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Bloat Games goes weird retro with Greasers & Ghouls RPG

September 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Greasers & Ghouls is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game set in a small town in the 1950s. Players take on the roles of normal high school-aged teens, who encounter B-movie monsters lurking in the shadows, all while trying to go to high school, the drive-in, and still make it to the sock hop dance.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, eric bloat, kickstarters, monsters, survive this!!

Overworld: Legend of Zelda inspired monsters to get their own RPG zine series

February 22, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Eric and artist Phil Stone are helming a project to bring as many monsters inspired by that iconic Nintendo game to a tabletop RPG near you.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, Dungeons & Dragons, eric bloat, kickstarters, monsters, survive this!!

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #134

January 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the first RPG news round-up of 2022, so welcome to Routinely Itemised.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astral tabletop, bloat games, chris cocks, Dungeons & Dragons, gallantfunding, haunted west, Nightfall Games, Nova, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, routinely itemised, schwalb entertainment, Sean K. Reynolds, Stargate SG-1, survive this!!, tombpunk, TSR, twilight: 2000, wizards of the coast, Wyvern Gaming, zinequest

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #121

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcanum Worlds, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, cyberpunk red, dice, dndbeyond, dungeon crawl classics, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, game wizards, gary con, goodman games, headless hydra press, holler, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, izegrim creations, James Ohlen, laidback dungeon master, level up, luke gygax, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, relics, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, SLA Industries, southlands, spelljammer, steve dee, strixhaven, survive this!!, the cthulhu hack, vast grimm, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116

September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As it’s Friday, it means RPG news in summary form. Routinely Itemised doesn’t just summarise Geek Native’s own content.

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Can you survive 80s RPG horror? Dark Places & Demogorgons bundle launches

June 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Up for grabs are Dark Places & Demogorgons and Vigilante City with supplements for vampires, werewolf and ghost hunting action, and 10% going to charity.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, bundle of holding, bundles, dark places & demogorgons, horror, sales, survive this!!

We Die Young is a supernatural counter-culture RPG

April 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Eric Bloat describes We Die Young as the spiritual successor to Dark Places & Demogorgons, another title from Bloat Games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, dark places & demogorgons, eric bloat, kickstarters, survive this!!

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