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A channelling board and music for Xenolanguage: A Game about First Contact Claim the Sky and First Responders: Monte Cook Games announce Heroes of the Cypher System Free to Download: Savage Worlds Test Drive Rules (with Deadlands) Kult: Divinity Lost found in the Bundle of Holding The Wildsea RPG takes its chainsaw ships to Kickstarter

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A channelling board and music for Xenolanguage: A Game about First Contact

October 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Thorny Games won awards for Dialect a game communication and language. Their latest game Xenolanguage takes that up a notch and Kickstarter is in love with the original concept.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Claim the Sky and First Responders: Monte Cook Games announce Heroes of the Cypher System

October 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monte Cook Games has announced a forthcoming Kickstarter for Heroes of the Cypher System.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Claim the Sky, cypher system, First Responders, Monte Cook Games

Free to Download: Savage Worlds Test Drive Rules (with Deadlands)

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The weird west Deadlands adventure Blood on the Range is also included. Created by Shane Lacy Hensley, the free adventure is part of The Horror at Headstone Hill campaign.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: deadlands, free to download, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds, savage worlds adventurer's guild, Shane Lacy Hensley

Kult: Divinity Lost found in the Bundle of Holding

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The horror game tackles a host of mind games, sex, gore and the horrors of humanity. Reborn in a 2016 Kickstarter, this RPG absolutely isn’t for everyone’s tastes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Helmgast, kult, kult: divinty lost, Modiphius Entertainment, sales

The Wildsea RPG takes its chainsaw ships to Kickstarter

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Wildsea is a magical forest that overran an entire planet within a day, filling it with exotic monsters and danger. Characters are wild sailors, those who travel on chainsaw powered ships in the canopy above, to trade for food.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, kickstarters, the wildsea

a|state 2’s Nicely, Done primer heads to print

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nicely, Done is a mission in Mire End in which characters investigate reports of child slavery and is intended to introduce the setting

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, forged in the dark, Jon Hodgson, previews

Eldritch: The Book of Madness re-writes horror rules for D&D 5e

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Starting at 96 pages, growing with stretch goals, the book includes ancient entities, dangerous monsters, spells and rules for dread.

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

Warchief Gaming a big new RPG and tabletop games publisher

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chris Metzen was SVP at Blizzards Entertainment and the gaming company’s main visionary at the time. He, along with Mike Gilmartin, another Blizzard boss, have set up Warchief Gaming.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: warchief gaming

Darrington Press: Critical Role launches RPG and tabletop games publishing company

October 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Matt Mercer and the Critical Role team have launched their own tabletop games company Darrington Press today.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, darrington press, Matthew Mercer, Sam Riegel

The RPG builder BYTE is out

October 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG is a successful Kickstarter which took more than €10,000 to fund the 400+ page rulebook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: occult, sci-fi, zombie, zombies

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