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Kids in the Attic: Life after selling Fat Goblin Games, an interview with Rick S Hershey

August 30, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rick S Hershey used to own Fat Goblin Games but recently sold the RPG publishing company. That explains why the website currently asks, “Pardon our dust” as the new owners settle in.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fat Goblin Games, Rick Hershey

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #238

January 6, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s RPG news round-up for the week, unearthing headlines from trusted news sites and smaller blogs, review sites, and Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fat Goblin Games, routinely itemised, Shades of Vengeance, warhammer

Fat Goblin Games discounts nearly $5,000 from 1,000 RPG images (until midnight!)

November 15, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Until midnight (time zone not disclosed! gulp) Fat Goblin Games have a deal where $500 gets you $5000 worth of stock art.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, drivethrurpg, Fat Goblin Games

Fat Goblin Games release a TTRPG content rating system

January 24, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The download has several images for the proposed ratings and a two-page explainer. It suggests games could be rated on violence, language, sexual content, drug and alcohol use, horror and mature themes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fat Goblin Games, free to download, Rick Hershey

Worldbuilding, mapmaking and character journals at Fat Goblin prices

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In particular, campaign aids are being offered up – digital guides, techniques and tools to make life as DM, GM, Narrator, She-At-The-End-Of-The-Table or herder of gamer cats life easier.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Fat Goblin Games, worldbuilding

The best selling family RPGs of 2021

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We have got the 20 best selling “Family” TTRPGs published this year. What makes a game a Family one, though? The need for kids? Of course not.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing heroes, amazing tales, Atlas Games, bandit camp, Chaosium, drivethrurpg, fairy trails, Fat Goblin Games, gallant knight games, jay dragon, My Little Pony, nerdburger games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Renegade Game Studios, river horse, silver vine publishing, summon skate, tinyd6, wanderhome, wardlings

5e Platinum: Some of the best selling D&D 3rd party supplements are in this bundle

September 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The bundle deal gets its name because it only features top-selling indie D&D supplements. These titles have all made the Platinum best-sellers rank at DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arcanist Press, bundle of holding, bundles, CRISPR Monkey Studios, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Fat Goblin Games, genefunk 2090, sly flourish

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #114

August 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news in the week that Chaosium’s Steve Perrin passed away and Geek Native moved HQ.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, alien rpg, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, Asmodee, avatar legends, blackmoor, bundle of holding, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, cmon, critical role, cubicle 7, darkraven games, diego pisa artworks, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, elemental, Elephant & Macaw Banner, ENnies, fallout, Fantasy Grounds, Fat Goblin Games, Free League Publishing, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, GURPS, Jim Pinto, mindjammer, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, postworldgames, Robert J. Schwalb, routinely itemised, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, silver vine publishing, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, the grinning frog, Tracy Hickman, TSR, wizkids, wrath & glory, Zadmar Games, zombicide

The best selling family RPGs of 2020

December 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Family, rightly or wrongly, tends to be a shorthand for “appropriate for kids but interesting to adults too”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, drivethrurpg, Fat Goblin Games, flatland games, gallant knight games, hunters entertainment, Jim Henson, kids on brooms, Labyrinth, neverland, river horse, Saturday Morning Scenarios, witch+craft

The Bundle of Holding is brimming with third-party Starfinder supplements

November 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We have Starfinder sci-fi extras from the likes of Rogue Genius Games, Legendary Games and Fat Goblin Games over at The Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Fat Goblin Games, Legendary Games, rogue genius games, sales, starfinder

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