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Quest for Zines: An interview with an RPG creator every day for a month

February 9, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Zine Quest success “Quest for Zines” will see 28 interviews with zine creators. The result? A zine with those interviews. You can support the community and the project over on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Philip J Reed, zine quest

The top selling titles on DriveThruCards in 2024

January 7, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I dread imagining how many great card games or decks were not made because the designer left it as a failed Kickstarter rather than coming to this site to try their hand anyway.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, Philip J Reed, stats, tarot

Philip Reed re-releases shocking horror RPG The Whispering Vault

December 20, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Whispering Vault was first published by Nike Nystul in 1993, then moved to Chris Pramas’ Ronin Publishing and then in 2003 to Ronin Arts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Pramas, horror, Philip J Reed

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #65

September 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lots of interesting new tabletop roleplaying games to look at, free downloads, playtests and Cyberpunk Red is getting even closer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, acheron, Adamant Entertainment, alice is missing, alien rpg, Andrews McMeel, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, cypher system, destroyer of worlds, dog might games, drivethrurpg, en publishing, Fighting Fantasy, Free League Publishing, FUDGE, kids on brooms, kobold press, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, neverland, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Philip J Reed, R. Talsorian Games, roll20con, routinely itemised, scion, silver vine publishing, Steve Jackson Games, strata miniatures, swordsfall, tabletop gaming live, the ultraviolet grasslands, those dark places, warhammer, wrath & glory

Philip Reed’s The Book of Dungeon Encounters enters final stretch

July 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A pledge of $1 is enough to secure the PDF version of Philip Reed’s “The Book of Dungeon Encounters”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Philip J Reed

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #12

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let us retreat from the bitter winds of the outside place and concentrate on some decidedly warmer and in-door activities; tabletop roleplaying.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, baldur's gate, Catalyst Game Labs, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, ed greenwood, fantasy age, far away land rpg, Fat Goblin Games, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, Jack Norris, Mystical Throne Entertainment, Origins Award, Owen Stephens, Philip J Reed, Polyhedra Games, Rick Loomis, Rising from the last war, routinely itemised, Shadowrun, Simian Circle Games, wizards of the coast

RPG Previews: Forbidden Arcana: Pits of Despair | Echoes #13

December 23, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Roleplay Previews Morningstar Signs & Portents #3 Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros The Hamlet of Thumble Forbidden Arcana: Pits of Despair Forbidden Arcana: Pits of Despair All across the lands are festering pits that emanate magical power and an almost tangible aura of fear. Commonly known as pits of despair, these naturally occurring sites are a […]

Filed Under: Echoes from the Wyrd Tagged With: echoes from the wyrd, Philip J Reed, rpg

Philip J Reed e-View | Echoes #13

December 23, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Starting in this September’s issue of the free RPGNow’s Downloader Monthly GameWyrd is interviewing RPG publishers, authors and artists involved in the PDF RPG industry. This means there can be twice as many interview victims for Echoes from the Wyrd! This month the “lucky” candidate is industry veteran Philip J Reed. You’ll always see this […]

Filed Under: Echoes from the Wyrd Tagged With: echoes from the wyrd, forgotten realms, freeport, interview, Philip J Reed, rpg, Steve Jackson Games

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