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Itch discounts some great RPGs and twins with a bundle deal

December 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Itch has launched the Holiday Tabletop Selects Bundle and two things are going on as it over laps with a sale.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blackbirds, bundles, itch.io, sales

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #120

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re getting 50th-anniversary games, and that’s new paper to buy, but we’re not yet sure whether we will get more D&D 5.0, 5.5 or even 6.0.

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Joe Manganiello narrates Blackbirds RPG short audiobooks

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

On YouTube, Joe Manganiello of Deathstroke / Arkhan the Cruel / Alcide Herveaux fame has been helping promote the Kickstarter for the Blackbirds RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, audiobook, blackbirds, Joe Manganiello, zweihander

It’s horrible, it’s dark, and it looks good: Blackbirds RPG Powered by Zweihander launches on Kickstarter

September 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the game, Blackbirds are characters who are tethered to destiny’s frayed threads and have a greater role in the world. Without the Norns, this fate is malleable but still there.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, blackbirds, daniel d. fox, kickstarters, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #86

February 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly RPG news round-up and this week Kickstarter’s Zine Quest is a vast shape on the radar.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, age of sigmar, awfully queer heroes, blackbirds, bloat games, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Chaosium, cubicle 7, deadlands, Delta Green, dnd beyond, dragon age, fandom tabletop, fantasy age, gen con, Green Ronin Publishing, guy sclanders, headless hydra press, idyll creations, jackals, magpie games, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, nightpath publishing, orion d. black, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pew pew, philip reed, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quest, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, sara thompson, Skirmisher Publishing, star trek adventures, starfinder, summon skate, tales of xadia, The Design Mechanism, the dragon prince, the expanse rpg, the last airbender

The dark fantasy of Blackbirds RPGs reveals horrific monsters

February 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To sever this golden cord is to plunge all of creation into chaos, a world without gods or their justice, where rebirth is the only possible salvation, and to be reborn, one must die.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blackbirds, monsters, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #77

December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised takes a look back at the RPG news with the Origins Award restructuring after an RPG boom, D&D Beyond’s top 10 sellers and plenty of new game announcements.

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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #76

November 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the RPG news this week we’ve big news from Pinnacle and Savage Worlds, we discover which project Wizards of the Coast are working on for D&D that will take years and a look at the latest reviews, releases and interviews.

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Blackbirds RPG gets an endorsement from Joe Manganiello

November 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The world hangs by a thread of Fate.
To sever this golden cord is to plunge all of creation into chaos, a world without gods or their justice, where rebirth is the only possible salvation, and to be reborn,
one must die.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, blackbirds, Joe Manganiello, zweihander

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