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Dungeons & Dragons made this obscure Scottish word well-known

December 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To be more confusing, Scots is a different language from Scots Gaelic. The former is a Germanic language and the latter Goidelic.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Jack Vance

DCC Dying Earth Bundle: Explore Jack Vance’s legendary world

August 26, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jack Vance’s Dying Earth is set in the twilight of existence, where history has faded into myth, and the sun hangs low and dim in a moonless sky.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dying Earth, goodman games, Jack Vance

The (undying) Dying Earth RPG bundle from Pelgrane returns with the iconic Jack Vance setting

January 3, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Vat-grown beauties, charming rogues, and boastful magicians stage their final acts on a sun-scorched, dying Earth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dying Earth, Jack Vance, Pelgrane Press, robin d laws

Jack Vance’s Dying Earth RPG is out for Dungeon Crawl Classics

April 6, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The sky is painted weird colours by the light of the dying red Sun, and strange plants and animals exist.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, Dying Earth, goodman games, Jack Vance

The aftermath of DCC Day: Dying Earth, Glowing Dice and deals

June 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Goodman Games has wrapped DCC Day for the year, but the legacy of the Dungeon Crawl Classics event will live on.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, dungeon crawl classics, goodman games, Jack Vance, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #94

April 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this week’s RPG news round-up, we have pre-orders on a giant dragon “mini”, the Fallout 2d20 RPG, a Scion RPG TV series and Free League Publishing converting Symbaroum to D&D’s 5e.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, bestiary, candlekeep mysteries, Chaosium, Chthonstone Games, coyote & crow, cubicle 7, dark sun, death on the reik, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, Dying Earth, Dyskami, fallout, Fire Ruby Designs, foundry, gama, goodman games, Interface Zero 2.0, Jack Vance, journey, Luke Crane, Modiphius Entertainment, mythic table, neverending, Nightfall Games, nor cal mythos, onyx path publishing, routinely itemised, scion, shadows in the mist, Symbaroum, terminator, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, troika, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, warlock, wizards of the coast, wizkids, Zadmar Games

The entire Dying Earth RPG series is in the Bundle of Holding

July 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The sun is almost out of power, the moon is gone, and magic is dominant.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dying Earth, Jack Vance, Pelgrane Press, sales

The Design Mechanism shows off the Jack Vance RPG Lyonesse

April 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mythras publisher The Design Mechanism has been working on a Lyonesse RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Jack Vance, The Design Mechanism

Competition: SF Masterworks collection

October 1, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 26 Comments

The SF Masterworks series is so important it has its own Wikipedia page. Back in 1999 Millennium started to pick the very best of sci-fi from the 1950s for reprint. It’s now run by Victor Gollancz and continues on its mission. The original list was described as amazing by Ian M Banks. In this competition […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: competitions, Gollancz, Jack Vance

Now I Suspect You of Weaselry: A Review of The Gaean Reach

September 5, 2014 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

I must admit to having only a fleeting exposure to the works of Jack Vance, though I’m currently seeking to correct that by reading more of his work. For many, Vance has a strong link various editions of Dungeons & Dragons, where the mechanisms for spell-casting owe a debt to his Dying Earth books. Pelgrane […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Jack Vance, Pelgrane Press, reviews, robin d laws, rpgs

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