Routinely Itemised: RPGs #44
New releases, free games and the impact of COVID-19. What does this mean? It means RPG news at bullet point speed.
Would you change the past? Most people would, especially men
There's no shortage of sci-fi shows in which the heroes have to work hard to maintain the timeline.
Superhero Week: A review of Voracious – Appetite for Destruction
It's rated T+ for mature teens because dinosaurs have big gnashy teeth and like to chomp into people.
The Chinese government just burned every copy of this Cthulhu Kickstarter
The Sassoon Files is a Cthulhu mythos set of tabletop RPG scenarios and campaign world set in 1920s Shanghai.
TimeWatch RPG preview
TimeWatch is an RPG from Kevin Kulp. It’s born from a Kickstarter Campaign that made over $100,000.
The game is from Pelgrane Press and uses the Gumshoe system, familiar to players of Night’s Back Agents and Trail of Cthulhu, with some modifications.…
Short film: Traveler
A nicely made short film that follows a group of friends who tried to build a jet powered craft fast enough to teleport.
Sounds risky? Turns out that’s the easy bit.…
Competition: Win The Seventh Miss Hatfield
One way to describe The Seventh Miss Hatfield is as a cross between Pride and Prejudice with Doctor Who. We’re dealing with a young girl who grows up very quickly in strange circumstances and then becomes something of a time traveler.…
Short film: Atropa
A short film by Eli Sasich. Sometime in the future, a lone off-world detective catches up with the missing research ship – the ATROPA. The short sci-fi is inspired by the noir classics of the 70s and 80s.
Short film fan?…
Short film: 1900-2000
A short animation in French. A couple have to persuade a theatre owner to let them run their “time travel” show in which they preview what the world in the Year 2000 will be like.…
Short film: A-Sixty Tandem
A very short film with some steampunk time travellers and a touch of bleak comedy. It just goes to show that a pair of adventurers are the last thing you want popping into your life.…
