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The Dark Eye on Bundle of Holding Ares Games to distribute Lex Arcana and Brancalonia World’s second most popular tabletop RPG publisher gets a new boss Why D&D is a better game with Ancestry & Culture Cthulhu Mythos Bestiary: Chaosium publishes 480-page Malleus Monstrorum

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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

World’s second most popular tabletop RPG publisher gets a new boss

June 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stevens will continue as a CEO for now, but the move is part of the planned retirement of the company’s founder.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Erik Mona, Paizo Publishing

Why D&D is a better game with Ancestry & Culture

June 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 7 Comments

You don’t have to work hard to persuade me that D&D would be a better and more flexible game if its rules were somehow able to adjust to fit each new supplement.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arcanist Press, Dungeons & Dragons

Cthulhu Mythos Bestiary: Chaosium publishes 480-page Malleus Monstrorum

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, cthulhu, Malleus Monstrorum

Free to Download: Birds of a Feather 5e adventure

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The characters are on the trail of Yvette Bell who is rather too prone to creating new and bizarre animals and leaving them to terrorise the locals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, kobold press

Free to Download: Teaching and Therapy aids for family RPG Amazing Tales

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s good news as there are now two official Amazing Tales supplements from people who can speak with authority on teaching and therapy with children.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, free to download

First look at Soulbound’s Shadows in the Mist

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You don’t need to wait until all adventures are written, and the book is ready. Promise you’ll buy the book and Cubicle 7 will start to feed you the adventures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, shadows in the mist, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar

Amazon has 3 for 2 on D&D books and is taking pre-orders on Rime of the Frostmaiden

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Amazon has a blank cover image for the book but confirms it will be due in September and announced at D&D Live.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazon, Dungeons & Dragons, sales

An interview with Sandy Petersen: Adding Cthulhu, cats and dreams to D&D

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Petersen Games now makes a range of games, many of them are Cthulhu related with titles like Sandy Petersen’s Cthulhu Mythos and Unlocking Insanity.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos, Dungeons & Dragons, petersen games, Sandy Petersen

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