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Free to Download: SCP The Tabletop RPG Quickstart

February 8, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The download dives straight into the rules, explaining attribute checks, exploding dice, the rule of one and versus rolls. Questions like “which dice do I use?” aren’t answered, so SCP RPG’s quickstart might be better suited to gamers with some experience.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 26 letter publishing, free to download, scp

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2021

December 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The league table below shows the best selling RPG products made available on DriveThruRPG this year and which the designers have tagged sci-fi.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2300ad, 26 letter publishing, alien rpg, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, Alligator Alley Entertainment, battletech, battletech: ilclan, battletech: technical readout: Irregulars, Cepheus Deluxe, cubicle 7, deepnight revelation, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Esper Genesis, evil beagle games, fallout, Five Parsecs from Home, Free League Publishing, hard wired island, Modiphius Entertainment, osprey games, Prowlers & Paragons, redacted records, sci-fi, scp, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, Shadowrun, shadowrun: street wyrd, solomani front, star trek adventures, stargrave, stats, stellagama publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, traveller, weird age games, wrath & glory

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #125

November 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Fortunately, there’s been plenty of RPG news to keep brains distracted here in the North from the unrelenting encroachment of winter of darkness.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, adam lee, aethon games, alien rpg, banana chan, battlelords of the 23rd century, be like a crow, blue oxrat, Call of Cthulhu, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, deepdark designs, dh gaming workshop, dreaming gynoid, e-raptor, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, fool's moon entertainment, Fractured, Free League Publishing, freecom, ghost hunters, giga merch games, gloom, goodman games, how to embrace a swamp creature, Ill Gotten Games, Jim Butler, kickstarter, lair, Legendary Games, leyline press, lord of the rings, lucky dice games, map maker adventures, masks of nyarlathotep, mike webb, modern age, modern artifice, Mongoose Publishing, monte cooke games, neverending, new bristol, Newt Newport, Numenera, one page gaming, Paizo Publishing, planebreaker, Polyhedra Games, Porcupine Publishing, power of design, Revolution Comes to the Kingdom, rise of the atlanteans, roll20, routinely itemised, sadia bies, salty games, salvage union, savage worlds, scp, sidequest, soulbound bestiary, suburban consumption of the monstrous, tabletopy, the book of nod, the dice, the grinning frog, the merciless merchants, The Mysterious Demesne of Dom Perestrelo, The One Ring, theorycraft, traveller, Troll Lord Games, wizards of the coast

Who’s topping DriveThruRPG’s Small Press Spotlight Sale?

October 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The search features at DriveThruRPG tell me there are 52,468 qualifying products in the sale! Hard to get noticed, huh?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0-hr, 26 letter publishing, Alligator Alley Entertainment, Battlefield Press, bluebeard's bride, dicegeeks, draco studios, drivethrurpg, Esper Genesis, evil beagle games, flying circus, gnome made games, jenna katerin moran, logan laidlaw, magpie games, masks, newsstand press, Prowlers & Paragons, raging swan press, sales, scp, those who wander, unity, w.m. akers, zensara studios

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, aegean, age of steel, apothecaria, Arcanum Worlds, biscuit fund games, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, channel m publishing, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, city of cats, Claim the Sky, cyberpunk red, dice, dndbeyond, dungeon crawl classics, enoki dice, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, follow me down, game wizards, gary con, goblonia, good brother studios, goodman games, hack100, headless hydra press, heirs of heresy, holler, ichor - drowned, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, izegrim creations, James Ohlen, krakenships, laidback dungeon master, legends of the metaverse, level up, luke gygax, luna publishing, m presents, midlam miniatures, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mushrooms, Nightfall Games, osprey games, past adventures, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, Raiders of the Serpent Sea 5e Player's Guide, relics, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, sabbat: the black hand, savage worlds, scp, shadowrun: double clutch, sinopa publishing, SLA Industries, smuchy games, songs we sing, southlands, spelljammer, starfinder: tech revolution, steve dee, strixhaven, studio olkiou, survive this!!, synapse, the cthulhu hack, the dhole's house, the greatest thieves in lankhmar, themadmaker, third kingdom games, tournament arc, unchained games, upriver downriver, vast grimm, we die young, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #106

June 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games have TSR Games over a barrel.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 1985 games, a couple of drakes, a discordance with dzyvatz, Andrews McMeel, Atlas Games, basilisk online, black armada, bloodlines & Black magic, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, book m, Bully Pulpit Games, Call of Cthulhu, campfire, cannibal sector, Chaosium, crimson thaw, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, dark alliance, dead channel studios, death on the reik companion, degenesis, deimos academy, dms guild, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon craft, dungeon scrawlers: heroes of undermountain, edge, Elven Tower, ember + ash, emojk, en publishing, Eventyr Games, fiasco, Fighting Fantasy, flying buffalo, goblin, gods of the perilous land, good strong hands, Green Ronin Publishing, grim & perilous studios, harp bestiary, hecate games, itch.io, Jeff Heising, Lovecraftesque, Malleus Monstrorum, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, neo-tokyo 2100, norn, olde swords reign, on the wings of valkyries, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, pip system, Planegea, red markets, routinely itemised, scp, sig: city of blades, sixmorevodka, Skirmisher Publishing, SLA Industries, spells of the ages, sprawlrunners, star frontiers, star trek adventures, starfinder galaxy exploration manual, storm bunny studios, tabletops & tentacles, the mythical merchant, the red book of magic, the wasteland covenant, the wondrous tome of wands, things heroes say, third eye games, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, this defiant earth, tides of a dead sea, trails of ash and bone, trollish delver games, trophy gold, tsr games, tunnels & trolls, two summers, Venger Satanis, Wanderer's Guide to Merchants & Magic, warhammer, warlock, wayfinder's guide to eberron, wizkids, workhorse rpg studio, world of darkness, wrath & glory, zweihander

Secure, Contain, and Protect: SCP Tabletop RPG is now available for the brave

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Characters are members of The Foundation and have the mission to Secure, Contain and Protect the various…. things… that lurk on the edges.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 26 letter publishing, jason keech, scp

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #105

June 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

It’s the run-up to D&D Live 2021, and Wizards of the Coast find themselves in hot water. Renegade and Paradox have pushed turbo on Vampire: The Masquerade, and while Kickstarter activity is down in launches, it’s up in requests.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, against the darkmaster, arc, Arion Games, battle box, black scrolls, bloat games, blood of the lioness, bounty hunter, Brittannia Game Designs, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, dark places & demogorgons, dms guild, dungeon forge, dungeoneer, Dungeons & Dragons, electric bastionland, Elise Cretel, fallout, forgotten realms, Free League Publishing, griffon lore games, guy sclanders, hasbro, HeroQuest, Infinity, Inkwell Ideas, inspirisles, isle of the plangent mage, joseph mccullough, Ken St Andre, ken wickham, land of the rising sun, lawman, lion banner games, momatoes, mork borg, mystic lilies, mythroll armory, nectar of the gods, on the path, orcansee game works, otherworlds, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, rosethrone publishing, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, Sentinel comics, sidequest, Steve Jackson Games, superfantasy, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, the infinite hack, the runewild, The Scourge of the Scorn Lords, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, trollish delver games, twilight: 2000, Vampire: The Masquerade, vincent baker, virtual tabletop, will uhl, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, worlds without number

Secure, Contain, and Protect: The SCP gets a tabletop RPG

January 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s X-Files meets Creepypasta and its funded many times over on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 26 letter publishing, jason keech, kickstarters, scp, The X-Files

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