In this issue of Routinely Itemised we find out that a row has ended The One Ring, Wizards of the Coast are testing psionics and why we might all soon be talking about the lich-god Vecna.
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D&D Movie: Joe Manganiello’s Arkhan the Cruel and the Hand of Vecna
Joe Manganiello’s character Arkhan the Cruel canonically has the Hand of Vecna.
Award-winning City of Mist returns to Kickstarter for a Starter Box edition
Amit Moshe and Son of Oak Game Studio are asking for $20,000 to make The City of Mist RPG: The Starter Box.
Yay Games publishes a four-piece “The Gruffalo” game
Wood is available now and suitable for players aged four and up.
Monte Cook Games releases The Stars Are Fire
The galaxy-spanning space opera adds creatures, new rules, character options as well as gear and tools suitable for a science-fiction campaign to your Cypher library.
The Lord of the Rings RPG scrapped as Cubicle 7 discontinue The One Ring
We will cease publishing The One Ring and Adventures in Middle-earth™ in the first half of 2020.
D&D launches Psionics and Psychic playtest
These new abilities aren’t magic. They’re not arcane. Psionics come from the mind.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #23
This week we look into security risk at Wizards of the Coast, a brand new Warhammer announcement from Games Workshop and how we can use B-Movies to inspire better campaign design.
Electric Bastionland RPG: From the creator of Into the Odd
The rules are a modified version of Into the Odd, Chris isn’t re-inventing the wheel, and the bulk of Electric Bastionland is therefore 100 failed careers that you can randomly end up playing as.
Can Necromancers ever be good?
Necromancers are wizards who communicate with and perhaps even summon the dead.
