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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #84

January 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs summarises weekly RPG news, new releases, interviews with roleplaying designers and handy tips.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: beowulf, bundles, Chaosium, cubicle 7, derek kolstad, Dungeons & Dragons, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, GURPS, handiwork games, onyx path publishing, realmwarp media, routinely itemised, sandy pug games, shadows in the mist, Symbaroum, The Design Mechanism, the oracle, warhammer age of sigmar, wizards of the coast

The Forbidden Lands retro-fantasy RPG comes to The Bundle of Holding

January 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the Forbidden Lands, characters are not heroes; they are rogues. The open-world game is about discovering ancient ruins as you explore the map, fighting monsters and trying to live long enough to build a stronghold.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, sales

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

Basic D&D Compared to Forbidden Lands: Layout and Format Matter

February 2, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody 1 Comment

I vastly prefer an RPG book with a layout meant to facilitate use at the table rather than written like a book with blocks of paragraphs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, forbidden lands, old-school essentials

RPG Rules that affect the use of fictional violence

December 4, 2019 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

A variety of RPGs provide mechanical effects that affect the use of violence in a game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, Delta Green, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, Robert J. Schwalb, rpg ideas, Shadow of the Demon Lord, star wars

2019 ENnies results: Chaosium and Free League has a great night

August 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A look at who did well and who might have gone home feeling disappointed after the 2019 ENnie awards.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, cubicle 7, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, hunters entertainment, ironsworn, kids on bikes, kobold press, kult: divinty lost, Monte Cook Games, mothership, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Renegade Game Studios, runequest, Stygian Fox Publishing, Symbaroum, Tuesday Knight Games, warhammer, World Anvil

Free League’s Forbidden Lands RPG offers a twist to the classic fantasy

December 7, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the game, players take on the roles of rogues and raiders, not heroes, who are brave and bold enough to carve out their names in a cursed world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ben milton, Chris McDowall, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, Modiphius Entertainment, Simon Stalenhag

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