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Impressive innovation: Hero Forge offer 3d-printed custom dice

March 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I don’t need any more dice and haven’t tested Hero Forge’s claims that their new dice are balanced but I am incredibly impressed at their custom dice offer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 3d printing, dice, hero forge, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #140

February 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A leak or a D&D release on purpose? A musical D&D experience, a last chance to get the latest Judge Dredd RPG, a look at the horror RPG Red Giant and more RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, apotheosis, Chaosium, critical role, crow land publishing, Dark Souls, deadlands, diego pisa artworks, Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, en publishing, fallout: wasteland warfare, Free League Publishing, free rpg day, hasbro, hero forge, itch.io, judge dredd & the worlds of 2000 AD, level up, Modiphius Entertainment, osprey games, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, power rangers, rackham vale, realmwarp media, red giant, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Steamforged Games, the oracle, the wagadu chronicles, the world anvil publishing, triple ace games, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast

Two Heroes at Hero Forge: Discussing the custom mini designer’s latest feature

February 17, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Two Heroes system allows users to add a second character to the base of a Hero Forge mini.

Filed Under: Interviews, Sites Tagged With: 3d printers, hero forge, minis

Gift Vouchers from tabletop and RPG companies

December 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’re as bad as me, you may have left all your Christmas and festive gift buying until the last minute.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: christmas, christmas gift, dms guild, drivethrucomics, drivethrufiction, drivethrurpg, Evil Hat Productions, games workshop, goodman games, hero forge, itch.io, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Reaper Miniatures, Renegade Game Studios, shopping

Creating a Cowboy Bebop mini with Hero Forge

November 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

My cunning plan was to see if I could use Hero Forge, a name loaded with fantasy overtones, to design and produce a mini for a future Cowboy Bebop tabletop game.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Cowboy Bebop, hero forge, minis, reviews

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #102

May 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet point speed for fast-find new releases, interviews, reviews and bundle deals. An at-a-glance catch-up of the recent RPG headlines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, adventurers league, black armada, blades in the dark, bloat games, bundle of holding, city of mist, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, daniel kwan, diego pisa artworks, dms guild, drow, Green Ronin Publishing, headless hydra press, hero forge, humble bundle, jackals, journey, kingdom, knock!, kobold press, last fleet, Malleus Monstrorum, micro rpg, mighty narwhal productions, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, morra, Nova, philip reed, planescape, Ptolus, realmwarp media, Renegade Game Studios, rifts, roll20, routinely itemised, Shawn Tomkin, SLA Industries, Son of Oak Game Studio, the expanse rpg, the troubleshooters, World Anvil

Mythbusting: Can you Instagram your Hero Forge models?

May 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The T&Cs to Hero Forge might seem a little restrictive. Do they really mean you can’t show your painted minis on Instagram or paint them on a Twitch stream?

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: hero forge, minis, models

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #90

March 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs is a regular RPG news summary which, this week, looks at D&D Beyond’s founder joining a new gaming start-up, virtual virtual tabletops, an utter mess over at Kickstarter and a solved mess with The Palace of the Vampire Queen.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adam bradford, Arc Dream Publishing, Bully Pulpit Games, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Delta Green, demeo, demiplane, Dishonored, Francesco Nepitello, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, gen con, Greg Stolze, handiwork games, hero forge, index card rpg, jackals, Legendary Games, lord of the rings, Luke Crane, magpie games, Mark Diaz Truman, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Palace of the Vampire Queen, philip reed, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Precis Intermedia, R. Talsorian Games, rifts, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadowrun, stellagama publishing, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Printing money: Hero Forge 2.0 goes viral with Kickstarter

January 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Hero Forge 2.0 will be a tool that lets you design your own custom mini by mixing and matching from templates and colours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: hero forge, kickstarters, models

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #30

January 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly summary of RPG news. This week we look into Dungeons & Dragons, Soulbound, Fallout and what’s happening at Fantasy Flight Games’ RPG department.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Alderac Entertainment Group, Arc Dream Publishing, Battlefield Press, Chaosium, Coriolis, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, HARP, hero forge, hunters entertainment, Iron Crown Enterprises, keyforge, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, soulbound, warhammer, wizards of the coast

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