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Art-filled, punk-fueled OSR sci-fi RPG: Vast Grimm launches on Gamefound UK Games Expo, one of the largest in the world, u-turns on COVID rules Mature gothic horror: Once Bitten – The Vampire Compendium grants immortality to its promotional price Fragged! The tactical post-post-apocalyptic RPG Fragged Empire and its sequel hits the Bundle of Holding Larks on carts: Fairy Trails RPG heads to a successful Kickstarter

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Art-filled, punk-fueled OSR sci-fi RPG: Vast Grimm launches on Gamefound

July 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A tabletop RPG on Gamefound, and if you back during day one, you get a free d20. Vast Grimm is a Mork Borg compatible sci-fi from the elder dice people at Infinite Black. The campaign has just launched, is racing towards funding and smashed through 100 backers straight away. [Back this Campaign] If, like me, […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Brian colin, dice, gamefound, horror, infinite black, sci-fi, vast grimm

UK Games Expo, one of the largest in the world, u-turns on COVID rules

July 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The UK Games Expo, as Gen Con in the States, previously said that they will not require attendees to wear masks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, uk games expo

Mature gothic horror: Once Bitten – The Vampire Compendium grants immortality to its promotional price

July 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once Bitten – The Vampire Compendium is an 81-page supplement that adds five new bloodlines, with statblocks for fledgling, mature, elder, ancient and even progenitors of each.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, previews, vampires

Fragged! The tactical post-post-apocalyptic RPG Fragged Empire and its sequel hits the Bundle of Holding

July 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As beings of the far future and emerging from a galaxy wrecking war, characters are generically engineered remnants on a mission to reclaim a lost empire.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, bundle of holding, bundles, fragged empire, sci-fi

Larks on carts: Fairy Trails RPG heads to a successful Kickstarter

July 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Using the tools in PbtA, all shrunk down to itty-bitty fairy size, we’ve made a little game that’s just bursting with silly adventures for you and your buddies to play together.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bandit camp, fairy trails, kickstarters, powered by the apocalypse

Magpie Games release free Avatar Legends: The RPG Quickstart and announce exclusive Kickstarter edition

July 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Confirming the name of the official Avatar RPG as Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, Magpie Games have released a free quickstart.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avatar, avatar legends, Avatar: The Last Airbender, free to download, magpie games, The Legend of Korra

Free to Download: Jailbreak by Greg Stolze

July 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The one-shot drama is set in a farmhouse where the player characters soon discover that they’re not all going to survive the night.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: elemental, free to download, gildor games, Greg Stolze, horror

Tears of a Machine: A slice of life RPG about giant mechs made from monsters and their pilots

July 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In an alternate future, visitors from beyond the stars came to Earth to “save us from ourselves.” When we did not agree to upload our minds into their computer network, they decided to take them by force.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kickstarters, sci-fi

Genre Police: Keep On Marching

July 11, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

When you begin a West Marches game, it’s worth thinking about your player base.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

9 years of adventure: A review of Jackals – The Fall of the Children of Bronze

July 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are 14 adventures here, not linked together to make a campaign, but to tie nine years of adventuring and perhaps multiple generations of Jackals together in a single story.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jackals, john-matthew defoggi, osprey games, reviews

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