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Root TTRPG gets a flash sale as the animals go wild
The Root RPG sale runs only until July 31st and is an all-new offering from the bundle site.
Your next BBEG: TSR’s Dragon contributor Jerry Joe Seltzer brings on the villains
These are not just antagonists; they are cataclysmic forces capable of reshaping entire worlds, providing high stakes challenges that will push your heroes to their limits.
Genre Police: The Deaths Of The Author
Do I run them how the original creators thought about them? I certainly don’t run them the way the latest owners intend them to be run.
Urban Arcana: Vote Evil Genius finalists
Previously, Geek Native could reveal the ten semi-finalists; we can announce the three finalists in this post. The winner will be paid by Evil Genius, get full credit, and their setting goes into print.
Goblin Dice offer 5e adventures, merch and loads of misfits and mayhem mathrocks
Backers at £14 get one dice set from any of the designs that have been unlocked. At this tier, there’s that free 5e adventure and access to the add-on store for those t-shirts and other goodies.
Superhero Week: Avatar of Gaia RPG is as cheap as you want it to be
As part of the Superhero Cinematic Universe, Avatar of Gaia is a one-shot that can but does not need to be, used in conjunction with the others. If you take the latter route, you build a longer narrative.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #212
It’s Geek Native’s news round-up with news US newspapers taking pot-shots at schools for using D&D, PocketQuest deals, and chaos rift reminders.
You’ve been evil: Rectify is a solo horror RPG about death
The Gaia Complex designer Chris Shepperson, aka Shep, has crowdfunded a new and solo tabletop RPG.
BRW Games Kickstarts at a limited and 10th-anniversary edition of Castle of the Mad Archmage
BRW Games has published some expansions to Castle of the Mad Archmage, some through Patreon and a little more through individual outlets like the One Page Dungeon contest.
