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Archives for August 2020

Explore all articles published in August 2020. This collection covers topics in Anime, Tabletop & RPGs, and Comics.

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The anime studio levelled by an arson attack readies feature-length Free swim movie

August 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kyoto Animation had to delay Free! Dive to the Future, but the film will make it out as an early 2021 release.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: Kyoto Animation, trailers

Wizards of the Coast want to hire a new Vice President of Dungeons & Dragons

August 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’re tempted and land the role, then you’ll lead the D&D roadmap. Think it’s time for an official D&D 5e Dark Sun setting? That’ll be your call.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, jobs, wizards of the coast

Savage Worlds Kaiju will invade Roll20

August 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dawn of the Daikaiju has players in the role of giant monsters or kaiju/daikaiju.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kaiju, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, roll20, savage worlds

D&D comic: Play with your food

August 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Avery Cobbs has an Instagram of comic strips that is barely a week old and already worth checking out.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: humour

Gail Simone’s Comic School turns RPG designer into a comic book author

August 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Steffie de Vaan is an RPG designer and writer on Legendlore, Familiars of Terra and Vampire v5’s Fall of London, and is now Kickstarting a comic book with artist Crissie Brown.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: gail simone, kickstarters, Steffie de Vaan

What if a fake news content generator was told to design toys?

August 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In shady corners of the internet, there’s a bit of chat about Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT).

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ai

Goodman Games put their D&D 5e books into the Bundle of Holding

August 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can find a tonne of Goodman Games 5e material on The Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, Dungeons & Dragons, goodman games, sales

Cells at Work! CODE BLACK trailer shows the battle inside you

August 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A rookie Red Blood Cell has been bustling about, frantically making oxygen deliveries all around the body! But it turns out that his workplace is on the brink of going Code Black!!

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: aniplex, trailers

Sword Chronicle launches as the Game of Thrones RPG system evolves

August 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You’re no adventurer. You may have shaken blood off your sword after plunging it into an unholy beast, but the real monsters stalk the world’s thrones. You may have studied the unspeakable secrets of magic, but affairs of state have secrets that are no less horrifying, for they can turn a nation into a million-limbed juggernaut of war.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chronicle system, Green Ronin Publishing, Malcolm Sheppard, Robert J. Schwalb, Steve Kenson, sword chronicle

Free to Download: Toparkil Resurrection for Suzerain Legends

August 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Suzerain is an ENnie award-winning setting for Savage Worlds set in the year M23. Your character is one of The Awakened, a superhero fighting against an evil organisation called Tempest that is so powerful it has defeated gods.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, savage worlds

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