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RPG Publisher Spotlight: Sketchy Van RPG

November 24, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve been able to line up none other than ‘Space Wizard at Sketchy Van’, Andrew Duvall, for an interview.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cairn, cartography, exalted funeral, Into The Odd, pirate borg, spotlight

Cairn 2e funds; Cairn 1e is free to download

April 3, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Cairn is a rules-light tabletop RPG with a good reputation. The second edition in boxed set form is smashing it on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cairn, Into The Odd, kickstarter

Beyond the Pale: A horror RPG inspired by Jewish folklore and mysticism

December 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The action is first set in a village called Kest, also based on a real place, and the characters will meet dodgy politicians, scholars, trickers, witches and then creepier encounters once they move out into the dark forests.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cairn, horror, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #213

July 15, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s RPG news round-up with summaries from the blog, elsewhere on the web and blended with RPG news, deals, coupons and offers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cairn, critical role, defiant, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout, game machinery, magpie games, mirrorscape, Paizo Publishing, routinely itemised

Worldlings: Jim Hall’s bestiary and generator of tiny gods

August 15, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Hidden in the mists of the Wilderwoods, just past the outskirts of the village, in the cracks and hollows, small souls lead profoundly simple lives, linked to the world by delicate threads of magic and happenstance.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cairn, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, zinequest

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #130

December 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Drama again this week with attack lawyers dispatched against Wizards of the Coast, hassles over Kickstarters at Dragonmeet and confusion and concern over the direction Kickstarter itself might be taking.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, Ad Infinitum Adventures, bandit camp, Brittannia Game Designs, broken shield, cairn, carbon 2185, Chaosium, Chivalry & Sorcery, coyote & crow, Dishonored, dragon turtle games, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, fairy trails, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, forged in the dark, Gunnar Roxen, Hymgho, Inkwell Ideas, ironsworn, Keith Baker, kickstarter, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, shannon appelcline, Steve Kenson, strixhaven, swords of the serpentine, the dee sanction, traveller, Troll Lord Games, TSR, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, worlds without number

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