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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #65

September 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lots of interesting new tabletop roleplaying games to look at, free downloads, playtests and Cyberpunk Red is getting even closer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, acheron, Adamant Entertainment, alice is missing, alien rpg, Andrews McMeel, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, cypher system, destroyer of worlds, dog might games, drivethrurpg, en publishing, Fighting Fantasy, Free League Publishing, FUDGE, kids on brooms, kobold press, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, neverland, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Philip J Reed, R. Talsorian Games, roll20con, routinely itemised, scion, silver vine publishing, Steve Jackson Games, strata miniatures, swordsfall, tabletop gaming live, the ultraviolet grasslands, those dark places, warhammer, wrath & glory

Free Fighting Fantasy dice with Crystal of Storms pre-orders

September 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a new Fighting Fantasy book coming. Crystal of Storms is written by Rhianna Pratchett, and that’ll make her the first-ever female guest author to contribute to the long-running adventure gamebook series.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: dice, Fighting Fantasy, Ian Livingstone, rhianna pratchett

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #64

September 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yeet!

A glance at some noteworthy RPG releases this week along with yet another busy RPG news section. Kickstarter seems to get more alive with each passing day, recovering strongly from the lockdown slump.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arion Games, astral tabletop, beam saber, Call of Cthulhu, cubicle 7, Darklight Interactive, diego pisa artworks, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Eloy Lasanta, en publishing, Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, Fighting Fantasy, forbidden lands, gallant knight games, lex arcana, Matt Forbeck, mythic odysseys of theros, Newt Newport, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, quality games, rime of the frostmaiden, Robert J. Schwalb, routinely itemised, savage worlds, savage worlds adventurer's guild, Shotguns & Sorcery, starfinder, tasha's cauldron of everything, the grinning frog, the wagadu chronicles, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #53

June 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest news from D&D live, Rime of the Frostmaiden, free downloads and big money dice campaigns on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, Arc Dream Publishing, Arcanist Press, brancalonia, burn bryte, chronicle system, cubicle 7, cypher system, d&d live, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, Fighting Fantasy, foundry, game of thrones, Green Ronin Publishing, keyforge, kings of war, kobold press, legends of avallen, lex arcana, Monte Cook Games, nerdburger games, Paizo Publishing, q-workshop, red scar publishing, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, shadows in the mist, soulbound, sword chronicle, the dark eye, those dark places, Tuesday Knight Games, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

Fighting Fantasy rumbles back to life

June 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Scholastic will publish the Return to Firetop Mountain on the 1st of October and two other titles yet to be announced.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Advanced Fighting Fantasy, Arion Games, Fighting Fantasy

How to play a tabletop RPG by yourself

December 15, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 12 Comments

Can you play Dungeons & Dragons by yourself? Can you play Warhammer, The Witcher and Pathfinder by yourself?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: discord, Fantasy Grounds, Fighting Fantasy, lone wolf, roll20, solo rpgs, trollish delver games

Fighting Fantasy Legends launches

July 27, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tucked away in the English down of Lymm, in Cheshire, there’s a small team of veteran digital designers called Nomad Games. They’ve got their hands on the Fighting Fantasy license! Here’s what Steve Jackson had to say about that! We are proud to have been working with Nomad on Fighting Fantasy Legends. Throughout the development […]

Filed Under: Mobile, PC Tagged With: Fighting Fantasy, Ian Livingstone, Steam, steve jackson

Gamer legend: A review of the Art of Ian Miller

July 7, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Ian Miller is an artist that old school gamers will know well. He drew for the first edition of Warhammer 40,000 and Realms of Chaos. He illustrated for Shadowrun and sister Earthdawn as well as Everway. Miller worked on Fighting Fantasy game books and has featured on covers for the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, William […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: earthdawn, fantasy, Fighting Fantasy, games workshop, reviews, Shadowrun, warhammer 40k

A week left to be a hero

December 30, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412864360/you-are-the-hero/ [Back this Campaign] You Are the Hero is a Kickstarter campaign by the author Jonathan Green. The goal is to raise £15,000 to fund a celebration of 30 years of Fighting Fantasy, a book with a forward from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone themselves, art and insight. At the time this post was written […]

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fighting Fantasy, Ian Livingstone, kickstarters, steve jackson

Exclusive: Steve Jackson shares his Peter Molyneux stories

November 15, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This wonderful clip is from the proposed Fighting Fantasty documentary film and shows Steve Jackson discussing the equally famous Peter Molyneux. Steve Jackson describes Molyneux perfectly. His strength is in designing wonderful games and working with small, devoted, teams. Of course, Jackson is describing how Molyneux went from Bullfrog Productions (Populous, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper and […]

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: 22Cans, Fighting Fantasy, Peter Molyneux, steve jackson

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