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Archives for April 2021

Roll20 to increase prices, offering a 2-year lock-in before they do

April 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

It is the first time the platform has increased the subscription price. The service has been running for nearly 10 years, has introduced dynamic lighting, token markers, APIs, macros and other enhancements.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: money, roll20, virtual tabletop

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #98

April 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dicey Kickstarter surges past $1m in funds, Doctor Who RPG renewed, and Jasper’s Game Day kicks off with a huge charity bundle. It’s this week’s RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: AAW Games, Achtung! Cthulhu, beowulf, bundle of holding, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, darkraven games, dice, doctor who, Dragon Warriors, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, fallout, fantasy age, fate core, flying buffalo, gale force nine, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hard wired island, hellboy, jasper's game day, Legendary Games, Loke BattleMats, mantic games, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, Mutants & Masterminds, nor cal mythos, one more multiverse, peter rudin-burgess, raging swan press, red scar publishing, routinely itemised, sandy pug games, Shadowrun, sirens: battle of the bards, sr 16, stargrave, Steve Jackson Games, storm bunny studios, storm crow, Symbaroum, the dee sanction, traveller, tunnels & trolls, voxstory, warehouse 23, warhammer, wicked ones, world of darkness, wyrmwood gaming

Save 90% on D&D goodies as DMs Guild designers offer up a Jasper’s Game Day 2021 bundle

April 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jasper’s Games Day is a charity that uses roleplaying as a way to tackle suicide. These D&D designers deserve a shoutout for their support.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, charity, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, jasper's game day

Can you stop it?: The Prophecy of Nine Omens

April 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Prophecy of Nine Omens is funded several times over on Kickstarter and offers three classical fantasy RPG adventures for D&D.

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

Vegeta did it in the dining room: Dragon Ball Z Clue launches (at power level over 9000)

April 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stop villains from getting their hands on a Dragon Ball. Players sort through suspects to determine which of them might fight for the Dragon Ball, who has the best chance to stop and them and where that fight might happen.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, cluedo, dragon ball z, mashup, the op

Netflix’s Sweet Tooth shows life as a hybrid after the virus

April 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ten years ago ‘The Great Crumble’ wreaked havoc on the world and led to the mysterious emergence of hybrids — babies born part human, part animal.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: netflix, trailers

Pokemon Snap t-shirts come to Zavvi in an exclusive deal

April 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Well, we can confirm t-shirts, five vacation t-shirts for five different characters. We’re also confident that Pikachu, Bulbasaur and Charmander make up three of the five.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: fashion, pokemon, t-shirts, zavvi

Not handsome enough to be the hero: Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy-

April 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- has a trailer. The upcoming anime is based on a web novel by Kei Azumi.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: trailers

Sensitivity reading: What does it do, and does it make RPGs better? A Paranormal Affairs Canada case study

April 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A credit that I’ve started to see in new RPGs is “sensitivity reader”. I think it’s fair enough to wonder two things; what do sensitivity readers do? If we’re paying for them through the cost of the book, do they make RPGs better?

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs

Name your own price for RUSH, a minimalist sci-fi RPG with a 6 track digital cassette

April 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RUSH is a 16-page, Name Your Own Price, RPG from Horoscope Zine.

Filed Under: Music, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itch.io, sci-fi

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