This RPG news summarises key updates in the RPG industry. Main highlights include the release of ‘Candela Obscura’ RPG and its ‘Tide & Bones’, Lin Codega’s departure from Gizmodo, and Dicebreaker comparing ‘One Honk Before Midnight’ to the Goose Game of TTRPGs. Various RPG bundle deals and updates were also discussed, with mentions of a sneak peek into the Demiverse Expanded on Kickstarter and an announcement for PaizoCon Online 2024.
Critical Role
Critical Role is a weekly live show in which voice actors play the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Led by Matthew Mercer, as the Dungeon Master, and featuring Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O'Brien, Laura Bailey and Sam Riegel the show airs first on Twitch before being uploaded to YouTube later.
Since 2018, Critical Role is the name of the studio co-owned by the cast and which has produced other shows and roleplaying supplements.
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Till the Last Gasp: Critical Role’s game company announces duelling system
Till the Last Gasp puts people into two-player PvP action, betraying emotions, revealing secrets, and raising stakes. Players can recreate their favourite movie fights in new stories!
Critical Role’s Clue partnership will plant trees (and prevent a crime)
Solve the mystery before the festival ends to save one of your own from meeting their fate!
Critical Role will game with Stephen Colbert for Red Nose Day
The Critical Role team have curated several options for Stephen’s character, like a Fighting Fantasy book, and the audience making donations pick the option.
Critical Role and Darrington Press tap an Eisner-nominated creator for the Syndicult RPG
My data doesn’t lie. It’s all anyone’s talking about right now.
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