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TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #56
The heated conversations in the RPG community continue as the hobby space looks at ways to encourage diversity and deal with 40 years of history that don’t always get everything right.
Nightfell to bring grimdark horror to D&D and make it look good
Nightfell is a world in which the undead have risen and eternal beings, doomed to exist forever, crave the end of reality.
Myrrk: The Blighted Well is a new type of solo-RPG gamebook
The Blighted Well takes the idea of Fighting Fantasy style gamebook, adds isometric dungeons, more rules and creates a more fully-fledged solo RPG experience.
$118 million: Tabletop games booming on Kickstarter, despite Covid
Now, new data from ICO Partners shows that the start of 2020 was a record-breaking six months despite Covid.
20 years and 16 ENnies later: The Iron Kingdoms RPG returns for 5e
Iron Kingdoms launched in 2001 and used D&D 3 to fuel a steampunk setting populated with Warjacks and Gun Mages.
D&D gets a combat wheelchair
Starting with the note that anyone can be an adventure, the D&D-designed combat wheelchair grants the user with proficiency with Land Vehicles and Tinker’s Tools.
Philip Reed’s The Book of Dungeon Encounters enters final stretch
A pledge of $1 is enough to secure the PDF version of Philip Reed’s “The Book of Dungeon Encounters”.
Break the System: Shadowrun 5e in two Bundle of Holding deals
Shadowrun 6e is out, and to mixed reviews. That means we should be alert for cheap Shadowrun 5e deals from Catalyst Game Labs.
Kobold Press appoints Amanda Hamon as Editorial Director
As Editorial Director, Amanda will be managing the company’s Kickstarters, looking after the Warlock Lair publications that come out each month and working out the schedule.
