The free supplement is full-colour and contains plenty of striking images and text to whisk readers through the Golden Age, to the Great Cataclysm of 2098 and up to Lazlo’s Call to Arms three hundred years later.
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A dubious bestiary: Mari Zellout’s Gay Survival Guide
Heed the suspect wisdom of feisty grifter trainwreck Mari Zellout as she explains how to totally dunk on all those stupid monsters and sell their organs for change.
Barbaric! mutates the sci-fi of the Cepheus Engine into brutal sword & sorcery
The 57-page lightweight RPG uses an evolution of the Cepheus Engine, but the ruleset has become quite distant now, especially with character generation, as the engine is crafted to suit fast play – ideal for conventions, one-off games, and mini-campaigns.
The Darkest House: Monte Cook Games invents a new type of RPG product
The Darkest House, if the Kickstarter is successful, will be a download that offers up details of many rooms in a house. It’s a GM’s tool designed to be used during online gameplay.
Magpie Games and Avatars: Bending four elements across five eras
Geek Native has been lucky enough to get some questions to Mark Truman, CEO of Magpie Games, who are making the official roleplaying game based on Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.
Tournament of Pigs: A medieval game show adventure for 5e & DCC
Weird Works have launched an ambitious Kickstarter for a boxed set adventure, complete with standees and suitable for 5e or DCC.
Palace of the Vampire Queen: The strange history of D&D’s first standalone adventure
The Palace of the Vampire Queen is the very first standalone commercial adventure for Dungeons & Dragons.
The innovative Index Card RPG gets a Bundle of Holding deal
The Starter Collection, the first of the customary two tiers in the bundle, costs $12.95. In exchange, you’ll get $54.40 worth of DRM free PDF downloads.
Diesel RPG: Cinematic action with an emotional core
The Diesel RPG, launched today on Kickstarter by Steven Pankotai, promises cinematic action alongside an emotional core.
Kickstarter’s Head of Community Luke Crane cancels their own RPG zine after controversy backlash
Sometime after launch, at the bottom of an oddly-reversed alphabetical list of contributors, it was noticed and discussed that Adam Koebel’s name was included.
