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First 48-hour bonus: The Big Squirm is a hard-boiled Troika adventure on Kickstarter

July 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Daniel Sell has brought Luke Gearing’s Troika adventure The Big Squirm to Kickstarter. If you back for a physical copy in the first 48 hours, then you’ll get a secret dossier.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

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

Melsonian Arts Council brings the Troika adventure The Ruinous Place of the Metegorgos to Kickstarter

March 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Written by Evey Lockhart and illustrated by Sam Mameli, The Ruinous Palace of the Metegorgos offers up a tightly packed adventure setting that’s easy to drop into your ongoing campaign.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

Surreal fantasy RPG Trokia! expands with Academies of the Arcane

April 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Melsonian Arts Council will publish a fantasy for the “other world’s favourite fantasy roleplaying game”, and it will add 36 new student character backgrounds and 90 spells.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Melsonian Arts Council, trokia!

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: amazing heroes, beowulf, bundle of holding, Call of Cthulhu, cubicle 7, death on the reik, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, en publishing, fallout: wasteland warfare, grant howitt, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, humble bundle, judge dredd & the worlds of 2000 AD, Martin Lloyd, Melsonian Arts Council, obsidian portal, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, routinely itemised, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, the expanse rpg, wizards of the coast

Over $350 worth of RPG goodies for only $30 in this Croatian Earthquake bundle

January 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Just before the new year, a deadly earthquake hit Croatia. Extensive damage was caused in Petrinja and Zagreb and surrounding towns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: araukana media, charity, drivethrurpg, Melsonian Arts Council, nibiru, relics, sandy pug games, tin star games

The psychedelic fantasy RPG Troika lists in the Bundle of Holding

January 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Players travel by eldritch portal and non-Euclidean labyrinth and golden-sailed barge between the uncountable crystal Spheres strung delicately across the hump-backed sky.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Melsonian Arts Council, sales, troika

2020 Tabletop RPG Itch.io bundle: Save 89% and spend $9

September 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A small but perfectly formed bundle with hit RPG titles like Thousand Year Old Vampire and Sleepaway.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, grant howitt, itch.io, jay dragon, Melsonian Arts Council, thousand year old vampire, trokia!

Your ENnies 2019 dashboard!

July 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native has popped all the runners and riders into a wee database so you can quickly navigate between categories.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, 9th level games, AAW Games, Ashley Warren Writes, Chaosium, Dwarven Forge, Free League Publishing, Helmgast, hunters entertainment, kobold press, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Necrotic Gnome, nerdburger games, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Porcupine Publishing, questing beast, Renegade Game Studios, Saturday Morning Scenarios, Shawn Tomkin, Stygian Fox Publishing, Tuesday Knight Games, World Anvil

Go wild with Troika as ultra-slimline RPG heads to Kickstarter

August 13, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve found some great RPG Kickstarters to back this year but it might be fair to say that some of them have promised the Earth if only we would fund them a lever long enough to move it. Not this super-simple RPG. Troika is looking for £5,000 to fund and will put a hardback copy […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

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