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RPG Publisher Spotlight: Handiwork Games

December 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re a small band of creators based around the world, but mostly in Scotland, UK. We have team members in England, The US, and New Zealand. 

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, beowulf, handimonsters, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland, spotlight, The One Ring

Dystopian sci-fi RPG a|state 2e funds in about an hour with a limited edition

July 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Factory workers crowd sweating into cable cars, hoping their pay will last the week. Aerodynes roar above them, bearing the rich to luminous towers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, handiwork games, kickstarters, sci-fi

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #109

July 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The latest shipping delays at Wizards of the Coast even as we learn more about Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons and the return of gem dragons to the game, a fantastic charity bundle deal, Fragged Empire and Osprey’s Sigil & Shadow.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a verdant tomb, Accessible Games, ambition & avarice, animal adventures, applewhite games, applied vectors, arcknight, arcology world, astate, avatar legends, basilisk online, bridgetown, bundle of holding, canister of holding, chambers of the serpent folk, charity, chromatic dungeons, chubby funster, clink, clockwork arcana, cloudsea, creature feature quarterly, crowns fantasy adventure, cubicle 7, D101 Games, despair on danger island, Diana Jones Award, dms guild, doctor who, dread metrol, Dream Realm Storytellers, duckquest, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, fabled adventures extraordinaire games, fasa, Fire Ruby Designs, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, flames of freedom, fragged empire, Free League Publishing, Freyja's Tears, frontier gaming, gaxx worx, ghostfire gaming, gildor games, Greg Stolze, grim hollow, guilds of eragarth, helveczia, highcaster, infinium game studios, into the mists, Iron Crown Enterprises, jackals, jailbreak, James Wyatt, jp chapleau, just crunch games, Keith Baker, ken wickham, larry elmore, legend of barasiave, Loke BattleMats, lost fantasy, lowlife 2090, luke gygax, mag of holding, magpie games, malcolm craig, malevolence, medusa and the cursed forest, midlam miniatures, mork borg, neverending, olympia, once bitten, once bitten twiceborn, onebookshelf, OpenQuest, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Palladium Books, pelinore, planetfall, R. Talsorian Games, rod wiebel, rogue trooper, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, savage pathfinder, sigil & shadow, Sovereign Stone, starfinder, starfinder galaxy exploration manual, stargazer's guide to aroria, Steamforged Games, Symbaroum, tales from the loop, technical grimoire games, the book of gaub, the dee sanction, the eye of chentoufi, the fall of the children of bronze, the toxic seas, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, tour of nu-earth 1, tsr games, uk games expo, Vampire: The Masquerade, Victoriana, Wade Dyer, what waits beneath, wizardman: queer and chaos, wizards of the coast, wonderfiled

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #108

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games are gone, conventions are here, but without masks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aberrant, arx obskura, astate, biscuit fund games, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, caledonia miniatures, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, city of mist, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darkraven games, dms guild, earth rain, fairies in mechs, Fantasy Grounds, fate of cthulhu, fate of dungeons, flames of freedom, free league workshop, gen con, goblin country, grim & perilous studios, Gun Metal Games, handiwork games, infinite black, izegrim creations, kobold press, laidback dungeon master, lone wolf, lost omens mwangi expanse, lumen, micro rpg, neverending, neverland, onyx path publishing, orphaned bookworm productions, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, queerz, R. Talsorian Games, rogue games, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, shadows & showdowns, solarian games, Son of Oak Game Studio, splintered realms publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, storytellers vault, super solo, Swords & Wizardry, teratology, thunderegg productions, titanomachy, trinity continuum, trollish delver games, tsr games, uk games expo, vast grimm, wheels within wheels, wizards of the coast, wonderfiled, World of Wyldrvir, zan's adventures

Exclusive: a|state 2e cover reveal and sign-up launch

July 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

a|state is a world of both beautiful and baroque, a sprawling urban nightmare, with the second edition based on Forged in the Dark.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, forged in the dark, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, malcolm craig

