A summary of 2020 RPG stats, a round-up of the news, lots of reviews and product releases all together in a single Routinely Itemised bundle.
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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The best selling historical RPGs of 2020
As the year comes to a close, DriveThruRPG and Geek Native have been looking back at RPGs published this year and which sold well.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Thought Police Interactive
Thought Police are an RPG studio that writes about uplifted helicopters has had helicopters sent to investigate their games and whose most popular product lets you solo game.
Free to Download: 115 battle maps
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.
Dune RPG: Modiphius reveals character sheets for Dune: Adventures in the Imperium
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.
The Dark Crystal RPG announced
The game will be written by World Anvil’s Janet Forbes and River Horse’s Jack Caesar.
The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2020
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.
Quick, dirty to the point: Tombpunk RPG launches on Kickstarter
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.
Megagames and COVID-19
Megagames are a large scale game with aspects of board game, political roleplay, and resource management game.
The best selling modern RPGs of 2020
If the setting is broadly contemporary, then the fact that characters are witches does not disqualify it as a game with a modern environment.
