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Free to Download: 6 monsters First They Came is an RPG you play blindfolded Goodman Games buys the Dark Tower for DCC and 5e treatment Blue Planet 3e is an RPG set in humanity’s precarious future Vaesen: Mythic Britain announced as Free League brings nordic horror to 19th century British Isles

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Free to Download: 6 monsters

April 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The preview suggests we’ll get the Knacker, Quicksilver Troll, Spell-Thief, Holigean and Swamp Boulder among the collection.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, handimonsters, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, monsters, Patreon, Scott Purdy

First They Came is an RPG you play blindfolded

April 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Set in Berlin in 1942, telling the story of those persecuted by the Nazi regime, First They Came is an RPG from Chaos League that you play with a blindfold on.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: history, kickstarters, larp

Goodman Games buys the Dark Tower for DCC and 5e treatment

April 6, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Goodman Games has bought the Dark Tower from the Judges’ Guild and will republish it as a DCC and 5e adventure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: goodman games, judges guild

Blue Planet 3e is an RPG set in humanity’s precarious future

April 6, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Biohazard Games with Gallant Knight have taken the third edition of the acclaimed hard science Blue Planet RPG to Kickstarter, where it is on track to fund in hours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Biohazard games, blue planet, gallant knight games, kickstarters, sci-fi

Vaesen: Mythic Britain announced as Free League brings nordic horror to 19th century British Isles

April 6, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Mythic Britain is a new sourcebook and a campaign book set in the British Isles, bringing British folklore to the game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, vaesen, vaesen: mythic britain

The latest Chivalry and Sorcery RPG on offer at the Bundle of Holding

April 6, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chivalry and Sorcery favours realism, historically, and while C&S 5e has been streamlined, it is still true to that original desire. The game also leans into medieval life, with priests, feudal system rules, courts and tournaments rather than dungeon crawling.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Brittannia Game Designs, bundle of holding, bundles, Chivalry & Sorcery, sales

$10 bundle for over $90 worth of RPGs: Help game designer Tiago Rolim out

April 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The bundle is raising money for Tiago Rolim, an RPG designer best known for the OSR inspired game NUMA. NUMA is about samurai frogs fighting for revenge.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, charity, itch.io, sales

Death in Space wows Kickstarter with its bleak blue-collar sci-fi RPG

April 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Death in Space is two things; it’s a bleak view of life in space powered by capitalism and a work of art.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free league workshop, Johan Nohr, kickstarters, sci-fi

Anime and everything with bioengineered chrome: A review of LokDown RPG

April 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

LokDown is an RPG about the generations of survivors on planet LokDown who adapted to survive outside.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: nor cal mythos, reviews, sci-fi

Genre Police: Player Roles

April 4, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

While it is useful to recognise those skillsets and use them to add extra elements to your game, it is easy to overlook the other skill set that people bring to your table: social roles.

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

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