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Monsters of the City: A 5th edition book with 100 new monsters

January 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The book introduces a city with 7 districts each with two legendary monsters in it. One of the monsters represents sin and the other virtue.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cawood publishing, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Funko unleashes two new Jurassic Park strategy games

January 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Revealed for the Q1 2020 release schedule, is the Jurassic Park Funkoverse Strategy game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, funko, funkoverse, jurassic park, models

Cyberpunk Red: Red Chrome Cargo is now free to download

January 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Cyberpunk Red adventure Cody Pondsmith GM’d for Dicebreakers is now free to download.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cody pondsmith, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, free to download, R. Talsorian Games

Green Ronin will bring Fantasy AGE to Freeport

January 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Freeport merges D&D-style fantasy, with pirates and elements of Lovecraftian horror.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Pramas, fantasy age, freeport, Green Ronin Publishing

Do these dice say 100 or 10?

January 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Most gamers roll two ten-sided dice where one dice counts for the tens and the other for the singles.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice

Honk! The GMless RPG about redeeming the reputation of geese

January 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sadly, I’m a fat goose with -1 in my Run skill, and when I rolled a 5 on my d6, that took my total down to 4. Failure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: animals, itch.io

Creepypasta and urban legends: Strange Things Afoot RPG

January 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The premises is straight forward; all those creepy stories on the internet are true. The player characters have to do something about that.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Al Seeger, horror, kickstarters, Point of Insanity Game Studio

Why emotion is the new frontier for TTRPGs

January 19, 2020 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

The indie TTRPG scene, on the other hand, is brimming with smart, innovative designs based around the mental, emotional, and social lives of individual player characters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

Genre Police: The Beat Goes On

January 19, 2020 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Here’s how the thoughtful use of music can make your tabletop games better and more memorable.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police

EN World’s most anticipated RPGs of 2020 survey pushes Modiphius, Free League and Chaosium to all-time top

January 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

EN World, a popular RPG community and news site, surveyed members to see which games they were most looking forward to this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, cortex prime, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, cyberpunk red, dune, en world, fading suns, fallout, fandom, Free League Publishing, gale force nine, Modiphius Entertainment, Pelgrane Press, R. Talsorian Games, Rivers of London, soulbound, stargate, swords of the serpentine, vaesen, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, Wyvern Gaming

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