RPG news: Origins Awards finalists, D&D on Yoto, Hasbro’s boss on AI, LOTR starters, and the Monty Python RPG (yes, it’s out!)
Satire and raygun eye candy: A review of Dr. Grordbort’s Scientific Adventure Violence TTRPG
Dr. Grordbort’s Scientific Adventure Violence looks great. It’s a tabletop RPG from Crowbar Creative and Brian Saliba.
High-quality fairytales: A review of Rackham Vale Paintbox Edition
Inspired by the fantasy and folklore art of the 19th-century golden age illustrator Arthur Rackham, Rackham Vale is a drop-in setting for Old-School Essentials.
Which tabletop RPGs are people looking forward to the most this year?
I think EN World started this, and they’ve done it again with thousands of votes. It makes sense to share their results rather than reinvent the wheel.
Free to Download: Monty Python RPG quickstart
The Monty Python RPG quickstart has gameplay rules, personae and pre-genned characters.
Monty Python RPG: The Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme smashes a $1 million on Kickstarter
It’s not a 5e system; the Monty Python RPG has its own rules-lite approach, using its original gaming system and spam.
Monty Python RPG: Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme preview
The official game is coming to Kickstarter next week. It’ll be big as there are already 11,297 people following the campaign who will get an alert when it launches.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #169
I’m still going to Tabletop Gaming Live, a growing RPG and board game expo from Tabletop Gaming Magazine and Warners Group Publications. Due to rail strikes, I was going to struggle through on coach, but now with the death of the Queen, even the roads are chaos.
Official Monty Python RPG announced by Exalted Funeral and Crowbar Creative
It is by no means a complete and comprehensive manual for running imaginative, highly unpredictable, Mediaeval-themed role-playing games based upon the complete comedic output of Monty Python with one’s friends.
Dr. Grordbort’s Scientific Adventure Violence: Crowbar Creative takes pipe-puffing space explorers to 5e
But beware, boffins! Technology is unpredictable and subject to malfunction. Bollocks up an attack, check, or spell, and you’ve got a date with one of eight custom Malfunction Tables.
