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It’s 3am, and someone is going to kill you: The melancholy horror of Quietus Kickstarts The rainbow shine of these critical failure f*ck dice Betray your friends: A review of Whales Destroying the World 8,948 free RPGs! It’s Free RPG Day Is this Polish game studio the unlikely winner in America and China’s war against games?

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It’s 3am, and someone is going to kill you: The melancholy horror of Quietus Kickstarts

June 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A re-playable one-shot horror, with easy to learn rules that can be run with a GM and one or two players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: forged in the dark, horror, kickstarters

The rainbow shine of these critical failure f*ck dice

June 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How mean is your DM when you roll a natural 1 on a d20?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Etsy

Betray your friends: A review of Whales Destroying the World

June 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The bluffing is fun, gameplay easy and victory (usually) fast.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, reviews

8,948 free RPGs! It’s Free RPG Day

June 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve shrugged off last year’s decline in free RPGs, and there’s a treasure hoard of free goodies available today.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chessex, drivethrurpg, free rpg day, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, Paizo Publishing, q-workshop, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, Steamforged Games, UltraPro

Is this Polish game studio the unlikely winner in America and China’s war against games?

June 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

There are very few specialists who know how to prepare miniatures for injection moulding technology.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: models, money

Catalyst Game Labs announce first ever BattleTech Kickstarter

June 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Also, there’s a freebie available at the Catalyst Game Labs store right now in the form of BattleTech: Chaos Campaign – Succession Wars.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, Catalyst Game Labs, mecha, skirmish, wargames

One million square feet of volcanic island RPG battle maps free to use

June 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

This impressive cartography collection is a whole island for your players to explore. There’s a volcano complete with dangerous streams of lava, ruins, temples, bridges and even an encampment hidden away.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, virtual tabletop, Zatnikotel

Joe Singleton fundraiser: $150 worth of RPG for $25

June 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Until the 18th of June you can snap up the Joe Singleton Recovery Bundle for $25. Inside you’ll get $150 worth of RPG goodies.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, charity

What the heck is a tactical RPG? Zafir launches strongly on Kickstarter

June 12, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Zafir blends in elements of skirmish games into the RPG so that fights are less abstracted and more precise, forcing players to think more carefully about their actions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Threefold is the first original setting for Green Ronin’s Modern AGE

June 12, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What if you could go anywhere?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free rpg day, green ronin, modern age, threefold

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