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Free to Download: Arcana Familia, the TTRPG of esoteric sci-fi

February 6, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Agon’s (which stands for A Game of Nerds) has a free quickstarter for Aurora Torchia and Calesella Marco’s Arcana Familia Extended Edition.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, free to download

RPG creators launch a Trans Rights in Texas bundle: $5 for over $2,500 of content!

March 3, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The current goal is $5,000, which has been met. It’s easy to see why. Identity is worth fighting for, but the bundle costs only $5 and offers more than $2,500 worth of indie RPG content.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, bundles, charity, Evil Hat Productions, itch.io, john harper, powered by the apocalypse, Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #95

April 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In the latest routinely itemised RPG news round-up, we have the release of the Dune 2d20 RPG, Goodman Games buying Dark Tower and an impressive video platform for your tabletop gaming group.

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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.

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John Harper makes the Paragon system available for third-party commercial use

December 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The new rules for Paragon usage put Agon at the heart of the ecosystem as third-party games cannot quote from the book, only cite mechanics and references by page numbers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, john harper

Chamber: John Harper’s Paragon system gets a new RPG

December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The year is 1968. Two years ago, on January 7, 1966, an alien energy, now known as THE SIGNAL, reached the Earth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, john harper, sci-fi

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #67

September 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s bullet-point summary of RPG news. Catch-up on stories on the site, from around the web as well as new releases and gaming tips.

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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #36

February 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Another busy week in the world of RPGs as Fantasy Flight appears to be stepping away from the hobby and Kickstarter encourages dozens of new tabletop projects in just a few days.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, black void, bundle of holding, cortex prime, cyberpunk red, cypher system, drivethrurpg, Evil Hat Productions, fandom, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, humble bundle, ironsworn, kickstarter, lex arcana, modern age, Monte Cook Games, Mutants & Masterminds, nor cal mythos, Paizo Publishing, Palladium Books, Pelgrane Press, philip reed, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Shades of Vengeance, soulbound, swordsfall, the strange, the yellow king, Ulisses Spiele

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #15

September 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve made it to Friday again and earned a chance to lean back, take a deep breath and scroll through seven days of RPG industry news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, anvl, Arc Dream Publishing, astral tabletop, black void, Chaosium, cortex, cypher system, Delta Green, dndbeyond, drivethrurpg, Evil Hat Productions, fandom, fantasy flight games, genesys, Green Ronin Publishing, king arthur pendragon, Monte Cook Games, pathfinder, routinely itemised, threefold, Usagi Yojimbo

The Agon 2e RPG looks great as Evil Hat returns to Kickstarter

September 25, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Agon launched on Kickstarter, and it looks great. So let’s first check out the campaign and then come back to what Evil Hat has decided about the crowdfunding platform.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, Evil Hat Productions, john harper, kickstarters

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