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Free to Download: Sandy Petersen’s Yig Snake Granddaddy Act 1 sample

November 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sandy Petersen is the famous game designer responsible for Call of Cthulhu. In the Cthulhu Mythos Sagas, he and his team take some of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror concepts and bring them to meet D&D 5e fantasy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cthulhu Mythos, free to download, petersen games, Sandy Petersen, yig snake granddaddy

Call of Cthulhu: Terror Paths is a cooperative board game of Lovecraftian horror

October 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The threat in Terror Paths is Menace with a capital M. At the start of any scenario, players won’t even know what they are up against.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, petersen games, Sandy Petersen, terror paths

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #111

July 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s mixed news with $30,000 injected into the hobby but sadness as Brian Fitzpatrick passes away.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, a couple of drakes, awfully cheerful engine, beadle & grimm, bounty hunter, carbon grey, Chaosium, Charles Ryan, city of mist garage, cortex prime, crom the barbarian, Cthulhu Mythos, cubicle 7, disaster /peace, dms guild, doctor who, dscryb, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, dungeons & dragons: mindbreaker, en publishing, Fire Ruby Designs, forbidden lands, from cyan depths, gama, games ink, gm screens, graph paper robot, grognardia games, gurps classics: goblins, halcyon miniatures, icon, kindred spirits productions, krakon games, legends of avallen, lightning war, Loke BattleMats, lovecraft, loverdive, magnetic press play, Massif Press, moebius adventures, Monte Cook Games, mystical world miniatures, Numenera, Orbital Blues, Paizo Publishing, path to adventure, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Rick Meints, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, shaun sunday, sigil & shadow, Sneak Attack Press, soulmuppet, sr 16, starfinder, stargate, Stealing Stories for the Devil, Steve Jackson Games, Strength of Thousands, Survivalist's Guide to Spelunking, tales of xadia, the dark peak gaming systems, the horned rat, the little astralnaut, the lost citadel, third eye games, trinity continuum, tsr games, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, vertices, warhammer, warlord games, west end games, wizards of the coast

TSR Games (3) now distances itself from TSR Games (1)

July 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At this point, TSR Games (3) was quick to say that they are not, in any way, the old TSR and are entirely new.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dave Arneson, Sandy Petersen, tsr games

Mech-dino horrors and Cthulhu-spawn (mostly): A review of Nightmares 1

May 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nightmares 1 is a collection of monsters for 5e by Cthulhu-famous Petersen Games. It gets a thumb up from this reviewer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cat evans, cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, mark hart, matt corley, nightmares, petersen games, reviews, Sandy Petersen

Pencil strokes of madness: The Anatomical Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors

March 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

The artist responsible for all the illustrations in the guide is Luis Merlo. The Ecuadorian only works with physical media and the Lovecraftian entities found within the textbook have been drawn by hand. Monsters have been forged with a pencil or pen, but not with a stylus and not with a computer.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: cthulhu, luis merlo, reviews, Sandy Petersen, The Anatomical Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors

Steam hosts a digital tabletop games festival

September 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The goal of the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest is to explore those game which can straddle both online and offline.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: convention, Ian Livingstone, Sandy Petersen, Steam, steam digital tabletop fest, steve jackson

Your D&D game ends with Planet Apocalypse

September 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a new Planet Apocalypse 5e-powered RPG and expanded board game in the same Kickstarter. It’s a way to flood your fantasy world with demons. You know; to stop things feeling samey.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, board games, Dungeons & Dragons, horror, petersen games, planet apocalypse, Sandy Petersen

Dark Worlds: The Ritual D&D adventure review

August 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A review of Dark Worlds: The Ritual. This set of adventures brings the cosmic horror of the Cthulhu mythos to fantasy heroes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cthulhu Mythos, dark worlds, donathin frye, Dungeons & Dragons, matt corley, petersen games, reviews, Sandy Petersen

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #53

June 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest news from D&D live, Rime of the Frostmaiden, free downloads and big money dice campaigns on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: albacon, amazing tales, anima press, Arc Dream Publishing, Arcanist Press, brancalonia, burn bryte, chronicle system, cubicle 7, cypher system, d&d live, dissident whispers, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, Fighting Fantasy, foundry, game of thrones, Green Ronin Publishing, heist on miracle iv, keyforge, kings of war, kobold press, legends of avallen, lex arcana, Monte Cook Games, nerdburger games, Paizo Publishing, q-workshop, red scar publishing, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, shadows in the mist, soulbound, sword chronicle, the dark eye, those dark places, Tuesday Knight Games, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

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