malleus Monstrorum, night horrors, onyx path publishing, stats, thousand year old vampire, Tuesday Knight Games, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires

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