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$60, 000 Pokemon card lost in the post

July 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you ever had an ebay seller swear to you that your auction win is in the mail?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crime, eBay, pokemon

Street-level superhero action: Hit the Streets – Defend the Block rallies Kickstarter

July 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A pledge of $9 is enough for access to the no art beta and then, when it’s ready, the final PDF from DriveThruRPG complete with art.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, superheroes

Tale Spire show us how cool a cyberpunk RPG could look on a virtual tabletop

July 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Shadowrun might be the best fit for this demo video has our punks seem to be fighting zombies.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, talespire, virtual tabletop

580% Kickstarted and growing: Storm Knights battle darkness in Torg Eternity – Aysle

July 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Aysle is a realm of magic. It’s a conflict between High Lord Uthorion (currently a Viking) and his nightmares and necromancers against the Storm Knights.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Torg, torg: eternity, Ulisses Spiele

Shadowrun 6e will (eventually) allow players to design their own spells

July 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Shadowrun 6e will let players and GMs use a modular system to do design their own spells. Not yet, though. This isn’t in the core rules. There wasn’t enough space.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, Shadowrun

The Fallout RPG is out, but it is hiding and masquerading as an expansion

July 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Fallout RPG builds on the narrative wargame experience of the tabletop miniatures game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, fallout, fallout: wasteland warfare, Modiphius Entertainment

The Polyhedral Knights fund Pirates of a Shattered World

July 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As a science-fantasy game, we have fantasy tropes like elves and goblins, but it’s wrapped up in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Superhero Week: A review of Metahumans Rising

July 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A few rounds of editing and layout improvements, I suspect, will make a big difference.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: reviews, superhero week, superheroes

D&D rules with a modern flare: The Spy Game

July 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Spy Game is an action and espionage RPG from Black Cats Gaming that uses D&D 5e rules in a contemporary setting to tell stories of spies, assassins, suave secret agents and diabolical masterminds. The Kickstarter is asking for £17,000 in funding, which is a non-trivial amount, but at the time of writing there are […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Superhero Week: The Deluxe Super Villain Handbook

July 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s actually a lot of reasons Golden Age characters make great material. The DSVH includes several golden age characters like the Black Terror and Stardust the Super-Wizard, and even older characters like Robur the Conqueror and Dracula, but most of the characters are brand new.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fainting Goat Games, FATE, Jason Tondro, Mike Lafferty, superhero week, superheroes

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