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Plague of the Ancients: D&D Adventurers League reveals Dungeons & Dragons new race rules Into the Mother Lands: Twitch funds a new Cortex Prime RPG The D&D 5e powered Stargate RPG gets a Kickstarter date Atma: A roleplaying game is an RPG with cards and a cool demo Epic Isometric Maps for your virtual tabletop in the Bundle of Holding

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Plague of the Ancients: D&D Adventurers League reveals Dungeons & Dragons new race rules

September 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

For free, you can download the latest Player’s Guide (PDF) for the Adventurers League from the organised play portal on the D&D site. It includes a single page appendix about race rules in Dungeons & Dragons.

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

Into the Mother Lands: Twitch funds a new Cortex Prime RPG

September 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the sci-fi game, characters are on an alien world that has become home with cultures to understand and enemies to defeat.

Filed Under: Online Shows, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cortex prime, Into the Mother Lands, Jasmine Bhullar, sharang biswas, tanya depass, twitch

The D&D 5e powered Stargate RPG gets a Kickstarter date

September 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The campaign will launch soon; on October 6th. If successful, then Wyvern is planning to launch the game at Wonder Con 2021, which is in April.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, stargate, Wyvern Gaming

Atma: A roleplaying game is an RPG with cards and a cool demo

September 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is in a world where the mineral atma gives the living powers and entwines the dead. There’s narrow AI, aliens in the moon and Restless Zones of no man’s land between nations.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, virtual tabletop

Epic Isometric Maps for your virtual tabletop in the Bundle of Holding

September 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are three complete map packs in the Starter Collection, and they have a retail value of $35.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, virtual tabletop

Monsters of Murka returns satirical RPG commentary on Restaurants and Retail

September 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Restaurants and Retail adds Flavor City to the Murca setting, a magically-concealed town in which saucerers of gourmomancy and powerful paladins reside with incredible food.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: action fiction, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, Monsters of Murka

Sex play: A perspective on Honey & Hot Wax

September 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Honey & Hot Wax is an anthology of erotic art games edited by Sharang Biswas and Lucian Kahn, the designer behind the part dating sim RPG Visigoths vs Mall Goths.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Pelgrane Press, reviews, sharang biswas

The Symbiote: Re-imagining Venom as a Patron for D&D Warlocks

September 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If an alien entity from beyond the stars offered you a deal… would you take it?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons

The Borderlands RPG Bunkers & Badasses opens for pre-orders

September 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are two versions of the Borderlands action-shooter in RPG form; the standard edition which costs $59.99 an the Deluxe Edition which will typically cost $119.99 but is currently reduced to $99.99.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Borderlands, Gearbox

Diamond Throne moves to the Cypher System

September 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The fantasy world of the Diamond Throne is ruled by giants, rich with ritual and magic crystals and with the tyranny of the draconic dramojh, the former overlords, not entirely lost to the past.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, kickstarters, Monte Cook

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