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MCDM announces new RPG as Matt Colville can’t imagine anyone signing OGL 1.1

January 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

On a Twitch stream yesterday, popular game designer and personality Matt Colville said he can’t imagine anyone signing the leaked OGL 1.1 from Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, James Introcaso, Matt Colville, mcdm

“Flee, Mortals!”: MCDM’s latest 5e Kickstarter is a monster book worth more than $1,000,000

April 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monsters could be more interesting in 5e, with minions to wipe away or big bads that will not get swamped by PCs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, flee mortals, kickstarters, Matt Colville, mcdm

MCDM lose Strongholds & Followers appeal

March 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has rejected an appeal from Matt Coville’s MCDM and will not let the publisher register “Strongholds & Followers”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: law, Matt Colville, mcdm, strongholds & followers

Here’s how to beat the incoming MCDM / Arcadia magazine price rise

November 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a compelling reason to rush over to Matt Colville and MCDM’s Patreon program and join right now. Prices are about to go up.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Arcadia, Dungeons & Dragons, Matt Colville, mcdm, Patreon

An interview with James Introcaso as MCDM’s Arcadia future is confirmed

August 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When Matt Colville announced that MCDM would start a magazine, he was very clear about the commercial requirements. Arcadia would need to be a success, and the first few issues would be a test.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, Arcadia, cat evans, eternal night of lockwood, James Introcaso, leon barillaro, Matt Colville, mcdm, Mike Shea, sharang biswas, Willy Abeel, zweihander

Genre Police: Wangrods and Warriors

August 1, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

I think ‘The Wangrod Defence’ is the perfect example of what happens when we refuse to view the meta.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, Matt Colville, rpg tips

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #110

July 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s the latest from D&D, Cyberpunk Red, 13th Age, Call of Cthulhu, Critical Role and even of Chainmail, the game that became D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Battlefield Press, beadle & grimm, black blossom games, black oak workshop, blackmoor, bloodshadows, bloody gates, bob watts, bx mars, Call of Cthulhu, carbon grey, caroline hobbs, castles & crusades, celawyn's guide to wilderness and fey, chainmail, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, city of mist, city of mist garage, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Deepest Night, doctor who, double profiency, down darker trails, dreampunk, druids: secrets of the primal circle, dungeons of draggmar, end times, Evil Hat Productions, fading suns, FATE, fedora noir, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, go left productions, grant howitt, handiwork games, harrowvale, hearts of wulin, homeworld: revelations, Honey Heist, i toaster, injuries & vile deeds, kingdoms & warfare, less than three games, lost omens mwangi expanse, m20 technocracy reloaded, magnetic press play, map alchemists, Matt Colville, matthew yarro, mcdm, mmpapps, Necromancer Games, nevernotdm, new frontiers, Nightfall Games, nomadic delirium press, on the wings of valkyries, one plus exp, onyx path publishing, overlords of dimension 25, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, professor gilroy's guide to fey, pulp cthulhu, radial commune, ragnarookies studio, redacted records, reign of terror, reminders, Rick Meints, roll20, routinely itemised, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, sdcc, sigil & shadow, soulbound, Spectacular Settlements, starfinder, strixhaven, tal'dorei campaign setting, the bone age, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, the green knight, the moongrel, the oracle, The Sanctum of Pain, the starship warden, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, tiger paw press, Trans Atlantis Games, Troll Lord Games, Ulisses Spiele, Victoriana, west end games, westfalia publishing, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

D&D transformed: A review of Matthew Colville’s Kingdoms & Warfare

July 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Matt Colville’s 5e D&D-does-battles supplement is 320-pages long, but I’m pleased to say you don’t need to learn a 320-page wargame to get the most out of it. Not even close.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Celeste Conowitch, Dungeons & Dragons, gabe hicks, James Introcaso, kingdoms & warfare, Matt Colville, mcdm, reviews, strongholds & followers

MCDM’s Arcadia could wear the D&D magazine crown

January 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Matt Colville’s company, MCDM, has launched a new D&D magazine. It’s called Arcadia and its a test.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arcadia, gabe hicks, James Introcaso, leon barillaro, Matt Colville, mcdm, sadie lowry, Willy Abeel

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #60

August 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the start of the month, and the post-Gen Con Online write up… so it feels like it’s been a busy week.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agents of edgewatch, Arcadia, astral tabletop, Bully Pulpit Games, Chaosium, city of mist, crafty games, cubicle 7, dark-platypus studio, dubious merit games, Dungeons & Dragons, dunromin university press, Eclipse Phase, edge, en publishing, entromancy, fantasy flight games, feralgamersinc, fiasco, gallant knight games, gen con online, genesys, Green Ronin Publishing, headless hydra press, heart of the forest, hellboy, in case of an emergency, kobold press, Legend of the Five Rings, lost omens legends, mantic games, manticore games, Matt Colville, midnight, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, preparing for paris, red scar publishing, relics, righteous blood ruthless blades, roll20, routinely itemised, savage worlds, severed books, space: 1889, star trek adventures, starfinder, Strontium Dog, sword chronicle, the dark eye, the dragon's eye, thought police interactive, tin star games, trilemma adventures, twilight imperium, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, witch & craft, wizards of the coast, XII: Inner Demons

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