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New Year, New Game: 7,327 titles in DriveThruRPG’s push to persuade TTRPGers to try something new

January 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Like Free RPG Day, the purpose of New Year, New Game is to make trying a new tabletop roleplaying game less scary and more attractive.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cepheus Deluxe, cyberpunk red, drivethrurpg, Hero Kids, sales, savage worlds, worlds without number

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #93

March 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this week’s RPG news round-up, we confirm Free RPG Day will happen, why the D&D TV show might be like First Blood and the character portrait generator site NeverEnding on adding prosthetic options to illustrations.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, agon, Auroborus: coils of the serpent, awfully queer heroes, candlekeep mysteries, Chaosium, derek kolstad, epic, fallout, free rpg day, GURPS, Hero Games, Hero Kids, Ill Gotten Games, Jim Pinto, Legendary Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, postworldgames, rangers of shadow deep, roll20, routinely itemised, runequest, Skirmisher Publishing, star trek adventures, Steve Jackson Games, the fantasy trip, warchief gaming, wizards of the coast, xploringmap

Free to Download: Hero Kids – Fantasy RPG

March 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Justin Halliday’s adamantine best-seller Hero Kids is free to download, but only until April 1st.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Hero Kids

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #73

November 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news all summarised into handy bullet-point lists. That’s the name of the game in this Friday’s Routinely Itemised.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, agents of edgewatch, beadle & grimm, bundle of holding, castles & crusades, Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, Ex Stasis Games, fallout: wasteland warfare, Fantasy Grounds, foundry, Free League Publishing, Hero Kids, jackals, kobold press, limitless adventures, lion banner games, midnight tower, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quest, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Skeletonkey games, spelljammer, tasha's cauldron of everything, the children of fear, The One Ring, tome of beasts, Troll Lord Games, warhammer age of sigmar, wizards of the coast

The best selling generic RPGs of 2019

December 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The top ten best-selling generic or multi-genre RPGs published in 2019.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, drivethrurpg, Evil Hat Productions, FATE, Hero Kids, Monte Cook Games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, samjoko publishing, savage worlds

The best selling family RPGs of 2019

December 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this post, we’re counting up those RPGs, accessories and supplements published this year and uploaded with the “Family” tag.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, My Little Pony, river horse, w.m. akers

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #3

July 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What happened in the RPG industry this week? ENnnie 2019 nominations, “Oops, sorry, our artwork was too similar” and superheroes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, black void, capers, carbon 2185, city of mist, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dice, dms guild, earthdawn, ENnies, fragged empire, frog god games, gen con, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, Infinity, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, savage worlds, uncaged, warhammer

Superhero Week: Getting to know the award-winning Hero Kids RPG and Super Kids!

July 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Super Kids previews and a chat about Hero Kids and the new Guild.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, previews, superhero week, superheroes

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 family RPGs of 2018

December 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The good news is that the ‘family genre’ at DriveThruRPG is the cheapest, by a large amount, of the genres we’ve looked at so far.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, joseph mccullough, onyx path publishing, pugmire, Ryuutama, w.m. akers

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