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Archives for January 2020

Jon Hodgson returns to Kickstarter for more map tiles

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can also select tile designs from the first Kickstarter, and that’ll make selecting your tiles quite a challenge.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, Jon Hodgson, kickstarters

Beasts & Barbarians returns to Bundle of Holding

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The 2018 hit for Savage Worlds is back on Humble Bundle, and it is raising money for Ocean Conservancy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, GRAmel

Life-size Baby Yoda crashes site

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The model, known as “The Child”, costs $350 and is due out between August and October 2020.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: star wars, star wars: the mandalorian, yoda

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #33

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summary with another D&D leak, free downloads and Matthew Mercer’s 2020 update to the Blood Hunter 5e class.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2000 AD, adventure of d, babbage's engine, baldur's gate, board games, Call of Cthulhu, castle falkenstein, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, conan the barbarian, Coriolis, critical role, cubicle 7, davide tramma, deadlands, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure Begins, enemies & allies, fear agent, Free League Publishing, Jim Zub, laidback dungeon master, logan bonner, lost omens gods & magic, Matthew Mercer, Mike Myler, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, pride of giants, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Ruins of the North, Russell Morrissey, Sandy Petersen, Shades of Vengeance, soulbound, starfinder, strange things afoot, Strontium Dog, symbar, Symbaroum, The One Ring, The World of Critical Role, traveller, Vampire: The Masquerade, vast kaviya, Witchcraft: Magic of Hereva

The latest Critical Role book: The World of Critical Role

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Publishing giant Penguin Random House has announced they have a Critical Role book coming out later this year. Written by Liz Marsham and the cast of Critical Role, The World of Critical Role is available on pre-order for hardcover, ebook and audiobook. The illustrated guide follows the rise of Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Ashley Johnson, critical role, laura bailey, Liam O'Brien, liz marsham, Marisha Ray, Matthew Mercer, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, The World of Critical Role, Travis Willingham

Wizards of the Coast’s Archetype project is a non-D&D sci-fi

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A multi-platform roleplaying game set in a new science fiction universe.

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: Archetype Entertainment, James Ohlen, sci-fi, wizards of the coast

A giant family tree of tabletop RPGs

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Let’s say you had the time to investigate hundreds of tabletop games, plug in their publication dates and work out how each one was related to another.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: stats

Surprise your players with an orchestral theme for their D&D characters

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As Dungeons & Dragons, and roleplaying in general, has boomed in recent years so has the demand for custom artwork. Players and DMs are commissioning portraits of characters, hiring cartographers to produce professional maps of homebrew fantasy realms and indie designers invest time looking for illustrators to bring monsters to life. What about the audio […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Nic Decambre, rpg ideas

A haunted house for your Dungeon Master’s pocket

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Haunt from Phil Beckwith is an adamantine best-seller at the Dungeon Masters Guild.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, phil beckwith, phone pdf

Dangerously beautiful Trophy RPG funds on Kickstarter

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Trophy Dark is a one-shot horror, the PCs are doomed treasure hunters in a dangerous forest, Trophy Gold is more traditional dungeon-crawling, and Trophy Loom is a system-agnostic setting guide.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, trophy

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