Nibiru isn’t shy about being a quirky game. It has inspiration drawn from Ancient Mesopotamia and a mechanics system which builds out PCs by retelling their past.
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The best selling horror RPGs of 2018
The empire is split asunder by a terrible tear in space and for trillions of people, every day is a living hell.
Dungeons and Dragons: What is a Coffeelock?
A “Coffeelock” is a multiclass Sorcerer / Warlock. A Coffeelock is built to use the Flexible Casting rules of the Sorcerer in conjunction with the Pact Magic ability of the Warlock.
Will it be enough? More updates from Mage Company as they partner with Quartermaster Logistics
Mage Company was very busy a few years ago running a number of Kickstarters. It’s been disastrous since then with many backers still waiting for the early games. The Athens based board game publisher simply hasn’t been able to deliver on its promises. In June the company announced it had been hacked, and an unknown […]
The best selling pulp RPGs of 2018
To make this list an RPG has to be in the top ten sellers (Jan 1st to Dec 11th) of all the games the publishers have added the ‘pulp’ genre tag too. This means we’ve games that are solidly in the pulp genre, systems which could but don’t have to be used for pulp RPGs and even games you might not consider pulp at all.
Onyx Path appoint Jon Hodgson’s Handiwork Games for Scarred Lands Creature Collection
Now Onyx Path is pushing on with the project and has appointed the newly launched Handiwork Games to manage the project. There’s a Kickstarter coming.
The art of Tale: the role-playing game
It was the cover art that caught my attention for the Kickstarter pitch for Tale. I wasn’t the only one as the game has funded and, at the time of writing, has a week left on the clock to collect more pledges. You can follow the progress of the campaign here. [Back this Campaign] A […]
Opera Singer character subclass finds a home in D&D
Over at the DMs Guild the College of Opera subclass is proving to be very popular. Sites that don’t normally cover D&D have found Hannah Rose and Kelli Butler’s 2-paged $1.99 5th edition supplement delightful. As a subclass, the Opera singer is based off bards but makes some tweaks. Once the character has earned enough […]
The best selling family RPGs of 2018
The good news is that the ‘family genre’ at DriveThruRPG is the cheapest, by a large amount, of the genres we’ve looked at so far.
The best selling modern genre RPGs of 2018
As we approach the end of the year Geek Native has been sifting through data from DriveThruRPG to see which games sold the best from which genre. As it happens, games can belong to many genres, and we’re starting to see some overlaps. In this chapter, we look at games tagged ‘modern’ by the publisher […]
