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Knock! (x3) The excellent OSR magazine hits the Bundle of Holding

February 14, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Think eye-popping layouts, dazzling colours, and an absolute onslaught of off-the-wall articles, tables, maps, monsters, and adventures.

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Back or be damned: Knock! Issue Four Kickstarts

November 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once again, The Merry Mushmen have cobbled together a bric-à-brac of game design insight, random tables, rules suggestions, monsters, classes, maps, adventures… the lot.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, knock!, Old School Renaissance, the merry mushmen

The impressive Knock! returns for issue 3

February 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Issue the Third is yet another thick, slick brick of that magical brew of old and new across the spectrum of our common interests: game design essays, refereeing advice and procedures, weird AF encounters and NPCs, a mini-game or two, and of course a helmetload of random tables for all sorts of uses.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, knock!, Old School Renaissance, the merry mushmen

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #119

September 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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!

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As good as the first: Knock! 2 is a gazette of weird OSR insight

September 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The art is incredible and frequent, and enough to push Knock! 2 firmly into that impressively professional look that some zines never reach.

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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #117

September 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The previews and interviews for D&D’s The Wild Beyond the Witchlight have started to appear and hint at a slight u-turn by WotC. This and other RPG news in the latest Routinely Itemised

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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #102

May 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet point speed for fast-find new releases, interviews, reviews and bundle deals. An at-a-glance catch-up of the recent RPG headlines.

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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #76

November 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the RPG news this week we’ve big news from Pinnacle and Savage Worlds, we discover which project Wizards of the Coast are working on for D&D that will take years and a look at the latest reviews, releases and interviews.

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