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White Box Cyclopedia: Five decades of dungeon crawling fund on Kickstarter

January 24, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The pitch is that the White Box Cyclopedia is that it’s not the original Swords & Wizardry White Box with extra content (some 200 pages) but a ‘what if…’ of D&D’s Dave and Gary remaining friends.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Mythmere Games, Swords & Wizardry

The Majestic Fantasy RPG slated for a 2025 Kickstarter

January 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bat in the Attic Games published the 204 pages of The Majestic Fantasy RPG in 2021, and it has 5/5 stars after over a dozen ratings on DriveThruRPG. However, it’s not finished.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: judges guild, Swords & Wizardry

Swords & Wizardry: A tabletop RPG using D&D’s original 1978 rules crushes its crowdfunding

March 31, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The tabletop game uses the original rules from D&D, and the pitch promises easy-to-learn rules

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, Mythmere Games, Old School Renaissance, Swords & Wizardry

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #108

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games are gone, conventions are here, but without masks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, city of mist, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darkraven games, dms guild, Fantasy Grounds, fate of cthulhu, flames of freedom, free league workshop, gen con, grim & perilous studios, Gun Metal Games, handiwork games, infinite black, izegrim creations, kobold press, laidback dungeon master, lone wolf, lumen, micro rpg, neverending, neverland, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, queerz, R. Talsorian Games, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, Son of Oak Game Studio, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, storytellers vault, Swords & Wizardry, trinity continuum, trollish delver games, tsr games, uk games expo, vast grimm, wizards of the coast, wonderfiled

Superhero Week: 10 of the most popular free superhero RPGs

July 6, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let’s be clear about this – DriveThruRPG’s ‘Pay As You Want’ allows you to pay nothing to download a high-quality RPG or accessory and very often that’s what the author encourages you to do. There’s a suggested price. Geek Native recommends paying what you think is appropriate, not what you want, and if the author […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalypse world, Dungeons & Dragons, Evil Hat, free to download, ICONS, Sanguine Productions, savage worlds, superhero week, Swords & Wizardry, third eye games

Frog God Games announce free downloads and discounts

August 16, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’ve peaked at Geek Native’s 2014 ENnie summary you’ll have seen Frog God Games making the league table of winners. They picked up a silver for Razor Coast – Heart of the Razor. While it is congratulations to Frog God Games it is also good news for fans. To celebrate the company is giving […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, frog god games, kickstarters, Necromancer Games, pathfinder, sales, Swords & Wizardry

Frog God Games’ The Lost Lands: Sword of Air is booming

October 23, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s odd to see a Kickstarter without a video pitch these days – especially for one asking for $75,000. Frog God Games have raised more than they need, though, as I write there’s more than $77,000 in the bank, with 23 days on the clock and nearly 350 backers. You can back the campaign here […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bill webb, frog god games, kickstarters, Necromancer Games, pathfinder, Swords & Wizardry

Thousands of free RPGs, sales and updates at DriveThru RPG

May 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a busy time at DriveThru RPG. I flashed past a banner on the site that suggested something about having lots of free products. A few days later, I decided to check it out. They do; 2940 free products according to their advanced search today. That’s great news for gamers. Go download stuff. I can […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: corefun, drivethrurpg, frog god games, Old School Renaissance, onyx path publishing, sales, solar echoes, Swords & Wizardry, The God Machine Chronicle, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, white wolf, world of darkness

Coupon: 15% off 12 of the strongest OSR RPG titles

May 13, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you an OSR fan? The old school renaissance or perhaps the old school retro-clones? DriveThru RPG have compiled the 12 best selling old school rules titles in their collection. Not only can you check out the collection here you can bag yourself 15% off the top 12 with this coupon code. Use; OSRF711F2 That […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: castles & crusades, drivethrurpg, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, Old School Renaissance, sales, Swords & Wizardry

Swords and Wizardry Monstrosities review

March 23, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Swords and Wizardry Monstrosities is the largest ever compilation of monsters for Swords & Wizardry from Frog God Games. There are 186 new monsters and hundreds of older monsters from the first edition of the game and they’re all in one place. Swords and Wizardry itself dates back to the 1970s and Frog God Games’ version […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dave Arneson, frog god games, Gary Gygax, monsters, reviews, Swords & Wizardry

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