Here’s what was announced at Roll20Con: Mobile app and new games
The headline news from Roll20Con 2021 is the launch of the mobile app.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Grim & Perilous Studios
Grim & Perilous Studios are a group of independent contractors who collaborate on creating, reviewing, and playing games for ourselves, as well as other companies on a for-hire basis.
Joe Manganiello narrates Blackbirds RPG short audiobooks
On YouTube, Joe Manganiello of Deathstroke / Arkhan the Cruel / Alcide Herveaux fame has been helping promote the Kickstarter for the Blackbirds RPG.
It’s horrible, it’s dark, and it looks good: Blackbirds RPG Powered by Zweihander launches on Kickstarter
In the game, Blackbirds are characters who are tethered to destiny's frayed threads and have a greater role in the world. Without the Norns, this fate is malleable but still there.
An interview with James Introcaso as MCDM’s Arcadia future is confirmed
When Matt Colville announced that MCDM would start a magazine, he was very clear about the commercial requirements. Arcadia would need to be a success, and the first few issues would be a test.
Horror and conspiracy in 18th century America: A review of Flames of Freedom
Below that surface war, though, there is another, and it is even darker. The supernatural is real, dangerous, and actively out to destroy or corrupt humanity.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #106
A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games have TSR Games over a barrel.
Things Heroes Say is an artbook for tabletop RPG fans
Dead or alive, that thing is going in my lunch-pack.
Basic World Building: OSE and Neverland
Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981's Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and re-imagined in Old-School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting.
The best selling family RPGs of 2020
Family, rightly or wrongly, tends to be a shorthand for "appropriate for kids but interesting to adults too".
