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Archives for August 2020

Discover what was posted on the blog during August 2020. This collection covers topics in Tabletop & RPGs, Geek Stuff, and Anime.

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CYBERPUNK DUNGEONS & DRAGONS TRAILERS FREE TO DOWNLOAD KEN ST ANDRE

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Free to Download: RPG & Wargame Supply Sourcebook

August 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG & Wargame Supply Sourcebook is a new and free monthly digital magazine that collates commercial messages from tabletop businesses.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Trollhalla Press

August 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

Trollhalla Press’ founder, Ken St Andre, wrote the second traditional tabletop RPG. Tunnels & Trolls came out a year after D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ken St Andre, spotlight, tunnels & trolls

Geeks v Non-Geeks: Will we see a cyberpunk future in 20 years?

August 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cyberpunk is a sci-fi subgenre which shows a dystopian future in which technology as advanced but social order, to a degree, is breaking down.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Cyberpunk, stats

D&D designer Kate Welch leaves Wizards of the Coast

August 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In a tweet yesterday, Welch announced she was no longer with Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Kate Welch, wizards of the coast

Dragon Goes House-Hunting gets a booming trailer

August 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Okay, it’s a bit strange to find an anime trailer with a Hollywood style booming voiceover. That’s what we get with Signal-MD’s Dragon Goes House-Hunting.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: dragons, trailers

Audio EXP: #57 – Outside RPGs

August 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Has the lockdown made streaming anime into a billion-dollar business? It looks like it. This episode of Audio EXP looks at geeky stories from the week that’s just gone including the regular dose of tabletop and RPG headlines.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: audio exp, geek native, podcasts

Combat wheelchair miniatures

August 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’re playing D&D, a game which features the Warforged, sentient magical constructs, and the Artificer class, then an enchanted chair an option that seems potentially in-keeping with your setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, minis, strata miniatures

Bunnies and demons: Child of Kamiari Month trailer

August 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the trailer, we meet Kanna, who loses her love of running after her mother’s death, a one-winged rabbit who claims to be a messenger from the gods and an oni boy.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: trailers

D&D Beyond hands out discount coupons for its birthday

August 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To mark the anniversary, the digital marketplace and growing toolset have tweeted out some coupon codes that’ll bring discounts of up to %30 off D&D books.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: dnd beyond

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #61

August 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It has been another busy week of RPG news. Are you keeping up with the free to download material, new releases and headlines?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Absolute Tabletop, Chaosium, chronicle system, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk, dead channel studios, exalted funeral, fandom tabletop, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, hellboy, itch.io, kobold press, Legendary Games, liminal, limitless adventures, loresmyth, mage hand press, mantic games, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, petersen games, Renegade Game Studios, Rivers of London, Robert J. Schwalb, routinely itemised, savage worlds, shadow of the weird wizard, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound, studio agate, the after, the merciless merchants, the wildsea, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, those dark places, XII: Inner Demons

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