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The Wildsea RPG takes its chainsaw ships to Kickstarter a|state 2’s Nicely, Done primer heads to print Eldritch: The Book of Madness re-writes horror rules for D&D 5e Warchief Gaming a big new RPG and tabletop games publisher Darrington Press: Critical Role launches RPG and tabletop games publishing company

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The Wildsea RPG takes its chainsaw ships to Kickstarter

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Wildsea is a magical forest that overran an entire planet within a day, filling it with exotic monsters and danger. Characters are wild sailors, those who travel on chainsaw powered ships in the canopy above, to trade for food.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, kickstarters, the wildsea

a|state 2’s Nicely, Done primer heads to print

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nicely, Done is a mission in Mire End in which characters investigate reports of child slavery and is intended to introduce the setting

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, forged in the dark, Jon Hodgson, previews

Eldritch: The Book of Madness re-writes horror rules for D&D 5e

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Starting at 96 pages, growing with stretch goals, the book includes ancient entities, dangerous monsters, spells and rules for dread.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, horror, kickstarters, monsters

Warchief Gaming a big new RPG and tabletop games publisher

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chris Metzen was SVP at Blizzards Entertainment and the gaming company’s main visionary at the time. He, along with Mike Gilmartin, another Blizzard boss, have set up Warchief Gaming.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: warchief gaming

Darrington Press: Critical Role launches RPG and tabletop games publishing company

October 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Matt Mercer and the Critical Role team have launched their own tabletop games company Darrington Press today.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, darrington press, Matthew Mercer, Sam Riegel

The RPG builder BYTE is out

October 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG is a successful Kickstarter which took more than €10,000 to fund the 400+ page rulebook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: occult, sci-fi, zombie, zombies

Atlas Games signs on to fulfil Fandom’s Cortex Prime orders

October 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Atlas Games are Fandom’s fulfilment partners. This means the Feng Shui publishers are helping put Cortex Prime in friendly local gaming shops.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Atlas Games, cam banks, cortex, cortex prime, fandom

Dungeon Crawl Classics Humble Bundle

October 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For the next 20 days, or so, there’s some $400 worth of Dungeon Crawl Classics available across three tiers. The cheapest tier is less than a Dollar.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, dungeon crawl classics, goodman games, humble bundle, sales

D&D’s Unearthed Arcana offers new subclasses: Ascendant Dragon and Drakewarden

October 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast have released more D&D content through their playtest series on Arcana Unearthed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

RPG Publisher Spotlight: WrightWerx

October 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jonathan Wright, who writes all of WrightWerx’s games was kind enough to speak to me, and we explore Kaijus and nerd culture together. Interested in a Mecha versus Kaiju battle? You’re in the right place.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, fate core, spotlight

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