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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #194

March 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Alright, gang, somehow we’re into March, and it’s been a bit of a struggle to keep up. Despite that, there’s still lots to say!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, bloat games, dark sun, dice, Dungeons & Dragons, Paizo Publishing, routinely itemised, savage worlds, tabletop gaming magazine

Dark Sun, Dragonlance and other classic Gold Box D&D titles make a return

March 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Even decades after their original release, the Gold Box games are seen by many as iconic Dungeons & Dragons digital experiences, and they practically defined computer RPGs.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: dark sun, Dragonlance, Dungeons & Dragons, forgotten realms, Ravenloft, Steam

The official Dark Sun site just published a new sourcebook

February 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can download Secrets of the Dead Lands for free. The name comes from an officially announced, but I don’t think ever realised, Dark Suns adventure dating back to 1999. TSR days.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dark sun, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, TSR

Feel the darkness: Red Dawn – Into the Dawnlands battles towards funding on Kickstarter

August 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Red Dawn positions itself as the spiritual successor to Dark Sun. So, that’s dark D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dark sun, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #107

July 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary column, and this week we look at TSR Games (3) threatening OSR communities, new RPGs hitting digital and physical shelves, RPG reviews and discoveries.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcadia, black void, blood sword, brw games, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark alliance, dark sun, defiant, dms guild, dungeon crawl classics, Dying Earth, en publishing, Fantasy Grounds, gama, GURPS, hard wired island, indie groundbreaker awards, iron studios, izegrim creations, Loke BattleMats, Metal Weave Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, parable games, Pelgrane Press, peter rudin-burgess, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, Sanguine Productions, Shane Ivey, shiver, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound, soulbound starter set, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, Synthicide, the dee sanction, the fantasy trip, the yellow king, Tiamat, tsr games, Usagi Yojimbo, vaesen, wanderhome, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, wizkids

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #94

April 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this week’s RPG news round-up, we have pre-orders on a giant dragon “mini”, the Fallout 2d20 RPG, a Scion RPG TV series and Free League Publishing converting Symbaroum to D&D’s 5e.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, bestiary, candlekeep mysteries, Chaosium, Chthonstone Games, coyote & crow, cubicle 7, dark sun, death on the reik, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, Dying Earth, Dyskami, fallout, Fire Ruby Designs, foundry, gama, goodman games, Interface Zero 2.0, Jack Vance, journey, Luke Crane, Modiphius Entertainment, mythic table, neverending, Nightfall Games, nor cal mythos, onyx path publishing, routinely itemised, scion, shadows in the mist, Symbaroum, terminator, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, troika, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, warlock, wizards of the coast, wizkids, Zadmar Games

Wizards of the Coast will bring back three D&D settings; here’s what fans hope for

September 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At D&D Celebration 2020 yesterday, during the closing panel, the Dungeons & Dragons boss Ray Winninger told us that the company is working on three old settings coming back to the franchise.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dark sun, Dragonlance, Dungeons & Dragons, Ray Winniger, spelljammer, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #29

January 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A weekly round-up of RPG news including discoveries, fan-projects and Kickstarters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Asmodee, cthulhu, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk 2020, dark sun, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, last fleet, Mike Pondsmith, Palladium Books, Pelgrane Press, routinely itemised, warhammer

Unofficial Dark Sun 5e conversion is looking great

January 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Dark Sun was an official campaign setting for the 2nd edition of AD&D and the 4th edition of D&D. It’s set in the post-apocalyptic world of Athas, which is a desert wasteland brought to ruin by magic.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dark sun, gm binder

Justice for a classic: A review of Dark Sun for D&D 4e

June 18, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

I’ve heard a lot about Dark Sun. For years I’d been told that it was great and yet no one ever wanted to play it. I had missed the boat. By the time I was playing D&D (having started on other RPGs) Dark Sun was old news. How old? Dark Sun came out for D&D […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dark sun, Dungeon & Dragons, reviews, Robert J. Schwalb, wizards of the coast

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