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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, blackberry & holly, blue planet, briarverse, Call of Cthulhu, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, cubicle 7, deadlands, diner elf games, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, escape plan games, fable voyages, fallout, files for everybody, finalhorizon, foundry, geeknson, hands of the devil, home brewed games, humblewood, jeff barber, Jeff Grubb, leopard women of venus, level up, Luke Crane, menagerie, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mystara, Numenera, offhand, one more multiverse, osprey games, our stormy present, past adventures, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, ravenloft: mist hunters, refuges of the realms, roll20, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, shadow of mogg, soulbound, space aces, studio agate, the burning wheel, those dark places, Ulisses Spiele, Vermin 2047, warchief gaming, warlock, where the machines wait, 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, cheat your own adventure, dungeon crawl classics, genre police, Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, microscope, 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, beasts & behemoths, beasts of flesh and steel, bloat games, byte, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Claim the Sky, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, cypher system, darrington press, dead reign, deepdark designs, Delta Green, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, entromancy, era: forbidden, fandom, Fantasy Grounds, fateful night, Fire Ruby Designs, First Responders, forsaken system player's guide, frostlands of fenrilik, handiwork games, hasbro, heavenscape, Hell Rides to Hallt, Helmgast, heroes' feast, Horror in the Windy City, humble bundle, Indie Press Revolution, invisible sun, invisible sun black box, jim likes games, John Carter of Mars, kobold press, kult: divinty lost, let the streets run red, luka rejec, magpie games, Mark Diaz Truman, mindjammer press, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, nightpath publishing, Ogre, old bones, oni-lion forge, onyx path publishing, over arms, Pacesetter Games and Simulations, Palladium Books, parallel publishing, pathfinder, pegasus studio, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Putrescence Regnant, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, rp haven, s5s, Saturday Morning Scenarios, savage worlds, Scarred Lands, scion, Steve Jackson Games, tales from vigilante city, talisman, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, the bone age, The Esoterrorists, the fantasy trip, the goon, the great american witch, the haunting of creedmore asylum, the lost triptych, the yellow king, titanomachy, urban shadows, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warchief gaming, warhammer, warlock, wet ink games, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory, yarps

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, project raptor, R. Talsorian Games, Robotech, roll20, root, routinely itemised, Shadowrun, soulbound, the troubleshooters, trivium studios, 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

New Year, New Game: Dungeon Crawl Classics

January 8, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

It’s a brand new year. As D&D turns 40 this year perhaps you’re in the mood for a new game… that is also a classic game? There’s some good news for you this week as DriveThruRPG are running a 50% sale in the theme of “New Year, New Game”. In the sale is Goodman Games’ […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, dungeon crawl classics, goodman games, Joseph Goodman, Old School Renaissance, sales

Coupon: 15% off 12 of the strongest OSR RPG titles

May 13, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you an OSR fan? The old school renaissance or perhaps the old school retro-clones? DriveThru RPG have compiled the 12 best selling old school rules titles in their collection. Not only can you check out the collection here you can bag yourself 15% off the top 12 with this coupon code. Use; OSRF711F2 That […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adventures Dark and Deep, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, B/X Companion, castles & crusades, Classic Fantasy, Crypts & Things, drivethrurpg, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, Fenris 2d6, hackmaster, Old School Renaissance, sales, spellcraft & swordplay, Swords & Wizardry

The best selling RPGs of the summmer (2012)

October 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Industry watchers ICv2 have released their count of the top five selling roleplaying games this summer. Tallies will always differ but ICv2 run interviews with manufacturers, distributors and retailers. The top five are; Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing) Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the Coast) Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch (Fantasy Flight Games) Dragon Age (Green Ronin Publishing) Dungeon […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: D&D Next, dark heresy, deathwatch, dragon age, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, goodman games, green ronin, icv2, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, rogue trader, wizards of the coast

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