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The Rime of the Frostmaiden surprise: It’s a horror The Game of Thrones RPG gets a blood relative and spiritual successor Starfinder jumps into the Fight For Racial Justice Humble Bundle Legends of Avallen RPG opens for playtesting Last-minute surprises at the GAMA election

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The Rime of the Frostmaiden surprise: It’s a horror

June 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rime of the Frostmaiden will take characters from level one to level 12, but also a setting that introduces new players to the frozen north of the Forgotten Realms.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, rime of the frostmaiden, wizards of the coast

The Game of Thrones RPG gets a blood relative and spiritual successor

June 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The Chronicle System, used to power A Song of Ice and Fire by Green Ronin, has a new feudal fantasy RPG of its own.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chronicle system, Green Ronin Publishing, Joseph Carriker, Malcolm Sheppard, Robert J. Schwalb, Steve Kenson, sword chronicle

Starfinder jumps into the Fight For Racial Justice Humble Bundle

June 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For the next few days, you can raise money to support the Fight For Racial Justice and get $1,200 worth of computer games, tabletop RPGs, comic books and novels for just $30.

Filed Under: PC, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: attack on titan, BioShock, hyper light drifter, Paizo Publishing, starfinder

Legends of Avallen RPG opens for playtesting

June 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The setting is a mystical island that’s inspired by Celtic mythology and Roman-occupied Britain.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: discord, legends of avallen, playtest

Last-minute surprises at the GAMA election

June 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yesterday, GAMA met to discuss better than expected losses and to vote in people for four roles on the board.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gama, Origins Game Fair, origins online

BLM: Dissident Whispers from Mothership’s Tuesday Knight Games

June 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are 148-pages in total, and it took a team of 90 people to make it happen—authors, editors, designers and illustrators.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, electric bastionland, mork borg, the black hack!, the ultraviolet grasslands, troika, trophy, Tuesday Knight Games

Run Arc Dream’s RPGs at Gen Con Online and the authors could run a game for you

June 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Running just one game will get you $10 in credit at the Arc Dream store.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, convention, Delta Green, gen con online

Roll20’s own RPG Burn Bryte will launch on the 7th of July

June 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Burn Bryte, the players build heroic characters who live together on a spaceship in the Olaxis Galaxy, a place of tenacious creatures and magic-powered tech.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: burn bryte, James Introcaso, roll20

The Dark Eye on Bundle of Holding

June 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Bundle of Holding has two different The Dark Eye bundles. The Dark Eye is a hugely popular RPG in Germany which doesn’t seem able to pick up the traction it deserves elsewhere.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, the dark eye, Ulisses Spiele

Ares Games to distribute Lex Arcana and Brancalonia

June 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ares’ move into wider distribution comes among significant changes to the American landscape.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ares games, brancalonia, Francesco Nepitello, lex arcana, Marco Maggi, quality games

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