Today an Adventures in Middle-earth bundle launched on Humble, and it’s called The Lord of the Rings – Final Encore. So, yeah. I’m calling it. It’s the final encore.
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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The gorgeous Elephant & Macaw Banner RPG
Elephant & Macaw Banner is a game of muskets and magic and already an award-winning fiction series.
Basic D&D Compared to Forbidden Lands: Layout and Format Matter
I vastly prefer an RPG book with a layout meant to facilitate use at the table rather than written like a book with blocks of paragraphs.
5e’s Tome of Beasts approaches a quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter
There will be 400 new monsters in the book with a diverse range of style and challenge level.
Random Encounter Tables RPG Blog Carnival wrap-up
A summary of the contributions to the RPG Blog Carnival all about random encounter tables.
Jon Hodgson returns to Kickstarter for more map tiles
You can also select tile designs from the first Kickstarter, and that’ll make selecting your tiles quite a challenge.
Beasts & Barbarians returns to Bundle of Holding
The 2018 hit for Savage Worlds is back on Humble Bundle, and it is raising money for Ocean Conservancy.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #33
RPG news summary with another D&D leak, free downloads and Matthew Mercer’s 2020 update to the Blood Hunter 5e class.
A giant family tree of tabletop RPGs
Let’s say you had the time to investigate hundreds of tabletop games, plug in their publication dates and work out how each one was related to another.
Surprise your players with an orchestral theme for their D&D characters
As Dungeons & Dragons, and roleplaying in general, has boomed in recent years so has the demand for custom artwork. Players and DMs are commissioning portraits of characters, hiring cartographers to produce professional maps of homebrew fantasy realms and indie designers invest time looking for illustrators to bring monsters to life. What about the audio […]