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #101

May 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy week, so sit back and treat yourself to a scroll through the headlines; sales, reviews, interviews and stats from the RPG-scene.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, adventure presents, alien rpg, astate, awfully cheerful engine, battletech, blood of the brood mother, brindlewood bay, candlekeep mysteries, carovea victor, chamomile has adventures, cubicle 7, death divers, Defiant Awakening, devil's run, Dungeons & Dragons, evil pigeon games, fantasy age, Flash Gordon, Free League Publishing, frontier gaming, galder's gazetteer, gama, game machinery, gen con, ghostfire gaming, good guys finish last, goodman games, GURPS, handiwork games, hasbro, ideal hands, incubus miniatures, j. walton, jackals, Jim Pinto, jonathan hicks, knight of the sun, life after dungeons, lion banner games, lord of the rings, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, muscle wizard gets the job done, My Little Pony, neverending, nightmares, old gator games, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, playing dead, postworldgames, red isle productions, red scar publishing, red sky, river horse, roleplay elixir, rose gauntlet entertainment, routinely itemised, Russ Morrissey, savage worlds, Skirmisher Publishing, solar studios, soulbound starter set, Space Opera, spelljammer, starfinder, tacitus publishing, tales of equestria, tartarus gate, the fall of the children of bronze, the other tracy, the story engine, the yellow king, those dark places, tim flowers, trojan wars, Troll Lord Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, voxstory, walk away from the future, wanderhome, warpland, where the machines wait, will power games, wizards of the coast, xploringmap, zipperon games, zomicide chronicles

Handiwork offers a sneak peek at the A|State 2e layout

December 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A|State is a chilling dystopian sci-fi RPG set in a city you can never leave.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, forged in the dark, handiwork games, Paul Bourne

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #72

October 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly roundup of RPG news from Wizards of the Coast, Chaosium, Cubicle 7, R. Talsorian Games, PEG, Paizo and the industry.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, astral tabletop, Atlas Games, battletech, beadle & grimm, beasts & behemoths, beasts of flesh and steel, bloat games, byte, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Claim the Sky, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, cypher system, darrington press, dead reign, deepdark designs, Delta Green, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, entromancy, era: forbidden, fandom, Fantasy Grounds, fateful night, Fire Ruby Designs, First Responders, forsaken system player's guide, frostlands of fenrilik, handiwork games, hasbro, heavenscape, Hell Rides to Hallt, Helmgast, heroes' feast, Horror in the Windy City, humble bundle, Indie Press Revolution, invisible sun, invisible sun black box, jim likes games, John Carter of Mars, kobold press, kult: divinty lost, let the streets run red, luka rejec, magpie games, Mark Diaz Truman, mindjammer press, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, nightpath publishing, Ogre, old bones, oni-lion forge, onyx path publishing, over arms, Pacesetter Games and Simulations, Palladium Books, parallel publishing, pathfinder, pegasus studio, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Putrescence Regnant, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, rp haven, s5s, Saturday Morning Scenarios, savage worlds, Scarred Lands, scion, Steve Jackson Games, tales from vigilante city, talisman, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, the bone age, The Esoterrorists, the fantasy trip, the goon, the great american witch, the haunting of creedmore asylum, the lost triptych, the yellow king, titanomachy, urban shadows, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warchief gaming, warhammer, warlock, wet ink games, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory, yarps

a|state 2’s Nicely, Done primer heads to print

October 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nicely, Done is a mission in Mire End in which characters investigate reports of child slavery and is intended to introduce the setting

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, forged in the dark, Jon Hodgson, previews

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #71

October 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news summary, complete with a roundup of new releases, freebies, interviews and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, a wicked secret, adventure system, Arion Games, astate, awakening dream, beadle & grimm, black cat gaming, Bruce Cordell, bundle of holding, call to arms, Chaosium, Corpus Malicious, cortex prime, critical role, crystal of storms, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dnd beyond, draco studios, Dragonlance, Dream Realm Storytellers, Elder Scrolls, en publishing, fat dragon games, fateful night, feretory, Free League Publishing, gama, gamepla, gods of the fall, grand times games, halloween, handiwork games, Hell Rides to Hallt, heroes' feast, idyll creations, imaginarium games, Inkwell Ideas, king arthur pendragon, kobold press, Loke BattleMats, lynne hardy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, MT Black, murder publishing, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder advanced player's guide, perilous, portents, R. Talsorian Games, rhianna pratchett, Rivers of London, roll20con, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadow of the Demon Lord, soulbound, stargrave, terminator, the excellents, the grinning frog, the secret files of section d, the spy game, the wildsea, The World of Critical Role, vaesen, warhammer, wizards of the coast

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