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Aussie gamers spend big: Tabletop gaming survey highlights surprising stats

April 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

While most gamers reported spending between $100 and $499 (in their local currency), a significant portion of Australians (twice that of Canadians and Americans) have shelled out over $1,000 on their collections.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, Cyberpunk, Dungeons & Dragons, kings of war, stats, warhamemr 40k

Mantic buys River Horse, securing the brand and licenses, including Labyrinth and Dark Crystal RPGs

June 5, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mantic will be taking on River Horse’s licensed games and universes, and Alessio Cavatore will be joining Mantic to work on product and games design as they continue to bring you truly exceptional tabletop experiences.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dark crystal, kings of war, mantic games, river horse

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #53

June 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest news from D&D live, Rime of the Frostmaiden, free downloads and big money dice campaigns on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, Arc Dream Publishing, Arcanist Press, brancalonia, burn bryte, chronicle system, cubicle 7, cypher system, d&d live, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, Fighting Fantasy, foundry, game of thrones, Green Ronin Publishing, keyforge, kings of war, kobold press, legends of avallen, lex arcana, Monte Cook Games, nerdburger games, Paizo Publishing, q-workshop, red scar publishing, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, shadows in the mist, soulbound, sword chronicle, the dark eye, those dark places, Tuesday Knight Games, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

Free to Download: The Quartet of Silence for Kings of War RPG

June 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The adventure also includes 6 pre-generated characters and can be used as a follow-up to the Ashen Gold adventure in the game’s quickstart.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kings of war, red scar publishing

Free to Download: Kings of War wargame rules

April 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mantic Games have this week made the third edition of the rules, which came out last October, entirely free.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kings of war, mantic games, wargames

Kings of War march their RPG to Kickstarter

August 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The surviving god-like beings from that war are decided into two; the good Shining Ones and the evil Wicked Ones.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, kings of war, mantic games, red scar publishing

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #10

August 23, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A superfast bullet point summary of the week’s news. Zoom!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0one Games, cthulhu, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, Eberron, fantasy flight games, kings of war, modern age, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Patreon, Rising from the last war, routinely itemised, starfinder, the expanse, wrath & glory

Kings of War RPG quickstart now available for free

August 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kings of War is a popular tabletop wargame from Mantic Games. It’s been going since 2009, and a third edition is due out in October. There’s also an RPG version of the game company and Mantic as appointed Red Scar Publishing for the task. It’s been a busy time for the British studio as they’ve […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kings of war, red scar publishing

Kings of War RPG cover revealed

June 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The illustration is from Nele Diel.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kings of war, mantic games, red scar publishing

Mantic Games announce Kings of War RPG

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The lead designer is the ENnie award-winning Marc Langsworthy of Red Scar Publishing.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kings of war, mantic games

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