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Harlem Unbound creator Chris Spivey joins Delta Green’s Arc Dream Publishing

August 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Arc Dream Publishing, the team behind Delta Green, has hired Chris Spivey of Harlem Unbound fame and confirmed The Black Company RPG is still in the works.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, chris spivey, Delta Green, Harlem Unbound, Shane Ivey

Why did Jared Rascher stop RPG reviews? An interview

February 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

On the second of February the respected RPG blog What Do I Know? shocked me.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: good society, Harlem Unbound, pandora

Genre Police: The Adventure Continues

June 3, 2024 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

So let’s examine some of the ways we can process an adventure and prep it for a specific group.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, feng shui, genre police, Harlem Unbound

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #69

October 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s weekly RPG news herding with headlines, interviews reviews and new releases all squished into several bullet point lists.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Chaosium, cyberpunk red, death on the reik, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, Elisa Teague, fasa, ghost hunters, godforsaken, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, Harlem Unbound, HeroQuest, kobold press, loresmyth, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, onyx path publishing, peril planet, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, Shanna Germain, the black hack!, the wildsea, traveller, warhammer, wizards of the coast, wizkids, zavvi

Free to Download: Harlem Unbound Free Handouts Pack (Call of Cthulhu)

October 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Set in Prohibition-era New York City, Harlem Unbound tells stories of African-Americans escaping the oppressive South for a better life. Except, this better life is full of shadows, and dangers that creep through alleys and lurk in the space between doorways.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, chris spivey, cthulhu, free to download, Harlem Unbound, itch.io

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #57

July 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New rules for D&D as Wizards of the Coast test new feats while, behind the scenes, they recruit for a diversity manager. Alternative rules to 5e’s race system take the best-seller slot at DriveThruRPG’s big sale too.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dots rpg project, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Harlem Unbound, orion d. black, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, sales, savage worlds, storm bunny studios, the green knight, uk games expo, unearthed arcana, virtually expo, warhammer

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #49

May 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cancellations strike the big conventions, but there’s more happening online, and such an event might introduce a new campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, bundle of holding, chris spivey, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, d&d live, dnd beyond, ENnies, essen game fair, fate of the norns, gail simone, gen con, gen con online, Harlem Unbound, humblewood, kobold press, lord of the rings, Mike Mearls, Nightfall Games, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, Palladium Books, pathfinder, realmwarp media, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, routinely itemised, soulbound, stargate, storybrewers, tab creations, the expanse rpg, the fantasy trip, The One Ring, World Anvil, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #41

March 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A week worth of RPG news bundled into a series of handy bullet-point lists.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, basic roleplaying, blue rose, capers, castles & crusades, Chaosium, contessa, Dungeons & Dragons, Green Ronin Publishing, Harlem Unbound, legendlore, nerdburger games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, pathfinder, routinely itemised, third eye games, Troll Lord Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast

Chaosium picks up 3 times ENnie winning Harlem Unbound and will publish the second edition

August 14, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Darker Hue Studios had a cracking ENnies this year. Chris Spivey’s indie Call of Cthulhu (and Gumshoe) supplement Harlem Unbound won three ENnies. It took home gold for Best Setting, Best Writing and Best Art (Cover). That’s not mucking around. The mystery is set in 1920s New York City Harlem, prohibition is in full swing […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, chris spivey, Darker Hue Studios, gumshoe, Harlem Unbound

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