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Basic World Building: Design a Waterborne Wilderness Kobold Press’s The Scarlet Citadel for 5e smashes through 1,000 dungeon explorers Routinely Itemised: RPGs #66 A change in publishers for the Romance of the Perilous Land RPG Free to Download: WoTC offers up D&D Celebration 2020 Icewind Dale goodies

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Basic World Building: Design a Waterborne Wilderness

September 18, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This article covers creating a waterborne setting for PCs to explore.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, skulls, world building

Kobold Press’s The Scarlet Citadel for 5e smashes through 1,000 dungeon explorers

September 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Scarlet Citadel is an old school style multi-level dungeon for Dungeons & Dragon’s 5e rules.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, kobold press, Steve Winter

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #66

September 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a busy week of RPG news, and a quick scan will stop you missing out on the free D&D downloads from Wizards of the Coast and others, or any of the new releases and headlines.

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A change in publishers for the Romance of the Perilous Land RPG

September 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New supplements for the medieval Romance of the Perilous Land RPG are coming but with a different publisher.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: osprey games, romance of the perilous land, Scott Malthouse, trollish delver games

Free to Download: WoTC offers up D&D Celebration 2020 Icewind Dale goodies

September 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast hand out free Icewind Dale character sheets, an introductory mini-adventure, backgrounds and other goodies.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, icewind dale, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: D&D’s Slime Cave of Norwal

September 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Slime Cave of Norwal is one of 15 quests that appear in Jeff Stevens’ Adventures from the Potbellied Kobold.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, James Introcaso, kobold press

Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants challenges “Mask Up. Spill Blood. Drink the Rich.”

September 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The vampires are in control in the “castlepunk” Forged in the Dark setting of Brinkwood. However, the fae have given one last chance to the human brigands who would rebel against these dark masters; magical masks that enable people to drink vampire blood.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: brinkwood, forged in the dark, kickstarters, vampires

Free to Download: We Are All Mad Here preview

September 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The setting is based on fairytales, Alice in Wonderland and English folklore in a place known as the Heartwood.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, free to download, Monte Cook Games, Shanna Germain

Straight out of a fantasy game – Tellstones: King’s Gambit review

September 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Despite being dreadful at the game, I’m delighted at Tellstones: King’s Gambit.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, reviews, riot games

Surviving Icewind Dale and other DMs Guild Frostmaiden companions

September 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 54-paged Icewind Dale companion from Cat Evans, Nikolas Totief and Sven Truckenbrodt contains 10 new deadly (and not so deadly) creatures, 20 new magic items hidden in the North and 35 spells that might help you survive the winter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, icewind dale, rime of the frostmaiden, wizards of the coast

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