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Welcome defleshed! It’s the Skin City TTRPG

October 10, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Skin City is a tabletop roleplaying game designed for one-shots and based on Into the Odd, a rules-light system created by Chris McDowall.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Into The Odd, kickstarters

On the odder side: Twisted tales RPG where Something Wicked This Way Comes meets Neverwhere

November 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pizza Games has gone in dark, or at least weird horror, for an Into the Odd-inspired TTRPG called “On the Odder Side”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Into The Odd, kickstarters

Free quickstart rules as Mythic Bastionland TTRPG “Before Into the Odd” surges on Kickstarter

November 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are now well over 3,000 backers and £180,000 pledged to Chris McDowall’s Mythic Bastionland RPG. The game is an imagined past of two other RPGs: Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, electric bastionland, Into The Odd, kickstarters

The characters are going to do it anyway: Barkeep on the Borderlands is a pubcrawl RPG adventure

February 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you use the book like this, the Barkeep on the Borderlands adventure is no longer on the borderlands, and the Keep has become a centre of culture and business.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, kickstarters

Chris McDowall, Johan Nohr and Free League launch the Into the Odd Remastered Kickstarter

September 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The rules-light, flavourful, tabletop RPG of industrial horror with cosmic weird woven in.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Free League Publishing, Into The Odd, Johan Nohr, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116

September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As it’s Friday, it means RPG news in summary form. Routinely Itemised doesn’t just summarise Geek Native’s own content.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, Arcadia, blades in the dark, bloat games, brancalonia, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, character sheets, Chris McDowall, city of mist, dead channel studios, exalted, Freddie Taylor-Bell, Free League Publishing, gen con, Into The Odd, James Introcaso, jay dragon, kobold press, leyline press, long tail games, Massif Press, mcdm, mothership, Paizo Publishing, Paradox Interactive, pendragon, R. Talsorian Games, role, roll for combat, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, sine nomine publishing, Stars without Number, survive this!!, the dee sanction, the oracle, wizards of the coast, Wyrmworks Publishing, zweihander

Free League announce Into the Odd Remastered with Chris McDowall partnership

September 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Free League Publishing will produce a new edition of the weird-fantasy Into the Odd from Chris McDowall. Mork Borg’s Johan Nohr will do the art and design.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Free League Publishing, Into The Odd, Johan Nohr

Small Press Day 2021 and others: Mid-month conventions and geeky events update

June 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The fandom calendar is filling up so let’s take a look at recently added events.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Chris McDowall, comic con, convention, Renegade Game Studios

Electric Bastionland RPG: From the creator of Into the Odd

November 22, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The rules are a modified version of Into the Odd, Chris isn’t re-inventing the wheel, and the bulk of Electric Bastionland is therefore 100 failed careers that you can randomly end up playing as.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, electric bastionland, kickstarters

Free League’s Forbidden Lands RPG offers a twist to the classic fantasy

December 7, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the game, players take on the roles of rogues and raiders, not heroes, who are brave and bold enough to carve out their names in a cursed world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ben milton, Chris McDowall, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, Modiphius Entertainment, Simon Stalenhag

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