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RPG Publisher Spotlight: Tin Star Games

September 14, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Five Years After is a deeply personal, extremely special game to me. It came together very quickly when I was thinking about grief and loss and also the one thing I’d never seen any RPG do successfully before, which is run in reverse, like you see in films like Memento and Tenet.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: relics, spotlight, steve dee, tin star games

Relics: Holy Cold War angels come to the Bundle of Holding

January 22, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG plunges you into a thrilling world where angels and demons lock horns in a clandestine war for the fate of humanity.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, relics, steve dee, tin star games

Solstice Fantasy is an Itch TTRPG bundle of one-shots to celebrate the long night

November 27, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are over 50 one-shot games, journalling games and systems with a solstice theme.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, itch.io, relics, tin star games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #121

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet-point speed as we look at where D&D might be going next, free Call of Cthulhu for year 40 and a host of promising new games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcanum Worlds, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, cyberpunk red, dice, dndbeyond, dungeon crawl classics, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, game wizards, gary con, goodman games, headless hydra press, holler, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, izegrim creations, James Ohlen, laidback dungeon master, level up, luke gygax, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, relics, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, SLA Industries, southlands, spelljammer, steve dee, strixhaven, survive this!!, the cthulhu hack, vast grimm, 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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #60

August 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the start of the month, and the post-Gen Con Online write up… so it feels like it’s been a busy week.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agents of edgewatch, Arcadia, astral tabletop, Bully Pulpit Games, Chaosium, city of mist, crafty games, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, edge, en publishing, entromancy, fantasy flight games, fiasco, gallant knight games, gen con online, genesys, Green Ronin Publishing, headless hydra press, heart of the forest, hellboy, kobold press, Legend of the Five Rings, mantic games, manticore games, Matt Colville, midnight, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, red scar publishing, relics, righteous blood ruthless blades, roll20, routinely itemised, savage worlds, severed books, star trek adventures, starfinder, Strontium Dog, sword chronicle, the dark eye, thought police interactive, tin star games, twilight imperium, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, wizards of the coast, XII: Inner Demons

Relics: Tin Star Games’ RPG of abandoned angels gets a print edition

August 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

God has gone and the Gates of Heaven have slammed shut, leaving angels and demons abandoned on the mortal world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Indie Press Revolution, relics, steve dee, tin star games

Abandoned by God: Relics – A Game of Angels

April 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the game you are an angel fighting to collect important relics from around the world in a holy power struggle.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, relics, steve dee, tin star games

Tor Gaming shutting down

August 27, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the very same week as Spartan Games closing Tor Games is also closing. Tor made the Relics tabletop miniatures game. Relics was all about having a small model acount, being able to play on 3’x’3 tables and having an unrestricted force composition. The problem? Increased competition by way of Kickstarter funds and market glut. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: minis, relics

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