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TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #17
What did you miss this week? Freebies from Chaosium as #WeAreAllUs remembers Greg Stafford? The new Phone PDF format or perhaps a nameless goose?
Amazing Tales goes big
Four adventures for the family-friendly Amazing Tales are now collecting pledges on Kickstarter.
Is buyfunding a better crowdfunding alternative to Kickstarter?
Publishers are clearly watching the situation at Kickstarter, and some are worried. But is there an alternative?
Free for a Day: Tales from the Loop RPG
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.
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.
