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An interview with Chris Birch: Modiphius, ambition and direction

November 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Modiphius is hot off a summer smash hit, breaking $1 million on Kickstarter with a Skyrim game, and in this discussion, I’ll try and tease out clues as to what might follow.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: 2d20, Achtung! Cthulhu, Chris Birch, Modiphius Entertainment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #175

October 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletop RPG news in summary, RPG reviews discoveries, interviews, bundle offers, and tips are all bullet-pointed in one geeky summary.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, lex arcana, Modiphius Entertainment, quality games, routinely itemised, space kings, supertry

2d20 World Builders: Modiphius readies SRD and support program

July 20, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 2d20 World Builders program will allow third parties, the likes of use and me, to use the publisher’s in-house titles as the basis for projects sold for money.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2d20, 2d20 world builders, Achtung! Cthulhu, Cohors Cthulhu, drivethrurpg, legal, Modiphius Entertainment, srd

Six bundle deals headline “New Year, New Game” at DriveThruRPG

January 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the start of the year, it’s a DriveThruRPG tradition to offer a good sale, and it’s happening again this year. There’s 50% off a range of titles to persuade you to try a new RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2300ad, Achtung! Cthulhu, Arc Dream Publishing, Delta Green, dms guild, dragonlock, drivethrurpg, elemental, fat dragon games, gildor games, glitch, index card rpg, jenna katerin moran, kobold press, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Necrotic Gnome, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, Pelgrane Press, runehammer games, sales, scion, southlands, the yellow king, unity, zensara studios

The best selling historical RPGs of 2021

December 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

What’s certain is that this table is a way to get an exciting look at games newly out this year and perhaps see names new to us.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, Achtung! Cthulhu, Andrews McMeel, beowulf, blaster, brancalonia, drivethrurpg, edge, fantasy age, flames of freedom, for coin & blood, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hearts of wulin, jackals, Legend of the Five Rings, malifaux burns, Modiphius Entertainment, mythic babylon, occam's razor, osprey games, stats, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Design Mechanism, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, the invisible college, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, trojan war, well of urd press, wheel of judgement, wyrd miniatures

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #130

December 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Drama again this week with attack lawyers dispatched against Wizards of the Coast, hassles over Kickstarters at Dragonmeet and confusion and concern over the direction Kickstarter itself might be taking.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 3dice, 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, Ad Infinitum Adventures, anderian designs, Andrew Valkauskas, attack dice, bandit camp, batteries low getting dark, black cube games, Brittannia Game Designs, broken shield, cairn, carbon 2185, Chaosium, Chivalry & Sorcery, coyote & crow, david brunell-brutman, Dishonored, dragon turtle games, dreampunk, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, fairy trails, fallen highway, fire&steel, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, forged in the dark, gio lasar design, gregorius21778, Gunnar Roxen, heroes of wakesong, holy mountain shaker, Hymgho, icons: evil rising, ind of the year, Inkwell Ideas, ironsworn, Keith Baker, kickstarter, legacy of mana, lynnvander studios, metro mage games, neonrot, next level board gaming, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, planet apocalypse, raven of the scythe, Renegade Game Studios, rising miniatures, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, sabbat: the black hand, secret garden games, shannon appelcline, shattered city, sleddog games, squid ink games, Steve Kenson, strixhaven, swords of the serpentine, terribly beautiful games, the dee sanction, The Very Good Dogs of Chernobyl, thom wilson, traveller, Troll Lord Games, TSR, ufo press, Umerican Survival Guide, Vampire: The Masquerade, voidheart symphony, wizards of the coast, worlds without number, xavid

