Free League Publishing’s RPG based on Simon Stålenhag’s fantastic 1980s sci-fi suburbia is free to download from DriveThruRPG, and will be until Friday the 11th.
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RPG Publisher Spotlight: Misfit Studios
Misfits Studios had the hardest start any independent RPG publisher could imagine. Let’s find out what they’re up to these days…
Dark Stars is a space punk RPG that allows ‘over-time’ gameplay
A core concept of Dark Stars is that you can use it to run traditional cyberpunk or sci-fi adventures, but you could also run a game over a much more extended time. For example, successfully colonise a planet.
Phone PDF: Zweihänder Grim & Perilous RPG free for three days
Daniel Fox and Andrews McMeel are giving away entire digital copies of Zweihander Grim & Perilous RPG.
Phone PDF: DriveThruRPG launch digital RPGs optimised for phones
DriveThruRPG today announced a whole new category of digital RPG for the store with the launch of smartphone optimised PDFs.
Reclaimer: A game of climate crisis and eco-insurrection
In the sci-fi Reclaimer, the world is years away from death, the Reclamation is trying to save it, but there are holdouts. Some of the super-rich are building and launching arks to take their elite few to a new planet.
Praetorians against prophecies: Lex Arcana RPG
Righteous Roman praetorians send as a proud task force against mythical monsters or prophecies, for the glory of Rome.
The Bone Age RPG cover reveal
The Bone Age is described by Edmunds as a cross between The Dark Crystal and Thundarr the Barbarian.
Win an annual subscription to the RPG adventures of The Aperture Guide
Last week on Geek Native we introduced Curious Monk’s The APERTURE Guide. Issue 1 launched this month and delivered four different adventures and a new RPG system that makes clever use of an actual aperture mechanic. It was not just the aperture mechanic that caught my attention, it was that there was an annual subscription […]
A horror version of Clue makes terrifying sense
Cluedo is 70 years old, first having been published in 1949 by Waddingtons. Here’s how it could look as a horror game.
