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Guy Sclanders’ The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great GM surges through 2,000 backers

October 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 250+ page book promises to help people run better tabletop games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: guy sclanders, kickstarters, The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great GM

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #113

August 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news in a handy bullet points summary gives you an advantage in your hobby perception and wisdom rolls.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, a book of tales, adventurers league, animated dungeon maps, appendix n entertainment, Arc Dream Publishing, awkward turtle, blue fox gamebooks, bounty hunter, bright & terrible, carbon grey, chronicle cards, cloudrunner, crit academy, cubicle 7, dark-platypus studio, deck & dice games, Delta Green, doctor who, Doctor Who and the Einstein Engine, dungeon degenerates: hand of doom, dungeons & dragons annual, en publishing, fantasy heartbreaker, flying buffalo, foundry, Free League Publishing, gen con, gimmerspace, glynn seal, guy sclanders, hinterland mapview, indie game, indie groundbreaker awards, into the glowlands, jovian whispers, kobold press, laika small press, latin american monsters, lazy litches loot, Legendary Games, magnetic press play, Modiphius Entertainment, mutant chronicles, mutant: year zero, not a place of honor, our traveling home, Pelgrane Press, Planet X Games, R. Talsorian Games, ravenloft: mist hunters, rebel minis, riotminds, routinely itemised, runeforge studios, scarlet citadel, shadows over sol, shiver, soulbound, star bear games, star trek, star trek adventures, Steve Jackson Games, Stygian Fox Publishing, tab creations, tabletop gaming awards, tabletop gaming magazine, tales from the loop, the black hand, the long way home, the oracle, the witcher, To the Mountains of Madness, umbra, vergilius games, white light media, wizkids, x-treme dungeon mastery

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #105

June 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

It’s the run-up to D&D Live 2021, and Wizards of the Coast find themselves in hot water. Renegade and Paradox have pushed turbo on Vampire: The Masquerade, and while Kickstarter activity is down in launches, it’s up in requests.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, against the darkmaster, arc, Arion Games, battle box, black scrolls, bloat games, blood of the lioness, bounty hunter, Brittannia Game Designs, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, dark places & demogorgons, dms guild, dungeon forge, dungeoneer, Dungeons & Dragons, electric bastionland, Elise Cretel, fallout, forgotten realms, Free League Publishing, griffon lore games, guy sclanders, hasbro, HeroQuest, Infinity, Inkwell Ideas, inspirisles, isle of the plangent mage, joseph mccullough, Ken St Andre, ken wickham, land of the rising sun, lawman, lion banner games, momatoes, mork borg, mystic lilies, mythroll armory, nectar of the gods, on the path, orcansee game works, otherworlds, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, rosethrone publishing, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, Sentinel comics, sidequest, Steve Jackson Games, superfantasy, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, the infinite hack, the runewild, The Scourge of the Scorn Lords, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, trollish delver games, twilight: 2000, Vampire: The Masquerade, vincent baker, virtual tabletop, will uhl, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, worlds without number

Toss the dice: A review of diceless sci-fi RPG Bounty Hunter

June 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’ve run quite a few scenes with the Bounty Hunter system, and they’ve worked very well. It’s especially strong over Discord, as the lack of dice and barely any mathematics means all your attention can be on the players and the game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bounty hunter, guy sclanders, how to be a great game master, reviews, sci-fi

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #86

February 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly RPG news round-up and this week Kickstarter’s Zine Quest is a vast shape on the radar.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, age of sigmar, age of sigmar: bestiary, apon games, aron tarbuck, awfully queer heroes, blackbirds, bleak horizons press, bloat games, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Chaosium, clove pine games, cubicle 7, dapper rabbit games, deadlands, Delta Green, delta green: impossible dreams, dino-world, dnd beyond, dragon age, DwD Studios, fandom tabletop, fantasy age, gaming honors, gen con, Green Ronin Publishing, guy sclanders, headless hydra press, idyll creations, jackals, lucian kahn, magpie games, masons miniatures, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, mousehole press, nightpath publishing, orion d. black, osprey games, outside of the lines press, Paizo Publishing, pew pew, phantom mill games, philip reed, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quest, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, sara thompson, Skirmisher Publishing, spellsword home entertainment, spiel knights, star and flame games, star trek adventures, starfinder, stronghold press games, summon skate, tales of xadia, terrain tinker, the adventure guild, the burning of carbex, The Design Mechanism, the dragon prince, the expanse rpg, the last airbender, upwind, white lies

How To Be A Great Game Master host brings Epic Battlemaps to Kickstarter

December 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Guy Sclanders, the host of YouTuBe series How To Be A Great Game Master, has teamed up with Dungeon Fog to bring a book battlemaps to Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, guy sclanders, kickstarters

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