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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #41
A week worth of RPG news bundled into a series of handy bullet-point lists.
Fading Suns returns with a Kickstarter for Pax Alexius
Fading Suns is a respected sci-fi space opera. Ancient jumpgates connect a medieval-style empire together, noble houses, guilds and religious sects.
BRP OGL: Call of Cthulhu can now power your RPG
Chaosium has released a systems reference document which sets out those rules you can include in your own game.
Free to Download: XenoShyft board game from CMON
XenoShyft has an aliens feel to it. It’s a deck-building game and a resource management game at the same time, and the challenge is to get the balance right so you can withstand nine waves of, increasingly challenging, alien assault.
Free to Download: Apocalypse Prevention, Inc (2e)
Characters in the game aren’t just humans trying to save the planet but monsters and demons too. After all, says the game, these creatures call Earth home as well.
Free to Download: Nine Worlds from Scythe designer Jamey Stegmaier
Rather nicely, this is a game you could play remotely with friends over Houseparty, Skype, Discord video, Google Hangouts, etc.
Tabletop Scotland reschedules to avoid Covid-19/UK Gaming Expo clash
Tabletop Scotland has revealed that their new dates will be 10th and 11th October 2020, at the Dewars Centre in Perth.
Free to Download: Amazing Tales quickstart and adventures
Amazing Tales was the most popular family RPG of 2018 on DriveThruRPG and is one of the bookshop’s few adamantine best sellers.
Free to Download: Castles & Crusades Players Handbook 7th printing
Troll Lord Games have made the 194-paged PDF edition of the 7th edition of their popular Castles & Crusades RPG a free download.
