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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #33

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summary with another D&D leak, free downloads and Matthew Mercer’s 2020 update to the Blood Hunter 5e class.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2000 AD, baldur's gate, board games, Call of Cthulhu, castle falkenstein, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, conan the barbarian, Coriolis, critical role, cubicle 7, deadlands, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, Jim Zub, laidback dungeon master, Matthew Mercer, Mike Myler, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, Shades of Vengeance, soulbound, starfinder, Strontium Dog, Symbaroum, The One Ring, traveller, Vampire: The Masquerade

Roll20 reveal their Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

September 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Popular virtual tabletop Roll20 has revealed how the forthcoming Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus looks on their platform.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: baldur's gate, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, roll20, virtual tabletop

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #12

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let us retreat from the bitter winds of the outside place and concentrate on some decidedly warmer and in-door activities; tabletop roleplaying.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, baldur's gate, Catalyst Game Labs, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, ed greenwood, fantasy age, far away land rpg, Fat Goblin Games, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, Jack Norris, Mystical Throne Entertainment, Origins Award, Owen Stephens, Philip J Reed, Polyhedra Games, Rick Loomis, Rising from the last war, routinely itemised, Shadowrun, Simian Circle Games, wizards of the coast

A look inside Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Photographs of an early copy of Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus shared on Twitter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: baldur's gate, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, previews

Warriors of Sehanine and other ways to introduce your players to Baldur’s Gate

July 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Baldur’s Gate is a city in Faerun from the D&D setting of the Forgotten Realms. It’s an influential metropolis, a city-state on the Sword Coast and it is about to come into sharp focus.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ashley Warren Writes, baldur's gate, Descent into Avernus, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, JVC Parry, rpg ideas

Watch as D&D’s Chris Perkins decides to add this ugly cute creature to the game

June 26, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Perkins was supposed to be talking about Abyssal Chickens but got distracted…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: baldur's gate, Chris Perkins, Descent into Avernus, dnd beyond, monsters, todd kenreck

Wizards of the Coast deny reports they’ll be changing D&D’s Ranger class

June 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Bjorn and Huntress

Yesterday, in an article about the forthcoming Baldur’s Gate 3 computer game and an interview with D&D boss Mike Mearls, Kotaku concluded the core class would see some changes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: baldur's gate, baldur's gate III, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Baldur’s Gate 3 revealed, and it feels all very Cthulhuesq

June 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The flickering lightning and the dangerous skies over Baldur’s Gate feel truly Dungeons & Dragons and yet, also, Cthulhuesq.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: baldur's gate, baldur's gate III, cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, Larian Studios, stadia

Dungeons & Dragons did you know: Avernus is a real place

June 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a volcanic crater in Italy and is believed to be the entrance to the Underworld.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: baldur's gate, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, history

Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus accessories now appearing on Amazon

May 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The box itself acts as a dice tray, so Wizards have lined it with felt and thought carefully about the size of it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: baldur's gate, Descent into Avernus, dice, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

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