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Free to Download: Monte Cook’s Tidal Blades RPG preview

August 17, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designed by Shanna Germain and in a world created by Mr. Cuddington, Tidal Blades is a Cypher System tabletop RPG set in a beautiful archipelago where peoples cooperate… but the Fold is failing. The monsters it once kept at bay are coming.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, free to download, Monte Cook Games, Shanna Germain

Free to Download: The horror RPG Old Gods of Appalachia has a preview

June 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror podcast, an eldritch fiction audio play set in an even darker world akin to ours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, free to download, old gods of appalachia, Shanna Germain

Ten Years of Adventure: Limited quantities, limited time for Monte Cook Games’ 10th Anniversary special sourcebook

July 27, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 212-page hardback collection compiles ten adventures for Numenera, the Cypher System and The Strange.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bruce Cordell, Charles Ryan, cypher system, Dennis Detwiller, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, Numenera, Sean K. Reynolds, Shanna Germain, the strange

The Cypher System rolls up a 10th birthday megabundle

May 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Cypher System is one of this blogger’s favourites and so let me rush to tell you about Monte Cook Games’ 10th anniversary and the megabundle at the Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, cypher system, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, Shanna Germain

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #69

October 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s weekly RPG news herding with headlines, interviews reviews and new releases all squished into several bullet point lists.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Chaosium, cyberpunk red, death on the reik, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, Elisa Teague, fasa, ghost hunters, godforsaken, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, Harlem Unbound, HeroQuest, kobold press, loresmyth, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, onyx path publishing, peril planet, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, Shanna Germain, the black hack!, the wildsea, traveller, warhammer, wizards of the coast, wizkids, zavvi

Free to Download: We Are All Mad Here preview

September 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The setting is based on fairytales, Alice in Wonderland and English folklore in a place known as the Heartwood.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, free to download, Monte Cook Games, Shanna Germain

PEG expands their Savage Worlds ventures

November 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The publisher of Savage Worlds has expanded out of tabletop publishing and into fiction, hired a community manager, expanded the forums, created new media licenses…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds, Shane Lacy Hensley, Shanna Germain

Monte Cook Games produces a free “Consent in Gaming” RPG Guide

September 12, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Fending off bloodthirsty pirates is something many tabletop roleplayers are used to doing but what about intense emotional experiences?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Monte Cook Games, Sean K. Reynolds, Shanna Germain

In the Best Possible Taste: Numenera’s Love and Sex in the Ninth World

February 11, 2014 by Paul Baldowski 1 Comment

There’s something you can definitely say about Numenera – and that’s if you’re not thinking outside the box, you’re probably not playing to it’s full potential. When you’re taking the world to the brink of destruction, a billion years into the future, you can’t just think some post-apocalyptic Mad Max knock-off. The Ninth World isn’t […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Numenera, reviews, rpgs, Shanna Germain

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