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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, Abney Park's Airship Pirates, 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, lexoccultum, 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, scum and villainy, Shadowrun, shiver, Spirit Of The Century, star trek adventures, the sprawl, 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, Zweihander Starter Set

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, adventures in rokugan, Andrews McMeel, Arcadia, ashes of power, assault on the aerie, ballard of the longbow, beadle & grimm, blood and bramble, Chaosium, cloak & coin, coco publishing, cubicle 7, Dark Souls, darkenergy, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, Dynamite Entertainment, edge, enchiridion of the computarchs, ennead games, entanglement interactive, eskey, farwood publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, hostile rules, Hyperborea, into the dungeon, jackalope, kabouter games, kobold press, Krampus says Punching Nazis is a free action, last redoubt games, Legend of the Five Rings, lester smith games, level 1, lone wolf, machina and magic, magic dog games, map alchemists, marco bertini, moonmares games, North Wind Adventures, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, petersen games, radiationburn, red turban games, role, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, salvage union, she is the ancient, simulacrum, snowbright studios, soulbound: champions of destruction, star trek adventures, Steamforged Games, Steve Jackson Games, the book of nod, traveller, UltraPro, vaesen: mythic britain, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, warhammer, Wayfarers of the Farwood, 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, antre monde editions, Arc Dream Publishing, barrowmaze, blaster, Chaosium, children of the blood, cults of cthulhu, Cults of the Blood Gods, Delta Green, delta green: impossible landscapes, delta green: static protocol, Deviant: The Renegades, drivethrurpg, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, greg gillespie, halls of the blood king, joseph mccullough, knight, mothership, mothership: gradient descent, mummy: the curse, Necrotic Gnome, occam's razor, onyx path publishing, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, trails of ash and bone, 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, 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

Here’s what was announced at Roll20Con: Mobile app and new games

November 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The headline news from Roll20Con 2021 is the launch of the mobile app.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: adventures on a dime, Andrews McMeel, call of the netherdeep, Chaosium, coyote & crow, cyberpunk red, dimension 20, does love forgive, dungeons on a dime, exquisite crime, fallout, flames of freedom, hunters entertainment, jambo editora, Modiphius Entertainment, power rangers, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, strixhaven, the dark eye, the unsleeping city, tormenta, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, zweihander

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Grim & Perilous Studios

October 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adam rose, Andrews McMeel, daniel d. fox, grim & perilous studios, spotlight, zweihander

Joe Manganiello narrates Blackbirds RPG short audiobooks

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

On YouTube, Joe Manganiello of Deathstroke / Arkhan the Cruel / Alcide Herveaux fame has been helping promote the Kickstarter for the Blackbirds RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, audiobook, blackbirds, Joe Manganiello, zweihander

It’s horrible, it’s dark, and it looks good: Blackbirds RPG Powered by Zweihander launches on Kickstarter

September 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.

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

An interview with James Introcaso as MCDM’s Arcadia future is confirmed

August 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, Arcadia, cat evans, eternal night of lockwood, James Introcaso, leon barillaro, Matt Colville, mcdm, Mike Shea, sharang biswas, Willy Abeel, zweihander

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