Hexy Studio’s Misbehave brings tactical solo and 1-on-1 roleplaying gamebooks to Kickstarter, putting players in control of the monsters.
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Glass Cannon Unplugged signs Nimble creator Evan Diaz for new roleplaying games
Glass Cannon Unplugged partners with Nimble creator Evan Diaz to build a new range of fast, tactical roleplaying games.
Chaosium’s Time Without Tide RPG Nears $200k on BackerKit
Chaosium trades d100 mechanics for a tactical d6 dice pool in Time Without Tide, a faux-Victorian survival TTRPG currently funding on BackerKit.
Routinely Itemised: RPG #378
Monte Cook Games adapts Black Sun, Munchkin comes to 5.5e, and Tabletop Scotland breaks attendance records in this week’s comprehensive RPG news summary.
Tabletop Scotland breaks 5,000 unique attendee record in Edinburgh
Tabletop Scotland 2026 broke attendance records at the Royal Highland Centre, surpassing 5,000 unique visitors and seeing sharp growth in under-16 gamers.
Munchkin 5.5E RPG brings backstabbing and parody to fifth edition
Lynnvander Studios and Steve Jackson Games adapt Munchkin into a 5.5E tabletop roleplaying game featuring parody subclasses and built-in cheating rules.
Inside Trail of Cthulhu 2E: Kenneth Hite on fixing cosmic madness, resisting rules churn, and occult Edinburgh
Kenneth Hite explains how Trail of Cthulhu 2E fixes madness mechanics, preserves classic campaigns, and frames Edinburgh as an occult sandbox engine.
Crossed Paths Press set to launch ‘Covens of Midnight 2: Secrets of Wonderland’ on Backerkit + new website
Another good thing to come out of Tabletop Scotland 2026 was meeting up with Crossed Paths to find out what they’ve been up to recently – and that’s getting ready to launch a new game on Backerkit next month!
Beyond the Golden Horizon: Multi-system high seas campaign
Explorer’s Guild Publishing launches Beyond the Golden Horizon, an open-world nautical sandbox campaign built natively for D&D 5e, Pathfinder, and Daggerheart.
Designing the Mystery: Robin D. Laws on player agency, tone shifts, and ‘Page Turners’
Bronwen was extremely lucky to catch up with Robin D. Laws of Pelgrane Press at Tabletop Scotland 2026, and pick his brains about all things TTRPG related.
