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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #132

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

A summary of RPGs news from the week with freebies from WotC and others, indie news, tips and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, adventures in rokugan, Andrews McMeel, Arcadia, ashes of power, assault on the aerie, ballard of the longbow, beadle & grimm, blood and bramble, Chaosium, cloak & coin, coco publishing, cubicle 7, Dark Souls, darkenergy, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, Dynamite Entertainment, edge, enchiridion of the computarchs, ennead games, entanglement interactive, eskey, farwood publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, hostile rules, Hyperborea, into the dungeon, jackalope, kabouter games, kobold press, Krampus says Punching Nazis is a free action, last redoubt games, Legend of the Five Rings, lester smith games, level 1, lone wolf, machina and magic, magic dog games, map alchemists, marco bertini, moonmares games, North Wind Adventures, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, petersen games, radiationburn, red turban games, role, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, salvage union, she is the ancient, simulacrum, snowbright studios, soulbound: champions of destruction, star trek adventures, Steamforged Games, Steve Jackson Games, the book of nod, traveller, UltraPro, vaesen: mythic britain, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, warhammer, Wayfarers of the Farwood, weird frontiers, Wyrmworks Publishing, Zozer Games

Swords, sorcery and weird science-fantasy: Hyberorea marches its way to 3e on Kickstarter

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

North Wind Adventures set a goal of $20,000 to bring a third edition of the swords, sorcery and weird science-fantasy RPG Hyperborea to life on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Hyperborea, kickstarters, North Wind Adventures

OSR classic Astonishing Swordmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea in Bundle of Holding

March 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designer Jeffrey Talanian worked with Gary Gygax on a game called Castle Zagyg and then started North Wind Adventures to push his own modules.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, bundle of holding, bundles, North Wind Adventures, sales

OSR fantasy RPG Humble Bundle

September 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The discount site Humble Bundle has $624 worth of OSR RPG goodies in a bundle. It’s a $1 to get a slice of the action.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chaotic henchmen, dark naga adventures, fight on!, frog god games, humble bundle, kobold press, monkeyblood games, Mythmere Games, North Wind Adventures, Old School Renaissance, sales, silver bulette publishing, skeeter green productions, stormlord publishing, throwi games, Troll Lord Games

The best selling pulp RPGs of 2018

December 28, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To make this list an RPG has to be in the top ten sellers (Jan 1st to Dec 11th) of all the games the publishers have added the ‘pulp’ genre tag too. This means we’ve games that are solidly in the pulp genre, systems which could but don’t have to be used for pulp RPGs and even games you might not consider pulp at all.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, exalted, fantasy flight games, filigree forge, genesys, greg gillespie, John Wick Presents, Modiphius Entertainment, North Wind Adventures, onyx path publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Stygian Fox Publishing, the forbidden caverns of archaia, the savage world of flash gordon, the things we leave behind

20% off for the August 20th birthday: Lovecraft turns 128

August 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cthulhu for Lovecraft's birthday

August 20th is H. P. Lovecraft’s 128th birthday. Despite the writer’s racist views, strong even for his time, he has become a major influence on modern horror. The OneBookShelf family are offering 20% off on a wide range of Cthulhu, Great Old One and Lovecraft flavoured items for the next few days. Let’s take a […]

Filed Under: Books, Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Alejandro Arevalo, alexander brox, Ambrose Bierce, anderson, Arc Dream Publishing, Atomic Overmind Press, caliber comics, Clark Ashton Smith, cthulhu, Delta Green, Dennis Detwiller, Devil's Due Entertainment, drivethrucomics, drivethrufiction, drivethrurpg, Elaine Cunningham, Heart-Shaped-Skull, lovecraft, Mihail Bila, Modiphius Entertainment, Moonstone, Natania Barron, new comet games, North Wind Adventures, onyx path publishing, Pelgrane Press, robin d laws, sales, sine nomine publishing, Trail of Cthulhu, William Jones

Who’s leading the Ennies 2013 pack?

July 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The nominations for the 2013 ENnies are out. These are a big set of awards in the roleplaying publishing world. Counting by hand, I reach 57 publishers nominated and that’s up from just shy of 40 from 2012. Paizo Publishing and Pelgrane Press lead the pack with 7 nominations each, with Cubicle 7 in third […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0one Games, Aetheric Dreams, Agate Editions, Aliteration Ink, Arc Dream Publishing, Battlefield Press, Blackwyrm Games, Bold Pueblo Games, Broken Ruler Games, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Chronicle City, cubicle 7, Darklight Interactive, DramaScape, DSG Gamaes, End Transmission Games, Engine Publishing, ENnies, fantasy flight games, Gamer Nation Studios, green ronin, Greymalkin Designs, Growling Door Games, Hero Forge Games, Hero Games, Hex Games, Imaginary Empire, Innsmouth House Press, Jennisodes, Kinstaff Media, kobold press, lamentations of the flame princess, Morning Skye Studio, Mutha Oith Creations, neca, North Wind Adventures, Okumart Games, Paizo Fans United, Paizo Publishing, paNik productions, PCGen, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment, posthuman studios, Privateer Press, Purple Sorcerer Games, Random Encounters, random house, Sage Kobold Productions, Sand & Steam Productions, simpleFun, Studio 2 Publishing, The Orr Group, third eye games, Thowigames, WG Productions, wizards of the coast, WizKid Games

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