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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: Chronicle Connection Plus, dating, 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: Empty Cycle, 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, ayanna jones-lightsy, Baker Street, battle century g, Battlesystem Skirmishes, beowulf, black scroll games, Chaosium, chris shepperson, corefun, cortex, Cthulhu Mythos, cyberpunk red, Cynthia Williams, danger gal dossier, daratum, dead channel studios, directsun, dueling dragon adventures, dungeoneering, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, en publishing, fallsea, fearlight games, felix isaacs, Free League Publishing, gem room games, gimmick labs, gimmickman, goblin errands, handiwork games, jesssica crimes, kettlesberg games, krakon games, legendaria, leybourne publishing, lion banner games, mindjammer, mindjammer press, mork borg, mothership, nerdburger games, nofuture, orbital debris, owen k. c. stephens, pathfinder, pharaoh's workshop, philip reed, pj coffey, planar compass, R. Talsorian Games, red giant, rogue's street weapons, ron lundeen, rookie jet studio, routinely itemised, second inquisition, seven sense studios, solar echoes, tab creations, the gaia complex, the mad mlooter, The One Ring, the wildsea, tollspiele games, tomb of the colossus gods, varghand publishing, vindicated entertainment, weird works, World Anvil, zine month

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, apocthulhu, behind the walls, brilliant moon publishing, Catalyst Game Labs, cave of monsters, Chaosium, columbia games, crapland, critical hit, Cthulhu Britannica, cthulhu nights, cthulhu reborn, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darkmoon studios, disaster /peace, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur's Gate, earl of fife games, Esper Genesis, essence20, fifty fifty, galaxies in peril, Girl Genius, goblin slayer, hard wired island, harn, impossible landscapes, index card rpg, jayson elliot, laurie o'connel games, Legacy of the Soul Flame, lichcraft, logan bonner, lupin the 3rd, magnetic press, magnetic press play, micro rpg, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mythick, Negocios Infernales, northern steele, op-models, Outland Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, pathfinder secrets of magic, queerz, Renegade Game Studios, rookie jet studio, routinely itemised, runehammer games, samjoko publishing, sandy pug games, savage worlds, searching for my soulmate, Sequestered Industries, severed books, Shadowrun, Son of Oak Game Studio, sr 16, Steve Jackson Games, stingers & spores, sundered skies pres, the broken token, the exquisite corpse in maggots, the witcher, tomb punk, troika, viking death squad, westfalia publishing, wizards of the coast, world war cthulhu, 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: a tale of two captains, AAW Games, adam lee, Against The Gods Themselves, Auroborus: coils of the serpent, bad roll games, beadle & grimm, beyond belief games, Biohazard games, bloody eye games, Briar & Bramble, broadsword, broken compass, chaos league, Christian Petersen, Coriolis, creative conclave, cubicle 7, curious monk, cyberpunk red, dandyline games, defiant, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon crawl classics, dungeon full dive, edge, fantasy flight games, fields of victory, first they came, foundry server, gen con, gimmick zero, harp bestiary, Iron Crown Enterprises, j.m. ward, jasper's game day, jeff barber, Legend of the Five Rings, Lone Wolf Adventure Game, mcdm, midnight, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Monkstone Miniatures, otan's workshop, over arms, peter von kleinsmid, philip reed, R. Talsorian Games, reverie rpg's, rookie jet studio, routinely itemised, sea of thieves, sirens: battle of the bards, starforged, Steve Jackson Games, sullasara's spells of unrivalled utility, swords and spaceships, table toppers, tangent space, the dare-luck club, the fantasy trip, triumphant!, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, wanderhome, warchief gaming, warhammer, wicked ones, witch doctors

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: gimmick zero, 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

Over Arms: An RPG inspired by JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Persona

August 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rookie Jet Studio have a rules-light tabletop RPG based on the concept of battling avatars where characters have “Anima” to manifest and do battle with.

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

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