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The ‘other’ best selling RPGs of 2018

December 31, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If your RPG doesn’t fit nicely into any of the provided genres or it can also be used in extra genres then DriveThruRPG provides the ‘Other’ tag as a place to put your game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, flatland games, genesys, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, Monte Cook Games, Numenera, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Ryuutama, savage worlds, torg: eternity

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: Dias Ex Machina Games, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, hunters entertainment, kids on bikes, runehammer games, through the breach, ultramodern5, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures

The best selling pulp RPGs of 2018

December 28, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To make this list an RPG has to be in the top ten sellers (Jan 1st to Dec 11th) of all the games the publishers have added the ‘pulp’ genre tag too. This means we’ve games that are solidly in the pulp genre, systems which could but don’t have to be used for pulp RPGs and even games you might not consider pulp at all.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, exalted, fantasy flight games, genesys, greg gillespie, John Wick Presents, Modiphius Entertainment, North Wind Adventures, onyx path publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Stygian Fox Publishing

The best selling modern genre RPGs of 2018

December 23, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 6 Comments

As we approach the end of the year Geek Native has been sifting through data from DriveThruRPG to see which games sold the best from which genre. As it happens, games can belong to many genres, and we’re starting to see some overlaps. In this chapter, we look at games tagged ‘modern’ by the publisher […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, changeling: the dreaming, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, onyx path publishing, Shadowrun, Werewolf: The Apocalypse

The best selling superhero RPGs of 2018

December 22, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The average price of a best selling superhero RPG is only $24.98.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ad Infinitum Adventures, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, magpie games, Misfit Studios, Modiphius Entertainment, superheroes

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2018

December 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Old and new titles pepper the best selling sci-fi games of the year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk 2020, fantasy flight games, genesys, kevin crawford, Modiphius Entertainment, R. Talsorian Games, runehammer games, sci-fi, Shadowrun, sine nomine publishing, star trek, star trek adventures, Stars without Number, Ulisses Spiele, wrath & glory

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2018

December 18, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s no doubt that Dungeons & Dragons had an amazing year. Dungeons & Dragons 5e toped the ICv2 bestseller charts every quarter. The natural rival is Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder, and this game also had an interesting year with the playtest for Pathfinder 2e underway. Here we find two titans of the fantasy RPG genre. But […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cody pondsmith, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, grim & perilous studios, joseph mccullough, R. Talsorian Games, the witcher, warhammer, wayfinder's guide to eberron

Solo or up to four players in Fantasy Flight’s new Discover: Lands Unknown board game

August 13, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Discover: Lands Unknown

Discover: Lands Unknown is a new board game from Fantasy Flight Games and Corey Konieczka which you can play by yourself or up to three other players. Konieczka is a highly rated designer. His previous successes include Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game, StarCraft: The Board Game, Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game, Space Hulk: Death Angel, […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, fantasy flight games

KeyForge is a new game from Magic: The Gathering’s inventor and Fantasy Flight Games

August 2, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

KeyForge doesn’t seem to take itself very seriously (watch the trailer video, and you’ll see what I mean), but it does tackle one of the problems which seriously put people off collectable card games. There was a time when I played Magic: the Gathering when each rare card was a discovery worth celebrating. It was […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ccg, fantasy flight games, keyforge, Richard Garfield

Christian T. Petersen steps down from Fantasy Flight and Asmodee

July 30, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Christian T. Petersen is perhaps best well known as the founder of Fantasy Flight Games. He wrote the Nocturnum set of adventures of Call of Cthulhu with Darrell Hardy, co-designed the Game of Thrones wargame and worked on Doom: The Boardgame. In 2014 Petersen became the CEO of Asmodee North America. Asmodee is a well […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, fantasy flight games

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