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Dias Ex Machina Games

Dias Ex Machina Games is the publisher of tabletop RPG titles such as Ultramodern5, which takes D&D 5e rules and applies them to a contemporary setting, Amethyst and Affinity.

Chris Tavares Dias and Dias Ex Machina Games were voted into Geek Native's RPG Publisher Spotlight in November 2019.

Amethyst 5E offers over 1,200 pages as Ultramodern5’s publisher brings the RPG to Kickstarter

September 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Described as Dias Ex Machina’s opus, Amethyst is already successfully established and why the giant 1,200-page projection makes sense.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amethyst, Chris Dias, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Affinity impresses Kickstarter with three 5e settings in one campaign

April 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dias Ex Machina’s Kickstarter campaign to fund three unique 5e-powered settings for Affinity funded within the hour.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Affinity, Chris Dias, Dias Ex Machina Games, kickstarters

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2020

December 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a 3:2 tussle between Modiphius with Star Trek and Catalyst with Shadowrun and BattleTech to see which publisher appears the most often.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, blaster, Catalyst Game Labs, cyberpunk red, Dias Ex Machina Games, dissident whispers, edge, Modiphius Entertainment, R. Talsorian Games, secrets of the crucible, Shadowrun, star trek adventures, Tuesday Knight Games, ultramodern5

The best selling modern RPGs of 2020

December 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If the setting is broadly contemporary, then the fact that characters are witches does not disqualify it as a game with a modern environment.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alice is missing, chicago by night, Dias Ex Machina Games, drivethrurpg, game machinery, Geist: The Sin-Eaters, god hunters, hunters entertainment, kamigakari, nameless and accursed, night horrors, onyx path publishing, serpent sea games, stats, the chicago folios, titanomachy, ultramodern5

Alien RPG and The Witcher Pen & Paper among the 53, 051 discounted titles for International GM’s Day

March 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

DriveThruRPG are marking International GM’s Day by discounting over 53,000 RPGs, supplements and accessories.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: buried without ceremony, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, Dias Ex Machina Games, drag-n-drop games, drivethrurpg, drop dead studios, Free League Publishing, heroic maps, international gm's day, R. Talsorian Games, the witcher, white wolf

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #22

November 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this column, we look back at the week of RPG news as quick bullet points for you to speed read.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, best left burried, blades & blasters, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, Jim Pinto, Labyrinth, Monte Cook Games, Paizo Publishing, path of waves, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Privateer Press, river horse, Robotech, routinely itemised, soulmuppet, the last parsec, Ulisses Spiele, wizards of the coast

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Dias Ex Machina Games

November 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The indie publisher in the spotlight for November is Dias Ex Machina, and this is a story of sex machines and a betrayal that hurt the very heart of Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amethyst, Chris Dias, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, spotlight, Ultramodern 4, ultramodern5, wizards of the coast

Kickstarting Ultramodern5: Use the D&D rules for any modern campaign setting

May 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The point of Ultramodern5 is that you can pick a modern genre and run a game in it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Dias, Cyberpunk, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, sci-fi, ultramodern5, weird west

The best selling Western RPGs of 2018

December 30, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To round off the year Geek Native and DriveThruRPG has been going through the best selling RPGs from the retailer’s genre tags.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: boot hill wild west, Cone of Negative Energy, Dias Ex Machina Games, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, hunters entertainment, icrpg worlds, kids on bikes, raiders of r'lyeh, runehammer games, through the breach, ultramodern5, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures

Ultramodern 4: Dias Ex Machina’s D&D evolution goes OGL

October 22, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dias Ex Machina will be offering their universal 4th under the Open Gaming License. This means that the raw files can be downloaded for free and any publisher in the GSL can use the rules too. However, the final product from Dias Ex Machina – you know, with art, layout and extra – will be […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, Open Game License, Ultramodern 4

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