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Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)

April 3, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?

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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #103

June 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It feels like a spicy week, with plenty of news and a noticeable uptick in Kickstarter activity. Oh, and the powerhouse Marvel returning to roleplaying games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, action fiction, adam bradford, aegis studios, age of sigmar, angry hamster publishing, Battlefield Press, beowulf, big bad bundle, blood sword, burst, carovea victor, category, Chaosium, children of blood, city of flesh, Coiledspring, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, czrpg, dancing light press, deep dungeon games, deep7, demiplane, devil's run, doodlemeeple, dreadlore, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon master's screen, Dungeons & Dragons, explore dungeons, fate fantastic creatures, fool's moon entertainment, Gamma World, Green Ronin Publishing, grimmworld, hack shack games, handiwork games, harps corp, Ill Gotten Games, inkblood book company, itch.io, jackals, Knight Errant Media, Mansion of Madness, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, mazes, Modiphius Entertainment, monkeydm, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, necrobiotic, osprey games, Owen Stephens, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, pathfinder, penny for a tale, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, pluma press, ponyfinder, Ptolus, R. Talsorian Games, Ravenloft, red scar publishing, rogue genius games, roll20, routers, routinely itemised, sapience, savage worlds, secrets of silent streets, seven stones, ships of the expanse, Skirmisher Publishing, smunchy games, soulbound starter set, soulbound: champions of death, soulbound: stars and scales, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, tempo games, the bard chronicles, the expanse rpg, the fateful force, the hammer and the stake, the oracle, titan effect, traveller, valley of the lost, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, veloriaminiatures, venger's decks, wanderworld, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, women+ rpg con, World Anvil

D&D: Wizards of the Coast release a first edition post-apocalyptic Gamma World bundle

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 6 Comments

Gamma World is a post-apocalyptic setting for D&D. Characters might encounter mutant plants and twisted animals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Gamma World, James M. Ward, wizards of the coast

GM’s Day starts early at DrivethruRPG: 80% off some bundles

February 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are nearly 50,000 titles in the discount list and at the time of writing Shadowrun, Changeling: the Lost (second edition) and Fate Space Toolkit Prototype Edition, Wrath and Glory and Warhammer Fantasy 4e are in the top five positions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, drivethrurpg, Gamma World, international gm's day, John Wick Presents, midgard, Monte Cook, onyx path publishing, sales, scion, wizards of the coast

Genre Police: The Sum Of All Fears

June 10, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

It’s far too late, far far too late to do anything about it. The end is not nigh, it’s been and gone. All that remains is this wasteland. And into this wasteland comes one man, a man with a mission to inform you about a genre. Count your bullets road warriors, let’s drive headlong into […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Apocalypse, apocalypse world, danily shunkov, Gamma World, genre police, mutant: year zero, post-apocalypse

Who won the 2012 Origin Awards?

June 6, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A little late with this news but the winners of the 2012 Origin Awards are out. We see a good mix of winners with 18XX and Gamma World being added to the Hall of Fame. Two companies won two awards. Care to guess which? One was Wizards of the Coast – winning for Best Collectable […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 18xx, academy games, battlefront miniatures, Catalyst Game Labs, cthulhu, cubicle 7, flying buffalo, Gamma World, mayday games, open design, origins, paradigm concepts, Privateer Press, warlord games, wildfire, wizards of the coast

Wizards gamble with new D&D Gamma World

October 4, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The new Gamma World is due out in the UK very soon. Wizards of the Coast are taking a gamble with it but it is an understandable gamble. Firstly, they’re strongly connecting the D&D brand to it this time. There’s not that familiar d20 logo to act as the outstretched hand to new players this […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Gamma World, wizards of the coast

RPG News: Talisman to be printed again | Echoes #4

December 19, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These stories have been rounded up from all over the internet but many of them come from GamingReport which, as a partner site, remains GameWyrd’s number one choice for industry news. Direct quotes from GamingReport appear in blue text. Topics Talisman to be printed again. Gamma World makes a return. The End of the World […]

Filed Under: Echoes from the Wyrd Tagged With: Alderac Entertainment Group, echoes from the wyrd, Gamma World, Legend of the Five Rings, rpg, wizards of the coast

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