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A second chance: Fate Worlds and Toolkits offer

December 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Evil Hat Productions’ rightly popular Fate system is included along with Fate Cthulhu, and a host of other worlds.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Evil Hat Productions, FATE, fate core

Music as an RPG system: Halcyon Daze – Motorcycle Knights tours Kickstarter

April 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Kickstarter, if it’s successful, will fund the game, unique and exclusive dice and bundle with poker chips and an album.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: FATE, kickstarters

The dead have risen: Survival of the Able is a tabletop RPG about people with disabilities trying to survive the zombies

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You’ll encounter not just zombies but discrimination in Survival of the Able as your character’s disabilities provoke reactions from people, and through the fear, you might be a zombie.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: FATE, FUDGE, kickstarters, zombies

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #110

July 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s the latest from D&D, Cyberpunk Red, 13th Age, Call of Cthulhu, Critical Role and even of Chainmail, the game that became D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Battlefield Press, beadle & grimm, blackmoor, Call of Cthulhu, carbon grey, castles & crusades, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, city of mist, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, doctor who, Evil Hat Productions, fading suns, FATE, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, grant howitt, handiwork games, hearts of wulin, Honey Heist, injuries & vile deeds, m20 technocracy reloaded, magnetic press play, Matt Colville, mcdm, Necromancer Games, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, roll20, routinely itemised, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, sdcc, sigil & shadow, soulbound, starfinder, strixhaven, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, the green knight, the oracle, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Troll Lord Games, Ulisses Spiele, Victoriana, west end games, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Evil Hat brings $335 worth of FATE to the Bundle of Holding

July 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The Fate rules shaped like Core, Accelerated and Condensed, and tokens make up the toolkit and a host of worlds from Cthulhu and other Kaiju to Shadow of the Century make up the bonus.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Evil Hat Productions, FATE, fate core, fate of cthulhu

ICv2’s retail chart puts Pathfinder behind D&D as best selling RPG of the winter

March 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

D&D, as you would expect, tops the ICv2 bestseller RPG chart autumn 2020 composed of data taken from retailers, distributors and manufacturers in North America.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, Evil Hat Productions, FATE, Free League Publishing, icv2, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, wizards of the coast

Roll20 reveal the 10 RPGs that have enjoyed a surprising boom in popularity

May 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s not surprising that RPGs are booming, this hobby of ours has become increasingly more fashionable. Then the combination of lockdown, presence of virtual tabletops and free video calls makes roleplaying online a clever thing to do. What might be surprising are the 10 games that have seen their online usage soar the most. Each […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, FATE, HeroQuest, ironsworn, pathfinder, roll20, tales from the loop, The Orr Group

The best selling generic RPGs of 2019

December 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The top ten best-selling generic or multi-genre RPGs published in 2019.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, drivethrurpg, Evil Hat Productions, FATE, Hero Kids, Monte Cook Games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, samjoko publishing, savage worlds

Is buyfunding a better crowdfunding alternative to Kickstarter?

October 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Publishers are clearly watching the situation at Kickstarter, and some are worried. But is there an alternative?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, Evil Hat Productions, FATE

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #7

August 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

News on the D&D movie, the release of Pathfinder 2nd edition and the discovery that two out the three best selling RPGs last quarter are sci-fi games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astral tabletop, cubicle 7, dms guild, Evil Hat Productions, FATE, Free League Publishing, Ill Gotten Games, lord of the rings, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, routinely itemised, the adventure zone, the expanse rpg, The One Ring, wizards of the coast

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