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Free to Download: XII – Inner Demons TTRPG playtest Game of Thrones RPG fans take note: Green Ronin announces the Chronicle System Guild Dragon dice and monster alert: Book of Creatures Free to Download: Harbinger Beta RPG rules Gorgeous D&D campaign map inspired by Chinese mythology

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Free to Download: XII – Inner Demons TTRPG playtest

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

XI is a survivor horror RPG about facing demons, your inner demons in only 12 days.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kickstarters, XII: Inner Demons

Game of Thrones RPG fans take note: Green Ronin announces the Chronicle System Guild

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Guild allows third-party publishers to make, sell and keep some of the profit from Chronicle System supplements via DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chronicle system, drivethrurpg, game of thrones, Green Ronin Publishing, sword chronicle

Dragon dice and monster alert: Book of Creatures

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Book of Creatures is a homage to fantasy bestiaries. It’s a large book, 400-pages with more than 200 illustrations and 5e rulesets for each.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, monsters, studio agate

Free to Download: Harbinger Beta RPG rules

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Harbinger is a grim, weird and wonderful science-fantasy RPG and it uses D&D’s 5e ruleset.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Absolute Tabletop, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, sci-fi

Gorgeous D&D campaign map inspired by Chinese mythology

August 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Leo used Inkscape to create the coastlines, then used Krita for the assets and then finished off in GIMP.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography

Is This Allowed Too? Save time with D&D chargen and session zero

August 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

DM Sam Russell has created a Google Spreadsheet, a tool called “Is This Allowed Too?” to help speed up chargen and session zero.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, rpg tools

Satisfyingly tactical: A review of The Umbrella Academy card game

August 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Umbrella Academy card game is so easy to learn that the gameplay is pretty much explained entirely in the Kickstarter pitch video.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, reviews, the umbrella academy

Masters of the Universe: Legends of Grayskull RPG announced

August 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Legends of Grayskull will be powered by Cortex Prime, the latest version of Cortex from designer Cam Banks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cam banks, cortex prime, fandom tabletop, masters of the universe, Mattel

Vampire: The Masquerade Rivals Expandable Card Game gets its teeth into Kickstarter

August 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The four starting clans are Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue and Malkavian.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, kickstarters, Renegade Game Studios, Vampire: The Masquerade, world of darkness

Competition: Win “The After” a Savage Worlds Adventure Edition setting

August 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 7 Comments

Set in the northwestern expanse of the ruined North American continent, The After is packed full of frontier action and sci-fi discoveries.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, competitions, Fainting Goat Games, savage worlds, the after

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