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Asmodee’s Gamegenic partners with CMON for Massive Darkness: Hellscape Cubicle 7 post Wrath & Glory errata and Soulbound Q&A Here’s the auction listing for the ultra-rare Pokemon card sold for $233,000 Chaosium to publish a Lords of the Middle Sea RPG Saga Forge Scribe one-shot RPG contest has $765 DM screen as a prize

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Asmodee’s Gamegenic partners with CMON for Massive Darkness: Hellscape

July 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

August 4th will see the launch of CMON’s Kickstarter for Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape with Gamegenic accessories.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games, cmon

Cubicle 7 post Wrath & Glory errata and Soulbound Q&A

July 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In a blog post, Cubicle 7 explained that the majority of the issues they found in the book have been minor typos and layout errors.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer 40k, warhammer age of sigmar, wrath & glory

Here’s the auction listing for the ultra-rare Pokemon card sold for $233,000

July 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The previous record for a Pokemon card auction was $190,000 and was for another of the ultra-rare Pikachu Illustrator back in 2019. That’s a rise of $40,000 in value in a single year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: money, pikachu, pokemon

Chaosium to publish a Lords of the Middle Sea RPG

July 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lords of the Middle Sea is set in 2401 and the post-apocalyptic ruins of a flooded North America.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Chaosium, lords of the middle sea

Saga Forge Scribe one-shot RPG contest has $765 DM screen as a prize

July 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

One-shot design competition has lined up an impressive list of prize sponsors.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Adventure Begins: D&D launches board game for 2-4 players, 10 and up

July 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Begins is designed to be an entry point into D&D and is played with between 2 and 4 people, ages 10 and over.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, Dungeons & Dragons

Horror, humour and horny 1970s b-movies: They Came From Beyond the Grave

July 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

They Came from Beyond the Grave! takes the b-movie horror movie RPG to the 1970s. It’s described as dramatic, hammy and horrifying that encompasses the shock, terror, eroticism and humour of the genre.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, matthew dawkins, onyx path publishing, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, They Came From Beyond the Grave

Root RPG gets a new quickstart for Free RPG Day

July 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is based on Powered by the Apocalypse, and this quickstart includes a look at the game’s core mechanics, pre-genned characters (you play as animals) and a new clearing filled with adventure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free rpg day, magpie games, root

An early look at The Umbrella Academy board game

July 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dark Horse and Studio71 are aiming to Kickstart a The Umbrella Academy board game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, dark horse, the umbrella academy

Bad Sex: The Roleplaying Game is real and out this month

July 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bad Sex, as an RPG, is apparently all about trying to create maximum embarrassment for everyone in the room by finding the best way to inject cringe into an adult scene.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

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