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Free to Download: The Dread 5e encounter pack The Carovean Legions March: Carovea Victor blends fantasy into ancient Rome ARC: Race to defeat the apocalypse as Exalted Funeral launch their next Kickstarter WotC puts The Complete Starter Set: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game 2e on DriveThruRPG Free to Download: Titan Effect’s Bio-Augmented Soldier Rules

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Free to Download: The Dread 5e encounter pack

June 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Venger’s Decks, aka Scott Docherty, has made a free encounter pack available via their Patreon. It’s made possible thanks to Patreon, so consider backing.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, venger's decks

The Carovean Legions March: Carovea Victor blends fantasy into ancient Rome

June 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Roleplay Elixir’s Carovea Victor funded in less than two days. The 5e sourcebook introduces a fantasy world inspired by ancient Rome.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: carovea victor, kickstarters, roleplay elixir, rpg tips

ARC: Race to defeat the apocalypse as Exalted Funeral launch their next Kickstarter

June 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

ARC is a game in which the characters battle against the ticking clock to stop the apocalypse. It’s designed for relatively short campaigns, and there really is that time pressure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: arc, exalted funeral, kickstarters, momatoes

WotC puts The Complete Starter Set: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game 2e on DriveThruRPG

June 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can now spend $30 to download a scanned copy of The Complete Starter Set: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game 2E from DriveThruRPG after Wizards of the Coast made it available today.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: advanced dungeons & dragons, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: Titan Effect’s Bio-Augmented Soldier Rules

May 31, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bio-Augmented Soldiers have been available since the 2018 release of the Savage Worlds game of tactical espionage and psychics, but only as NPCs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Christian Nommay, free to download, Knight Errant Media, savage worlds, titan effect

Get started with the iconic sci-fi RPG Traveller with this paired bundle

May 31, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The starter set and companion are available at the cheapest tier in the first deal, and then the second offer introducing Gareth Hanrahan’s Pirates of Drinax.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Mongoose Publishing, sales, traveller

Free to Download: Blood Sword 5e quickstart

May 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blood Sword is the sword of life, the only weapon capable of opposing the power of the evil Wizards of Krarth who threaten the Lands of Legend.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blood sword, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download

Kill aliens and get paid: The Savage Worlds edition of Four Horsemen Universe Kickstarts

May 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The aliens did not appreciate humanity’s growing successes on the galactic battlefield, especially as the personal mechas known as CASPers (Combat Assault System, Personal) evened the odds and let Humans bring the fight to powerful and deadly aliens.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, mecha, savage worlds

Die by d100 and the bronze sword: A review of the Jackals fantasy RPG

May 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jackals is a bronze age fantasy, and it’s a gritty high fantasy at that. It’s sorcery and sandals in the style of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and it gets the thumbs up from this ancient one.

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

Free to Download: Routers RPG

May 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routers is a tabletop RPG or a roll and write from clutterArranger, and it’s entirely free.

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