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Free to Download: Magpie Games’ and Whistler’s Rapscallion Quickstart

March 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rapscallion is a game about pirates, and it comes from a boredom-baked story the author and some high school friends made up in our senior year. T

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, magpie games, powered by the apocalypse

Avatar Legends RPG’s Starter Set is a Target exclusive

March 14, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

If you pick up the physical box from Target, it comes with a 50% discount code for the Avatar Nexus version over at Demiplane.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: avatar legends, magpie games, powered by the apocalypse

Free to Download: Root – Talon Hill Quickstart

November 29, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As vagabonds, you must navigate these dangerous and complicated state of affairs. You choose whom you will serve, or assist, if anyone… and you may tip the balance of the war in this key location!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, magpie games, powered by the apocalypse, root

UKGE 2022 Awards: The best RPGs and board games of the year

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The UK’s largest and one of the most significant gaming conventions in Europe is over, and the UK Games Expo is done for another year. The busy event has many attractions, one of which is the influential UK Games Expo Awards. The UKGE 2022 Awards has two categories, Judges and People, which means two winners […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, All Rolled Up, awards, exploding kittens, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, frostgrave, Iello, lord of the rings, magpie games, osprey games, parable games, root, shiver, the dee sanction, the thing, twilight: 2000, uk games expo, z-man games

Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)

April 3, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, alien rpg, Andrews McMeel, apocalypse world, brutal games, Call of Cthulhu, Champions, Chaosium, chill, corporation, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, deadlands, degenesis, dread, Dungeon World, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, edge, everway, Evil Hat Productions, feng shui, Free League Publishing, Gamma World, genre police, Green Ronin Publishing, lancer, Legend of the Five Rings, magpie games, masks, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mutant: year zero, Mutants & Masterminds, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, parable games, paranoia, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, pugmire, R. Talsorian Games, runequest, Shadowrun, shiver, star trek adventures, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, traveller, troika, twilight: 2000, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Wild Talents, zweihander

RollVsEvil charity launches today as tabletop RPG publishers combine efforts

March 23, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletop RPG publishers and board game companies have founded a charity to raise money and support efforts to tackle real-world evil.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Chaosium, charity, cubicle 7, gama, Green Ronin Publishing, magpie games, mantic games, Modiphius Entertainment, q-workshop, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, rollvsevil, Steamforged Games, Steve Jackson Games, uk games expo

Tremendous karma and RPG goodness are in these generous Doctors Without Borders megabundles

March 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I don’t have the context; I just noticed the bundles going live and presume that we’ve the tabletop RPG community of publishers and creators rallying to raise money for war-torn Ukraine.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, charity, dms guild, drivethrurpg, Eclipse Phase, fading embers, Genesis of Legend Publishing, handimonsters, handiwork games, magpie games, posthuman studios, tab creations, valiant

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

Magpie Games the Root and Avatar: The Last Airbender RPG publisher launches superhero bundle

March 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Masks is a creatively adapted Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop RPG, and Masks: A New Generation is all about young heroes. Think Young Justice. Think Teen Titans.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, magpie games, masks, superheroes

Survey results: The tabletop RPGs gamers are most looking forward to in 2022

January 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For years now, EN World has coordinated a survey of its large membership on which tabletop RPGs are the most anticipated for the coming year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avatar, avatar legends, basic roleplaying, blade runner, blade runner rpg, broken tales, Chaosium, en world, Free League Publishing, gumshoe, magpie games, monad echo, mothership, Paradox Interactive, Pelgrane Press, pendragon, powered by the apocalypse, Renegade Game Studios, Rivers of London, Shadow of the Demon Lord, shadow of the weird wizard, the world anvil publishing, Tuesday Knight Games, werewolf, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, year zero engine

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