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The Heart of Fire faces a tricky conversion from D&D 4e to 5e

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The original approach to the dungeon was specially designed with 4e in mind, and each room was its own self-contained encounter. D&D 5e has a very different style.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Darklight Interactive, dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #141

February 25, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A cluster of RPG news furnished at bullet point speed on a week of debate-sparking 5e RPG, a new boss for Roll20, the evil Red Wizards and a Daredevil star in a new show.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a tome of chaos, acheron cascade campaign, Ad Infinitum Adventures, apothercaria, Arcadia, archon's court games, attack from space: the RPG, beasts of bluestone, benji's guide to rentooki island, blackwell games, caesar ink, children of earte, Crawling Death Below The Dying Forest, crimson terrain, Crypt of the Smoke Dragon, cyberpunk red, darkest days, Darklight Interactive, Deborah Ann Woll, dngn, doctor who, Doctors and Daleks, Dungeons & Dragons, earthdawn, ed greenwood, Entromancy: Chaos Rifts, exalted funeral, fandom tabletop, fasa, fate plus cyberpunk, for honor and for glory, godbound, goodman games, haunted west, ico partners, infinium game studios, kevin crawford, laidback dungeon master, Legendary Games, Modiphius Entertainment, moonbound games, nightpath publishing, old-school essentials, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, planet mercenary, R. Talsorian Games, ravenwood, role press, roll20, routinely itemised, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, singing flame, six sides of gaming, Steve Jackson Games, tabletops & tentacles, tales of xadia, taylor seely-wright, thay: land of the red wizards, the 2d6 engine, They Came From Beyond the Grave, tricky troll games, uberseik adventures, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, world serpent games, wrath & glory, zargoth's time of familiars

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #137

January 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you think the deadly Dark Souls computer game would work as a 5e RPG on the tabletop? Steamforged will try, and they’re going to do the same with RuneQuest. Paizo make a critical hire, Monte Cook Games make a free preview available and more this week.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a fabled city of brass, alan patrick, alien rpg, babes in the wood, Babies and Broadswords, Break the Horizon, bwilder games, cubicle 7, D&D Regular Rules Expansion Gift Set, dark realm roleplay, Dark Souls, Darklight Interactive, demonworld, diamond recreational studios, doctor who, dog might games, dren productions games, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, dungoneering, dynamic games, ed greenwood, edge, fabledoom, fasa, Free League Publishing, gale force 9, goodman games, grinning rat publications, grok?!, heart of darkness, hexgen, Homeworld Revelations, imperial zoo, killer fish, kung fu 2100, lancer, laura shanae crenshaw, legends of avallen, logan laidlaw, lost in the fantasy world, meanders, Megaton Games, midnight, Modiphius Entertainment, monarchies of mau, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland, Nude on a Yellow Sofa, ORC BORG, Paizo Publishing, parts per million, pathfinder, pesto publications, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, priests of the aeons, ravenloft: mist hunters, revenge of the kobolds, rick and morty, root, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, runescape, secrets under stone, seeds of decay, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, sideshow collectibles, spell sorched, spencer hibnick, star trek into darkness, starfinder galactic magic, Steamforged Games, super savage system, tabletopy, the oracle, warehouse 23, winds of magic, wordle wizard, world camp game co, wrongbox studios

