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Returning “Root: The Roleplaying Game” bundle offers discounts on the core rules

September 11, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today, Magpie is back on the crowdfunding platform, not with a ‘revenge’ campaign but with an expansion for a title they’re already looking after, which is good!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, kickstarters, magpie games, root

Digital board games on the cheap: Root, Scythe, Wingspan et al

August 14, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Good news as Dire Wolf and friends have brought four tiers of digital board games to Humble Bundle.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: bundles, dune, humble bundle, root

Root TTRPG gets a flash sale as the animals go wild

July 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Root RPG sale runs only until July 31st and is an all-new offering from the bundle site.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, magpie games, powered by the apocalypse, root

Free to Download: Root – Talon Hill Quickstart

November 29, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As vagabonds, you must navigate these dangerous and complicated state of affairs. You choose whom you will serve, or assist, if anyone… and you may tip the balance of the war in this key location!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, magpie games, powered by the apocalypse, root

UKGE 2022 Awards: The best RPGs and board games of the year

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The UK’s largest and one of the most significant gaming conventions in Europe is over, and the UK Games Expo is done for another year. The busy event has many attractions, one of which is the influential UK Games Expo Awards. The UKGE 2022 Awards has two categories, Judges and People, which means two winners […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, All Rolled Up, awards, exploding kittens, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, frostgrave, Iello, lord of the rings, magpie games, osprey games, parable games, root, shiver, the dee sanction, the thing, twilight: 2000, uk games expo, z-man games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #137

January 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you think the deadly Dark Souls computer game would work as a 5e RPG on the tabletop? Steamforged will try, and they’re going to do the same with RuneQuest. Paizo make a critical hire, Monte Cook Games make a free preview available and more this week.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, Babies and Broadswords, cubicle 7, Dark Souls, Darklight Interactive, doctor who, dog might games, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, edge, fasa, Free League Publishing, gale force 9, goodman games, lancer, legends of avallen, midnight, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, Paizo Publishing, parts per million, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, ravenloft: mist hunters, rick and morty, root, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, runescape, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, sideshow collectibles, star trek into darkness, Steamforged Games, the oracle, warehouse 23

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #135

January 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week with more TSR drama, horror RPGs, killer future robots and babies with broadswords.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: arc, awfully queer heroes, Babies and Broadswords, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, coyote & crow, crow land publishing, darrington press, fat dragon games, gallantfunding, goodman games, handimonsters, handiwork games, humble bundle, Loke BattleMats, mindjammer press, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Outland Entertainment, philip reed, roll20, root, routinely itemised, Skirmisher Publishing, terminator, They Came From Beyond the Grave, TSR, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #133

December 31, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the end of the week, the month and the year. It is, therefore, time for one last look back at the RPG news from 2021 with Geek Native’s Routinely Itemised: RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, brindlewood bay, cluedo, demiplane, Dragonlance, Dream Realm Storytellers, en publishing, everway, gallant knight games, gallantfunding, jasper's game day, kult: divinty lost, level up, lumpley games, Meguey Baker, Paizo Publishing, root, routinely itemised, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, The One Ring, the witcher

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #131

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A look at which games published this year have sold the best and other RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, Asmodee, Autarch, carbon 2185, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darrington press, demiplane, dragon turtle games, everway, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, foundry vtt, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, Independence Games, invisible sun, lightspress media, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, mcdm, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, rebellion unplugged, roll20, root, routinely itemised, salvage union, sine nomine publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, strixhaven, the between, the expanse rpg, the merciless merchants, TSR, warehouse 23, warhammer, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, wrath & glory

Right for Reasons: A review of the Root RPG

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Getting the mood of the game right is critical. The art looks a bit cute, and while the Woodland is often in sombre autumnal colours, the animal-people are often highlights of colour.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: magpie games, powered by the apocalypse, reviews, root

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