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It hates you: The Darkest House invites you in

March 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Darkest House is a horror scenario designed for online play. It is possible to run as a campaign but really designed as a substantial encounter for your current game, whatever the system you’re using.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kickstarters, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #78

December 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week D&D hired a new senior game designer, an army of monsters appeared on Humble Bundle, publishers backed New Gamemaster Month and a load more. It’s time for a Routinely Itemised collection of RPG news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Amanda Hamon, bundles, christmas, Coriolis, Crystal Frasier, cubicle 7, dnd beyond, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, Elephant & Macaw Banner, entromancy, Fantasy Grounds, First Responders, foundry, gama, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, godforsaken, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, gumshoe, handimonsters, handiwork games, humble bundle, jonathan hicks, loresmyth, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, nightpath publishing, Outland Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, Philip J Reed, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, rifts, routinely itemised, savage worlds, schwalb entertainment, Shadow of the Demon Lord, starfinder, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, those dark places, tombpunk, trophy, warhammer, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #77

December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised takes a look back at the RPG news with the Origins Award restructuring after an RPG boom, D&D Beyond’s top 10 sellers and plenty of new game announcements.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, Ben Aaronovitch, blackbirds, blackfisk forlag, blood feud, broken compass, bundle of holding, Chaosium, Chris Taylor, cypher system, dnd beyond, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, edge, en publishing, Federico Sohns, Free League Publishing, godforsaken, grant howitt, humble bundle, john harper, Labyrinth, Legend of the Five Rings, midnight, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, nibiru, onyx path publishing, Origins Award, Paizo Publishing, Philip J Reed, Rivers of London, routinely itemised, shiver, soulbound, talisman, uk games expo, w.h. arthur, warhammer 40k, warhammer age of sigmar, Zadmar Games

Monte Cook Games announced multi-fantasy Godforsaken for Cypher System

October 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monte Cook’s Cypher System is growing again with a new “multi-fantasy” setting called Godforsaken.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, fantasy, godforsaken, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, Sean K. Reynolds

Diamond Throne moves to the Cypher System

September 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The fantasy world of the Diamond Throne is ruled by giants, rich with ritual and magic crystals and with the tyranny of the draconic dramojh, the former overlords, not entirely lost to the past.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, kickstarters, Monte Cook

Monte Cook’s Invisible Sun ($99) is available at the Bundle of Holding ($24.95)

July 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPGs tend to grow by word of mouth. Perhaps Monte Cook needs some early Invisible Sun adopters on board to get those recommendations flowing.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, invisible sun, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, sales

Monte Cook’s The Ninth World comes to 5e

May 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a free preview on Beneath the Monolith already available on DriveThruRPG. Monte Cook’s site has a pre-order page for the hardback, which is expected in July, and will cost $45.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games

$150 RPG Ptolus raises over $250,000 on its first day on Kickstarter

February 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ptolus is a campaign setting full of mysteries, betrayal and the supernatural.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, Ptolus

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #31

January 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A weekly catch-up of RPG news. Follow the events of the D&D leak, the future of Fantasy Flight Games’ RPGs and just how much money Games Workshop is making.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: columbia games, dog might games, Dungeons & Dragons, en world, Evil Hat Productions, Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, fantasy age, fantasy flight games, Green Ronin Publishing, Independence Games, Iron Crown Enterprises, lancer, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, never going home, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Precis Intermedia, Ptolus, q-workshop, routinely itemised, savage worlds adventurer's guild, Stygian Fox Publishing, They Came From Beyond the Grave, troika, wet ink games, wizards of the coast

Monte Cook to re-release Ptolus: City by the Spire for D&D and Cypher

January 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ptolus: City by the Spire was a massive 672-page, premium and expensive book from D&D 3.0 designer Monte Cook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, Ptolus, wizards of the coast

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