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Early updates for the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Starter Set Amongst legal drama, Chaosium gives Christmas gift to Éditions Sans-Détour backers The best selling cartoon and anime RPGs of 2018 Shadow play The best selling superhero RPGs of 2018

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Early updates for the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Starter Set

December 23, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The PDF version, available at DriveThruRPG, was warmly received on launch and at the time of writing has 4.5/5 stars from over a dozen reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, warhammer

Amongst legal drama, Chaosium gives Christmas gift to Éditions Sans-Détour backers

December 23, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Éditions Sans-Détour has a license problem. They’ve not paid for their rights to the French rights of Call of Cthulhu for months, and the lease has now expired.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, legal

The best selling cartoon and anime RPGs of 2018

December 22, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This data looks at the relative number of sales of all RPGs in the ‘anime’ or ‘cartoon’ tag.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Absolute Tabletop, drivethrurpg, Palladium Books, R. Talsorian Games, Robotech, Ryuutama, Sanguine Productions

Genre Police: Nowt As Strange As Folk

December 22, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

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Let’s talk about what we’re actually doing when we play a roleplaying game for a minute.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fate core, genre police, monsters, Unknown Armies

The best selling superhero RPGs of 2018

December 22, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The average price of a best selling superhero RPG is only $24.98.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ad Infinitum Adventures, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, magpie games, Misfit Studios, Modiphius Entertainment, superheroes

Grab the Doctor Who RPG as a Bundle of Holding

December 21, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Starter Collection at the Bundle of Holding also has All the Strange, Strange Creatures volume 1 (retail $20) and the Paternonster Investigations (retail $20). In usual Bundle of Holding style that’s $70 worth of Doctor Who for $19.95.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, cubicle 7, doctor who

Modiphius Entertainment take control of Vampire: the Masquerade

December 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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Last month Paradox Interactive announced it had annexed White Wolf. After a string of problems, White Wolf’s parent company took the RPG publisher’s independence away and declared it would be getting out of writing and making tabletop games. Instead, said Paradox, it would manage the World of Darkness brand and look for partners to bring […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Modiphius Entertainment, Paradox Interactive, Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2018

December 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Old and new titles pepper the best selling sci-fi games of the year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk 2020, fantasy flight games, genesys, kevin crawford, Modiphius Entertainment, R. Talsorian Games, runehammer games, sci-fi, Shadowrun, sine nomine publishing, star trek, star trek adventures, Stars without Number, Ulisses Spiele, wrath & glory

Exclusive: New The Witcher Tabletop RPG expansion includes GM screen and halflings

December 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

R Talsorian Games will publish the first expansion to their bestselling The Witcher Tabletop RPG in the first half of 2019.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cody pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games, the witcher

They Came from Beneath the Sea! RPG sails into Kickstarter

December 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

They Came from Beneath the Sea! is a B-movie setting, the 1950s to the max, written by Matthew Dawkins.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, kickstarters, matthew dawkins, monsters, onyx path publishing, sci-fi, They Came from Beneath the Sea!

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