At their heart, these titles – Ironsworn, Starforged, and its expansion, Sundered Isles – are renowned for their ability to deliver a full roleplaying experience without the need for a gamemaster.
Red Mage: GMless solo-friendly Ironsworn gaming
In Red Mage, characters explore the wilderness and slaying monsters. Games can be played in 45-minute chunks and are based on Ironsworn. The SRD of that game is free to download.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #130
Drama again this week with attack lawyers dispatched against Wizards of the Coast, hassles over Kickstarters at Dragonmeet and confusion and concern over the direction Kickstarter itself might be taking.
Support small press RPG publishers with Indie Cornucopia 9 bundle
It’s a two-tier bundle that runs through to Monday, December 13th, and the DRM-free downloads are accessible from their own offer page.
Solo RPGing gets a boost with Traveler’s Ironsworn: Deluxe Edition
The Traveler’s Ironsworn: Deluxe Edition campaign enhances the PDF edition with a mobile version and produces physical colour-coded reference cards.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #119
Games company expelled from Origins, another up for sale at an eyewatering price, and so many tempting new games. A busy week of RPG news!
Call of Cthulhu grows again as Roll20 re-designs its market share report
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the 2021 Q2 Roll20 report is the re-design. D&D is still the most popular game played.
Ironsworn in space: Starforged blows Kickstarter away
Tomkin Press’ sci-fi sister RPG to Shawn Tomkin’s rightfully very popular Ironsworn is a hit. The Kickstarter community is eager to back to solo RPG, which has options for co-op and guided play.
Ironsworn Solo RPG tool The Augur updates
The latest update to The Augur adds new contextual drag and drop, new maps, locations, portraits and avatars.
The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2020
DriveThruRPG has kindly pulled some data from their vast marketplace of RPG goodness, and we can now see which RPG titles have come out top.
