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Unleash epic adventures: Dive into the Against the Darkmaster bundle

May 9, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Against the Darkmaster adapts old-school percentile systems, notably Middle-Earth Role-Playing (MERP). Characters have six Stats, a Kin, Culture, and Vocation, with a level cap of 10.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, bundle of holding, bundles, open ended games

RPG publishers offer alternatives to 5e: Non-OGL Fantasy bundle

January 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As you’d expect, none of the RPGs in the bundle is based on the Open Game License (OGL).

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Advanced Fighting Fantasy, against the darkmaster, bundle of holding, bundles, fantasy age, sword chronicle, the dark eye, warlock, worlds without number

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #138

February 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week Cynthia Williams becomes the boss of D&D and Wizards of the Coast, Zine Month launches, and the One Ring RPG gets a release date.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, Arcadia, beowulf, Chaosium, chris shepperson, corefun, cortex, Cthulhu Mythos, cyberpunk red, Cynthia Williams, dead channel studios, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, en publishing, Free League Publishing, handiwork games, lion banner games, mindjammer, mindjammer press, mork borg, mothership, nerdburger games, owen k. c. stephens, pathfinder, philip reed, R. Talsorian Games, red giant, rookie jet studio, routinely itemised, solar echoes, tab creations, the gaia complex, The One Ring, the wildsea, World Anvil

Support small press RPG publishers with Indie Cornucopia 9 bundle

November 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a two-tier bundle that runs through to Monday, December 13th, and the DRM-free downloads are accessible from their own offer page.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, bundle, bundle of holding, electric bastionland, ironsworn, sales, the ultraviolet grasslands

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #126

November 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let’s get exploring this week’s RPG news and new shoes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, bloat games, Chaosium, cy_borg, dots rpg project, Dragon Warriors, Dungeons & Dragons, goodman games, legendlore, magpie games, onyx path publishing, open ended games, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, Steve Jackson Games, strixhaven, tab creations, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, Zadmar Games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #105

June 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

It’s the run-up to D&D Live 2021, and Wizards of the Coast find themselves in hot water. Renegade and Paradox have pushed turbo on Vampire: The Masquerade, and while Kickstarter activity is down in launches, it’s up in requests.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, against the darkmaster, arc, Arion Games, bloat games, bounty hunter, Brittannia Game Designs, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, dark places & demogorgons, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, electric bastionland, fallout, forgotten realms, Free League Publishing, guy sclanders, hasbro, HeroQuest, Infinity, Inkwell Ideas, inspirisles, joseph mccullough, Ken St Andre, lion banner games, momatoes, mork borg, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, Sentinel comics, sidequest, Steve Jackson Games, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, trollish delver games, twilight: 2000, Vampire: The Masquerade, vincent baker, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, worlds without number

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #94

April 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this week’s RPG news round-up, we have pre-orders on a giant dragon “mini”, the Fallout 2d20 RPG, a Scion RPG TV series and Free League Publishing converting Symbaroum to D&D’s 5e.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, bestiary, candlekeep mysteries, Chaosium, Chthonstone Games, coyote & crow, cubicle 7, dark sun, death on the reik, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, Dying Earth, Dyskami, fallout, Fire Ruby Designs, foundry, gama, goodman games, Interface Zero 2.0, Jack Vance, journey, Luke Crane, Modiphius Entertainment, mythic table, neverending, Nightfall Games, nor cal mythos, onyx path publishing, routinely itemised, scion, shadows in the mist, Symbaroum, terminator, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, troika, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, warlock, wizards of the coast, wizkids, Zadmar Games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #93

March 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this week’s RPG news round-up, we confirm Free RPG Day will happen, why the D&D TV show might be like First Blood and the character portrait generator site NeverEnding on adding prosthetic options to illustrations.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, agon, Auroborus: coils of the serpent, awfully queer heroes, candlekeep mysteries, Chaosium, derek kolstad, epic, fallout, free rpg day, GURPS, Hero Games, Hero Kids, Ill Gotten Games, Jim Pinto, Legendary Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, postworldgames, rangers of shadow deep, roll20, routinely itemised, runequest, Skirmisher Publishing, star trek adventures, Steve Jackson Games, the fantasy trip, warchief gaming, wizards of the coast, xploringmap

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #73

November 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news all summarised into handy bullet-point lists. That’s the name of the game in this Friday’s Routinely Itemised.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, agents of edgewatch, beadle & grimm's, bundle of holding, castles & crusades, Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, Ex Stasis Games, fallout: wasteland warfare, Fantasy Grounds, foundry, Free League Publishing, Hero Kids, jackals, kobold press, limitless adventures, lion banner games, midnight tower, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quest, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Skeletonkey games, spelljammer, tasha's cauldron of everything, the children of fear, The One Ring, tome of beasts, Troll Lord Games, warhammer age of sigmar, wizards of the coast

You are expected to die: An Against the Darkmaster review

November 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Against the Darkmaster is a whopping 550-paged RPG from Open Ended Games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, open ended games, reviews

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