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Is this animated music video a secret prequel to the Defiant RPG?

October 12, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This stunning music video tells a story of fallen angels and a world lost to apocalypse. We argue it’s the perfect, unofficial origin story for the popular tabletop RPG, Defiant.

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Defiant: The adult-leaning supernatural TTRPG of court politics, romance and betrayal

April 16, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Defiant, characters are supernatural entities who decide to save their corner of the world when the apocalypse breaks out.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, defiant, Defiant Awakening, game machinery

Defiant Guide to Orgies brings sex-positivity to the Game Machinery’s adult RPG

January 15, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

While this guide’s topic is quite adult, no graphic descriptions or explicit art is used throughout. The idea was to make it as “safe for work” as the main Defiant rulebook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: defiant, Defiant Awakening, game machinery

Game of Thrones meets Lucifer: Defiant kickstarts Reign & Legacy with supernatural ease

July 26, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Defiant, characters are powerful supernatural beings controlling a city or similar area after the world’s end. It’s been nominated for Origins, looks gorgeous, skews to the adult and is recommended by Geek Native.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: defiant, game machinery, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #213

July 15, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s RPG news round-up with summaries from the blog, elsewhere on the web and blended with RPG news, deals, coupons and offers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cairn, critical role, defiant, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout, game machinery, magpie games, mirrorscape, Paizo Publishing, routinely itemised

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #148

April 15, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

If you’re getting a long weekend, I hope you also make the most of it to kick back, relax, and catch up on all this RPG news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battleground games, beadle & grimm's, bloat games, brw games, carbon grey, cubicle 7, d6 system, d6mv, defiant, earl of fife games, kobold press, magnetic press play, mork borg, parts per million, roll20, routinely itemised, sigil entertainment group, Skirmisher Publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, the fantasy trip, uncaged, xploringmap

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #129

December 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summarised from the week that’s just gone with reviews, interviews, bundle deals, competitions and crowdfunding projects.

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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.

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Exclusive: Cover reveals for the Defiant RPG

June 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are about two weeks left to join the Kickstarter, as I eventually did. The target funding goal has been met, met again and then met for the third time.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: defiant, game machinery, kickstarters

Defiant, the indie tabletop RPG from The Witcher game co-creator Kickstarts an exclusive hardcover

June 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Defiant RPG is an urban fantasy game about the mighty, modern-day supernaturals, who rebelled against their destiny and, instead of destroying the world, decided to protect it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: defiant, Defiant Awakening, game machinery, kickstarters

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