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Trump’s tariffs cost more jobs as CMON stopsĀ games development

April 24, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The news follows the closure of Greater Than Games for the same reason: millions of dollars of games stuck in China, and Stonemaier Games trying to take legal action against the tariffs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, cmon, money

Free to Download: The Assassin’s Creed RPG quickstart hits DTRPG

September 6, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The TTRPG uses the new Match System, which uses two sets of custom d6 (available as an official app) for fast-paced and fiction-first gameplay.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: assassin's creed, cmon, Francesco Nepitello, free to download

Grab it now: Two Little Mice’s Outgunned RPG Quickstart

April 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Outgunned lets you RPG movies like Die Hard, James Bond and Lethal Weapon, but it could also be Kingsman, Ocean’s Eleven, John Wick (4) or even Hot Fuzz.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cmon, outgunned, two little mice

Free to Download: Broken Compass quickstart

February 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Broken Compass ride started with a wildly successful Kickstarter, then lots of praise and then the publisher Two Little Mice being bought by gaming powerhouse CMON.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: broken compass, cmon, free to download, pulp

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #174

October 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

TTRPG news, reviews, interviews, bundle offers, and tips are all bullet-pointed in one geeky summary.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: assassin's creed, cmon, Dungeons & Dragons, Joe Manganiello, kids on bikes, routinely itemised

There’s an official Assassin’s Creed TTRPG on the way

October 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bringing Assassin’s Creed to tabletop RPG is an exciting challenge with near endless potential. The video game’s highly original premise — combining modern-day reality with period adventures, offers such an incredible opportunity for us to bring players a variety of gameplay that is unprecedented in most RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: assassin's creed, cmon, Francesco Nepitello, Ubisoft

Tiny, but potentially huge: Household is an award-winning RPG now coming your way

May 22, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Two Little Mice were so impressive with Broken Compass that the Italian RPG publisher was bought by the mighty CMON. Now, the talented group are back on Kickstarter and with a tabletop RPG about Littlings in conflict in an abandoned house. Household won the prestigious LUCA game award and is from the ENnie nominated authors […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cmon, household, kickstarters, two little mice

Free RPG Day is this weekend; here are some of the freebies

October 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are all sorts of freebies available for people who can venture out and into friendly local gaming stores (FLGS).

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, cmon, cubicle 7, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, edge, free rpg day, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, hit point press, humblewood, infinite black, magpie games, mantic games, Modiphius Entertainment, need games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Privateer Press, root, soulbound, star trek adventures, starfinder, Steamforged Games, twilight imperium, vast grimm, Victoriana, wizkids

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #120

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re getting 50th-anniversary games, and that’s new paper to buy, but we’re not yet sure whether we will get more D&D 5.0, 5.5 or even 6.0.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcadia, blackbirds, bloat games, bounty hunter, cmon, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Diana Jones Award, everway, HARP, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, jackals, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, osprey games, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, rackham vale, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, Shotguns & Sorcery, Son of Oak Game Studio, Steve Jackson Games, the gaia complex, the oracle, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Tiamat, Torment: Tides of Numenera, two little mice, Victoriana, wizards of the coast

CMON buys Broken Compass RPG studio Two Little Mice

September 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The board game powerhouse and Kickstarter boss CMON has bought the RPG studio behind the award-winning RPG Two Little Mice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: broken compass, cmon, Francesco Nepitello, two little mice

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