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Star Trek Adventures 2d20 system bundle on DriveThruRPG

September 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Modiphius has a new Star Trek Adventures 2d20 bundle live on DriveThruRPG which gets you three key books for nearly half price. The old Admirals bundle is still live for hardcore fans, though.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, drivethrurpg, Modiphius Entertainment, star trek, star trek adventures

Your D&D game ends with Planet Apocalypse

September 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a new Planet Apocalypse 5e-powered RPG and expanded board game in the same Kickstarter. It’s a way to flood your fantasy world with demons. You know; to stop things feeling samey.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, board games, Dungeons & Dragons, horror, petersen games, Sandy Petersen

Blackstorm Realms joins D&D 5e settings together with epic space fantasy

September 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jetpack 7 have announced Blackstorm Realms, a new space fantasy setting for 5e, with a Kickstarter due to launch on the 28th of September.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, jetpack 7, Jim Pinto

Pelgrane Press announces The Yellow King Bestiary

September 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Yellow King Bestiary adds alien parasites, hungry buildings and war machines that hunt like wolf-packs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bestiary, daniel kwan, Monica Valentinelli, Pelgrane Press, the yellow king

Resist the darkness: Good Strong Hands RPG finds Kickstarter allies

September 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The world of Reverie is inspired by movies like The Neverending Story, Legend, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and even that underrated classic Willow.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: good strong hands, kickstarters, nerdburger games

Avalon Hill’s new HeroQuest makes over $1,000,000 in the first 24 hours

September 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Slightly less than 24 hours later, the game smashed through the $1,000,000 mark.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, hasbro, HeroQuest

Free to Download: The Whispering Ruins

September 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Whispering Ruins are suitable for encounters in an isolated area, or it can be fleshed out as a setting for an entire adventure in its own right.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, free to download, runequest

Free to Download: Colonial Gothic RPG – Flames of Freedom

September 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Beneath Boston; flesh-eating ghouls, digging tunnels for some unknown purpose. The Leeds Devil haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, flames of freedom, free to download, grim & perilous studios, zweihander

The HeroQuest RPG rebrands as QuestWorlds

September 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chaosium’s HeroQuest RPG will become QuestWorlds after a transfer of the trademark to Hasbro.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, hasbro, HeroQuest, legal

Avalon Hill wants $1,000,000 to make a new HeroQuest

September 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Avalon Hill is asking for $1,000,000 raised on Hasbro’s own crowdfunding platform to make it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, board games, HeroQuest

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