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Awfully Cheerful Engine: Action-Comedy TTRPG bundle

May 22, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

EN Publishing, EN World’s tabletop arm, have a standalone TTRPG called Awfully Cheerful Engine. The action-comedy game is written by Russ Morrissey.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, bundle of holding, bundles, en publishing, Russ Morrissey

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #133

December 31, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the end of the week, the month and the year. It is, therefore, time for one last look back at the RPG news from 2021 with Geek Native’s Routinely Itemised: RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, brindlewood bay, cluedo, demiplane, Dragonlance, Dream Realm Storytellers, en publishing, everway, gallant knight games, gallantfunding, jasper's game day, kult: divinty lost, level up, lumpley games, Meguey Baker, Paizo Publishing, root, routinely itemised, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, The One Ring, the witcher

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #111

July 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s mixed news with $30,000 injected into the hobby but sadness as Brian Fitzpatrick passes away.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, a couple of drakes, awfully cheerful engine, beadle & grimm's, bounty hunter, carbon grey, Chaosium, Charles Ryan, cortex prime, Cthulhu Mythos, cubicle 7, dms guild, doctor who, dscryb, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Fire Ruby Designs, forbidden lands, gama, gm screens, legends of avallen, Loke BattleMats, lovecraft, magnetic press play, Massif Press, Monte Cook Games, Numenera, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, sigil & shadow, Sneak Attack Press, soulmuppet, sr 16, starfinder, stargate, Steve Jackson Games, tales of xadia, the lost citadel, third eye games, trinity continuum, tsr games, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, warhammer, warlord games, west end games, wizards of the coast

ACE! The Awfully Cheerful Engine is a loving parody of 80s games

May 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Think of ACE! as an irreverent, fun-packed movie. You might play as ghost hunters in New York City, a band of plucky galactic guardians, vampire slayers, or soldiers of fortune in the Los Angeles underground.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, Ghostbusters, kickstarters, marc langworthy, Russ Morrissey

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, alien rpg, astate, awfully cheerful engine, battletech, brindlewood bay, candlekeep mysteries, carovea victor, chamomile has adventures, cubicle 7, Defiant Awakening, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy age, Flash Gordon, Free League Publishing, gama, game machinery, gen con, ghostfire gaming, goodman games, GURPS, handiwork games, hasbro, jackals, Jim Pinto, jonathan hicks, lion banner games, lord of the rings, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, My Little Pony, neverending, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, postworldgames, red scar publishing, river horse, roleplay elixir, routinely itemised, Russ Morrissey, savage worlds, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound starter set, spelljammer, starfinder, the yellow king, those dark places, Troll Lord Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, voxstory, wanderhome, will power games, wizards of the coast, xploringmap

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #100

May 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In a big release, Demiplane the gamer-find-game site, made profiles optionally public.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: April Kit Walsh, Atlas Games, awfully cheerful engine, Chaosium, cyberpunk red, demiplane, Dungeons & Dragons, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, evil beagle games, Evil Hat Productions, flyos games, Genesis of Legend Publishing, ghosts of saltmarsh, GURPS, ICONS, Infinity, inspirisles, lion banner games, Modiphius Entertainment, moonmares games, Prowlers & Paragons, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Skirmisher Publishing, talisman, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Tricube Tales, Vampire: The Masquerade, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, wizards of the coast, wizkids, Zadmar Games

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

RPG Publisher Spotlight: EN Publishing

February 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

EN Publishing is the tabletop force behind Judge Dredd & The World of 2000 AD, the game system What’s OLD is NEW (WOIN), lots of 5e goodies and, as we find out in this spotlight, with plans for plenty more.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, en publishing, judge dredd & the worlds of 2000 AD, level up, Russ Morrissey, spotlight

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #75

November 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the RPG news this week we’ve a review roundup of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, a legal fight between Wizards of the Coast and a partner, Kickstarter projects to look at a website from Google that makes monsters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Absolute Tabletop, alice is missing, astral tabletop, awfully cheerful engine, Battlefield Press, blue rose, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, gale force nine, gallant knight games, grant howitt, Indie Press Revolution, itch.io, Keith Baker, liminal, magpie games, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mythic table, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Palladium Books, Paradox Interactive, parts per million, Porcupine Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, Steve Jackson Games, Symbaroum, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, the children of fear, the fantasy trip, the grinning frog, the oracle, the wildsea, those dark places, traveller, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, world of darkness

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #70

October 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest stats from Roll20, free RPG downloads, new releases, a host of reviews and a bunch of RPG news all presented at bullet point speed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, Atlas Games, awfully cheerful engine, black void, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, castles & crusades, Chaosium, Coriolis, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Delta Green, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout: wasteland warfare, feng shui, flames of freedom, Free League Publishing, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, Greg Stafford, hammerdog games, Into the Mother Lands, JVC Parry, kobold press, Larian Studios, Modiphius Entertainment, neon city overdrive, ontabletop, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, peril planet, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, roll20con, routinely itemised, soulbound, starfinder, steve jackson, Tekumel, the children of fear, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, tome of beasts, troika, warhammer, wizards of the coast, Wolfgang Baur, World Anvil, Zadmar Games

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