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Uncover the truth with the Dark Nation RPG

March 31, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Inspired by grim stories like the Edge of Darkness, Handmaid’s Tale and 1984, Dark Nation begins with the group collaboratively describing the horrible System of government that their characters live in.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, cthulhu dark, dark nation, kickstarters, Martin Lloyd

Free to Download: Amazing Tales Ukrainian compilation (with charity links)

March 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

So the idea of something that’s free, that requires almost nothing to play and that can keep adults and kids entertained for day after day makes a lot of sense to me. I just felt I should try and make it happen.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, free to download, Martin Lloyd

Free to Download: The Inferno RPG quickstart

September 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Steam planes, difference engines and intercontinental pneumatic train lines are the order of the day. In the game, characters are part of the hugely secretive Inferno club and international conspiracies with access to magic, technology and power.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, card of fate, free to download, inferno, Martin Lloyd

Superhero Week: A review of Amazing Heroes!

July 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I really like Amazing Heroes! and I want to begin this review with grumpy old git reasons why.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing heroes, amazing tales, Martin Lloyd, reviews, superhero week, superheroes

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #88

February 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is RPG news summary round-up complete with reviews, tips and a flood of Zine Quest Kickstarter projects.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alicia furness, amazing heroes, arcana, beowulf, bundle of holding, Call of Cthulhu, cobblepath games, comic relief, cubicle 7, death on the reik, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, en publishing, fallout: wasteland warfare, grant howitt, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, heroic tales, humble bundle, identity, judge dredd & the worlds of 2000 AD, kate bullock, locus, mark hulmes, Martin Lloyd, Melsonian Arts Council, mindflayer, obsidian portal, Orcs Unlimited, phantom trade, posthuman saga, prize, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, routinely itemised, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, the darkling legacy, the expanse rpg, uncanny spheres, vampires & claymores, War Dog, wizards of the coast

Amazing Heroes: Best-selling family-friendly RPG-designer finally makes a superhero game

February 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Martin Lloyd is the Amazing Tales designer and that makes him the talent behind an Adamantine best-selling family RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing heroes, amazing tales, Martin Lloyd, superheroes

Free to Download: Amazing Tales quickstart and adventures

March 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Amazing Tales was the most popular family RPG of 2018 on DriveThruRPG and is one of the bookshop’s few adamantine best sellers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, free to download, Martin Lloyd

Here’s what the new international Amazing Tales RPG looks like

November 29, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is an Adamantine Best Seller at DriveThruRPG which puts in an elite few and is recommended by Cory Doctorow.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, Martin Lloyd

Amazing Tales goes big

October 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Four adventures for the family-friendly Amazing Tales are now collecting pledges on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, kickstarters, Martin Lloyd

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #4

July 12, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A weekly roundup of RPG news in a handy set of bulletpoint lists.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Chivalry & Sorcery, cubicle 7, Fainting Goat Games, fallout, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, John Carter of Mars, Martin Lloyd, metahumans rising, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, Palladium Books, pathfinder, rifts, routinely itemised, runequest, Satine Phoenix, Shadowrun, stefan pokorny, Stygian Fox Publishing, talespire, The Deluxe Super Villain Handbook, threefold, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer

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