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D&D’s Crawling Hand and the smartphone dilemma D&D inspired fantasy tarot deck smashes $150,000 on Kickstarter Hag Priestess revealed for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Soulbound Free to Download: Castle Falkenstein – Babbage’s Engine Age of Ambition: A fantasy RPG in era saying farewell to fantasy

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D&D’s Crawling Hand and the smartphone dilemma

January 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

While Anne is cautious about letting players spend too much time paying attention to the small screen rather than the gaming table, the overall mood of D&D fans is generally in favour of the smartphone.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, monsters, phone pdf

D&D inspired fantasy tarot deck smashes $150,000 on Kickstarter

January 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You’re not getting cards like The Tower, and there’s no easy conversion to it. Instead, you’re getting cards like The Bard, The Ranger and The Cleric.

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

Hag Priestess revealed for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Soulbound

January 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Hag Priestesses are plucked from the Witch Aelves by Morathi the Hag Sorceress of Ghrond.

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

Free to Download: Castle Falkenstein – Babbage’s Engine

January 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Written by Steve Kenson (The Expanse RPG) and J Gray (Cyberpunk Red) the steampunk adventure puts characters on the Babbage Engine powered Duchess Elisabeth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: castle falkenstein, free to download, J Gray, R. Talsorian Games, Steve Kenson

Age of Ambition: A fantasy RPG in era saying farewell to fantasy

January 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tab Creations suggests that Age of Ambition is different from other RPGs in that the characters are heroes of social change.

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

New D&D game spotted at the London Toy Fair

January 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The sighting at the Toy Fair is only one piece of confirmation. Asmodee’s 2020 catalogue also includes a mention of Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure Begins.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games, Dungeons & Dragons

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #32

January 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summary of the surprise announcement of a Dishonored RPG and the most anticipated games of 2020.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: angry hamster publishing, bedrock games, cyberpunk red, dc comics, Dishonored, drivethrurpg, dune, fantasy age, genesys, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, ironsworn, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, nibiru, ontabletop, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Skeletonkey games, the witcher

R. Talsorian Games updates The Witcher TTRPG

January 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The corrections and updates now extend to 9 pages of errata.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: R. Talsorian Games, the witcher

The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth expansion leaked

January 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The new addition to the game will focus on the darker areas of Middle-earth such as the Mines of Moria and Mirkwood. The Shadowed Paths campaign includes 13 scenarios.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, fantasy flight games, the lord of the rings

There’s a Dishonored tabletop RPG on the way

January 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Dishonored RPG will be a 300-paged book in a deluxe hardcover digest, custom dice and cards.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dishonored, Federico Sohns, Modiphius Entertainment

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