Goatlands has typical D&D high fantasy at its core and then stretches into regions to add in sword and sorcery, dark fantasy, intrigue and other adventures.
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The Next Level: 3D & Multidimensional Board Games
Multidimensional board games add one (or more) levels to the traditional, flat playing field.
Traveller Imperium Tour offers 11,000 worlds and a Starter Collection priced at $15
Traveller’s Little White Book that reproduces the 1981 rulebooks and the brand new Classic Traveller Fascimle Edition are found in the latest scans available at the Bundle of Holding.
RPG zine project SideQuest launches today with a community focus
Inspired by and not competing with Kickstarter’s ZineQuest, SideQuest is intended to be a cross-platform campaign where participating designers and publishers show the logo and promote each other’s projects.
Shotguns & Sorcery brings the dragon emperor and fantasy noir to 5e
Shotguns & Sorcery is a mix of high fantasy and hardboiled noir. It’s filled with wizards and freelancers who skulk through dungeons and creep through glowglobe-lit streets.
Free to Download: Fractured quickstart
Fractured is a post-apocalyptic tabletop RPG without zombies, or mutants, or lasers and magic.
An expert touch: A review of The One Ring RPG 2nd edition
Bringing The One Ring to life and making it feel like adventures in Middle-earth also needs an expert touch. The Loremaster, the game’s version of GM, needs to be good.
Maps, Meteorology & Magic: Don’t begin your next quest without a weather check
When you sojourned through your last RPG session, did mountains help or hamper you? What about a freak snowstorm? Were a river’s rapids gentle and shallow or Class 5 widow-makers?
Planebreaker opens up D&D’s Planes to even low-level characters
Planebreaker is a way to get more out of D&D’s Planes earlier in your campaign. Even low-level heroes can get involved.
Collection catchup: 2 core rule books and 6 supplements for the Numenera RPG for less than a quid
Numenera from Monte Cook Games is an RPG set so far into the future it’s fantasy again. It’s the Ninth World and a multiple award-winning RPG.
