We’ve seen Kickstarter campaigns for some gaming minis earn tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands. How much do you think one would earn if it offered STL files for people who own 3D printers to use?
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Fandom gives us a look inside Cortex Prime
It introduces the idea that Cortex games need to find a setting and that there are pre-made settings in the book.
Alliance Game Distributors won’t pay games publishers
A large distributor of tabletop games won’t be paying publishers this week for sales from local stores.
Free to Download: The Elder Scrolls wargame Call to Arms
In the wargame, you can play solo or together against ‘AI’ controlled rivals, or you can go head to head.
Free to Download: Two free Eclipse Phase supplements
Eclipse Phase is a post-apocalyptic transhuman RPG from Posthuman Studios.
Dungeons on Demand appear in the Bundle of Holding
Dan Coleman’s Dungeons on Demand fifth edition products have a 21-day offer on the Bundle of Holding. You can check out these instant tabletop fantasy adventures here. Starter Collection – $7.95 There are three products in each of the two bundles, the Starter Collection being the first (and required) purchase. Dungeons on Demand Low-Level Adventure […]
Free to Download: A bundle of Loke battle mats
There’s an encounter map for Airship Ajax, an arcane circle, a cargo deck, a city tavern, an underground dungeon chasm, ruins, the insider of a shuttle, a siege emplacement, a stone bridge, library and sailing ship and even town streets.
Free copy of the Lancer RPG in exchange for a Covid-19 charity donation
Geek Native reviewed Lancer at the start of the year, the mecha RPG-meets-skirmish strategy game from Massif Press and liked it. The original RPG is the result of a successful Kickstarter which has fulfilled in digital and has the core rules at the printers. There are a fan-run Discord server and a free to download […]
Basic World Building: Design a Base Town
Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and reimagined in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting. Even though it is based on Basic D&D, it could be used with other D&D rules or fantasy RPGs.
Free to Download: The Dark Eye RPG
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, Ulisses Spiele has made that English language version of The Dark Eye a Pay What You Want game at DriveThruRPG.




