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Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)

April 3, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, Abney Park's Airship Pirates, alien rpg, Andrews McMeel, apocalypse world, brutal games, Call of Cthulhu, Champions, Chaosium, chill, corporation, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, deadlands, degenesis, dread, Dungeon World, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, edge, everway, Evil Hat Productions, feng shui, Free League Publishing, Gamma World, genre police, Green Ronin Publishing, lancer, Legend of the Five Rings, lexoccultum, magpie games, masks, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mutant: year zero, Mutants & Masterminds, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, parable games, paranoia, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, pugmire, R. Talsorian Games, runequest, scum and villainy, Shadowrun, shiver, Spirit Of The Century, star trek adventures, the sprawl, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, traveller, troika, twilight: 2000, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Wild Talents, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #146

April 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I've tried my best not to include any pranks in this news summary. I am stupid, though, and may have been tricked. I don't think so…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9d10, adventures await studios, basilisk online, brinkwood, Bully Pulpit Games, clawhammer games, cortex, dandies & dandyzettes, dark realm maps, death in space, diego pisa artworks, diesel and dinosaurs, dms guild, dnd beyond, dread: dredd, Dungeons & Dragons, duty! hare, Empire of Venom & Silk, epidiah ravachol, fandom tabletop, fight to survive, Free League Publishing, gamefound, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, gravemire, gun&slinger, handiwork games, hardy tales, how to start cults and sacrifice people, humble bundle, In the Hall of the Third Blue Wizard, james kerr, Jon Peterson, kamon, Knight Errant Media, kobold press, kuf, legends of avallen, Mike Pondsmith, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, Nightfall Games, noisms games, old gods of appalachia, Orcs Unlimited, Outland Entertainment, outlaws of alkenstar, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, postworldgames, questing tools, quick & dirty rpg system, rebellion unplugged, rippers, robin's nerd supplies, roll20, rollvsevil, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Scarlet Republics, Son of Oak Game Studio, soul changers, space legatas, spc, squid ink games, star trek adventures, stockholm kartell, stokerverse, stranger&danger, tales of xadia, tarot, tattoo, the black hand, the dragon prince, the time-list citadel, titan effect, traveller, urania games, Vampire: The Masquerade, vaynor, virtual tabletop journey, vivid worlds, war within rpg

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #144

March 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news is routinely itemised in this weekly bullet point collection, complete with illustrations, graphs and a hidden adventure game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bergin's book of beasts, blind visionary publications, blue planet, bones deep, call of the netherdeep, Catalyst Game Labs, crescent moon, critters cavern, cult adventures, Cyberpunk, Deborah Ann Woll, dice kapital, dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, ecopunk: 2044, ema acosta, en publishing, eternal night of lockwood, fragged empire, g.i. joe, goodman games, grim press, handiwork games, James Introcaso, ken wickham, kethos, knave, legends of avallen, little dragon miniatures, Livres de l'Ours, long tail games, loresmyth, mcnabb games, Midnight Owl Games, nerdburger games, newyear studios, oassarium, onebookshelf, onyx path publishing, pathfinder, penny dragon games, philip reed, power rangers, R. Talsorian Games, rad zone totality, red plate entertainment, remarkable guilds & their heroes, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, rose on mars, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Shadowrun, shadowrun: emerald city, staged heroism, strixhaven, surreal estate games, swords and spaceships, technical grimoire games, tetrahedron games, the arcane gearsmith, The Book of Backgrounds, the real thing, the sixth gun, tome of chaos, traveller, tree bee games, Vampire: The Masquerade, vermilium, vincent baker, Volo's Guide to Monsters, white witch games, wicked & graceful, wizards of the coast, wyvern trinkets

Humble lists a bundle for Marc Miller’s classic Traveller sci-fi RPG

March 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The bundle offers the core rules, the many episodes of The Traveller Adventure, and supplements such as The Spinward Machines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, frog god games, game designers workshop, humble bundle, sci-fi, traveller, traveller: mercenary

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #132

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

A summary of RPGs news from the week with freebies from WotC and others, indie news, tips and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, adventures in rokugan, Andrews McMeel, Arcadia, ashes of power, assault on the aerie, ballard of the longbow, beadle & grimm, blood and bramble, Chaosium, cloak & coin, coco publishing, cubicle 7, Dark Souls, darkenergy, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, Dynamite Entertainment, edge, enchiridion of the computarchs, ennead games, entanglement interactive, eskey, farwood publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, hostile rules, Hyperborea, into the dungeon, jackalope, kabouter games, kobold press, Krampus says Punching Nazis is a free action, last redoubt games, Legend of the Five Rings, lester smith games, level 1, lone wolf, machina and magic, magic dog games, map alchemists, marco bertini, moonmares games, North Wind Adventures, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, petersen games, radiationburn, red turban games, role, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, salvage union, she is the ancient, simulacrum, snowbright studios, soulbound: champions of destruction, star trek adventures, Steamforged Games, Steve Jackson Games, the book of nod, traveller, UltraPro, vaesen: mythic britain, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, warhammer, Wayfarers of the Farwood, weird frontiers, Wyrmworks Publishing, Zozer Games

