It’s been a busy week, so sit back and treat yourself to a scroll through the headlines; sales, reviews, interviews and stats from the RPG-scene.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #78
This week D&D hired a new senior game designer, an army of monsters appeared on Humble Bundle, publishers backed New Gamemaster Month and a load more. It’s time for a Routinely Itemised collection of RPG news.
Pelgrane Press release Book of the Underworld
There are the Four Kingdoms of the Mechanical Sun that war to keep a golem-hauled solar artefact in their territory.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #29
A weekly round-up of RPG news including discoveries, fan-projects and Kickstarters.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #26
It’s your weekly catchup with news of an impressive new RPG publisher, voice actors playing Starfinder with you in your bedroom and the return of Werewolf.
13th Age double teams the Bundle of Holding
D&D fans might know the game as it was created by Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet, who were the lead designers of D&D 3e and 4e. 13th Age combines traditional bits of d20 with story-focused rules.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #16
It’s October and all of a sudden everyone is talking about Halloween. The horror and supernaturally themed Kickstarters are appearing, GMs are plotting scary scenarios, and web hosts are breeding an army of mutant bandwidth bills that feed on blogger blood. The start of the month also means a new RPG Publisher Spotlight poll for […]
A humble success: The King of Dungeons asks for a little and gets plenty
This isn’t an OSR game, the designer stresses it’s not from any school.
A Beastly Bestiary: A Review of the 13th Age Bestiary
Like a well-meaning-but-sort-of-annoying-best-friend, I worry about the future of 13th Age. The 3rd/4th edition fantasy RPG house blend by Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet hit the perfect note, melding those two polarizing editions together into something that is fast, playable, and fun, all the while being its own thing and fostering the creativity of players, […]
5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens
5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens Team EN World opened the voting booth for the 2014 ENnie Awards this week. Voting started with 5 winners being announced for the 2014 Judges’ Spotlight award. So, who won? Hobomancer Companion from Hex Games Deep Magic from Kobold Press Rocket Age RPG from Cubicle 7 […]