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Begin your adventures with Tales from the Loop and Symbaroum for less than a quid

May 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Humble Bundle and Free League Publishing have today launched a bundle offer for several award-winning RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, Free League Publishing, humble bundle, sales, Symbaroum, tales from the loop

Somninauts: Dreamy mystery adventures in RPG form

May 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fish in the Pot have a rules-light RPG up on Kickstarter that’s attracted a “Project We Love” label from the platform.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Free to Download: Realm of Goblin – Beware the Dark Sisterhood

May 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Realm of Goblin: Beware the Dark Sisterhood is a free 5e adventure, 28-pages long and written by Eric Grissom.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dark horse, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download

Under pressure sci-fi excellence: A review of Last Fleet

May 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last Fleet is an excellent game, truly it’s great. I mean, as a player, you may love to hate Fox, but the game is still great.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: black armada, Joshua Frost, last fleet, reviews

“So You Want The Tall Vampire Lady to Catch You” is an RPG for your personal collection

May 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designed for solo play, “So You Want The Tall Vampire Lady to Catch You” is relatively unique in that the win condition is the loose condition, and the game takes a healthy attitude to both. Whatever floats your boat.

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Genre Police: Just the Two of Us

May 23, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

This changes the dynamic instantly, altering our attitude, throwing us into conflict, one against the other for dominance, where before there had been a shared story.

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

ACE! The Awfully Cheerful Engine is a loving parody of 80s games

May 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Think of ACE! as an irreverent, fun-packed movie. You might play as ghost hunters in New York City, a band of plucky galactic guardians, vampire slayers, or soldiers of fortune in the Los Angeles underground.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, Ghostbusters, kickstarters, marc langworthy, Russ Morrissey

The alien neo-noir post-post apocalypse: Favor RPG

May 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Favor is a futuristic, cyberpunk noir role-playing game that takes place on a distant planet and its struggle to discover its own identity as it examines its past.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Make monsters your prey: A review of Wolf Hounds

May 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wolf Hounds is inspired by real-life history. The Benandanti, in the game, are a society of werewolves who defend their communities from a nasty range of supernatural horrors, often by taking the proactive approach of hunting them down.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itch.io

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #101

May 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy week, so sit back and treat yourself to a scroll through the headlines; sales, reviews, interviews and stats from the RPG-scene.

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