Routinely Itemised: RPGs #33
RPG news summary with another D&D leak, free downloads and Matthew Mercer's 2020 update to the Blood Hunter 5e class.
The most expansive Traveller campaign: The Deepnight Revelation
The box set has four books inside; 32-paged Deepnight Legacy adventure that acts an introduction, the 64-paged Terminus Point adventure for the finale, the 104-paged Campaign Guide for the middle and the 96-paged Referee's Handbook.
Traveller returns! Classic sci-fi RPG uses Kickstarter to fund a new print run
Marc Miller is at the helm of the project; he was the lead designer of the original 1977 Traveller from Game Designers' Workshop.
Mongoose raises funds to bring back The Journal of the Traveller’s Aid Society
There will be new material in The Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, but Mongoose is also looking back through the archives to repurpose and revive old favourites and will hunt through popular fan publications to find the best of the best.
Download the classic Traveller RPG for free
Traveller has continued to evolve, different versions have been created and publishers by many RPG companies, but this original rule collection is known as Classic Traveller. You can now download it for free from DriveThruRPG.
A sense of wonder in SF roleplaying games
Author Sarah Newton talks about what should really be at the heart of SF RPGs: the sense of wonder, and the conflict of great ideas. Sarah’s company, Mindjammer Press, is running a Kickstarter campaign, currently approaching x3 funding, for the next phase of the transhuman RPG.
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A sense of wonder in SF roleplaying games
I think science-fiction has had a bit of a raw deal in roleplaying games.…
An interview with Paul Elliott of 43AD
Paul Elliott of Zozer Games is responsible for a number of Traveller products like Outpost Mars, the Vietnam roleplaying game GRUNT and more recently 43AD. At the start of the month, Geek Native posted a look inside the game to reveal Roman soldiers, the grim life of the native Britons, druids and ancient horrors.…
Worlds Apart RPG launches with 6 books and a free edition
Worlds Apart is a fantasy RPG from Expeditious Retreat Press that uses the Traveller mechanics. It was written by Joseph Browning.
There are six books in the the launch and these include the Worlds Apart core rules for £7.42…
Traveller 5 will Kickstart
Traveller 5 has, at the time of this post, a full 27 days to go to collect it’s goal of $24,000 on Kickstarter. No surprises here – but Traveller 5 will become another run away RPG success on the crowdsourcing platform.…
Mongoose split with Issaries; loose RuneQuest and Glorantha
UK based Mongoose Publishing, which powered into the limelight with an aggressive d20 based expansion and then pegged themselves in up high with some savvy business deals, have announced that they’re splitting from publishing partner Issaries.…
