Routinely Itemised: RPGs #78
This week D&D hired a new senior game designer, an army of monsters appeared on Humble Bundle, publishers backed New Gamemaster Month and a load more. It's time for a Routinely Itemised collection of RPG news.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #56
The heated conversations in the RPG community continue as the hobby space looks at ways to encourage diversity and deal with 40 years of history that don't always get everything right.
Pelgrane Press release Book of the Underworld
There are the Four Kingdoms of the Mechanical Sun that war to keep a golem-hauled solar artefact in their territory.
A look inside Hideous Creatures: A Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos with Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
Tips for keeping these Cthulhu horrors scary and an interview with author Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan.
Night’s Black Agents: Dracula Dossier
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In this history Dracula isn’ta novel. It’s a censored version of British Intelligence’s attempts to recruit a vampire.
In Night’s Black Agents from Pelgrane Press players are secret agents going up against the forces of darkness.…
Fancy a Jelly Baby: A Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Sourcebook review
Travellers in the Fourth Dimension, fighting against tyranny, ignorance and dark forces beyond imagination, The Doctor and his companions have voyaged through 800 episodes. Despite the multitude of stories, you’d think a commonality in villains and plots would mean after a while you’d just start repeating yourself.…
Between the Shadow and the Light: Review of The Darkening of Mirkwood
The Darkening of Mirkwood recounts an impressive and engaging tale of the Wilderland, encompassing all the many peoples, factions and powers of the region. The fate of Mirkwood itself lies within the richly illustrated pages of this volume, drawn from an incredibly brief source…
Now, I hate to sound like some stereotypical teacher stood ramrod straight at the front of the classroom holding forth the limp leaves of a textbook, but if you could please turn to Appendix B in your copy of Lord of the Rings (or Return of the King, if you feel inclined).…
Guess What’s Coming to Dinner: Reviewing The Esoterror Summoning Guide
The Membrane is a border between our reality and the Outer Dark, a dimension filled with terrors and darkness.
The Esoterrorists, a scattered and ill-organised group of occultists and outright mad men, work tirelessly to tear down that barrier between worlds to loose the floodgates to ultimate power.…
Things That Go Fhtägn in the Night: A Review of Cultists Under The Bed, for The Laundry RPG
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was formed during World War II as a secret unit engaged in combating certain enemies and forces intent on activities esoteric and occult. With Hitler’s Abwehr-SS hell-bent on the use of malevolent and otherworldly weapons to change the course of the war, Britain needed a counter-force.…
Which new RPG does Cubicle 7’s reshuffle point to?
Cubicle 7 has announced the appointment of four new members of staff, including Andrew Kenrick who will be coming on board as the publisher’s new Managing Editor.
I asked whether Kenrick’s appointment meant any changes to the role of Dominic McDowall as CEO.…
