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Worldbuilding Amazing Adventures: Alien War on Earth

February 2, 2025 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This month continues building a 1930s world of player characters armed with guns and fists facing off against the cultists and monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos. Basic foes are covered including the Byakhee and Mi-Go and their ongoing interstellar war that has come to Earth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing adventures, Cthulhu Mythos, lovecraft, Troll Lord Games, world building

Worldbuilding Amazing Adventures: Yog-Sothothery

January 12, 2025 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

The player characters in Amazing Adventures are heroes living at the end of the 1930s and facing off against the cultists and monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos with fists and guns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing adventures, castles & crusades, Cthulhu Mythos, lovecraft, Troll Lord Games, world building

Castles & Crusades Reforged smashes through the crowdfunding portcullis

June 19, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Castles & Crusades was first created in 2003/2004 and debuted in Christmas of that ’04. It was the first to use a simple attribute based system as its key mechanic. It predated and in many ways sparked the OSR publications that followed and heavily influenced D&D 5th edition.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: castles & crusades, kickstarters, Troll Lord Games

Castle Zagyg Yggsburgh defies expectations and returns

September 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A 2012 thread on Troll Lord Games’ site predicts we’ll never see Castle Zagyg in PDF.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: castles & crusades, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, Troll Lord Games

Multi-genre 5e RPG: Troll Lord’s Amazing Adventures bundles up

July 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Despite the shift to 5e, and all the more impressive for it, Amazing Adventures has stepped forward to be a multi-genre RPG. So can still be a pulp detective or Nazi-fighting professor, a space opera hero, or Nazi-fighting cyberpunk.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing adventures, bundle of holding, bundles, Dungeons & Dragons, Troll Lord Games

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: 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, Ad Infinitum Adventures, bandit camp, Brittannia Game Designs, broken shield, cairn, carbon 2185, Chaosium, Chivalry & Sorcery, coyote & crow, Dishonored, dragon turtle games, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, fairy trails, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, forged in the dark, Gunnar Roxen, Hymgho, Inkwell Ideas, ironsworn, Keith Baker, kickstarter, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, shannon appelcline, Steve Kenson, strixhaven, swords of the serpentine, the dee sanction, traveller, Troll Lord Games, TSR, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, worlds without number

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, alien rpg, banana chan, battlelords of the 23rd century, Call of Cthulhu, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, ghost hunters, goodman games, Ill Gotten Games, Jim Butler, kickstarter, Legendary Games, leyline press, lord of the rings, modern age, Mongoose Publishing, neverending, Newt Newport, Numenera, Paizo Publishing, planebreaker, Polyhedra Games, Porcupine Publishing, roll20, routinely itemised, salvage union, savage worlds, scp, sidequest, the grinning frog, the merciless merchants, The One Ring, traveller, Troll Lord Games, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #110

July 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s the latest from D&D, Cyberpunk Red, 13th Age, Call of Cthulhu, Critical Role and even of Chainmail, the game that became D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Battlefield Press, beadle & grimm, blackmoor, Call of Cthulhu, carbon grey, castles & crusades, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, city of mist, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, doctor who, Evil Hat Productions, fading suns, FATE, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, grant howitt, handiwork games, hearts of wulin, Honey Heist, injuries & vile deeds, m20 technocracy reloaded, magnetic press play, Matt Colville, mcdm, Necromancer Games, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, roll20, routinely itemised, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, sdcc, sigil & shadow, soulbound, starfinder, strixhaven, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, the green knight, the oracle, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Troll Lord Games, Ulisses Spiele, Victoriana, west end games, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #101

May 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy week, so sit back and treat yourself to a scroll through the headlines; sales, reviews, interviews and stats from the RPG-scene.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, alien rpg, astate, awfully cheerful engine, battletech, brindlewood bay, candlekeep mysteries, carovea victor, chamomile has adventures, cubicle 7, Defiant Awakening, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy age, Flash Gordon, Free League Publishing, gama, game machinery, gen con, ghostfire gaming, goodman games, GURPS, handiwork games, hasbro, jackals, Jim Pinto, jonathan hicks, lion banner games, lord of the rings, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, My Little Pony, neverending, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, postworldgames, red scar publishing, river horse, roleplay elixir, routinely itemised, Russ Morrissey, savage worlds, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound starter set, spelljammer, starfinder, the yellow king, those dark places, Troll Lord Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, voxstory, wanderhome, will power games, wizards of the coast, xploringmap

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #73

November 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news all summarised into handy bullet-point lists. That’s the name of the game in this Friday’s Routinely Itemised.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, agents of edgewatch, beadle & grimm, bundle of holding, castles & crusades, Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, Ex Stasis Games, fallout: wasteland warfare, Fantasy Grounds, foundry, Free League Publishing, Hero Kids, jackals, kobold press, limitless adventures, lion banner games, midnight tower, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quest, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Skeletonkey games, spelljammer, tasha's cauldron of everything, the children of fear, The One Ring, tome of beasts, Troll Lord Games, warhammer age of sigmar, wizards of the coast

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