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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #144

March 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news is routinely itemised in this weekly bullet point collection, complete with illustrations, graphs and a hidden adventure game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blue planet, Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk, Deborah Ann Woll, dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, fragged empire, g.i. joe, goodman games, handiwork games, James Introcaso, legends of avallen, long tail games, loresmyth, nerdburger games, onebookshelf, onyx path publishing, pathfinder, philip reed, power rangers, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Shadowrun, strixhaven, the sixth gun, traveller, Vampire: The Masquerade, vincent baker, wizards of the coast

Biohazard Games: Blue Planet RPG returns in a bundle deal

March 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is hard sci-fi. The science of this tabletop game tries to be as real as possible. It’s also the first and second edition of a series that has a new generation on the way, following a successful Kickstarter last year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Biohazard games, blue planet, bundle of holding, bundles

Biohazard Games: Jeff Barber on using RPGs as a lens for modern concerns

April 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blue Planet was often criticized for having an environmental agenda, and though I always felt that was only one aspect of setting, we are certainly leaning into that intent now as the threats to the Earth’s ecology have become existential.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Biohazard games, blue planet, rpg tips

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #96

April 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast are taking back control of D&D in some countries after settling a legal row. Luke Crane’s The Burning Wheel is Roll20’s quickest growing system, and the inhospitable setting round table is coming. It’s an RPG news summary from Geek Native.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0one Games, alan bahr, amazing heroes, astral tabletop, Auroborus: coils of the serpent, blue planet, Call of Cthulhu, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, cubicle 7, deadlands, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout, foundry, humblewood, Jeff Grubb, level up, Luke Crane, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mystara, Numenera, one more multiverse, osprey games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, ravenloft: mist hunters, roll20, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, soulbound, studio agate, those dark places, Ulisses Spiele, warchief gaming, warlock, wizards of the coast

Round Table discussion: RPGs with inhospitable settings

April 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you thought about setting an RPG in an inhospitable such as a frozen world, dark planet or even in the ocean?

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Biohazard games, blue planet, discord, fading embers, geek native, nor cal mythos, valiant fox gaming

Blue Planet 3e is an RPG set in humanity’s precarious future

April 6, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Biohazard Games with Gallant Knight have taken the third edition of the acclaimed hard science Blue Planet RPG to Kickstarter, where it is on track to fund in hours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Biohazard games, blue planet, gallant knight games, kickstarters, sci-fi

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