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Fateforge explores solo TTRPG innovation with “Echoes in the Deep”

June 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a giant collection of traditional Fateforged RPG as Pay What You Want available on DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fateforge, kickstarters, solo rpgs

Studio Agate vs OGL: Fateforge becomes a Pay What You Want protest

January 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The ENnie-winning fantasy that took years to make is a love letter to Sword & Sorcery and (once) Dungeons & Dragons. The game is set in the world of Eana, which while familiar, is also exotic with new twists and turns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, pay what you want, studio agate

Revealed: The three-page table of contents from Creatures: Netherworld – Monster Compendium & Toolbox for 5E

May 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Creatures: Netherworld is a 400-page monster compendium and toolbox for your next campaigns, featuring more than 180 illustrated creatures for all levels, including 150 entirely original ones and 30 great classics with a new spin.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, previews, studio agate

Studio Agate has a secret project: France’s highest crowdfunded and most award-winning RPGs release nearly a dozen new books

April 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Failure in 2021 looked likely, in what the Studio has called “dark” and “changing times”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fateforge, Shadows of Esteren, studio agate

Encyclopedia: Lore Book & Toolbox – a gorgeous way to bring your 5e setting to life

March 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Studio Agate has earned itself a reputation for effective Kickstarters and gorgeous products.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, studio agate

Complete Monster Compendium: 200 D&D 5e monsters and metal dice for early bird backers

September 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Creatures offer up 200 monsters and NPCs plus new archetypes and rules to bring more playable species into your 5e campaigns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, monsters, studio agate

Dragon dice and monster alert: Book of Creatures

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Book of Creatures is a homage to fantasy bestiaries. It’s a large book, 400-pages with more than 200 illustrations and 5e rulesets for each.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, monsters, studio agate

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #9

August 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week we’ve seen Shadowrun 6e edge closer to release, more material for Vampire 5e, new rules for The Witcher and Wizards of the Coast open a small scale playtest for D&D as it introduces new subclassses for Monk and Barbarian.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, dark heresy, Dungeons & Dragons, en world, fateforge, lord of the rings, Mike Pondsmith, onyx path publishing, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Shadowrun, soulbound, The One Ring, the witcher, triple ace games, warhammer 40k, wizards of the coast

D&D with the gloves off: A review of Fateforge – Adventurers

August 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s the short form: this is a very impressive, detailed fantasy RPG with a far more sombre setting than D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, reviews, studio agate

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #5

July 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What’s happen this week? A whizz though bullet points of RPG news and discoveries.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, dms guild, drivethrurpg, ENnies, fateforge, gen con, handiwork games, Jim Pinto, kickstarters, Modiphius Entertainment, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Scarred Lands, studio agate, the lord of the rings, The One Ring

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