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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, 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, tunnels & trolls

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #28

December 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news from the weird week between Christmas and New Year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventures in middle-earth, alien rpg, Chivalry & Sorcery, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, flying buffalo, Free League Publishing, Modiphius Entertainment, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rangers of shadow deep, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Stygian Fox Publishing, tunnels & trolls

What was the first RPG?

August 29, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail. Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, blackmoor, Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, Tekumel, TSR, tunnels & trolls

Burn, Baby, Burn: A Porphyry – World of the Burn Review

September 10, 2013 by Paul Baldowski 2 Comments

I had a strange experience at UK Games Expo, in Birmingham, earlier this year. While running a demo game, the voices at the next table frequently erupted in uproarious laughter and bubbling exuberance mildly disrupting our ability to hold cross-table conversation. At the end of my session, I checked with the neighbouring GM to see what […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: reviews, rpg, tunnels & trolls

Tunnels & Trolls goes Deluxe with Kickstarter

January 4, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Another RPG Kickstarter of note. This time it’s Tunnels & Trolls and this game really does have a strong claim to fame. It was the second RPG published in the States and it beat Dungeons & Dragons to print in the UK. It’s older than this blogger; as it was first published in 1975. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/994700393/deluxe-tunnels-and-trolls/ […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: flying buffalo, Ken St Andre, kickstarters, Rick Loomis, tunnels & trolls

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