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2021

December 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The league table below shows the best selling RPG products made available on DriveThruRPG this year and which the designers have tagged sci-fi.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2300ad, 26 letter publishing, alien rpg, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, Alligator Alley Entertainment, battletech, battletech: ilclan, battletech: technical readout: Irregulars, Cepheus Deluxe, cubicle 7, deepnight revelation, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Esper Genesis, evil beagle games, fallout, Five Parsecs from Home, Free League Publishing, hard wired island, Modiphius Entertainment, osprey games, Prowlers & Paragons, redacted records, sci-fi, scp, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, Shadowrun, shadowrun: street wyrd, solomani front, star trek adventures, stargrave, stats, stellagama publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, traveller, weird age games, wrath & glory

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: 3dice, 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, Ad Infinitum Adventures, anderian designs, Andrew Valkauskas, attack dice, bandit camp, batteries low getting dark, black cube games, Brittannia Game Designs, broken shield, cairn, carbon 2185, Chaosium, Chivalry & Sorcery, coyote & crow, david brunell-brutman, Dishonored, dragon turtle games, dreampunk, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, fairy trails, fallen highway, fire&steel, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, forged in the dark, gio lasar design, gregorius21778, Gunnar Roxen, heroes of wakesong, holy mountain shaker, Hymgho, icons: evil rising, ind of the year, Inkwell Ideas, ironsworn, Keith Baker, kickstarter, legacy of mana, lynnvander studios, metro mage games, neonrot, next level board gaming, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, planet apocalypse, raven of the scythe, Renegade Game Studios, rising miniatures, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, sabbat: the black hand, secret garden games, shannon appelcline, shattered city, sleddog games, squid ink games, Steve Kenson, strixhaven, swords of the serpentine, terribly beautiful games, the dee sanction, The Very Good Dogs of Chernobyl, thom wilson, traveller, Troll Lord Games, TSR, ufo press, Umerican Survival Guide, Vampire: The Masquerade, voidheart symphony, wizards of the coast, worlds without number, xavid

Play the famous Traveller sci-fi RPG for $1

December 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Explorer's Edition of Traveller is designed for newcomers to the game and includes enough to create a whole campaign and characters to play in it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Mongoose Publishing, sci-fi, traveller

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, alan gerding, balatro, bandit camp, beyond the horizon, brindlewood bay, broken shield, carbon 2185, Chaosium, city of mist, Claim the Sky, cloudsea, cortex, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark realm roleplay, dc comics, defiant, defiant birthright, delver, divine madness press, dms guild, dndbeyond, dread metrol, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, edge, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, en publishing, ennead games, evil pigeon games, fairy trails, fandom tabletop, fiddleback productions, figu design, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, game machinery, gamenomicon, geargrind, ghost hunters, gila, goodman games, greg rutkowski, Gunnar Roxen, guns and gears, harp sf, haunted west, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, just crunch games, lance, latin american monsters, Legendary Games, legends of avallen, live real productions, magpie games, Mana Project Studio, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, michael o'brien, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, mutants in the now, nightfell, Nova, our family, papierschnitzel, paranoia, pathfinder, paul hughes, R. Talsorian Games, rebel scum, 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, the third imperium, things I keep, traveller, truffle shuffle, Tuesday Knight Games, twilight imperium, Victoriana, warmer in the winter, wise women, World Anvil, xploringmap, yeti miniatures

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #125

November 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Fortunately, there's been plenty of RPG news to keep brains distracted here in the North from the unrelenting encroachment of winter of darkness.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, adam lee, aethon games, alien rpg, banana chan, battlelords of the 23rd century, be like a crow, blue oxrat, Call of Cthulhu, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, deepdark designs, dh gaming workshop, dreaming gynoid, e-raptor, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, fool's moon entertainment, Fractured, Free League Publishing, freecom, ghost hunters, giga merch games, gloom, goodman games, how to embrace a swamp creature, Ill Gotten Games, Jim Butler, kickstarter, lair, Legendary Games, leyline press, lord of the rings, lucky dice games, map maker adventures, masks of nyarlathotep, mike webb, modern age, modern artifice, Mongoose Publishing, monte cooke games, neverending, new bristol, Newt Newport, Numenera, one page gaming, Paizo Publishing, planebreaker, Polyhedra Games, Porcupine Publishing, power of design, Revolution Comes to the Kingdom, rise of the atlanteans, roll20, routinely itemised, sadia bies, salty games, salvage union, savage worlds, scp, sidequest, soulbound bestiary, suburban consumption of the monstrous, tabletopy, the book of nod, the dice, the grinning frog, the merciless merchants, The Mysterious Demesne of Dom Perestrelo, The One Ring, theorycraft, traveller, Troll Lord Games, wizards of the coast

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