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D&D 2024 pre-orders with bonus Roll20 monsters!

June 18, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

D&D fans who pre-order the whole D&D 2024 will also get a free copy of the Monster Manual Expanded Roll20 module.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: character sheets, dmsguild, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, roll20, Steve Wieck

Roll20 joins with DriveThruRPG and DMsGuild’s OneBookShelf to form a joint venture

July 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The two are from the world’s leading digital tabletop RPG companies, and the coming together of the two is unprecedented in the hobby space. More than 40 digitally talented employees will now work on user experience, code and product.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: ankit lal, dms guild, drivethrurpg, onebookshelf, roll20, Steve Wieck, virtual tabletop

DMsGuild and DTRPG boss steps in to calm games publishers over Conduct rules

July 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week, OneBookShelf the company that operates RPG sites like DMsGuild, DriveThruRPG, Storytellers Vault and others like DriveThruFiction and DriveThruComics updated their Publisher Conduct Guidelines.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: onebookshelf, Steve Wieck

DriveThruRPG suspends game designer linked to the Nazi filth

May 17, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In light of recent information, we have decided as a team to remove all titles from Dave Johnson Games from DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: drivethrurpg, star frontiers, Steve Wieck

Free to Download: Carbon Grey RPG and D6MV quickstart

August 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s our first look at the MVD6 system, the Magnetic Variant of the D6 system that once powered titles like Star Wars and Ghostbusters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: andrew gaska, carbon grey, drivethrucomics, drivethrurpg, free to download, magnetic press play, Steve Wieck, west end games

Magnetic Press Play deal brings West End Games’ D6 System back for Carbon Grey, Call of Cthulhu and anime RPGs

July 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Magnetic Press Play will use West End Games’ D6 system for the games for a launch RPG based on Carbon Grey, following up with Call of Cthulhu and anime adaptations.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: andrew gaska, board games, Call of Cthulhu, carbon grey, d6 system, gallant knight games, magnetic press, magnetic press play, Nocturnal Media, Steve Wieck, west end games

Five years later: The dark and mature Aquelarre RPG finally reaches retail

February 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Aquelarre has been described as the best RPG not available in English.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, Aquelarre, Nocturnal Media, Steve Wieck, Stewart Wieck

The RPG industry reacts to the Zak S with bans and donating commissions to charities

February 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

There have been accusations made against Zak S in the past but this time the industry has widely adopted the stance of we believe the victims, and people are taking action.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: contessa, drivethrurpg, Kenneth Hite, Steve Wieck

Rights to the King Arthur Pendragon RPG returned to Chaosium

December 11, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

King Author Pendragon was created by Chaosium founder Greg Stafford. The company notes that the return of the game has the blessing of his wife and children.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Greg Stafford, king arthur pendragon, Nocturnal Media, pendragon, Steve Wieck, Stewart Wieck, white wolf

Desborough’s #GamerGate card game banned by DriveThruRPG and SJ Games

December 11, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 8 Comments

#GamerGate is a card game by James Desborough’s Postmortem Studios. It is named after the stormy and hotly contested row among computer gamers and games journalists. This is a row which has involved bomb hoaxes, death threats and doxxing. Postmortem Studios described the game as a joke, saying; Gamergate the Card Game commemorates THE defining […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, drivethrurpg, James Desborough, onebookshelf, Steve Jackson Games, Steve Wieck

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