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Eldermancy’s 5e adventure setting Sunken Isles sails through $200,000 on Kickstarter
Looking for a new pre-written 5e adventure? Logan Reese, aka Runesmith from YouTube and the designer of Stibbles’ Codex of Companions, has teamed up with Hawaiian values consultancy Purple Mai’a and Eldermancy for Sunken Isles.
Poor Wizard’s Almanac: The latest TSR re-release gets mixed reviews
These RPG supplements are set in D&D’s first setting Mystara and begin in the year 1010 AC. The following books advance the year by one.
The Royal Cartographer: A world-building, map-making RPG you can play by yourself
There are two versions of The Royal Cartographer; a solo RPG, in which the Regent’s will is an obstacle to accuracy, and a two-to-four player version.
A look inside: Wickerpunk – a folk horror RPG 5e conversion
Crow Land Publishing’s Wickerpunk is barely off the digital press and is already a metal badge best-seller at DriveThruRPG.
The World Anvil announces the Bitter Chalice RPG inspired by Dark Souls and Bloodborne
You have ventured into a place from which no one has returned. What twist of fate brought you here? And what hope do you have of getting out?
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #139
There’s money flowing in all sorts of directions in this week’s RPG news and shop fronts stepping away from NFTs. All the acronyms, huh? Oh, and Dark Souls news.
Clockpunk RPG: Gran Meccanismo brings spies and robots knights to the world of da Vinici
Gran Meccanismo is a roleplaying game of swashbuckling swordplay where Florence’s winding alleys swarm with sinister Venetian spies and Milanese mercenaries, as an army of robot knights marches past on their way to the Vatican.
Free to Download: Wild Frontiers 1D10 RPG
GG Games, George Gorgievski’s publishing vehicle, has released a free edition of Wild Frontiers.
Wayfarers inspires the solo RPG “For Small Creatures Such As We”
In “For Small Creatures Such As We”, an RPG that can be played alone or cooperatively, you travel the galaxy and create and connect with aliens. It’s inspired by Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series.
