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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, luis silva, 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.

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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, bounty hunter, carbon grey, Chaosium, Charles Ryan, city of mist garage, cortex prime, crom the barbarian, Cthulhu Mythos, cubicle 7, disaster /peace, dms guild, doctor who, dscryb, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, dungeons & dragons: mindbreaker, en publishing, Fire Ruby Designs, forbidden lands, from cyan depths, gama, games ink, gm screens, graph paper robot, grognardia games, gurps classics: goblins, halcyon miniatures, icon, kindred spirits productions, krakon games, legends of avallen, lightning war, Loke BattleMats, lovecraft, loverdive, magnetic press play, Massif Press, moebius adventures, Monte Cook Games, mystical world miniatures, Numenera, Orbital Blues, Paizo Publishing, path to adventure, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Rick Meints, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, shaun sunday, sigil & shadow, Sneak Attack Press, soulmuppet, sr 16, starfinder, stargate, Stealing Stories for the Devil, Steve Jackson Games, Strength of Thousands, Survivalist's Guide to Spelunking, tales of xadia, the dark peak gaming systems, the horned rat, the little astralnaut, the lost citadel, third eye games, trinity continuum, tsr games, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, vertices, 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, icon, 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: 24xx, creators day, desert moon of karth, grant howitt, heroic chord, Honey Heist, itch.io, Jamila Nedjadi, lancer, Massif Press, peach garden games

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: adventure presents, Alligator Alley Entertainment, astral tabletop, beowulf, blood in the chocolate, Chaosium, crystal of storms, cubicle 7, curse of hearts, daniel kwan, desperados, dms guild, dragon lords of khashan, earthdawn, ENnies, Esper Genesis, fasa, gail gygax, Gary Gygax, GURPS, ihunt, Jerry D. Grayson, Jon Hodgson, Justin Achilli, kiel chenier, kobold press, lamentations of the flame princess, luke gygax, luudos studio, Malleus Monstrorum, Massif Press, next-level gaming, onyx path publishing, oriental adventures, purple aether games, R. Talsorian Games, rebellion, routinely itemised, Sanctuary of Belches, Steve Jackson Games, tartarus gate, terra oblivion, vampire, vampunks, warhammer 40k, Witcher’s Journal, 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: blood in the chocolate, 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.

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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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