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UK Games Expo preview: Life after death/Apotheosis Studios as Storyteller’s Forge takes The Black Ballad to Birmingham

May 22, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Indie RPG design studio Storytellers Forge is coming to the UK Games Expo and bringing 5e settings Festival of the Forgotten: Revelations of the Dark Carnival and The Black Ballad.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, the red opera, uk games expo

Apotheosis Studios will complete Sirens: Battle of the Bards but don’t address many concerns

August 23, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In June, Jamison Stone (temporarily) quit as CEO of Apotheosis Studios after a storm of concern.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, sirens: battle of the bards

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #160

July 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news round-up and a one-stop-ship of RPG new releases, reviews, interviews, and tips from around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, broken tales, Dark Souls, dice, Dungeons & Dragons, jamison stone, routinely itemised, Steamforged Games, the world anvil publishing

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #157

June 17, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let’s make progress and dive into the RPG news summary of summaries!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, backerkit, jamison stone, Paizo Publishing, philip reed, routinely itemised, Satine Phoenix, star trek adventures, starfinder

Jamison Stone quits as CEO with Apotheosis Studios’ future in doubt

June 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Satine Phoenix and her husband Jamison Stone find themselves and Apotheosis Studios in the centre of a community outcry this weekend.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, jamison stone, Satine Phoenix, sirens: battle of the bards

D&D’s 5e-powered The Red Opera, Book of Lost Spells, Tokens of Horror and others combine for a £330 Humble Bundle

September 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rarely, a physical supplement – Book of Lost Spells – is available, but shipping and associated costs are added later.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, bundles, frog god games, humble bundle, nord games, the red opera, World Anvil

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #99

May 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Roll20 price increase, D&D movie starts to film, and a US court throws out a legal case against Gen Con. It’s been a week of RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, awfully cheerful engine, broken tales, convergence, Craig Campbell, Creature Curation, cubicle 7, d&d live, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Fire Ruby Designs, handimonsters, hasbro, inspirisles, Jonathan Goldstein, laidback dungeon master, Legendary Games, limitless adventures, nerdburger games, onebookshelf, pathfinder, Ptolus, roll20, routinely itemised, soulbound, soulbound starter set, Symbaroum, uk games expo, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, wet ink games, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, XII: Inner Demons

Apotheosis Studio’s Sirens: Battle of the Bards sings on Kickstarter

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sirens: Battle of Bards has a Project We Love tag from Kickstarter, is endorsed by Luke Gygax, the first celeb guest writer announced was none other than the fantastic Deborah Ann Woll, and they’ve more partners in place than a Gen Con hall.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, Dungeons & Dragons, jamison stone, kickstarters, Satine Phoenix, sirens: battle of the bards

The Red Opera: An epic D&D campaign and setting accompanied by a full Symphonic Orchestra

September 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Red Opera creates a setting of its own called the Shadelands. This means you can take any group of heroes playing D&D 5e, give them access to the Shadelands and get them involved in the events of the campaign.

Filed Under: Music, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, the red opera

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #56

July 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The heated conversations in the RPG community continue as the hobby space looks at ways to encourage diversity and deal with 40 years of history that don’t always get everything right.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, Amanda Hamon, apotheosis studios, Chaosium, critical role, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Green Ronin Publishing, gumshoe, ico partners, iron kingdoms, Jim Pinto, kids on brooms, kobold press, mythic odysseys of theros, Necromancer Games, orion d. black, Pelgrane Press, Privateer Press, routinely itemised, sara thompson, Shadowrun, the red opera, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, vault comics, warhammer, wizards of the coast

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