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This Is Where The Stars Died: A wargame without minis that you can play solo?

February 16, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Is it a wargame if you don’t move minis around a battlefield and can play alone?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Scott Malthouse, solo rpgs, trollish delver games, wargames

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #108

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games are gone, conventions are here, but without masks.

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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #106

June 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games have TSR Games over a barrel.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 1985 games, a couple of drakes, Andrews McMeel, Atlas Games, black armada, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Bully Pulpit Games, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, dark alliance, dead channel studios, degenesis, dms guild, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, edge, en publishing, Eventyr Games, fiasco, Fighting Fantasy, flying buffalo, good strong hands, Green Ronin Publishing, grim & perilous studios, itch.io, Lovecraftesque, Malleus Monstrorum, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, routinely itemised, scp, sixmorevodka, Skirmisher Publishing, SLA Industries, star frontiers, star trek adventures, storm bunny studios, tabletops & tentacles, third eye games, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, trollish delver games, tsr games, tunnels & trolls, Venger Satanis, warhammer, warlock, wayfinder's guide to eberron, wizkids, world of darkness, wrath & glory, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #105

June 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

It’s the run-up to D&D Live 2021, and Wizards of the Coast find themselves in hot water. Renegade and Paradox have pushed turbo on Vampire: The Masquerade, and while Kickstarter activity is down in launches, it’s up in requests.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, against the darkmaster, arc, Arion Games, bloat games, bounty hunter, Brittannia Game Designs, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, dark places & demogorgons, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, electric bastionland, fallout, forgotten realms, Free League Publishing, guy sclanders, hasbro, HeroQuest, Infinity, Inkwell Ideas, inspirisles, joseph mccullough, Ken St Andre, lion banner games, momatoes, mork borg, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, Sentinel comics, sidequest, Steve Jackson Games, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, trollish delver games, twilight: 2000, Vampire: The Masquerade, vincent baker, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, worlds without number

Trollish Delver cuts ties with Tunnels & Trolls in Ken St Andre protest

June 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood

We must all stand against racism in all its forms and that involves being hostile to racists.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: flying buffalo, Ken St Andre, Scott Malthouse, trollish delver games, tunnels & trolls

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #92

March 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs is an RPG news round-up, and this week we look at the Candlekeep Mysteries reviews, DCC legacy, Savage Worlds finally appearing on Roll20 and free dice in the name of Cancer Awareness.

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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #66

September 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a busy week of RPG news, and a quick scan will stop you missing out on the free D&D downloads from Wizards of the Coast and others, or any of the new releases and headlines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: animal adventures, Avalon Hill, black void, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, cubicle 7, cypher system, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, exalted, fallout, Free League Publishing, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, HeroQuest, icewind dale, Into the Mother Lands, izegrim creations, James Introcaso, Jim Zub, judges guild, kobold press, lords of the middle sea, magpie games, manticore games, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, rime of the frostmaiden, roll20, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, RPG Superstar, savage worlds, soulbound, stargate, Steamforged Games, Symbaroum, the grinning frog, trollish delver games, wrath & glory, Wyvern Gaming

A change in publishers for the Romance of the Perilous Land RPG

September 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New supplements for the medieval Romance of the Perilous Land RPG are coming but with a different publisher.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: osprey games, romance of the perilous land, Scott Malthouse, trollish delver games

How to play a tabletop RPG by yourself

December 15, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 12 Comments

Can you play Dungeons & Dragons by yourself? Can you play Warhammer, The Witcher and Pathfinder by yourself?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: discord, Fantasy Grounds, Fighting Fantasy, lone wolf, roll20, solo rpgs, trollish delver games

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