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #129

December 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summarised from the week that’s just gone with reviews, interviews, bundle deals, competitions and crowdfunding projects.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, a couple of drakes, Achtung! Cthulhu, alan gerding, balatro, bandit camp, beyond the horizon, brindlewood bay, broken shield, carbon 2185, Chaosium, city of mist, Claim the Sky, cloudsea, cortex, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark realm roleplay, dc comics, defiant, defiant birthright, delver, divine madness press, dms guild, dndbeyond, dread metrol, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, edge, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, en publishing, ennead games, evil pigeon games, fairy trails, fandom tabletop, fiddleback productions, figu design, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, game machinery, gamenomicon, geargrind, ghost hunters, gila, goodman games, greg rutkowski, Gunnar Roxen, guns and gears, harp sf, haunted west, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, just crunch games, lance, latin american monsters, Legendary Games, legends of avallen, live real productions, magpie games, Mana Project Studio, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, michael o'brien, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, mutants in the now, nightfell, Nova, our family, papierschnitzel, paranoia, pathfinder, paul hughes, R. Talsorian Games, rebel scum, roll20, root, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, Steffie de Vaan, storm crow, strixhaven, the dee sanction, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Matrix, The One Ring, the third imperium, things I keep, traveller, truffle shuffle, Tuesday Knight Games, twilight imperium, Victoriana, warmer in the winter, wise women, World Anvil, xploringmap, yeti miniatures

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #122

October 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet-point speed we headline the sad news that Hasbro boss Brian Goldner has passed away. This week also brings new D&D, a Cowboy Bebop RPG, Hunters: The Reckoning and more from Critical Role.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0one Games, Achtung! Cthulhu, arc, blind visionary publications, brian goldner, call of the netherdeep, cat elm, Cowboy Bebop, critical role, cubicle 7, defenders of the new century, dice dungeons, diving hippo studio, dr games, dungeon bones, fantasy age, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, gamtee, Green Ronin Publishing, happy owl games, hasbro, heroic maps, Historica Arcanum, hunters: the reckoning, hurricane's howl, infec3d1, iron kingdoms, koliba games, Mana Project Studio, MINIMAL BORG, Mutant City Blues, northumbrian tin soldier, orzol studio, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Planet X Games, Privateer Press, routinely itemised, Safety Tools of the OSR Table, severed books, sharang biswas, sigil & shadow, sigil stone publishing, soulbound, star frontiers, star trek adventures, studio woe, terratop workshop, the amber dirge, the beast of ledsham, the gaia complex, the valley of karaccia, time bandits, warlock! kingdom, wizards of the coast, workhorse rpg studio, worldcraft club, zerywia

Free RPG Day is this weekend; here are some of the freebies

October 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are all sorts of freebies available for people who can venture out and into friendly local gaming stores (FLGS).

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, cmon, cubicle 7, dave taylor miniatures, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, edge, free rpg day, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, hit point press, humblewood, infinite black, magpie games, mantic games, Modiphius Entertainment, need games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, pegasus spiele, Privateer Press, q workshop, root, sirius dice, soulbound, star trek adventures, starfinder, Steamforged Games, twilight imperium, vast grimm, Victoriana, wizkids

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #121

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet-point speed as we look at where D&D might be going next, free Call of Cthulhu for year 40 and a host of promising new games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, aegean, age of steel, apothecaria, Arcanum Worlds, biscuit fund games, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, channel m publishing, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, city of cats, Claim the Sky, cyberpunk red, dice, dndbeyond, dungeon crawl classics, enoki dice, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, follow me down, game wizards, gary con, goblonia, good brother studios, goodman games, hack100, headless hydra press, heirs of heresy, holler, ichor - drowned, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, izegrim creations, James Ohlen, krakenships, laidback dungeon master, legends of the metaverse, level up, luke gygax, luna publishing, m presents, midlam miniatures, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mushrooms, Nightfall Games, osprey games, past adventures, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, Raiders of the Serpent Sea 5e Player's Guide, relics, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, sabbat: the black hand, savage worlds, scp, shadowrun: double clutch, sinopa publishing, SLA Industries, smuchy games, songs we sing, southlands, spelljammer, starfinder: tech revolution, steve dee, strixhaven, studio olkiou, survive this!!, synapse, the cthulhu hack, the dhole's house, the greatest thieves in lankhmar, themadmaker, third kingdom games, tournament arc, unchained games, upriver downriver, vast grimm, we die young, wizards of the coast

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