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The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg: Rediscovered 2nd oldest RPG dungeon with free samples

October 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Greg Svenson was given a play-test copy of D&D in the summer of 1973, while Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax laboured to finish the manuscript.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blackmoor, Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #114

August 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news in the week that Chaosium’s Steve Perrin passed away and Geek Native moved HQ.

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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #110

July 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s the latest from D&D, Cyberpunk Red, 13th Age, Call of Cthulhu, Critical Role and even of Chainmail, the game that became D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Battlefield Press, beadle & grimm, blackmoor, Call of Cthulhu, carbon grey, castles & crusades, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, city of mist, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, doctor who, Evil Hat Productions, fading suns, FATE, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, grant howitt, handiwork games, hearts of wulin, Honey Heist, injuries & vile deeds, m20 technocracy reloaded, magnetic press play, Matt Colville, mcdm, Necromancer Games, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, roll20, routinely itemised, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, sdcc, sigil & shadow, soulbound, starfinder, strixhaven, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, the green knight, the oracle, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Troll Lord Games, Ulisses Spiele, Victoriana, west end games, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Blackmoor: The world’s first D&D campaign setting is DriveThruRPG’s deal of the day

July 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Over 30 years ago, Dave Arneson created the world that spawned a generation of role playing fans! This core campaign setting is 240 pages and features a full color pull out map of Blackmoor!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blackmoor, cartography, Dave Arneson, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, sales

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #11

August 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Critical YAS! It’s coming up to the weekend, and this means here on Geek Native I spend some time summing up recent RPG news for you.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astral tabletop, blackmoor, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, eBay, funko, Jim Zub, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, Punkapocalyptic, raging swan press, Robert J. Schwalb, routinely itemised, runequest, Shadowrun, swordsfall, warhammer

What was the first RPG?

August 29, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail. Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, blackmoor, Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, Tekumel, TSR, tunnels & trolls

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