I dread imagining how many great card games or decks were not made because the designer left it as a failed Kickstarter rather than coming to this site to try their hand anyway.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #274
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Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)
Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #65
Lots of interesting new tabletop roleplaying games to look at, free downloads, playtests and Cyberpunk Red is getting even closer.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #17
What did you miss this week? Freebies from Chaosium as #WeAreAllUs remembers Greg Stafford? The new Phone PDF format or perhaps a nameless goose?
Chaosium to give away free adventures to honour Greg Stafford
There will be free scenarios released for Rune Quest, Call of Cthulhu, King Arthur, Pendragon, HeroQuest and the new family member the 7th Sea.
Chaosium buys the 7th Sea RPG
All of the 7th Sea product and merch will now be moved to Chaosium’s warehouses and shippers who will take over fulfilment.
GM’s Day starts early at DrivethruRPG: 80% off some bundles
There are nearly 50,000 titles in the discount list and at the time of writing Shadowrun, Changeling: the Lost (second edition) and Fate Space Toolkit Prototype Edition, Wrath and Glory and Warhammer Fantasy 4e are in the top five positions.
Genre Police: Literary Genie-Us
The original One Thousand And One Nights shows a great number of literary tropes that we use and understand as part of today’s literary structures and you can see at least parallels in some pillars of western literature, like The Canterbury Tales.
The best selling pulp RPGs of 2018
To make this list an RPG has to be in the top ten sellers (Jan 1st to Dec 11th) of all the games the publishers have added the ‘pulp’ genre tag too. This means we’ve games that are solidly in the pulp genre, systems which could but don’t have to be used for pulp RPGs and even games you might not consider pulp at all.
