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The Lord of the Rings RPG, The One Ring, moves to Free League Publishing A Forged in The Dark mecha game: Beam Saber Basic World Building: Choose the Setting Chaosium lightens their production plans; hands Kadimah RPG to Darker Hue Dr Seuss meets D&D: The Little Game Master – Of Bards and Bullies

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The Lord of the Rings RPG, The One Ring, moves to Free League Publishing

March 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Free League Publishing, the company behind Tales from the Loop, Mutant: Year Zero, Forbidden Lands and Alien will be publishing a new edition of The One RIng.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Francesco Nepitello, Free League Publishing, lord of the rings, Marco Maggi, sophisticated games, The One Ring

A Forged in The Dark mecha game: Beam Saber

March 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Beam Saber is a narative-based mecha game from Austin Ramsay. The universe is stuck in The War, the organisations that perpetuate it apparently too vast to be taken down or beaten.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: beam saber, forged in the dark, mecha, sci-fi

Basic World Building: Choose the Setting

March 8, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic and Expert D&D and reimaged 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. While world design starts with the dungeon in Basic D&D, I’m going […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, rpg tips, worldbuilding

Chaosium lightens their production plans; hands Kadimah RPG to Darker Hue

March 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Less than two years after announcing the sci-fi RPG Kadimah, Chaosium is stopping work on the project.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, chris spivey, Darker Hue Studios

Dr Seuss meets D&D: The Little Game Master – Of Bards and Bullies

March 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Little Game Master: Of Bards and Bullies is a way to use RPGs to teach kids about good and useful things in life and, of course, roleplay with them.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Genre Police: Filling in your blank canvas

March 7, 2020 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Tips from GM Ben and the genre police on how to best use and get inspiration from art in your tabletop RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

Adventures in Dugatai: The Mystic East 5e adventure shuttered at birth

March 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The news of a ‘Mystic East’ 5e setting was not well received with many people worrying that the setting riffed entirely off Asian stereotypes and fetishized the culture.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jetpack 7

The Magitech Chronicles are hoping to launch an RPG

March 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chris Fox, the publisher of The Magitech Chronicles, is on Kickstarter to fund an RPG for his science-fantasy series. It’s going well, with over $15,000 funded at the time of writing versus an asking goal of just $6,000.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, sci-fi

Hunters Entertainment add more to Free Content Friday

March 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

On DriveThruRPG, Hunters Entertainment has a $0.00 offering called “Hunters Entertainment – Free Content Friday!” and on the first Friday of the month, it gets bigger.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, hunters entertainment, icarus, kids on bikes, overlight

Critical Role getting their own Munchkin card game

March 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this version of Munchkin, fans will compete to grab magic and kill monsters specific to Critical Role, such as Lorenzo and Avantika.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, critical role, Munchkin, Steve Jackson Games, USAopoly

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