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D&D Beyond coupons shared on Facebook

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week D&D Beyond have been running adverts on Facebook with coupon codes to a chunky 25% off.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond, Dungeons & Dragons, sales

The Chinese government just burned every copy of this Cthulhu Kickstarter

March 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Sassoon Files is a Cthulhu mythos set of tabletop RPG scenarios and campaign world set in 1920s Shanghai.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, china, cthulhu, Sons of Singularity, time travel, Trail of Cthulhu

Genre Police: A Different Kind Of Fantasy

March 24, 2019 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Here’s a few games you might want to try in order to flex your romance muscles…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, good society

A look inside: In Thy Blood

March 24, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Degenesis is a post-apocalyptic game, set after a series of impacts and while a deadly infection sweeps across the surviving clans and cults of man.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, degenesis, sixmorevodka

Join a Kickstarter success and an RPG that helps kids on the autism spectrum

March 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is built around the DIR/Floortime model, and the game encounters map to the Function Emotional Development Capacities framework.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Swordsfall: Afropunk, African-cyberpunk, RPG setting kickstarts in just an hour

March 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Afropunk setting is full of tension. There are rumours of a new tyle fo weapon, Grim Arms, which can kill gods.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: afropunk, Cyberpunk, kickstarters, swordsfall

The Ring of Torment: Beware the Smiling GM

March 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Taking this ring off isn’t easy. It’s resistant to attempts to dispel its curse.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour

Genre Police: Drugs & Dystopias

March 16, 2019 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

Teen tales evolved from The Outsiders, through X-Men and Sweet Valley High to The Hunger Games becoming very different to its origins through several decades. In that time, its become one of the most beloved and (simultaneously) hated genres of the last decade.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, masks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Witch+Craft brings the joy of crafting to D&D

March 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Astrolago Press’ Witch+Craft is designed to make it a little bit more dramatic and involved if PCs need to build something important; like repair a shipwreck or whisk up an impromptu grappling hook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, witch+craft

Fantasy you’ve not experienced before: A review of The Silence of Hollowind

March 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Silence of Hollowind may well be a fantasy world, unlike anything you’ve experienced before.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fantasy

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