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Free RPG Day moves to July 25th Free to Download: Ticket to Ride – Stay at Home Monte Cook’s The Ninth World comes to 5e Grimmerspace playtest expands to include mega-city cops! Random merchant wagon generator

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Free RPG Day moves to July 25th

May 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Free RPG Day is moving from June 13th to July 25th.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free rpg day

Free to Download: Ticket to Ride – Stay at Home

May 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How does Ticket to Ride work with staying at home? Good question. In this expansion, you’re one of four family members competing (maybe occasionally cooperating) to get tasks done around the house.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games, Days of Wonder, free to download, Ticket to Ride

Monte Cook’s The Ninth World comes to 5e

May 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a free preview on Beneath the Monolith already available on DriveThruRPG. Monte Cook’s site has a pre-order page for the hardback, which is expected in July, and will cost $45.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games

Grimmerspace playtest expands to include mega-city cops!

May 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Grimmerspace is a dark campaign setting for Paizo’s Starfinder. The far future has been invaded by evil magic-using wizards.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: grimmerspace, iron gm games, starfinder

Random merchant wagon generator

May 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

A generator to help busy GMs out when after rescuing the merchant and his wagon from the raiders one of the players asks, “What’s in the wagon?”

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: generators, rpg tools

A dangerously gorgeous Gelatinous Cube dice jail

May 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A Gelatinous Cube is a Dungeons & Dragons monster which first appeared in the 1974 original “white box”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Etsy, monsters

Roll a “natural 21” thanks to this Kickstarter

May 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’re in the States, then a pledge of $5 will get you a Nat21 dice or $25 will get you four and a game token.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, kickstarters

Free to Download: Boss Monsters

May 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

14 baddies worthy of being your big bag in any 5e campaign.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Celeste Conowitch, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, kobold press

Second Gygax Will brings the family to court as a D&D legacy battle brews

May 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Luke Gygax has a second Will that his father wrote, and it may replace the one Gail has been using to date.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Gary Gygax, legal, luke gygax

This D&D race uses Illithid larvae to recreate Stargate’s Jaffa

May 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Long ago, a dying hive of mind flayers discovered a prosperous nomadic clan of strong warriors.

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

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