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Trail of Cthulhu offers a free quickstart as the crowdfunding summoning rite goes well

November 1, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Trail of Cthulhu 2e gamemasters are provided with resources to design horror mystery adventures, including guidelines for creating Cthulhuoid creatures, cults, and narrative frameworks for long-running campaigns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crowdfunding, cthulhu, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Pelgrane Press, robin d laws, Trail of Cthulhu

Beowulf RPG adapts 5e for just two players: Heads back to Kickstarter

April 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Handiwork’s Beowulf Age of Heroes has been a success. The RPG was designed to be played with just two people, one player and one person running it and adapts the 5e rules which are so widely known.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: beowulf, Dungeons & Dragons, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #146

April 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’ve tried my best not to include any pranks in this news summary. I am stupid, though, and may have been tricked. I don’t think so…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bully Pulpit Games, cortex, diego pisa artworks, dms guild, dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, fandom tabletop, Free League Publishing, gamefound, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, handiwork games, humble bundle, Jon Peterson, Knight Errant Media, kobold press, legends of avallen, Mike Pondsmith, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, Nightfall Games, old gods of appalachia, Outland Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, postworldgames, rebellion unplugged, roll20, rollvsevil, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Son of Oak Game Studio, star trek adventures, stokerverse, tales of xadia, tarot, the dragon prince, titan effect, traveller, Vampire: The Masquerade

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #145

March 25, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week’s RPG news covers the latest D&D books, virtual tabletop deals, reviews and bundle deals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arcadia, awfully queer heroes, coyote & crow, cubicle 7, cyberpunk 2077, Descent into Avernus, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, foundry vtt, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, handiwork games, Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, Ken St Andre, limitless adventures, matthew dawkins, Pelgrane Press, philip reed, R. Talsorian Games, rebellion unplugged, rollvsevil, routinely itemised, star trek adventures, steven crompton, Synthicide, The Esoterrorists, The One Ring, the oracle, viking death squad, will power games, wizards of the coast, wyrmwood gaming

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #95

April 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In the latest routinely itemised RPG news round-up, we have the release of the Dune 2d20 RPG, Goodman Games buying Dark Tower and an impressive video platform for your tabletop gaming group.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Accessible Games, agon, Brittannia Game Designs, candlekeep mysteries, Cepheus Engine, Chivalry & Sorcery, cubicle 7, dragons, dune, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, edge, en publishing, Evil Hat Productions, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, goodman games, handiwork games, jay dragon, kobold press, micro rpg, Modiphius, moonmares games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, powered by the apocalypse, realmwarp media, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, sidequest, soulbound, star frontiers, tabletops & tentacles, The Esoterrorists, trokia!, twilight imperium, UltraPro, vaesen, vaesen: mythic britain, wanderhome, warhammer 40k, wrath & glory

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #78

December 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Amanda Hamon, bundles, christmas, Coriolis, Crystal Frasier, cubicle 7, dnd beyond, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, Elephant & Macaw Banner, entromancy, Fantasy Grounds, First Responders, foundry, gama, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, godforsaken, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, gumshoe, handimonsters, handiwork games, humble bundle, jonathan hicks, loresmyth, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, nightpath publishing, Outland Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, Philip J Reed, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, rifts, routinely itemised, savage worlds, schwalb entertainment, Shadow of the Demon Lord, starfinder, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, those dark places, tombpunk, trophy, warhammer, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #56

July 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, Amanda Hamon, apotheosis studios, Chaosium, critical role, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Green Ronin Publishing, gumshoe, ico partners, iron kingdoms, Jim Pinto, kids on brooms, kobold press, mythic odysseys of theros, Necromancer Games, orion d. black, Pelgrane Press, Privateer Press, routinely itemised, sara thompson, Shadowrun, the red opera, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, vault comics, warhammer, wizards of the coast

Pelgrane Press release Book of the Underworld

March 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are the Four Kingdoms of the Mechanical Sun that war to keep a golem-hauled solar artefact in their territory.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, john-matthew defoggi, Pelgrane Press, Rob Heinsoo

A look inside Hideous Creatures: A Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos with Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

May 21, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tips for keeping these Cthulhu horrors scary and an interview with author Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cthulhu, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Pelgrane Press, Trail of Cthulhu

Night’s Black Agents: Dracula Dossier

November 17, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this Campaign] 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. It won two silver ENnie awards (best Game and Best Writing) and picked up additional nominations […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Kenneth Hite, kickstarters, Night’s Black Agents, Pelgrane Press, vampires

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