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Cleverly balanced occult power struggle: A review of Esoterica RPG

April 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The world is a lie.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fire Ruby Designs, reviews

Be the baddies: For the Dungeon!

April 11, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For the Dungeon! is a tabletop RPG where you play the minions in the dungeon and not the heroes.

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

White Wolf announce a new Vampire: the Masquerade megagame

April 11, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blood Feud will take 2 storytellers (1 at a push) and needs between 4 and 32 players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blood feud, Vampire: The Masquerade, white wolf

This mud and lasers RPG is doing something different; Lancer killing it on Kickstarter

April 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What is it? It’s an RPG focused on the pilots of modular mechs in a futuristic world set long after the apocalypse.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Massif Press, mecha, sci-fi

White Wolf and Flyos announce a story-driven Vampire board game

April 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Vampire: The Masquerade – Chapters is a legacy style board game from Flyos Games that supports solo play or up to 4 players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, flyos games, Vampire: The Masquerade, white wolf

This D&D Waterdeep: Dragon Heist battle grid is lost in deadly fog

April 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

There are even sound effects for the scene with the bog bubbling and cracking as the PCs struggled in the mud.

Filed Under: Online Shows, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Dungeons & Dragons, terrain

The Planet of the Apes Monopoly is based on the 1968 classic movie

April 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Those damn dirty apes… built a hotel.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, monopoly, Planet of the Apes

D&D’s official Acquisitions Inc book goes on pre-order

April 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The original Acq Inc dates back to 2008 and was a collaboration between Penny Arcade and Wizards of the Coast in order to promote the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, forgotten realms, wizards of the coast

Instantly generate a whole culture for NPCs in your fantasy RPG

April 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

This site generates whole cultures with sample names, foods, clothes and religions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: generators, rpg ideas

The Mollu: This D&D supplement introduces slugs and snails as a PC race

April 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Christopher Zito’s “The Mollu” is a four-paged D&D 5e supplement from the DMs Guild that only costs a Dollar.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, reviews

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