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Nightfall Games announce new RPGs and launch the S5S game system FATUM hopes to use Tarot card for your 5e character The 2020 ENnies will continue despite Gen Con 2020 being cancelled Age of Ambition: Fantasy Roleplaying in an Age of Promise or Peril published Cult success A|State ready for version 2 playtesters

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Nightfall Games announce new RPGs and launch the S5S game system

May 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nightfall Games, the company behind the SLA Industries RPG, have two more products in the pipeline.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Nightfall Games, s5s, SLA Industries

FATUM hopes to use Tarot card for your 5e character

May 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the box, you get 60 cards, a textile playmat, some rules and whatever else the campaign unlocks.

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

The 2020 ENnies will continue despite Gen Con 2020 being cancelled

May 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There will be a live stream of the wards at 8pm on the 30th of July and the event will be hosted by Ken Hite and Robin Laws.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ENnies, gen con, Kenneth Hite, robin d laws

Age of Ambition: Fantasy Roleplaying in an Age of Promise or Peril published

May 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is set at a time when traditional fantasy is fading into history. Along with magical constructions that are challenging the social order and norms, there are technological ones too.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Age of Ambition, tab creations

Cult success A|State ready for version 2 playtesters

May 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A|State was first published in 2004 by Contested Ground Studios. I think “cult hit” is a fair way to describe the game. The setting is an ostensibly eternal city with vast inequality between the rich and the poor.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, Contested Ground Studios, handiwork games

The Book of Fiends includes CR 31 foes: Green Ronin turns to Game On Tabletop

May 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

D&D 5e design team member Robert J. Schwalb is responsible for the stats and rules in the book. He’s joined by industry vets like Aaron Loeb (Book of the Righteous), Erik Mona (Paizo Publishing), and Chris Pramas (AD&D Guide to Hell).

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Pramas, Erik Mona, Game On Tabletop, Green Ronin Publishing, kickstarters, Robert J. Schwalb

Gen Con 2020 has been cancelled

May 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gen Con Online has already been announced, and it will stick to the original dates of July 30 to August 2.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, gen con, gen con online

SPIEL.digital replaces Essen this year

May 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The replacement event will run online and from 22nd of October to the 25th.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, essen game fair

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound starter set and other products announced

May 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Soulbound Starter Set will be a boxed edition with a 48-paged “learn to play adventure” set in the newly reclaimed city of Brightspear.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, shadows in the mist, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar

Birds of Prey author Gail Simone’s D&D comic is out

May 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Illustrated by Sarah Webb, the story follows Flit, a brave courier with an important message to bring to the attention of the Humblewood Birdfolk council.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, gail simone, hit point press, humblewood

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