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Rebellion Unplugged debuts Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age

May 30, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rebellion, the British comic book, computer game and growing tabletop publishing empire, bought the world’s second oldest TTRPG, Tunnels & Trolls, two years ago.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rebellion, rebellion unplugged, tunnels & trolls, uk games expo

Tunnels & Trolls, the world’s second-oldest RPG bought by Judge Dredd’s Rebellion

May 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native can confirm that Rebellion has bought Flying Buffalo’s entire range of RPGs, including Citybook, Grimtooth and Merchant Spies and Private Eyes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: flying buffalo, jason kingsley, rebellion, rebellion unplugged, tunnels & trolls

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

World’s oldest tabletop RPG company, Flying Buffalo, to be sold

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Flying Buffalo is being sold to an undisclosed backer. The news was revealed in a post on Trollbridge by current owner Steve Crompton.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: flying buffalo, goodman games, Ken St Andre, Rick Loomis, steven crompton, tunnels & trolls

Add the world’s second-oldest RPG to your collection on the cheap via the Bundle of Holding

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Created by Ken St Andre, Tunnels & Trolls was inspired by D&D and came out shortly afterwards. It’s still going, and Ken is still active.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, flying buffalo, Ken St Andre, tunnels & trolls

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 #98

April 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dicey Kickstarter surges past $1m in funds, Doctor Who RPG renewed, and Jasper’s Game Day kicks off with a huge charity bundle. It’s this week’s RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: AAW Games, Achtung! Cthulhu, beowulf, bundle of holding, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, darkraven games, dice, doctor who, Dragon Warriors, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, fallout, fantasy age, fate core, flying buffalo, gale force nine, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hard wired island, hellboy, jasper's game day, Legendary Games, Loke BattleMats, mantic games, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, Mutants & Masterminds, nor cal mythos, one more multiverse, peter rudin-burgess, raging swan press, red scar publishing, routinely itemised, sandy pug games, Shadowrun, sirens: battle of the bards, sr 16, stargrave, Steve Jackson Games, storm bunny studios, storm crow, Symbaroum, the dee sanction, traveller, tunnels & trolls, voxstory, warehouse 23, warhammer, wicked ones, world of darkness, wyrmwood gaming

The Trollgod Father: An interview with Ken St Andre

August 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An interview with Ken St Andre, designer of the world’ second oldest RPG, founder of Trollhalla and a very busy man.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ken St Andre, steven crompton, tunnels & trolls

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Trollhalla Press

August 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

Trollhalla Press’ founder, Ken St Andre, wrote the second traditional tabletop RPG. Tunnels & Trolls came out a year after D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ken St Andre, spotlight, tunnels & trolls

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #54

June 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summary featuring Wizards of the Coast news about D&D, Paizo on Pathfinder and Starfinder, R. Talsorian Games on Cyberpunk Red and The Witcher, with lots more.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alice is missing, bundle of holding, campaign cartographer, Chaosium, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, defiant, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, gale force nine, game machinery, humble bundle, hunters entertainment, icewind dale, Joe Manganiello, jp chapleau, kobold press, Pacesetter Games and Simulations, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, patrick rothfuss, Pelgrane Press, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, Sanguine Productions, Skeletonkey games, starfinder, the witcher, Troll Lord Games, tunnels & trolls, warhammer, wizards of the coast

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