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Dragonmeet 2025 award winners

December 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Dragonmeet Awards 2025 have honoured the best in RPGs and accessories. Discover which games took Gold as the convention wraps up in London.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, conventions, dragonmeet, Loke BattleMats, Mongoose Publishing, runequest, The One Ring

Sneak Peek: Castles, Crypts & Caverns – Books of Battle Mats by Loke BattleMats

September 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These are ring-bound hardback books of tabletop mats that you can write on, wipe clean, sticker and decorate and mix-and-match with others in the set. As the name suggests, this collection adds Castles, Crypts and Caverns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, Loke BattleMats, previews

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #156

June 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary column from Geek Native and other tabletop hobby blogs published every Friday. The latest is RI 156, which means we’ve been going for three years!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, Loke BattleMats, routinely itemised, Ruins of Symbaroum

For beginner experts: Loke Battle Mats’ RPG Encounters

May 30, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Veiled Dungeon & The Long Road are areas which fit together. Each area has its own set of random encounters designed for it, its own monsters, and maps.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, Loke BattleMats

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #143

March 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly column of RPG news from Geek Native and RPG sites around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, Brittannia Game Designs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Call of Cthulhu, carovea victor, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, eden studios, fading embers, fallout, Free League Publishing, frog god games, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hunter: the reckoning, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, masks, mcdm, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, onyx path publishing, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, roleplay elixir, routinely itemised, shield maidens, soulmuppet, spelljammer, strongholds & followers, swords of the serpentine, the merciless merchants, Titan Books, valiant fox gaming, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, warhammer, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #135

January 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week with more TSR drama, horror RPGs, killer future robots and babies with broadswords.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: arc, awfully queer heroes, Babies and Broadswords, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, coyote & crow, crow land publishing, darrington press, fat dragon games, gallantfunding, goodman games, handimonsters, handiwork games, humble bundle, Loke BattleMats, mindjammer press, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Outland Entertainment, philip reed, roll20, root, routinely itemised, Skirmisher Publishing, terminator, They Came From Beyond the Grave, TSR, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

Go big, go double: A review of The Wilderness Books Of Battle Mats

January 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Wilderness Books Of Battle Mats are another successful project from Loke, albeit within their particular niche.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Loke BattleMats, reviews

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #131

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A look at which games published this year have sold the best and other RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, Asmodee, Autarch, carbon 2185, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darrington press, demiplane, dragon turtle games, everway, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, foundry vtt, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, Independence Games, invisible sun, lightspress media, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, mcdm, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, rebellion unplugged, roll20, root, routinely itemised, salvage union, sine nomine publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, strixhaven, the between, the expanse rpg, the merciless merchants, TSR, warehouse 23, warhammer, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, wrath & glory

Loke Battle Mats 2022 release schedule

December 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are also some great looking products coming out next year, with award-winning Loke Battle Mats pushing further into supplements with titles like The Wilderness Book of Battle Matts and Untold Encounters of the Random Kind.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, Loke BattleMats

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #127

November 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news from the week. Paizo share an update with apologies, Judge Dredd’s RPG will end, and a historic D&D adventure is back in print.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chamomile has adventures, Claim the Sky, cubicle 7, demiplane, demon dog, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, Elven Tower, Free League Publishing, goodman games, HeroQuest, Joe Manganiello, Loke BattleMats, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, Meguey Baker, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, Ptolus, roll20, root, routinely itemised, through the breach, vaesen, vaesen: mythic britain, vincent baker, wizards of the coast, world of darkness

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