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Free to Download: Destined preview

December 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Design Mechanism publishes the mithral best-seller Mythras and has announced that their next game will be Destined.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, runequest, superheroes, The Design Mechanism

The best selling historical RPGs of 2021

December 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

What’s certain is that this table is a way to get an exciting look at games newly out this year and perhaps see names new to us.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, Achtung! Cthulhu, Andrews McMeel, beowulf, brancalonia, drivethrurpg, edge, fantasy age, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hearts of wulin, jackals, Legend of the Five Rings, Modiphius Entertainment, osprey games, stats, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Design Mechanism, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, wyrd miniatures

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2021

December 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This league table looks like the top 20 fantasy RPGs published this year and sold the best.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, kevin crawford, m20 technocracy reloaded, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Monte Cook Games, Necrotic Gnome, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, Ptolus, R. Talsorian Games, sine nomine publishing, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, The Design Mechanism, warhammer, wizards of the coast, worlds without number

Mythras, Lyonesse, Monster Island and Luther Arkwright in bundle

May 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Design Mechanism has put together a tempting collection of games in a Bundle of Holding deal. It will run through to the 14th of June.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, The Design Mechanism

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, awfully queer heroes, blackbirds, bloat games, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Chaosium, cubicle 7, deadlands, Delta Green, dnd beyond, dragon age, fandom tabletop, fantasy age, gen con, Green Ronin Publishing, guy sclanders, headless hydra press, idyll creations, jackals, magpie games, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, nightpath publishing, orion d. black, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pew pew, philip reed, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quest, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, sara thompson, Skirmisher Publishing, star trek adventures, starfinder, summon skate, tales of xadia, The Design Mechanism, the dragon prince, the expanse rpg, the last airbender

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: beowulf, bundles, Chaosium, cubicle 7, derek kolstad, Dungeons & Dragons, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, GURPS, handiwork games, onyx path publishing, realmwarp media, routinely itemised, sandy pug games, shadows in the mist, Symbaroum, The Design Mechanism, the oracle, 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, astral tabletop, battlelords of the 23rd century, Chaosium, cubicle 7, destroyer of worlds, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, gencon, goodman games, Legend of the Five Rings, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, q-workshop, routinely itemised, soulbound, storm bunny studios, The Design Mechanism, the grinning frog, uk games expo, warhammer, warhammer 40k

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, 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: gumshoe, horror, kickstarters, 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, gallant knight games, greg gillespie, hunters entertainment, onyx path publishing, samjoko publishing, Son of Oak Game Studio, The Design Mechanism

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