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Apocalypse 5E by Blue Phoenix Games picks up 700 years after the fall UFO Press merges into Rowan, Rook and Decard Free to Download: Horror sci-fi RPG – Incoming Call Striking map of Theros’ Meletis Routinely Itemised: RPGs #94

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Apocalypse 5E by Blue Phoenix Games picks up 700 years after the fall

April 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Was your world torn asunder by war, famine, or terrible storms that scorched the sky?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Apocalypse, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

UFO Press merges into Rowan, Rook and Decard

April 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

UFO Press may be best known for the post-apocalyptic Legacy game, the second edition of which was published three years ago, but there is a string of successes since then.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, rowan rook and decard

Free to Download: Horror sci-fi RPG – Incoming Call

April 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Incoming Call is a sci-fi RPG for 1 to 3 players, no GM, and it’s free to download.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, horror, sr 16

Striking map of Theros’ Meletis

April 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Meletis is a city Magic: The Gathering and now D&D setting of Theros.

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, mythic odysseys of theros

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #94

April 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this week’s RPG news round-up, we have pre-orders on a giant dragon “mini”, the Fallout 2d20 RPG, a Scion RPG TV series and Free League Publishing converting Symbaroum to D&D’s 5e.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, bestiary, candlekeep mysteries, Chaosium, Chthonstone Games, coyote & crow, cubicle 7, dark sun, death on the reik, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, Dying Earth, Dyskami, fallout, Fire Ruby Designs, foundry, gama, goodman games, Interface Zero 2.0, Jack Vance, journey, Luke Crane, Modiphius Entertainment, mythic table, neverending, Nightfall Games, nor cal mythos, onyx path publishing, routinely itemised, scion, shadows in the mist, Symbaroum, terminator, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, troika, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, warlock, wizards of the coast, wizkids, Zadmar Games

Affinity impresses Kickstarter with three 5e settings in one campaign

April 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dias Ex Machina’s Kickstarter campaign to fund three unique 5e-powered settings for Affinity funded within the hour.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Dias, Dias Ex Machina Games, kickstarters

SIN: A sourcebook for the Spire RPG about uncaring gods and corruption in a cursed city

April 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sin is the second sourcebook for the roleplaying game, and it digs into crime, order and religion.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, rowan rook and decard

WizKids announce the largest D&D “mini” they’ve ever made

April 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Due to ship in September, WizKids has announced a 73.4cm (28.9 inch) wide, 37.1cm (14.6 inch) tall and 42.8cm (16.8 inch) long dragon figure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, models, Tiamat, wizkids

World of Darkness: Learn the 5e Vampire clans [infographic]

April 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The World of Darkness team at Paradox published the first development blog since taking the RPG properties in house. And it’s a good one.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: infographics, Paradox Interactive, Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires, world of darkness

Ruins of Symbaroum: Free League announce Symbaroum 5e

March 31, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the wake of their million Dollar Kickstarter for Lord of the Rings, Free League Publishing have announced their next crowdfunding campaign. The Swedish RPG publisher will be converting the highly acclaimed Symbaroum dark RPG to the system that powers Dungeons & Dragons. The Kickstarter for Ruins of Symbaroum launches on April 13th. Whatever you […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, Symbaroum, trailers

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