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TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Are they the baddies? M20 Technocracy Reloaded on Kickstarter
Onyx Path Publishing’s Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition has a supplement that’s just sailed past $125,000 in funding on Kickstarter. At the time of writing, there are still 25 days to go.
Frosthaven makes the most tabletop game money in Kickstarter history
83, 193 backers pledged $12, 969, 608 to make the game happen. That’s right; nearly $13m.
Are digital RPG books about to become 20% cheaper in the UK?
By 2021, the UK government wants to make ebooks like digital tabletop RPG rulebooks 20% cheaper.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #46
Tabletop RPG news for a week squished into a series of easy scan bullet-point lists. Dungeons & Dragons fights, Starfinder dice and more Kickstarters than you can shake a magic item at.
Laid off because of COVID-19; The Grinning Frog launches the Adventure Pack
The Grinning Frog’s Kickstarter funded in three hours and with two weeks still on the clock is currently at 200% of its very modest goal.
An Unexpected Party: Weta to release a new The Hobbit board game
The game is designed for ages 10 and up, lasts around 50 minutes and is all about being a messy dwarf and annoying Bilbo!
The Design Mechanism shows off the Jack Vance RPG Lyonesse
Mythras publisher The Design Mechanism has been working on a Lyonesse RPG.
Pelgrane Press’ GUMSHOE Cthulhu Confidential lurks in the Bundle of Holding
The Starter Collection has a retail value of $46, and the Bonus Collection adds another $53.
Roleplaying not Rollplaying: What We Were review
What We Were is a game about fully developing and understanding characters through exploration of their personal story.
