Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and re-imagined in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting.
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Petersen Games launches the Cthulhu Mythos Saga for 5e on subscription
Petersen Game is now releasing their Cthulhu Mythos Saga adventures for 5e every month, and they’re offering a subscription model.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #47
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The Altered Carbon RPG opens for pre-orders
The core Altered Carbon RPG contains rules to play, archetype characters from Socialites living a life of luxury to soldiers fighting to survive. The book explores the metropolis Bay City from the Atrium World down to the Underground.
Free to Download: Get alerts whenever WotC adds free material
Wizards of the Coast have continued to offer up daily freebies for fans stuck at home or struggling with finances.
DeathWatch Warhammer 40K up on Humble Bundle
In DeathWatch, you play as a space marine protecting the human Imperium for a host of alien threats and cults from within.
Free to Download: Fan-made Fallout TTRPG releases 6th edition
The 6th edition of the fan-made Fallout RPG represents about 300 hours of edits, testings and layout improvements.
Aegis of Empires Adventure Path for 5E and Pathfinder springs to life
We’re talking about 600-pages of fantasy horror adventures, enough to get your characters up to level 17.
Augmented reality app Ardent Roleplay land Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest
Ever wanted to have a Lovecraftian horror rise through the gaming table to scare the daylights out of your Cthulhu investigators? Ardent’s the app for that.
Watch The Witcher’s Joey Batey design a D&D monster
I don’t know about you, but I think creation is pretty terrifying, despite what the stats say.
