The original Dark Tower board game used an electronic tower and was the centre of a legal battle. As a result, it’s rare and, with the tower model failing, gets even rarer and thus very collectable.
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: D&D’s new Starter Kit contents leaked
Dragons of Stormwreck Isle is the new Starter Set for D&D and it is due out this year.
Shakedown City RPG: Blood, action, violence, chases, drugs, sex, guns and Pizza Games
Shakedown City is designed to be played in a one-shot of 3 or 4 hours and with simple rules. It suits 2 to 5 players and doesn’t need prep but needs playing cards and some paper.
Caster Bastards and the Great Grotesque: The Skullkickers 5e RPG is out
Skullkickers is a comic book series from Jim Zub and Edwin Huang. It’s a popular series, with loads and loads of stars on Amazon for the very many volumes.
RPG Bundle for Buffalo: Words are not enough
Arranged by Leona Maple, with extra contributions from Action Fiction and PossumPunks, the bundle offers 180 games for $5.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #155
Routinely Itemised is a RPG news wrap-up from Geek Native and plenty of other tabletop hobby blogs.
The Witcher’s combat aesthetics for D&D: 5e supplement Injuries & Vile Deeds funds
Lone Colossus Games’ Injuries & Vile Deeds: Injury Systems for 5e funded quickly on Kickstarter as hundreds of D&D players wanted more of a tactical and descriptive injury system for the game.
A Queero’s Journey 5e: Support Stonewall and go Adventuring with Pride
A Queero’s Journey is the third instalment in the Tabletop RPG series, Adventuring with Pride.
The Magic Nexus TTRPG: Celebrate underrepresented communities with Diana Farris
The Nexus is a tabletop RPG entering beta and is now on Kickstarter to look for supporters.
Three core sci-fi RPGs headline the Cepheus retro-clone bundle
Stellagama Publishing’s Cepheus Engine is probably the leading retro-cline of Traveller. It’s certainly very popular, and it’s in the Bundle of Holding for the next two weeks.
