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RPG Publisher Spotlight: Handiwork Games

December 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re a small band of creators based around the world, but mostly in Scotland, UK. We have team members in England, The US, and New Zealand. 

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, beowulf, handimonsters, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, spotlight, The One Ring

Tremendous karma and RPG goodness are in these generous Doctors Without Borders megabundles

March 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I don’t have the context; I just noticed the bundles going live and presume that we’ve the tabletop RPG community of publishers and creators rallying to raise money for war-torn Ukraine.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, charity, dms guild, drivethrurpg, Eclipse Phase, fading embers, Genesis of Legend Publishing, handimonsters, handiwork games, magpie games, posthuman studios, tab creations, valiant

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #135

January 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week with more TSR drama, horror RPGs, killer future robots and babies with broadswords.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: arc, awfully queer heroes, Babies and Broadswords, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, coyote & crow, crow land publishing, darrington press, fat dragon games, gallantfunding, goodman games, handimonsters, handiwork games, humble bundle, Loke BattleMats, mindjammer press, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Outland Entertainment, philip reed, roll20, root, routinely itemised, Skirmisher Publishing, terminator, They Came From Beyond the Grave, TSR, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

Handimonsters Annual 2022 turns a Patreon of monsters into a book

January 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Handimonsters Annual 2022 is the first of its kind and, in 5e-terms, features monsters like the subterranean knackers of CR 1/4 to the Dragon of Dreams with CR 20.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, handimonsters, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, monsters, Paul Bourne, Scott Purdy

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #99

May 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Roll20 price increase, D&D movie starts to film, and a US court throws out a legal case against Gen Con. It’s been a week of RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, awfully cheerful engine, broken tales, convergence, Craig Campbell, Creature Curation, cubicle 7, d&d live, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Fire Ruby Designs, handimonsters, hasbro, inspirisles, Jonathan Goldstein, laidback dungeon master, Legendary Games, limitless adventures, nerdburger games, onebookshelf, pathfinder, Ptolus, roll20, routinely itemised, soulbound, soulbound starter set, Symbaroum, uk games expo, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, wet ink games, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, XII: Inner Demons

Free to Download: 6 monsters

April 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The preview suggests we’ll get the Knacker, Quicksilver Troll, Spell-Thief, Holigean and Swamp Boulder among the collection.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, handimonsters, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, monsters, Patreon, Scott Purdy

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

Handiwork Games launch Handimonsters subscription

December 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designed by Jon Hodgson and Jacob Rodgers, two tabletop veterans the three-tiered model comes complete with fantastic art and expertly balanced stats.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, handimonsters, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, monsters, Patreon

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