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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #83

January 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs summarises weekly RPG news, new releases, interviews with roleplaying designers and handy tips.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, amit moshe, Arcadia, blades in the dark, Brittannia Game Designs, candlekeep mysteries, chessex, Chivalry & Sorcery, city of mist, crafty games, Cults of the Blood Gods, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, Ill Gotten Games, Inkwell Ideas, mcdm, mork borg, onyx path publishing, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, tombpunk, trokia!, vaesen, w.m. akers, wizards of the coast

8,948 free RPGs! It’s Free RPG Day

June 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve shrugged off last year’s decline in free RPGs, and there’s a treasure hoard of free goodies available today.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chessex, drivethrurpg, free rpg day, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, Paizo Publishing, q-workshop, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, Steamforged Games, UltraPro

7,764 free RPGs! It’s Free RPG Day

June 16, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

It’s Free RPG today. Gamers around the world are encouraged to pop into their local store and try a new RPG for free today. It’s made possible by a host of sponsors which Geek Native thank and will mention a little later on. Since 2014 Geek Native has been tracking the number of free RPGs […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, Atlas Games, Chaosium, chessex, D101 Games, Delta Green, dms guild, dungeon masters guild, Dungeons & Dragons, FATE, flying buffalo, free rpg day, free to download, goodman games, Monte Cook Games, paizo, Pelgrane Press, q-workshop, Renegade Game Studios, sales, stats, Steve Jackson Games, Troll Lord Games, Ulisses Spiele, UltraPro, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures

5579 free RPGs and counting: It’s free RPG Day

June 17, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Saturday 18th is Free RPG Day. The idea here is that you pop into a store, support your local trader and pick up a free RPG in exchange. Is your local RPG shop taking part? This store locator will know. Right now there are 5579 free RPGs available on DriveThruRPG, that’s up from 4578 free […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Atlas Games, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, chessex, drivethrurpg, free rpg day, free to download, Gaming Paper, lamentations of the flame princess, paizo, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, q-workshop, Troll Lord Games, Ulisses Spiele, wyrd miniatures

Is your lucky d20 just a badly made off balance dice?

June 10, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 20 Comments

Ever wondered if your special d20 is lucky or whether you needed to check it to see whether it’s off balance? This video from Daniel Fisher should be used for good; not to find dice you may have innocently bought but now know are more likely to roll 20. Daniel’s video doesn’t pull any punches […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chessex, dice

What on Earth is Mythoard and why should RPGers care?

February 10, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

If you pop over to Mythoard you’ll find a site that promises to send you a box full of RPG goodies every month. This month they’ve content from Chessex, Throwi Games, Moon Dice Games, Flatland Games, Genius Loci Games and Imaginary Maps. Read on if you want an exclusive reveal into what Mythoard will offer […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chessex, flatland games, goodman games, gygax magazine, Simian Circle Games, The Design Mechanism

Free RPG Day – including 3679 free RPG downloads

June 21, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Today is Free RPG Day. The event is managed by Impressions, a company that helps put RPGs in your hands, and is designed to encourage you to support your local game shop. The site has a interactive map which you can use to find a retailer taking part in the event near you. It costs […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, chessex, free rpg day, goodman games, lamentations of the flame princess, onyx path publishing, paizo, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, q-workshop, Troll Lord Games

Are RPG dice good enough quality to be truly random?

September 4, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The video above is of Colonel Louis Zocchi, the founder of GameScience, explaining why he believes GameScience will roll more true than others. The summary is that the traditional RPG dice are polished in a way that rounds off corners and painted in a way that gives them an inconsistent shape. The inconsistent shape results […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awesome dice, chessex, dice

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