We’re used to fighting Mimics on the way to get loot but what about using a Mimic to protect yours?
A Worldwide Tour of the boogeyman: Scared kids don’t learn
The Boogeyman is a mythical creature adults use to frighten children into good behaviour.
Hunt and eat monsters: Wilderfeast RPG (and cookbook)
The One Land is not an easy place to live. It is littered with both the bones of extinct species and the ruins of fallen civilizations. But after each apocalypse, something new and green grows from the ashes.
Bloat Games goes weird retro with Greasers & Ghouls RPG
Greasers & Ghouls is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game set in a small town in the 1950s. Players take on the roles of normal high school-aged teens, who encounter B-movie monsters lurking in the shadows, all while trying to go to high school, the drive-in, and still make it to the sock hop dance.
I’m going to pieces over these D&D jigsaw puzzles
Clarkson Potter Publications have found one of my favourite Mimic illustrations for their mini jigsaw puzzle.
Issliss is an RPG set a thousand years after humanity invaded a land of monsters and lost
The Issliss system is a custom 3d6 engine called VECTORs, and that’s been designed to amp up the desperate and teamwork-centric gameplay. There’s a free quickplay if you’re willing to sign up for the newsletter.
Living Nightmares: A look inside Gildor Games’ living bestiary
If you buy the book now, you only pay the current price of $2.99 and get the twelve monsters currently included.
Dungeon Denizens from Goodman Games crosses 1/4 of a $million by expanding DCC and 5e with 500 monsters
Non-5e publishers have had an excellent start to the year, thanks to the OGL crisis. Goodman Games, the publisher of Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC), has timed Dungeon Denizens well.
Lampblack solo RPG: Monsters, ambition and dangerous artists on Kickstarter
The author of Flameskin Chronicles and Talons and Teeth does comics and poetry and, in Lampblack, explores even more art, ambition and also monsters
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #186
It’s the first RPG news summary of 2023! Can you believe it?
