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Free to Download: Rifts Bestiary volume 1 Rational Magic: A dystopian fantasy 5e RPG come to Kickstarter Routinely Itemised: RPGs #3 Superhero Week: Getting to know the award-winning Hero Kids RPG and Super Kids! Superhero Week: This introduction to CAPERS, supers is 1920s America, will get you 33% off the RPG

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Free to Download: Rifts Bestiary volume 1

July 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For a limited time, Palladium Books have made Rifts Bestiary volume 1 available as a free sneak preview on DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, monsters, Palladium Books, rifts

Rational Magic: A dystopian fantasy 5e RPG come to Kickstarter

July 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What if a sword and sorcery setting evolved a little to a more ‘sophisticated’ era.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #3

July 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What happened in the RPG industry this week? ENnnie 2019 nominations, “Oops, sorry, our artwork was too similar” and superheroes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, black void, capers, carbon 2185, city of mist, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dice, dms guild, earthdawn, ENnies, fragged empire, frog god games, gen con, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, Infinity, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, savage worlds, uncaged, warhammer

Superhero Week: Getting to know the award-winning Hero Kids RPG and Super Kids!

July 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Super Kids previews and a chat about Hero Kids and the new Guild.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, previews, superhero week, superheroes

Superhero Week: This introduction to CAPERS, supers is 1920s America, will get you 33% off the RPG

July 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 20s in America is the era of Prohibition, alcohol is illegal and organised crime is booming. In the RPG you get to pick which side you’re on.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: capers, Craig Campbell, nerdburger games, sales, superhero week, superheroes

Superhero Week: A review of Sigmata – This Signal Kills Fascists

July 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sigmata is a gold-seller at DriveThruRPG, a Judge’s award at the Bamfsies (Best Superhero RPGs) and now an ENnie nomination.

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

Guardians of Umbra hit their Kickstarter goal

July 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Guardians of Umbra is described as a ‘Telsapunk’ game. That’s a new punk for me, but I immediately know what Bumblebear Games mean by it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, savage worlds

Solomon Kane leaves Pinnacle and reverts to Cabinet Entertainment’s control

July 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pinnacle and Savage Worlds have looked after the Robert E Howard property for nearly a decade.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Robert E. Howard, savage worlds, Solomon Kane

The sequel to the Mithral best-seller Uncaged D&D complication is out

July 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It is a collection of encounters and adventures themed around folklore in which players might encounter a mythological monster like a hag, harpy or medusa, only to discover their assumptions challenged as tropes are torn up.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, uncaged

Superhero Week: This monk subclass lets you become Batman in D&D

July 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bat-Monk: The Way of the Bat is a D&D character class supplement available on the Dungeon Masters Guild from the Twitch streamer ActualJake.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: batman, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, reviews, superhero week, superheroes

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