5211 is a card game by Tsuyoshi Hashiguchi. It’s a fast game, easy to learn but which very quickly becomes about smart strategy and psychological play.
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Gelatinous Cube dice bag
Of course, you don’t have to feed your cube dice. You can also put all sorts of gaming accessories in here, even your minis.
Brightdog Games announce 5e setting Tales of Esgar
James Perry and the Brightdog Games crew have announced the D&D 5e setting called Tales of Esgar.
Orion D. Black walks from Wizards of the Coast with a scathing critique of the company
Despite that indie success, though Orion says they never really got any work from WotC, although some ideas were stolen.
Warhammer FRP’s attempt to be your most striking gaming collection
Each of the individual books in the Collector’s Edition of Warhammer FRPG’s The Enemy Within has a high impact “Tarot Card” cover design by artists Sam Manley and Andy Law.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #55
One week of RPG news: A battle in the Gygax family of D&D’s legacy, too sexy vampires and a game designer disowning their award-winning edgelord adventure.
Wizards of the Coast bans Twitch streamer in sexy content row
This week model Lizbeth Eden was kicked out of the Magic Creator Program for linking Magic:TG and sexualised postings.
Too sexy for D&D? Wizards of the Coast working on a decency code for third-party content
The work with Wizards of the Coast also means the DMs Guild will no longer be in the awkward position of trying to guess what the Hasbro-owned multi-national might find acceptable, guided (or biased) by common cultural trends, and will have guidelines it too can refer.
Adventure Presents: European powerhouse, Rebellion, moves into tabletop RPGs
Adventure is the series, and Tartarus Gate is a sci-horror, the first game in the set, which has been designed by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor.
Monte Cook’s Invisible Sun ($99) is available at the Bundle of Holding ($24.95)
RPGs tend to grow by word of mouth. Perhaps Monte Cook needs some early Invisible Sun adopters on board to get those recommendations flowing.