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #128

November 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a calmer week in RPG Kickstarter land as we roll into Black Cyber weekend but loads of bundles, deals and RPG news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, Amanda Hamon, Arcadia, astland, black lantern productions, bubblegum wizards, claire hoffman, cosmondo, critters cavern, cyborgprime publishing, Darklight Interactive, dms guild, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, Far Future Enterprises, Fighting Fantasy, firelock games, gormengeist, hagen-miniatures, harp sf, hell night, idyll creations, Imaginary Empire, in the shadow tower silveraxe, instruments of the chrysanthemum throne, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron tower publishing, James Wyatt, john wrot!, Kryptgarden Ascendant, laidback dungeon master, leyline press, liminal, lost eons, mcdm, Mongoose Publishing, mothership, Necromancer Games, petersen games, Point of Insanity Game Studio, purple crayon games, rebel minis, revenge of the kobolds, riotminds, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, salvage union, sanctions, scavenger, seffner games, Shadow of the Demon Lord, shardstone, shield maidens, Skirmisher Publishing, soulmist, stranger print miniatures, strixhaven, t.a. gray, the merciless merchants, the oracle, tiger paw press, tome of wondrous items, trilemma adventures, Trudvang Adventures, twa, war and aether, war stories, wentworth games, wildheart, wizards of the coast, wizkids, wurmtongue, yourneighborknight

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #64

September 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yeet!

A glance at some noteworthy RPG releases this week along with yet another busy RPG news section. Kickstarter seems to get more alive with each passing day, recovering strongly from the lockdown slump.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: abracadabra, acadecon, arcane ink publishing, Arion Games, astral tabletop, athelen publishing, beam saber, Call of Cthulhu, code of light studios, cubicle 7, Darklight Interactive, dice dungeons, diego pisa artworks, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Eloy Lasanta, en publishing, Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, Fighting Fantasy, for coin & blood, forbidden lands, gallant knight games, Jovian Chronicles, lex arcana, light strikers, Lost Tomb of the Bitchin' Chimera, Matt Forbeck, Miskatonic Repository Con, mrreciprocity, mythic odysseys of theros, Newt Newport, Paizo Publishing, pandemonium noir, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, pip system, quality games, richard woolcock, rime of the frostmaiden, Robert J. Schwalb, routinely itemised, savage worlds, savage worlds adventurer's guild, Shotguns & Sorcery, starfinder, tabletop mentorship program, tarrasque, tasha's cauldron of everything, the bitter reach, the grinning frog, the paragon blade, the wagadu chronicles, the warlock returns, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory, yellow madhouse

ENnie nominated ‘Best Free Product’ Kickstarts for life under 5e

January 3, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Darklight Interactive are after just £551 to Kickstart “A Night in Seyvoth Manor” for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. [Back this Campaign] In 2013 A Night in Seyvoth Manor was free and available for Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. It’s a challenge adventure, suitable for something like a Halloween one off, that uses throwaway and […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: A Night in Seyvoth Manor, Darklight Interactive, david flor, Dungeon & Dragons, ENnies, horror, kickstarters

Who’s leading the Ennies 2013 pack?

July 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The nominations for the 2013 ENnies are out. These are a big set of awards in the roleplaying publishing world. Counting by hand, I reach 57 publishers nominated and that’s up from just shy of 40 from 2012. Paizo Publishing and Pelgrane Press lead the pack with 7 nominations each, with Cubicle 7 in third […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0one Games, Aetheric Dreams, Agate Editions, Aliteration Ink, Arc Dream Publishing, Battlefield Press, Blackwyrm Games, Bold Pueblo Games, Broken Ruler Games, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Chronicle City, cubicle 7, Darklight Interactive, DramaScape, DSG Gamaes, End Transmission Games, Engine Publishing, ENnies, fantasy flight games, Gamer Nation Studios, green ronin, Greymalkin Designs, Growling Door Games, Hero Forge Games, Hero Games, Hex Games, Imaginary Empire, Innsmouth House Press, Jennisodes, Kinstaff Media, kobold press, lamentations of the flame princess, Morning Skye Studio, Mutha Oith Creations, neca, North Wind Adventures, Okumart Games, Paizo Fans United, Paizo Publishing, paNik productions, PCGen, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment, posthuman studios, Privateer Press, Purple Sorcerer Games, Random Encounters, random house, Sage Kobold Productions, Sand & Steam Productions, simpleFun, Studio 2 Publishing, The Orr Group, third eye games, Thowigames, WG Productions, wizards of the coast, WizKid Games

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