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The Curse of Monte Cristo review: A bold and bloody rebirth of a classic

July 23, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How do you breathe new life into one of literature’s most enduring tales of vengeance?

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, reviews

Zweihander changes hands again as Daniel D. Fox buys his game back from World of Game Design

October 25, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

SLLSWRD Publishing, which is led by Daniel D. Fox, has bought the Zweihander back

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, daniel d. fox, zweihander

ZWEIHÄNDER Reforged: World of Game Design acquires Zweihander

November 14, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

World of Game Design, the new owners, will release ZWEIHÄNDER Reforged, the next edition of the game, next year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, daniel d. fox, zweihander

Amazon: There’s a Wizards of the Coast co-published D&D Monster 2024 calendar

June 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Showing a different monster every weekday and combined on weekends on tear-off sheets, the calendar is 5.25″ by 4.375″ with an easel back so the calendar can sit on a table or desktop.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, calendars, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Retreating RPG publisher Andrews McMeel dumps Dilbert author after racist rant

February 27, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Recent comments by Scott Adams regarding race and race relations do not align with our core values as a company.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Andrews McMeel

Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)

April 3, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

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?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, alien rpg, Andrews McMeel, apocalypse world, brutal games, Call of Cthulhu, Champions, Chaosium, chill, corporation, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, deadlands, degenesis, dread, Dungeon World, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, edge, everway, Evil Hat Productions, feng shui, Free League Publishing, Gamma World, genre police, Green Ronin Publishing, lancer, Legend of the Five Rings, magpie games, masks, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mutant: year zero, Mutants & Masterminds, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, parable games, paranoia, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, pugmire, R. Talsorian Games, runequest, Shadowrun, shiver, star trek adventures, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, traveller, troika, twilight: 2000, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Wild Talents, zweihander

Horror fantasy RPG: Zweihander Starter Set hits target in hours

February 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Accompanying the news is a free to download 68-page Zweihander: Session Zero supplement.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, daniel d. fox, free to download, kickstarters, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #132

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

A summary of RPGs news from the week with freebies from WotC and others, indie news, tips and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Andrews McMeel, Arcadia, beadle & grimm's, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Dark Souls, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, Dynamite Entertainment, edge, Green Ronin Publishing, kobold press, Legend of the Five Rings, lone wolf, moonmares games, North Wind Adventures, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, petersen games, role, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, salvage union, snowbright studios, star trek adventures, Steamforged Games, Steve Jackson Games, traveller, UltraPro, vaesen: mythic britain, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, warhammer, weird frontiers, Wyrmworks Publishing, Zozer Games

The best selling horror RPGs of 2021

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Horror is more straightforward of an RPG genre to assign to games; if the designer says, “this is supposed to be horror, ” it’s horror with less debate.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, Arc Dream Publishing, Chaosium, Cults of the Blood Gods, Delta Green, drivethrurpg, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, greg gillespie, joseph mccullough, mothership, Necrotic Gnome, onyx path publishing, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, Tuesday Knight Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, wyrd miniatures

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, brancalonia, drivethrurpg, edge, fantasy age, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hearts of wulin, jackals, Legend of the Five Rings, Modiphius Entertainment, osprey games, stats, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Design Mechanism, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, wyrd miniatures

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