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Aquelarre Reports

Maintaining an independent and critical perspective, Geek Native has provided original reporting on Aquelarre for more than 6 years. This curated resource organises 7 articles, anchoring current news within a long-term historical context. This resource evaluates first-hand data from official industry announcements and crowdfunding mechanics.

Celebrate Chaosium turning 50 this year!

February 26, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chaosium is a heroic stalwart of the tabletop games industry known for Call of Cthulhu, Basic Role-Playing, Pendragon and other games. This year, the company, founded by Greg Stafford, turns 50.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, Rivers of London, runequest, Sandy Petersen

Intrigued by dark fantasy? Discover the acclaimed Aquelarre RPG (but do it quickly)

October 3, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ibáñez sought to create a unique dark fantasy experience, distinct from traditional tropes. He envisioned a world grounded in historical realism, where legends and folklore were tangible realities.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, bundle of holding, bundles

The best selling historical RPGs of 2020

December 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As the year comes to a close, DriveThruRPG and Geek Native have been looking back at RPGs published this year and which sold well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, brindlewood bay, Chaosium, deadlands, drivethrurpg, Free League Publishing, lex arcana, Nocturnal Media, onyx path publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quality games, sine nomine publishing, stats, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, vaesen

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #50

May 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Routinely Itemised this week we catch up with PaizoCon Online, find out what the D&D movie has in store and ear about “choose your own adventure” audiobooks!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, castle falkenstein, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Eberron, foundry, Free League Publishing, free rpg day, Gary Gygax, Green Ronin Publishing, grimmerspace, Keith Baker, kobold press, luke gygax, Mutants & Masterminds, mythic odysseys of theros, obsidian portal, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, soulmuppet, starfinder, studio agate, threefold

Chaosium promotes occult Aquelarre RPG

May 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Aquelarre is about white and black magic in a realistically historical and dark medieval Iberian peninsula.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, Chaosium, free to download, Nocturnal Media

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #35

February 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy RPG news summary this week as publishers battle racists, Kickstarter encourages dozens of RPG zine campaigns and the superhero BAMFSIES winners are announced.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, Arc Dream Publishing, cubicle 7, dc heroes, Dream Realm Storytellers, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, free league workshop, Freyja's Tears, Green Ronin Publishing, hunters entertainment, judges guild, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, q-workshop, Renegade Game Studios, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, Russ Morrissey, sigil entertainment group, svilland, wardlings, wyrd miniatures

Five years later: The dark and mature Aquelarre RPG finally reaches retail

February 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Aquelarre has been described as the best RPG not available in English.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, Aquelarre, Nocturnal Media, Steve Wieck, Stewart Wieck

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