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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #107

July 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary column, and this week we look at TSR Games (3) threatening OSR communities, new RPGs hitting digital and physical shelves, RPG reviews and discoveries.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcadia, black void, blood sword, brw games, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark alliance, dark sun, defiant, dms guild, dungeon crawl classics, Dying Earth, en publishing, Fantasy Grounds, gama, GURPS, hard wired island, indie groundbreaker awards, iron studios, izegrim creations, Loke BattleMats, Metal Weave Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, parable games, Pelgrane Press, peter rudin-burgess, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, Sanguine Productions, Shane Ivey, shiver, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound, soulbound starter set, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, Synthicide, the dee sanction, the fantasy trip, the yellow king, Tiamat, tsr games, Usagi Yojimbo, vaesen, wanderhome, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, wizkids

Grimdark for 5e: The talented illustrators of impressive Blood Sword art gallery

June 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blood Sword is a 5e campaign setting that’s funded on Kickstarter and will close in days. Blood Sword was also a grimdark choose-your-own-adventure gamebook from the 80s, and that’s what the 5e setting is based on.

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blood sword

Blood Sword brings 80s grimdark to Dungeons & Dragons

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Blood Sword 5e Handbook will contain approximately 250 richly illustrated and colored pages with maps, characters, opponents, monsters and other evocative images of Legend, a land of adventurers threatened by unspeakable horrors.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blood sword, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #103

June 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It feels like a spicy week, with plenty of news and a noticeable uptick in Kickstarter activity. Oh, and the powerhouse Marvel returning to roleplaying games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, action fiction, adam bradford, age of sigmar, angry hamster publishing, Battlefield Press, beowulf, blood sword, carovea victor, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, czrpg, demiplane, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Gamma World, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, Ill Gotten Games, itch.io, jackals, Knight Errant Media, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, mazes, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, osprey games, Owen Stephens, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Ptolus, R. Talsorian Games, Ravenloft, red scar publishing, rogue genius games, roll20, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound starter set, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, the expanse rpg, the oracle, titan effect, traveller, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, venger's decks, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

Free to Download: Blood Sword 5e quickstart

May 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blood Sword is the sword of life, the only weapon capable of opposing the power of the evil Wizards of Krarth who threaten the Lands of Legend.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blood sword, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download

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