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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #86

February 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly RPG news round-up and this week Kickstarter's Zine Quest is a vast shape on the radar.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, age of sigmar, age of sigmar: bestiary, apon games, aron tarbuck, awfully queer heroes, blackbirds, bleak horizons press, bloat games, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Chaosium, clove pine games, cubicle 7, dapper rabbit games, deadlands, Delta Green, delta green: impossible dreams, dino-world, dnd beyond, dragon age, DwD Studios, fandom tabletop, fantasy age, gaming honors, gen con, Green Ronin Publishing, guy sclanders, headless hydra press, idyll creations, jackals, lucian kahn, magpie games, masons miniatures, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, mousehole press, nightpath publishing, orion d. black, osprey games, outside of the lines press, Paizo Publishing, pew pew, phantom mill games, philip reed, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quest, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, sara thompson, Skirmisher Publishing, spellsword home entertainment, spiel knights, star and flame games, star trek adventures, starfinder, stronghold press games, summon skate, tales of xadia, terrain tinker, the adventure guild, the burning of carbex, The Design Mechanism, the dragon prince, the expanse rpg, the last airbender, upwind, white lies

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #84

January 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs summarises weekly RPG news, new releases, interviews with roleplaying designers and handy tips.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ashes of the magi, beowulf, bundles, casting the runes, Chaosium, cubicle 7, derek kolstad, Dungeons & Dragons, end times, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, funagain games, great cities of magic, GURPS, handiwork games, onyx path publishing, polydice hero, realmwarp media, routinely itemised, sandy pug games, shadows in the mist, Symbaroum, the augur, The Design Mechanism, the oracle, treasure hunts in davokar, warhammer age of sigmar, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #46

May 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletop RPG news for a week squished into a series of easy scan bullet-point lists. Dungeons & Dragons fights, Starfinder dice and more Kickstarters than you can shake a magic item at.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, All Rolled Up, Arion Games, ashcan studios, astral tabletop, battlelords of the 23rd century, Chaosium, Crown & Dragon, cubicle 7, destroyer of worlds, dungeon master's adventure pack, Dungeons & Dragons, ekphrastic beasts, Free League Publishing, gencon, goodman games, janaka stuckly, Legend of the Five Rings, lyonesse, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, q-workshop, routinely itemised, soulbound, storm bunny studios, The Design Mechanism, the grinning frog, uk games expo, warhammer, warhammer 40k, what we were, Würm

The Design Mechanism shows off the Jack Vance RPG Lyonesse

April 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mythras publisher The Design Mechanism has been working on a Lyonesse RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Jack Vance, lyonesse, mythras, The Design Mechanism

Casting the Runes uses GUMSHOE for M.R. James ghost stories

January 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Design Mechanism is now working with the designer and author Paul StJohn Mackintosh as well as art director Sophia Conner to bring Casting the Runes to live via the supernatural power of a Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: casting the runes, gumshoe, horror, kickstarters, Paul StJohn Mackintosh, The Design Mechanism

The best selling pulp RPGs of 2019

December 24, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Welcome to this quick analysis of the best selling pulp RPGs and supporting material published this year at DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: carbon 2185, Chaosium, city of mist, dragon turtle games, dragon-blooded, gallant knight games, gangbusters, greg gillespie, highfell, hunters entertainment, mark hunt, onyx path publishing, samjoko publishing, solar blades & cosmic spells, Son of Oak Game Studio, strange adventures, The Design Mechanism, the solo investigator's handbook, uncanny echo anthology, worlds united

Serious Disruption: Review of Luther Arkwright: Roleplaying Across the Parallels

June 5, 2015 by Paul Baldowski 1 Comment

The multiverse holds infinite possibility and diversity. Unfortunately, some individuals don’t appreciate that chaotic state of affairs and seek to impose an oppressive and entropic order. The Disruptors want to return the multiverse to a collapsed state, as was the case in the youthful eons of existence, and to that end seek the union of FireFrost, a sentient weapon of massive destruction.…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bryan Talbot, Luther Arkwright, reviews, rpgs, The Design Mechanism

What on Earth is Mythoard and why should RPGers care?

February 10, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

If you pop over to Mythoard you’ll find a site that promises to send you a box full of RPG goodies every month. This month they’ve content from Chessex, Throwi Games, Moon Dice Games, Flatland Games, Genius Loci Games and Imaginary Maps.…

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chessex, flatland games, genius loci games, goodman games, gygax magazine, imaginary maps, moon dice games, mythoard, olde house rules, Simian Circle Games, The Design Mechanism, throwi games

RuneQuest 6 readies for pre-order

June 28, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Lawrence Whitaker of The Design Mechanism has announced that the company is nearly ready to accept pre-orders for RuneQuest 6. The Design Mechanism has a strategic partnership with Moon Design and it’ll be Moon who are handling the print and electronic orders of RuneQuest 6 via their site.…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Lawrence Whitaker, Moon Design, runequest, The Design Mechanism

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