In this week’s RPG news round-up, we confirm Free RPG Day will happen, why the D&D TV show might be like First Blood and the character portrait generator site NeverEnding on adding prosthetic options to illustrations.
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Steampunk hip hop RPG: Welcome to Professor Elemental’s Garden of Escapades
British “chap hop” performer Professor Elemental has a tabletop RPG full of whimsy and inspired by Lasers & Feelings.
Free to Download: Hero Kids – Fantasy RPG
Justin Halliday’s adamantine best-seller Hero Kids is free to download, but only until April 1st.
Game Start funds the world’s first interactive miniatures on Kickstarter
The concept is this; the minis have unique bases on which you can attach or remove, accessories such as special effects, game status or even hit point counts.
Osprey Games announce The Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror
The award-winning designer of Frostgrave, Joseph McCullough, has teamed up with the illustration team at Brainbug Design and Osprey Games to release The Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror.
After surviving COVID-19, Steve Jackson Games may not release any new games in 2021
Steve Jackson Games made money in 2020, although slightly less than in 2019 and managed to keep all staff employed despite the devastating effect global lockdowns have had on the tabletop gaming scene.
HC SVNT DRACONES expands as the 2nd edition gets a companion book
HC SVNT DRACONES is a transhuman RPG. All that’s left in space are races born from genetic manipulation, sentient AI and astral horror.
If Blizzard did D&D: Auroborus – Coils of the Serpent
Chris Metzen left his position as vice-president and Blizzard last year to set up Warchief Gaming and publish the D&D 5e high-power fantasy setting Auroborus: Coils of the Serpent.
Solemn Vale is a spooky RPG about folk horror in isolated England
The RPG uses a system called “Wyrd Abacus” that involves attribute pools and a bidding mechanic. As characters get more involved, they risk getting caught in the Wyrd itself, a force of fate.
Free League details The Haunted Waste of Alberetor in a new Symbaroum adventure
Alberetor – The Haunted Waste is the fifth part in The Chronicle of the THrone of Thorns campaign for the dark fantasy RPG Symbaroum.
