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Gimmick Zero RPG: Fight machines while fighting the machine

May 15, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Each world contained in the Gimmick Zero multiverse has been permanently affected in one way or another by what is called the “Zero Event” which always releases large and horrible beings that we call “Aberrations” into the world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, kickstarters, rookie jet studio

Chronicle Connection Plus: A solo TTRPG to practice your dating game

November 17, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rookie Jet has made some anime-inspired RPGs set in horrible worlds or confronting dangerous people. Chronicle Connection Plus is a dating RPG. I suppose there’s a clever and cynical joke about sticking to the theme!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, rookie jet studio, solo rpgs

Empty Cycle: School drama, teen angst and giant robots RPG

August 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Empty Cycle is inspired by anime like FLCL and Kill la Kill, which means school, emotional discovery and invading alien robots on your lunch break.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, rookie jet studio

As horribly brutal as you want it to be: A review of the Red Giant RPG

February 15, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If your gaming group is also fond of darkly adult anime, then I really think you should introduce Red Giant to them.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: red giant, reviews, rookie jet studio

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #138

February 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week Cynthia Williams becomes the boss of D&D and Wizards of the Coast, Zine Month launches, and the One Ring RPG gets a release date.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, Arcadia, beowulf, Chaosium, chris shepperson, corefun, cortex, Cthulhu Mythos, cyberpunk red, Cynthia Williams, dead channel studios, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, en publishing, Free League Publishing, handiwork games, lion banner games, mindjammer, mindjammer press, mork borg, mothership, nerdburger games, owen k. c. stephens, pathfinder, philip reed, R. Talsorian Games, red giant, rookie jet studio, routinely itemised, solar echoes, tab creations, the gaia complex, The One Ring, the wildsea, World Anvil

Red Giant RPG: The dark torture of anime like Berserk, Claymore and Vampire Hunter D for the tabletop

November 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Red Giant is inspired by brutal horror-action anime like Berserk, Claymore and Vampire Hunter D and with a dark aesthetic.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, red giant, rookie jet studio

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #115

August 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news in a week of new game announcements, franchise deals and licenses. We’ve attracted lots of Cthulhu, too.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a couple of drakes, Alligator Alley Entertainment, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, columbia games, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, Esper Genesis, Girl Genius, goblin slayer, hard wired island, index card rpg, lupin the 3rd, magnetic press, magnetic press play, micro rpg, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Outland Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, queerz, Renegade Game Studios, rookie jet studio, routinely itemised, runehammer games, samjoko publishing, sandy pug games, savage worlds, severed books, Shadowrun, Son of Oak Game Studio, sr 16, Steve Jackson Games, the witcher, troika, viking death squad, wizards of the coast, yen press

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #97

April 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A weekly RPG news summary covering D&D, 2d20, indie news, events, reviews, interviews and even encounter tables.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: AAW Games, adam lee, Auroborus: coils of the serpent, beadle & grimm, beyond belief games, Biohazard games, broken compass, Coriolis, cubicle 7, curious monk, cyberpunk red, defiant, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon crawl classics, edge, fantasy flight games, gen con, Iron Crown Enterprises, jasper's game day, Legend of the Five Rings, mcdm, midnight, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, over arms, philip reed, R. Talsorian Games, rookie jet studio, routinely itemised, sea of thieves, sirens: battle of the bards, Steve Jackson Games, the fantasy trip, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, wanderhome, warchief gaming, warhammer, wicked ones

Become a living weapon in Gimmick Zero the free anime-inspired RPG (quick start)

April 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gimmick Zero is designed to be different each time, with tables to roll (or modify and then roll) to see what happened to your world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: mecha, reviews, rookie jet studio

Bizarre Adventure, Straight-forward System: A review of Over Arms RPG

April 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Over Arms is full of contradictions that shouldn’t work but do.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jojo's bizarre adventure, over arms, reviews, rookie jet studio

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