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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #8

August 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the first weekly round-up of RPG news and discoveries since Gen Con happened.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Deborah Ann Woll, Eberron, ENnies, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, geek & sundry, gen con, genesys, green ronin, Keith Baker, lord of the rings, Marisha Ray, Newt Newport, Nightfall Games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, raging swan press, red scar publishing, routinely itemised, SLA Industries, the adventure zone, the lord of the rings, The One Ring, titansgrave, Wil Wheaton, wizards of the coast

The ‘other’ best selling RPGs of 2018

December 31, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If your RPG doesn’t fit nicely into any of the provided genres or it can also be used in extra genres then DriveThruRPG provides the ‘Other’ tag as a place to put your game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, flatland games, genesys, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, Monte Cook Games, Numenera, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Ryuutama, savage worlds, torg: eternity

The best selling Western RPGs of 2018

December 30, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To round off the year Geek Native and DriveThruRPG has been going through the best selling RPGs from the retailer’s genre tags.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dias Ex Machina Games, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, hunters entertainment, kids on bikes, runehammer games, through the breach, ultramodern5, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures

The best selling pulp RPGs of 2018

December 28, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To make this list an RPG has to be in the top ten sellers (Jan 1st to Dec 11th) of all the games the publishers have added the ‘pulp’ genre tag too. This means we’ve games that are solidly in the pulp genre, systems which could but don’t have to be used for pulp RPGs and even games you might not consider pulp at all.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, exalted, fantasy flight games, genesys, greg gillespie, John Wick Presents, Modiphius Entertainment, North Wind Adventures, onyx path publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Stygian Fox Publishing

The best selling modern genre RPGs of 2018

December 23, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 6 Comments

As we approach the end of the year Geek Native has been sifting through data from DriveThruRPG to see which games sold the best from which genre. As it happens, games can belong to many genres, and we’re starting to see some overlaps. In this chapter, we look at games tagged ‘modern’ by the publisher […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, changeling: the dreaming, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, onyx path publishing, Shadowrun, Werewolf: The Apocalypse

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2018

December 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Old and new titles pepper the best selling sci-fi games of the year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk 2020, fantasy flight games, genesys, kevin crawford, Modiphius Entertainment, R. Talsorian Games, runehammer games, sci-fi, Shadowrun, sine nomine publishing, star trek, star trek adventures, Stars without Number, Ulisses Spiele, wrath & glory

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2018

December 18, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s no doubt that Dungeons & Dragons had an amazing year. Dungeons & Dragons 5e toped the ICv2 bestseller charts every quarter. The natural rival is Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder, and this game also had an interesting year with the playtest for Pathfinder 2e underway. Here we find two titans of the fantasy RPG genre. But […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cody pondsmith, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, grim & perilous studios, joseph mccullough, R. Talsorian Games, the witcher, warhammer, wayfinder's guide to eberron

Fantasy Flight Games launch new RPG Genesys

June 27, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Genesys is a new RPG from Fantasy Flight Games that uses the Narrative Dice System. The system is compatible with any setting and the Genesys Core Rulebook comes with an overview of five different ones. Also in the Core Rules are the mechanics of the game and an introduction to the Narrative Dice System. The […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fantasy flight games, genesys

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