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Cörk Børd: A Nordic noir Mörk Borg spin-off hits Kickstarter

August 27, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

From the dice trays of All Rolled Up comes Cörk Børd, a new tabletop roleplaying game of Nordic Noir investigative horror, and it’s funding now on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, kickstarters, mork borg, Paul Baldowski, the cthulhu hack, the dee sanction

Elizabethan supernatural RPG: The Dee Sanction funds a Monad Edition

April 1, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The indie RPG is common at tables at UK gaming conventions, and now Just Crunch Games has taken it back to Kickstarter to fund the Monad Edition.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, just crunch games, kickstarters, Paul Baldowski, the dee sanction

Threaten your sanity on the cheap: Cthulhu Hack bundle offer

March 21, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This updated Cthulhu Hack Bundle includes the 2024 Second Edition, streamlined rules for facing the sanity-shattering horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, just crunch games, the cthulhu hack, the dee sanction

Sanction: Kickstarter success for a generic RPG system of challenges and hacks

September 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Adapting the game to a setting requires a little work by the Game Moderator— configuring a set of skill-focused tables to generate characters; defining any unique mechanics, like angelic favours, expendable gadgets, or uncanny good luck; and customising unpredictable but determined foes to stand between success and failure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, kickstarters, Paul Baldowski, the dee sanction

Sanction RPG engine: A first look at the settings and goals

August 27, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sanction is a simple system for challenge-driven games, with player characters who are usually anything but heroes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, Paul Baldowski, the dee sanction

UKGE 2022 Awards: The best RPGs and board games of the year

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The UK’s largest and one of the most significant gaming conventions in Europe is over, and the UK Games Expo is done for another year. The busy event has many attractions, one of which is the influential UK Games Expo Awards. The UKGE 2022 Awards has two categories, Judges and People, which means two winners […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, All Rolled Up, awards, exploding kittens, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, frostgrave, Iello, lord of the rings, magpie games, osprey games, parable games, root, shiver, the dee sanction, the thing, twilight: 2000, uk games expo, z-man games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #147

April 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We can see many exciting bundles, Hasbro hanging on to Wizards of the Coast, and if you’re a fan of the news reading minotaur, there’s a chance to win him in the UK.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alice is missing, crowbar creative, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, evil genius productions, First Responders, foundry vtt, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hasbro, Jon Hodgson, just crunch games, Monte Cook Games, mothership, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, realmwarp media, river horse, roll20, routinely itemised, sara thompson, Shades of Vengeance, Son of Oak Game Studio, Stargate SG-1, Syrinscape, tales of xadia, the dark eye, the dee sanction, the expanse rpg, The One Ring, the witcher, Ulisses Spiele, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, zombicide

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #130

December 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Drama again this week with attack lawyers dispatched against Wizards of the Coast, hassles over Kickstarters at Dragonmeet and confusion and concern over the direction Kickstarter itself might be taking.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, Ad Infinitum Adventures, bandit camp, Brittannia Game Designs, broken shield, cairn, carbon 2185, Chaosium, Chivalry & Sorcery, coyote & crow, Dishonored, dragon turtle games, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, fairy trails, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, forged in the dark, Gunnar Roxen, Hymgho, Inkwell Ideas, ironsworn, Keith Baker, kickstarter, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, shannon appelcline, Steve Kenson, strixhaven, swords of the serpentine, the dee sanction, traveller, Troll Lord Games, TSR, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, worlds without number

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #129

December 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summarised from the week that’s just gone with reviews, interviews, bundle deals, competitions and crowdfunding projects.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, a couple of drakes, Achtung! Cthulhu, bandit camp, brindlewood bay, broken shield, carbon 2185, Chaosium, city of mist, Claim the Sky, cortex, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dc comics, defiant, dms guild, dndbeyond, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, edge, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, en publishing, fairy trails, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, game machinery, ghost hunters, gila, goodman games, Gunnar Roxen, haunted west, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, just crunch games, Legendary Games, legends of avallen, magpie games, Mana Project Studio, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, nightfell, Nova, paranoia, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, root, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, Steffie de Vaan, storm crow, strixhaven, the dee sanction, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Matrix, The One Ring, traveller, truffle shuffle, Tuesday Knight Games, twilight imperium, Victoriana, World Anvil, xploringmap

Slightly supernatural: A review of The Dee Sanction

November 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

John Dee and Francis Walsingham, men with very different approaches and outlooks, run a secret agency for the Queen to protect the country from the rising supernatural threat.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, just crunch games, Paul Baldowski, reviews, the dee sanction

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