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Game designers quit as Kickstarter announces blockchain project to creator backlash

December 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG, board games, comic books and other creators are hearing the breaking news that Kickstarter is getting into blockchain and reacting badly.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: dave cook, jay dragon, kickstarter, lancer, Massif Press

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116

September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As it’s Friday, it means RPG news in summary form. Routinely Itemised doesn’t just summarise Geek Native’s own content.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, Arcadia, blades in the dark, bloat games, brancalonia, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, character sheets, Chris McDowall, city of mist, dead channel studios, exalted, Freddie Taylor-Bell, Free League Publishing, gen con, Into The Odd, James Introcaso, jay dragon, kobold press, leyline press, long tail games, Massif Press, mcdm, mothership, Paizo Publishing, Paradox Interactive, pendragon, R. Talsorian Games, role, roll for combat, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, sine nomine publishing, Stars without Number, survive this!!, the dee sanction, the oracle, wizards of the coast, Wyrmworks Publishing, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #111

July 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s mixed news with $30,000 injected into the hobby but sadness as Brian Fitzpatrick passes away.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, a couple of drakes, awfully cheerful engine, beadle & grimm's, bounty hunter, carbon grey, Chaosium, Charles Ryan, cortex prime, Cthulhu Mythos, cubicle 7, dms guild, doctor who, dscryb, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Fire Ruby Designs, forbidden lands, gama, gm screens, legends of avallen, Loke BattleMats, lovecraft, magnetic press play, Massif Press, Monte Cook Games, Numenera, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, sigil & shadow, Sneak Attack Press, soulmuppet, sr 16, starfinder, stargate, Steve Jackson Games, tales of xadia, the lost citadel, third eye games, trinity continuum, tsr games, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, warhammer, warlord games, west end games, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: Lancer’s Massif Press launches ICON RPG playtest

July 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

ICON is inspired by the vast open unknown of wildernesses sometimes encountered in anime, video games and mythic fantasy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Massif Press

Itch launches Creator Day 2 today!

July 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’ve any recommendations for games available on Itch.io, today’s the day to share them with friends. It’s a great way to support the community.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: grant howitt, Honey Heist, itch.io, lancer, Massif Press

Virtual tabletop Role opens on Friday

November 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Role is a virtual tabletop and community which took over $100,000 in a Kickstarter campaign.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: magpie games, Massif Press, role, swordsfall, virtual tabletop

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #55

July 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

One week of RPG news: A battle in the Gygax family of D&D’s legacy, too sexy vampires and a game designer disowning their award-winning edgelord adventure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Alligator Alley Entertainment, astral tabletop, beowulf, Chaosium, cubicle 7, curse of hearts, daniel kwan, dms guild, earthdawn, ENnies, Esper Genesis, fasa, Gary Gygax, GURPS, Jon Hodgson, Justin Achilli, kobold press, lamentations of the flame princess, luke gygax, Malleus Monstrorum, Massif Press, onyx path publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rebellion, routinely itemised, Steve Jackson Games, vampire, warhammer 40k, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, world of darkness, wrath & glory

ENnies 2020 nominee will refuse any awards until organisers address 2017 controversy

June 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

The Lancer core rules are nominated for Best Electronic Book. The indie sci-fi RPG ran a very successful Kickstarter, taking in $432,029 in funding from 9,440 backers and then publishing to critical praise.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ENnies, lamentations of the flame princess, lancer, Massif Press

2020 ENnies nominations announced

June 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 2020 ENnie Judges Spotlight winners and 2020’s nominees have been announced.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Ad Infinitum Adventures, alien rpg, Arc Dream Publishing, beowulf, burning games, Call of Cthulhu, cubicle 7, Delta Green, electric bastionland, ENnies, exalted funeral, Expeditious Retreat Press, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hit point press, humblewood, icarus, Inkwell Ideas, lancer, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, Massif Press, mork borg, nibiru, oliver clegg, Pelgrane Press, quest, Renegade Game Studios, river horse, rowan rook and decard, Stygian Fox Publishing, the halls of arden vul, the ultraviolet grasslands, the yellow king, thousand year old vampire, Tuesday Knight Games, wet ink games, witch+craft, wizards of the coast

Free copy of the Lancer RPG in exchange for a Covid-19 charity donation

March 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native reviewed Lancer at the start of the year, the mecha RPG-meets-skirmish strategy game from Massif Press and liked it. The original RPG is the result of a successful Kickstarter which has fulfilled in digital and has the core rules at the printers. There are a fan-run Discord server and a free to download […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: lancer, Massif Press

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