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RPG Publisher Spotlight: Sketchy Van RPG

November 24, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve been able to line up none other than ‘Space Wizard at Sketchy Van’, Andrew Duvall, for an interview.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cairn, cartography, exalted funeral, Into The Odd, pirate borg, spotlight

Welcome defleshed! It’s the Skin City TTRPG

October 10, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Skin City is a tabletop roleplaying game designed for one-shots and based on Into the Odd, a rules-light system created by Chris McDowall.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Into The Odd, kickstarters

Cairn 2e funds; Cairn 1e is free to download

April 3, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Cairn is a rules-light tabletop RPG with a good reputation. The second edition in boxed set form is smashing it on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cairn, Into The Odd, kickstarter

Cornucopia 2023: Bundle of Holding’s annual special is life

November 23, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Bundle of Holding has had a busy 2024 and brought many great RPGs to gamers’ desktops at specially discounted prices, but there is still time for an all-new Cornucopia bundle.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Into The Odd, outgunned

On the odder side: Twisted tales RPG where Something Wicked This Way Comes meets Neverwhere

November 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pizza Games has gone in dark, or at least weird horror, for an Into the Odd-inspired TTRPG called “On the Odder Side”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Into The Odd, kickstarters

Free quickstart rules as Mythic Bastionland TTRPG “Before Into the Odd” surges on Kickstarter

November 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are now well over 3,000 backers and £180,000 pledged to Chris McDowall’s Mythic Bastionland RPG. The game is an imagined past of two other RPGs: Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, electric bastionland, Into The Odd, kickstarters

YZ Worldbuilding: Into the Odd – A Whole Campaign in One Book

December 4, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month covers Into the Odd. This one book RPG contains not only a complete rule set but also an entire campaign, including dungeons, a hex crawl, and a city all between two covers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Into The Odd, world building, year zero world building

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #129

December 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summarised from the week that’s just gone with reviews, interviews, bundle deals, competitions and crowdfunding projects.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, a couple of drakes, Achtung! Cthulhu, bandit camp, brindlewood bay, broken shield, carbon 2185, Chaosium, city of mist, Claim the Sky, cortex, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dc comics, defiant, dms guild, dndbeyond, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, edge, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, en publishing, fairy trails, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, game machinery, ghost hunters, gila, goodman games, Gunnar Roxen, haunted west, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, just crunch games, Legendary Games, legends of avallen, magpie games, Mana Project Studio, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, nightfell, Nova, paranoia, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, root, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, Steffie de Vaan, storm crow, strixhaven, the dee sanction, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Matrix, The One Ring, traveller, truffle shuffle, Tuesday Knight Games, twilight imperium, Victoriana, World Anvil, xploringmap

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #120

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re getting 50th-anniversary games, and that’s new paper to buy, but we’re not yet sure whether we will get more D&D 5.0, 5.5 or even 6.0.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcadia, blackbirds, bloat games, bounty hunter, cmon, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Diana Jones Award, everway, HARP, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, jackals, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, osprey games, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, rackham vale, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, Shotguns & Sorcery, Son of Oak Game Studio, Steve Jackson Games, the gaia complex, the oracle, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Tiamat, Torment: Tides of Numenera, two little mice, Victoriana, wizards of the coast

Chris McDowall, Johan Nohr and Free League launch the Into the Odd Remastered Kickstarter

September 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The rules-light, flavourful, tabletop RPG of industrial horror with cosmic weird woven in.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Free League Publishing, Into The Odd, Johan Nohr, kickstarters

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