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The 2024 SWAG Award Winners have been announced

March 25, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This year, announcing the 2024 SWAG Award Winners, a live stream hosted by J-M DeFoggi and Chris Landauer ran for about an hour.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: john-matthew defoggi, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds

RPG designer John-Matthew DeFoggi on how a time jump can serve your players and setting

November 26, 2022 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

J-M DeFoggi has written and developed for Shadowcraft, 13th Age, and Torg Eternity. Osprey Games published his Jackals: Bronze Age Fantasy Roleplaying and subsequent campaign and lore books, and he is now the Lead Developer at Strange Owl Games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: john-matthew defoggi, rpg tips, space 1889

Behemoths: Paths of the Koru cover revealed by Pelgrane Press

April 23, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pencilled by Rich Longmore and painted by Lee Moyer, the cover for the kaiju-sized monsters has been revealed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, john-matthew defoggi, monsters, Pelgrane Press

Free to Download: Birth of a Jackal

September 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Not all Jackals chose the War Road. Some found that mantle forced upon them by their circumstances. Sometimes, innocent people catch chaos’ eye.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, jackals, john-matthew defoggi, osprey games

9 years of adventure: A review of Jackals – The Fall of the Children of Bronze

July 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are 14 adventures here, not linked together to make a campaign, but to tie nine years of adventuring and perhaps multiple generations of Jackals together in a single story.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jackals, john-matthew defoggi, osprey games, reviews

Die by d100 and the bronze sword: A review of the Jackals fantasy RPG

May 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jackals is a bronze age fantasy, and it’s a gritty high fantasy at that. It’s sorcery and sandals in the style of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and it gets the thumbs up from this ancient one.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jackals, john-matthew defoggi, osprey games, reviews

Osprey will publish the bronze age fantasy RPG Jackals

November 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jackals is sandals and sorcery setting inspired by myths, cultures and histories of the ancient Near East.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jackals, john-matthew defoggi, osprey games, previews

Pelgrane Press release Book of the Underworld

March 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are the Four Kingdoms of the Mechanical Sun that war to keep a golem-hauled solar artefact in their territory.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, john-matthew defoggi, Pelgrane Press, Rob Heinsoo

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