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Enhance your D&D and DCC games with the “Monsters, Traps, & DM Tricks” bundle, all for a great cause

June 14, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At Humble, there’s a Monsters, Traps, & DM Tricks bundle with titles like How to Write Adventure Modules That Don’t Suck.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, humble

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Bloat Games

January 23, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Can you imagine how busy Eric Bloat must be? Nevertheless, Eric very kindly made time for us.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, dark places & demogorgons, dungeon crawl classics, eric bloat

Love Mutants and the Idylls of the Rat King: Goodman Games brings DCC back to Humble

August 27, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A $25 spend will get you $1,047 in DCC value and a 20% coupon. We have until August 23rd to bag the deal.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, dungeon crawl classics, goodman games, humble bundle

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #96

April 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast are taking back control of D&D in some countries after settling a legal row. Luke Crane’s The Burning Wheel is Roll20’s quickest growing system, and the inhospitable setting round table is coming. It’s an RPG news summary from Geek Native.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0one Games, alan bahr, amazing heroes, astral tabletop, Auroborus: coils of the serpent, blue planet, Call of Cthulhu, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, cubicle 7, deadlands, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout, foundry, humblewood, Jeff Grubb, level up, Luke Crane, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mystara, Numenera, one more multiverse, osprey games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, ravenloft: mist hunters, roll20, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, soulbound, studio agate, those dark places, Ulisses Spiele, warchief gaming, warlock, wizards of the coast

Genre Police: Character Study

November 1, 2020 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

When you have a small number of players who want to tell a slightly bigger story or a small group but lots of ideas, you can create a situation where people play more than one character.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ars magica, bluebeard's bride, dungeon crawl classics, genre police, Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, rpg tips

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #72

October 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly roundup of RPG news from Wizards of the Coast, Chaosium, Cubicle 7, R. Talsorian Games, PEG, Paizo and the industry.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, astral tabletop, Atlas Games, battletech, beadle & grimm, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Claim the Sky, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, cypher system, darrington press, Delta Green, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, entromancy, fandom, Fantasy Grounds, Fire Ruby Designs, First Responders, forsaken system player's guide, handiwork games, hasbro, Helmgast, humble bundle, Indie Press Revolution, invisible sun, John Carter of Mars, kobold press, kult: divinty lost, magpie games, Mark Diaz Truman, mindjammer press, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, nightpath publishing, Ogre, onyx path publishing, over arms, Pacesetter Games and Simulations, Palladium Books, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, rp haven, s5s, Saturday Morning Scenarios, savage worlds, Scarred Lands, scion, Steve Jackson Games, talisman, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, The Esoterrorists, the fantasy trip, the yellow king, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warchief gaming, warhammer, warlock, wet ink games, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #14

September 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this column, we quickly summarise news and discoveries from the RPG industry. If it hit the radar this week, then it has a chance of making this bullet-point collection of headlines.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Corpus Malicious, cubicle 7, Descent into Avernus, Dream Realm Storytellers, drivethrurpg, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, Evil Hat Productions, goodman games, Helmgast, hyper light drifter, kobold press, Metal Weave Games, R. Talsorian Games, Robotech, roll20, root, routinely itemised, Shadowrun, soulbound, the troubleshooters, wizards of the coast

Genre Police: More Than Just Semi-Nudes – Sword & Sorcery

January 28, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Welcome to back Genre Police, a series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. Today, we are going to round up our fantasy sub-genres for now with the most venerable tradition of all – […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, genre police, Mutants & Masterminds

Kickin’ it Old School: A Review of How to Game Master Like a Fucking Boss

June 12, 2015 by Ed 23 Comments

In the wonderful world of tabletop role-playing games, there are two separate yet equally-important schools of thought: the “old-school” style of play perpetrated from classic editions of Dungeons & Dragons through the 80s, and the “new-school” style of play coming from the rising indie RPG movement of the late 90s through now. How to Game Master Like a […]

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, Old School Renaissance, Venger Satanis

Free games and International Tabletop Day rush slams DriveThru RPG’s servers

April 5, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Saturday April the 5th is International Tabletop Day. Names like Atlas Games, Stronghold Games, Asmodee, Days of Wonder, Mayfair, AEG, Ravensburger, Japanime Games, Looney Labs and Steve Jackson Games are teaming up with Geek & Sundry for the big event. Another name of note is DriveThru RPG who are holding a huge sale. This isn’t […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, drivethrurpg, dungeon crawl classics, goodman games, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, International TableTop Day, Monte Cook Games, Numenera, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment, savage worlds, Solomon Kane

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