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Story Arc System: Shadows of Esteren becomes a rules engine for the Posthuman Saga RPG

February 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Learn the ways of the Wilds, developing your character into a tougher and wilier explorer…unless the mutations turn you into a bumbling knot of limbs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Shadows of Esteren, studio agate

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #68

October 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s weekly RPG news round-up with freebies, competitions, headlines, reviews and new releases all packed into some bullet points.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, alien rpg, bundle of holding, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cypher system, Dungeons & Dragons, fading embers, flames of freedom, idyll creations, Into the Mother Lands, Kate Welch, kobold press, Modiphius Entertainment, Necromancer Games, Paizo Publishing, power rangers, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, runequest, soulbound, star trek adventures, studio agate, the wagadu chronicles, through the breach, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures, Zadmar Games

Complete Monster Compendium: 200 D&D 5e monsters and metal dice for early bird backers

September 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Creatures offer up 200 monsters and NPCs plus new archetypes and rules to bring more playable species into your 5e campaigns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, monsters, studio agate

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #61

August 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It has been another busy week of RPG news. Are you keeping up with the free to download material, new releases and headlines?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Absolute Tabletop, Chaosium, chronicle system, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk, dead channel studios, exalted funeral, fandom tabletop, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, hellboy, itch.io, kobold press, Legendary Games, liminal, limitless adventures, loresmyth, mage hand press, mantic games, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, petersen games, Renegade Game Studios, Rivers of London, Robert J. Schwalb, routinely itemised, savage worlds, shadow of the weird wizard, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound, studio agate, the after, the merciless merchants, the wildsea, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, those dark places, XII: Inner Demons

Dragon dice and monster alert: Book of Creatures

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Book of Creatures is a homage to fantasy bestiaries. It’s a large book, 400-pages with more than 200 illustrations and 5e rulesets for each.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, monsters, studio agate

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #50

May 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Routinely Itemised this week we catch up with PaizoCon Online, find out what the D&D movie has in store and ear about “choose your own adventure” audiobooks!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, castle falkenstein, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Eberron, foundry, Free League Publishing, free rpg day, Gary Gygax, Green Ronin Publishing, grimmerspace, Keith Baker, kobold press, luke gygax, Mutants & Masterminds, mythic odysseys of theros, obsidian portal, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, soulmuppet, starfinder, studio agate, threefold

Free to Download: Shadows of Esteren – Dark Romanticism Artbook preview

May 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The full artbook, if funded, will weigh in at 200 pages and have 8 themes.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: free to download, kickstarters, Shadows of Esteren, studio agate

Art and Darkness: Shadows of Esteren RPG summons Dark Romanticism

May 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As conventions are cancelled, gaming companies are responding in different ways. Some are running their own online events, some sob quietly in the corner and Agate have taken Shadows of Esteren back to Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Shadows of Esteren, studio agate

Free to Download: The Shadows of Esteren RPG point and click game – The Mac Lyrs Legacy

April 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Since 20019, Agate has been working on a computer game for Shadows of Esteren tabletop RPG. That’s a big task for a small indie studio.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: free to download, Shadows of Esteren, studio agate

D&D with the gloves off: A review of Fateforge – Adventurers

August 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s the short form: this is a very impressive, detailed fantasy RPG with a far more sombre setting than D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, reviews, studio agate

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