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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #272

August 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This week’s TTRPG news roundup includes details on Abaddon: The Angel of the Void from Robert Schwalb, a free trial for Sigil VTT, the sale of Fat Goblin Games and subsequent formation of Kids in the Attic, a Humble Bundle offering the “Lost Works of Gygax,” and the release of the free second edition of the SCP RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adam Koebel, Dungeon World, Luke Crane, routinely itemised

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #96

April 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast are taking back control of D&D in some countries after settling a legal row. Luke Crane’s The Burning Wheel is Roll20’s quickest growing system, and the inhospitable setting round table is coming. It’s an RPG news summary from Geek Native.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0one Games, alan bahr, amazing heroes, astral tabletop, Auroborus: coils of the serpent, blue planet, Call of Cthulhu, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, cubicle 7, deadlands, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout, foundry, humblewood, Jeff Grubb, level up, Luke Crane, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mystara, Numenera, one more multiverse, osprey games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, ravenloft: mist hunters, roll20, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, soulbound, studio agate, those dark places, Ulisses Spiele, warchief gaming, warlock, wizards of the coast

The quickest growing RPG in Roll20 last quarter wasn’t D&D; it was The Burning Wheel

April 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Orr Group’s Roll20 market report puts Luke Crane the headlines again as The Burning Wheel grows faster than Apocalypse World, faster than Cyberpunk and faster than Free League’s Year Zero Engine with some dramatic shifts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Luke Crane, roll20, The Orr Group

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

Luke Crane apologises and leaves Kickstarter after The Perfect RPG

March 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

After a discussion about what is best for Kickstarter and our team, we came to the mutual decision with Luke Crane for him to leave Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adam Koebel, kickstarter, Luke Crane

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #90

March 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs is a regular RPG news summary which, this week, looks at D&D Beyond’s founder joining a new gaming start-up, virtual virtual tabletops, an utter mess over at Kickstarter and a solved mess with The Palace of the Vampire Queen.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adam bradford, Arc Dream Publishing, Bully Pulpit Games, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Delta Green, demeo, demiplane, Dishonored, Francesco Nepitello, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, gen con, Greg Stolze, handiwork games, hero forge, index card rpg, jackals, Legendary Games, lord of the rings, Luke Crane, magpie games, Mark Diaz Truman, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Palace of the Vampire Queen, philip reed, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Precis Intermedia, R. Talsorian Games, rifts, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadowrun, stellagama publishing, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Kickstarter’s Head of Community Luke Crane cancels their own RPG zine after controversy backlash

February 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sometime after launch, at the bottom of an oddly-reversed alphabetical list of contributors, it was noticed and discussed that Adam Koebel’s name was included.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adam Koebel, kickstarters, Luke Crane

Win an annual subscription to the RPG adventures of The Aperture Guide

October 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last week on Geek Native we introduced Curious Monk’s The APERTURE Guide. Issue 1 launched this month and delivered four different adventures and a new RPG system that makes clever use of an actual aperture mechanic. It was not just the aperture mechanic that caught my attention, it was that there was an annual subscription […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: competitions, curious monk, Luke Crane

Mouse Guard RPG second edition announced

January 31, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

BOOM! Studios and Archaia Entertainment have announced a new edition of the Mouse Guard RPG. The second edition is due out in April and will include both a hardcover rulebook and a box set edition. The Origins Award-winning game is based on the all ages anthropomorphic comic series drawn by David Petersen. The RPG is […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Boom! Studios, Luke Crane

The Diana Jones 2011 shortlist announced

June 16, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Diana Jones Award committee has announced their shortlist for the 2011 award. The original list had 22 nominees and the shortlist contains just five. The winner will be announced at Wednesday the 3rd of August at an event that the Diana Jones Award group describe has the “unnoficial start” of Gen Con Indy. The […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bully Pulpit Games, Diana Jones Award, Dresden Files, Evil Hat Productions, Fred Hicks, Jason Morningstar, Jim Butcher, Kenneth Hite, Luke Crane

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