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Your solo epic awaits: Why the Ironsworn-Starforged Bundle is a must-have

August 16, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At their heart, these titles – Ironsworn, Starforged, and its expansion, Sundered Isles – are renowned for their ability to deliver a full roleplaying experience without the need for a gamemaster.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, ironsworn, Shawn Tomkin

The best selling sci-fi RPGs published on DriveThruRPG in 2022

December 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Is there a dominant publisher in sci-fi? Mongoose makes the chart six times, but fellow British publisher Modiphius manage four entries as well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cyberpunk red, drivethrurpg, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, sci-fi, Shawn Tomkin, stats

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #152

May 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let’s do the RPG news super-summary and reduce this week’s bullet-point headlines to fewer bullets. This week;

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Dungeons & Dragons, routinely itemised, Shawn Tomkin

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #102

May 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet point speed for fast-find new releases, interviews, reviews and bundle deals. An at-a-glance catch-up of the recent RPG headlines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, adventurers league, black armada, blades in the dark, bloat games, bundle of holding, city of mist, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, daniel kwan, diego pisa artworks, dms guild, drow, Green Ronin Publishing, headless hydra press, hero forge, humble bundle, jackals, journey, kingdom, knock!, kobold press, last fleet, Malleus Monstrorum, micro rpg, mighty narwhal productions, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, morra, Nova, philip reed, planescape, Ptolus, realmwarp media, Renegade Game Studios, rifts, roll20, routinely itemised, Shawn Tomkin, SLA Industries, Son of Oak Game Studio, the expanse rpg, the troubleshooters, World Anvil

Ironsworn in space: Starforged blows Kickstarter away

April 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tomkin Press’ sci-fi sister RPG to Shawn Tomkin’s rightfully very popular Ironsworn is a hit. The Kickstarter community is eager to back to solo RPG, which has options for co-op and guided play.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ironsworn, kickstarters, sci-fi, Shawn Tomkin

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2020

December 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

DriveThruRPG has kindly pulled some data from their vast marketplace of RPG goodness, and we can now see which RPG titles have come out top.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arcanist Press, Dishonored, edge, Expeditious Retreat Press, ironsworn, Legend of the Five Rings, Modiphius Entertainment, night horrors, onyx path publishing, R. Talsorian Games, Shawn Tomkin, sine nomine publishing, the halls of arden vul

Highly acclaimed RPG Ironsworn gets a huge new supplement

February 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Delve has been called the dungeon crawling supplement for Ironsworn but it adds more dangerous locations than just underground tunnels.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ironsworn, Shawn Tomkin

Your ENnies 2019 dashboard!

July 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native has popped all the runners and riders into a wee database so you can quickly navigate between categories.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, 9th level games, AAW Games, Ashley Warren Writes, Chaosium, Dwarven Forge, Free League Publishing, Helmgast, hunters entertainment, kobold press, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Necrotic Gnome, nerdburger games, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Porcupine Publishing, questing beast, Renegade Game Studios, Saturday Morning Scenarios, Shawn Tomkin, Stygian Fox Publishing, Tuesday Knight Games, World Anvil

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