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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #165

August 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised offers bullet points of RPG news, latest releases, reviews, interviews, and RPG tips from around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, gencon, monsters, rollinkunz, routinely itemised

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #118

September 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A newly announced D&D event, new directors at GAMA, controversy and a whole tonne of new RPGs.

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Megagames and COVID-19

December 16, 2020 by Guest Writer 1 Comment

Megagames are a large scale game with aspects of board game, political roleplay, and resource management game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gencon

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #46

May 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletop RPG news for a week squished into a series of easy scan bullet-point lists. Dungeons & Dragons fights, Starfinder dice and more Kickstarters than you can shake a magic item at.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, All Rolled Up, Arion Games, astral tabletop, battlelords of the 23rd century, Chaosium, cubicle 7, destroyer of worlds, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, gencon, goodman games, Legend of the Five Rings, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, q-workshop, routinely itemised, soulbound, storm bunny studios, The Design Mechanism, the grinning frog, uk games expo, warhammer, warhammer 40k

Gen Con threatens to boycott Indianapolis

March 25, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Gen Con is Indianapolis Convention Center’s largest customer and brings millions in cash to the city. Created by Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, the convention has grown and grown. It’s a powerhouse. Gen Con isn’t very happy with the Indianapolis Governor Mike Pence’s “religious freedom” bill. The bill, State Bill 101, apparently […]

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The ENnie 2014 Awards: who are the winners?

August 16, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 7 Comments

It’s GenCon and that means one of the year’s biggest and most popular set of gaming awards: The ENNies. As usual competition was fierce. For almost all of the 20+ categories there were two prizes to fight for; gold and silver. Geek Native has the full list of winners below. Did anyone publisher thrash the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, cubicle 7, ENnies, Evil Hat Productions, frog god games, gencon, green ronin, Modiphius, Monte Cook Games, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment, Sneak Attack Press, The Orr Group

Feeling down? Missing GenCon? Virtually visit Anti-GenCon instead!

August 12, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This blogger isn’t going to GenCon. It’s on the wrong side of the world. If only there was a virtual alternative? There is! The Anti-GenCon con was set up by Jez Gordon. It’s a chance for those roleplayers who can’t or don’t want to get involved with Gen Con to still meet up, play some […]

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Have Barnes and Noble just leaked D&D 5e release dates?

March 2, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

US retailer Barnes and Noble have two new pre-order entries on their website. The first is D&D Starter Set and the second is D&D Player’s Handbook. There really isn’t much on either page. There’s price and release date. The D&D Starter Set is due out on the 15th July, 2014 and will cost $19.99 ($17.99 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: D&D Next, Dungeons & Dragons, gencon, wizards of the coast

Chris Pramas: Green Ronin survived the theft of $100,000 and now deals directly with George R. R. Martin

March 25, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chris Pramas is the President of Green Ronin Publishing and veteran of the roleplaying industry. He’s worked for Wizards of the Coast, signed deals with George R. R. Martin and is currently mid-Kickstarter with Freeport: The City of Adventure for the Pathfinder RPG. In this interview we’re reminded that Green Ronin had a whirlwind of […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blue rose, dc comics, dragon age, Evil Hat Productions, fate core, Felicia Day, freeport, game of thrones, geek & sundry, gencon, George R. R. Martin, green ronin, kickstarters, pathfinder, Wil Wheaton

Mass Effect cosplay: Samara

August 12, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

There was no shortage of very impressive cosplay at GenCon this year. In fact, GenCon must surely be an established cosplay brand by now. Mass Effect is both a popular CRPG and a hard game to cosplay. Step forward to this Samara cosplayer who does so very well. That’s pretty impressive Shepard cosplay armour behind […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cosplay, gencon, mass effect 2

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