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Pathfinder 2e day: Sync your Paizo and Roll20 accounts for freebies and discounts You may not have considered: A review of Fate Accessibility Toolkit (Prototype Edition) Warriors of Sehanine and other ways to introduce your players to Baldur’s Gate Two of the three best-selling RPGs in the last quarter were sci-fi games Patented design: Turn your TV into a gaming table and back again

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Pathfinder 2e day: Sync your Paizo and Roll20 accounts for freebies and discounts

August 1, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pathfinder 2nd edition is released today. You can get it from Paizo’s store or Roll20.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, roll20

You may not have considered: A review of Fate Accessibility Toolkit (Prototype Edition)

August 1, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Disability is not one size fits all; it looks different on everyone, and everyone who has a disability handles their own differently. Even people with the same disability ‘don’t all handle it in the exact same way.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Evil Hat Productions, FATE, reviews

Warriors of Sehanine and other ways to introduce your players to Baldur’s Gate

July 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Baldur’s Gate is a city in Faerun from the D&D setting of the Forgotten Realms. It’s an influential metropolis, a city-state on the Sword Coast and it is about to come into sharp focus.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ashley Warren Writes, baldur's gate, Descent into Avernus, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, JVC Parry, rpg ideas

Two of the three best-selling RPGs in the last quarter were sci-fi games

July 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Other issues in the RPG landscape discussed by retailers included the dangerous cost of Kickstarters, Amazon’s ability to discount Wizards of the Coast products and the leadership of GAMA.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, icv2, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, star wars, starfinder, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast

Patented design: Turn your TV into a gaming table and back again

July 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Back the CharacTable TurnTable for £205 or the CharacTable TurnTable with the acrylic shelf for £270.

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

The Adventure Zone is getting an RPG of its very own

July 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Twogether Studio have an RPG for The Adventure Zone in progress, and they’re working with the McElroy family on it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: the adventure zone

Bundle of Holding: Savage Heroes

July 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Raising money for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Pinnacle Entertainment, has a Savage Worlds tabletop RPG Bundle of Holding on offer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds, Solomon Kane, the sixth gun

Genre Police: No Am, All Dram

July 28, 2019 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Given that the emergent style in modern RPGs is a heavily character driven adventures based on flaws, goals and other quirks it amazes me that we haven’t talked about how we go about aiding players and what we can do to avoid tipping into the lair of the deadly Melodrama.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg ideas

Trudvang Legends board game pushes beyond $1 million

July 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The board game lasts for about 60 minutes per chapter and supports 1 to 4 players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, cmon, kickstarters, riotminds

Really? D&D 5e now has rules for farting

July 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Your options range from the Crack Rattler, Rootie Tootie Pip Pop Brrrrrrap, Silent Buy Deadly, Squeaker, Ululating Howl, Garbage Guts and the Mudslide.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, humour

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