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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, a discordance with dzyvatz, Andrews McMeel, Atlas Games, basilisk online, black armada, bloodlines & Black magic, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, book m, Bully Pulpit Games, Call of Cthulhu, campfire, cannibal sector, Chaosium, crimson thaw, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, dark alliance, dead channel studios, death on the reik companion, degenesis, deimos academy, dms guild, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon craft, dungeon scrawlers: heroes of undermountain, edge, Elven Tower, ember + ash, emojk, en publishing, Eventyr Games, fiasco, Fighting Fantasy, flying buffalo, goblin, gods of the perilous land, good strong hands, Green Ronin Publishing, grim & perilous studios, harp bestiary, hecate games, itch.io, Jeff Heising, Lovecraftesque, Malleus Monstrorum, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, neo-tokyo 2100, norn, olde swords reign, on the wings of valkyries, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, pip system, Planegea, red markets, routinely itemised, scp, sig: city of blades, sixmorevodka, Skirmisher Publishing, SLA Industries, spells of the ages, sprawlrunners, star frontiers, star trek adventures, starfinder galaxy exploration manual, storm bunny studios, tabletops & tentacles, the mythical merchant, the red book of magic, the wasteland covenant, the wondrous tome of wands, things heroes say, third eye games, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, this defiant earth, tides of a dead sea, trails of ash and bone, trollish delver games, trophy gold, tsr games, tunnels & trolls, two summers, Venger Satanis, Wanderer's Guide to Merchants & Magic, warhammer, warlock, wayfinder's guide to eberron, wizkids, workhorse rpg studio, 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, trollhalla press, 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, alexander thomas, animon story, beowulf, blood sweat & steal, bloodlines & Black magic, bundle of holding, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, changedstars, cubicle 7, curatrix ribson, dark dice, darkraven games, dice, dispel dice, doctor who, Dragon Warriors, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dusk city outlaws, ennead games, fallout, fantasy age, fantasy world, fate core, fears and fathoms, fenrisgames, flying buffalo, gale force nine, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, green thumb black heart, handiwork games, hard wired island, hellboy, into the black, iron edda, jasper's game day, juxtagames, late night zen, Legendary Games, Loke BattleMats, mad hermit games publishing, mantic games, Modiphius Entertainment, monkey paw games, mork borg, ms edizioni, Mutants & Masterminds, nor cal mythos, one more multiverse, onward, operation vanguard, pathfinder lost omens: legends, peter rudin-burgess, raging swan press, red scar publishing, routinely itemised, rush, sandy pug games, Shadowrun, shadowrun: power plays, shard tabletop, sirens: battle of the bards, Solitary Defilement, something knocking, space street, sr 16, stargrave, Steve Jackson Games, storm bunny studios, storm crow, Symbaroum, ten million hp planet, tension, the dee sanction, the house doesn't always win, tomb of the twilight queen, traveller, treasure hunts in davokar, trojan wars, tunnels & trolls, voxstory, warehouse 23, warhammer, weird age games, wicked ones, wickedly solo, world of darkness, wyrmwood gaming, zan's adventures

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: city of the gods, deluxe tunnels & trolls, Ken St Andre, murder at the ruptured troll, steven crompton, treasure of the mummy queen, trollhalla press, trollhalla press unlimited, 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, trollhalla press, 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, book of corals, bundle of holding, campaign cartographer, Chaosium, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark realm roleplay, defiant, diego pisa artworks, drakkenhall: city of monsters, Dungeons & Dragons, feed the beast, fellowship, gale force nine, game machinery, humble bundle, hunters entertainment, icewind dale, ironclaw, Joe Manganiello, jp chapleau, kingkiller chronicles, kobold press, liberi gothica, monsters & treasure of Aihdre, 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, vizor, warhammer, wizards of the coast, wizkids games

Tunnels & Trolls in the Bundle of Holding

June 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you have any copies of the world’s second-oldest RPG? Tunnels & Trolls, published in 1975, just after D&D, has a healthy Bundle of Holding deal.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, deluxe tunnels & trolls, flying buffalo, tunnels & trolls

The Toughest Dungeon in the World

June 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The original Toughest Dungeon was published back in 1980, not by Flying Buffalo, but by the (original) Judges Guild. The new version has been released by Trollhalla Press and is 48 pages long.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: flying buffalo, Ken St Andre, toughest dungeon in the world, trollhalla press, tunnels & trolls

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