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Grenade stuff: A review of Nova RPG

January 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The fast-paced action of first-person shooters like the computer game Destiny is precisely what Nova (and LUMEN) try to recreate. They succeed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gila, lumen, Nova, reviews, spencer campbell

Roar to Heaven: An actual play of the LUMEN RPG Blazing Hymn you can learn from

December 6, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Imagine a cast of forever GMs getting to play? And in an actual play! We could learn something.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: actual play, Ashes to Ashes, blazing hymn, cat mcdonald, lumen, roar to heaven

Free to Download: The NOVA Creator Kit (ahead of the NOVA jam)

November 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Sparks are ridiculously powerful, and that is intentional. NOVA’s gameplay loop is about going out on missions, destroying the enemies in the Dusk that stand in your way, and looking badass while doing it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gila, itch.io, lumen, Nova, spencer campbell

Cyberrats: Become a genetically engineered rat in this Lumen-powered RPG

September 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Alex Rinehart uses the fashionable indie Lumen to power a tabletop RPG in which characters are genetically engineered rats addicted to green gloop and trying to fight aliens.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Alex Rinehart, cyberrats, kickstarters, lumen

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #108

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games are gone, conventions are here, but without masks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aberrant, arx obskura, astate, biscuit fund games, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, caledonia miniatures, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, city of mist, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darkraven games, dms guild, earth rain, fairies in mechs, Fantasy Grounds, fate of cthulhu, fate of dungeons, flames of freedom, free league workshop, gen con, goblin country, grim & perilous studios, Gun Metal Games, handiwork games, infinite black, izegrim creations, kobold press, laidback dungeon master, lone wolf, lost omens mwangi expanse, lumen, micro rpg, neverending, neverland, onyx path publishing, orphaned bookworm productions, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, queerz, R. Talsorian Games, rogue games, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, shadows & showdowns, solarian games, Son of Oak Game Studio, splintered realms publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, storytellers vault, super solo, Swords & Wizardry, teratology, thunderegg productions, titanomachy, trinity continuum, trollish delver games, tsr games, uk games expo, vast grimm, wheels within wheels, wizards of the coast, wonderfiled, World of Wyldrvir, zan's adventures

NOVA looks great on Kickstarter; two fingers up to haters

June 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Spencer Campbell is back on Kickstarter, with a success that not even misguided toxic energy from computer game fans can stop.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, lumen, Nova, sci-fi, spencer campbell

LUMEN gets an SRD and a RPG jam, returning after toxic fan backlash

April 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

LUMEN is a system reference document (SRD) based on the RPG Light from Gila RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: destiny, itch.io, light, lumen, Nova

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