Matt Mercer steps back from DMing due to burnout, Steve Dee passes away and Leon Barillaro joins Wizards of the Coast. Plus news on the Nancy Drew RPG and Conpulsion.
Five Years After Review: Let’s start at the end
Who were you before the world ended? Our review of the GM-less roleplaying game Five Years After explores its brilliant reverse-chronology system, where discovering your past is the entire point of the game.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Tin Star Games
Five Years After is a deeply personal, extremely special game to me. It came together very quickly when I was thinking about grief and loss and also the one thing I’d never seen any RPG do successfully before, which is run in reverse, like you see in films like Memento and Tenet.
Relics: Holy Cold War angels come to the Bundle of Holding
The RPG plunges you into a thrilling world where angels and demons lock horns in a clandestine war for the fate of humanity.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #121
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.
Relics: Tin Star Games’ RPG of abandoned angels gets a print edition
God has gone and the Gates of Heaven have slammed shut, leaving angels and demons abandoned on the mortal world.
Abandoned by God: Relics – A Game of Angels
In the game you are an angel fighting to collect important relics from around the world in a holy power struggle.
