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Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)

April 3, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, Abney Park's Airship Pirates, alien rpg, Andrews McMeel, apocalypse world, brutal games, Call of Cthulhu, Champions, Chaosium, chill, corporation, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, deadlands, degenesis, dread, Dungeon World, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, edge, everway, Evil Hat Productions, feng shui, Free League Publishing, Gamma World, genre police, Green Ronin Publishing, lancer, Legend of the Five Rings, lexoccultum, magpie games, masks, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mutant: year zero, Mutants & Masterminds, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, parable games, paranoia, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, pugmire, R. Talsorian Games, runequest, scum and villainy, Shadowrun, shiver, Spirit Of The Century, star trek adventures, the sprawl, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, traveller, troika, twilight: 2000, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Wild Talents, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #146

April 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I've tried my best not to include any pranks in this news summary. I am stupid, though, and may have been tricked. I don't think so…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9d10, adventures await studios, basilisk online, brinkwood, Bully Pulpit Games, clawhammer games, cortex, dandies & dandyzettes, dark realm maps, death in space, diego pisa artworks, diesel and dinosaurs, dms guild, dnd beyond, dread: dredd, Dungeons & Dragons, duty! hare, Empire of Venom & Silk, epidiah ravachol, fandom tabletop, fight to survive, Free League Publishing, gamefound, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, gravemire, gun&slinger, handiwork games, hardy tales, how to start cults and sacrifice people, humble bundle, In the Hall of the Third Blue Wizard, james kerr, Jon Peterson, kamon, Knight Errant Media, kobold press, kuf, legends of avallen, Mike Pondsmith, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, Nightfall Games, noisms games, old gods of appalachia, Orcs Unlimited, Outland Entertainment, outlaws of alkenstar, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, postworldgames, questing tools, quick & dirty rpg system, rebellion unplugged, rippers, robin's nerd supplies, roll20, rollvsevil, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Scarlet Republics, Son of Oak Game Studio, soul changers, space legatas, spc, squid ink games, star trek adventures, stockholm kartell, stokerverse, stranger&danger, tales of xadia, tarot, tattoo, the black hand, the dragon prince, the time-list citadel, titan effect, traveller, urania games, Vampire: The Masquerade, vaynor, virtual tabletop journey, vivid worlds, war within rpg

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #144

March 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news is routinely itemised in this weekly bullet point collection, complete with illustrations, graphs and a hidden adventure game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bergin's book of beasts, blind visionary publications, blue planet, bones deep, call of the netherdeep, Catalyst Game Labs, crescent moon, critters cavern, cult adventures, Cyberpunk, Deborah Ann Woll, dice kapital, dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, ecopunk: 2044, ema acosta, en publishing, eternal night of lockwood, fragged empire, g.i. joe, goodman games, grim press, handiwork games, James Introcaso, ken wickham, kethos, knave, legends of avallen, little dragon miniatures, Livres de l'Ours, long tail games, loresmyth, mcnabb games, Midnight Owl Games, nerdburger games, newyear studios, oassarium, onebookshelf, onyx path publishing, pathfinder, penny dragon games, philip reed, power rangers, R. Talsorian Games, rad zone totality, red plate entertainment, remarkable guilds & their heroes, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, rose on mars, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Shadowrun, shadowrun: emerald city, staged heroism, strixhaven, surreal estate games, swords and spaceships, technical grimoire games, tetrahedron games, the arcane gearsmith, The Book of Backgrounds, the real thing, the sixth gun, tome of chaos, traveller, tree bee games, Vampire: The Masquerade, vermilium, vincent baker, Volo's Guide to Monsters, white witch games, wicked & graceful, wizards of the coast, wyvern trinkets

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #141

February 25, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A cluster of RPG news furnished at bullet point speed on a week of debate-sparking 5e RPG, a new boss for Roll20, the evil Red Wizards and a Daredevil star in a new show.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a tome of chaos, acheron cascade campaign, Ad Infinitum Adventures, apothercaria, Arcadia, archon's court games, attack from space: the RPG, beasts of bluestone, benji's guide to rentooki island, blackwell games, caesar ink, children of earte, Crawling Death Below The Dying Forest, crimson terrain, Crypt of the Smoke Dragon, cyberpunk red, darkest days, Darklight Interactive, Deborah Ann Woll, dngn, doctor who, Doctors and Daleks, Dungeons & Dragons, earthdawn, ed greenwood, Entromancy: Chaos Rifts, exalted funeral, fandom tabletop, fasa, fate plus cyberpunk, for honor and for glory, godbound, goodman games, haunted west, ico partners, infinium game studios, kevin crawford, laidback dungeon master, Legendary Games, Modiphius Entertainment, moonbound games, nightpath publishing, old-school essentials, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, planet mercenary, R. Talsorian Games, ravenwood, role press, roll20, routinely itemised, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, singing flame, six sides of gaming, Steve Jackson Games, tabletops & tentacles, tales of xadia, taylor seely-wright, thay: land of the red wizards, the 2d6 engine, They Came From Beyond the Grave, tricky troll games, uberseik adventures, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, world serpent games, wrath & glory, zargoth's time of familiars

Multi-game deal hints at new Vampire: TM tabletop RPG

February 22, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The news didn't say "the game will be a tabletop roleplaying game" and Xplored makes Teburu, which hopes to be a board game tech platform, but the first game is Vampire: The Masquerade - Milan Uprising.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paradox Interactive, sean greaney, teburu, the bad karmas, Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Masquerade - Milan Uprising, world of darkness, xplored

LARP studio offers fans Vampire Blood Tea

February 9, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An earthy mix of herbs, fruit, and yerba mate - not hyper caffeinated, but enough to help keep one awake and focused. And, of course, there's the nice rich red color!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: by night studios, food, mind's eye theatre, tea, Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires

The best selling horror RPGs of 2021

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Horror is more straightforward of an RPG genre to assign to games; if the designer says, "this is supposed to be horror, " it's horror with less debate.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, antre monde editions, Arc Dream Publishing, barrowmaze, blaster, Chaosium, children of the blood, cults of cthulhu, Cults of the Blood Gods, Delta Green, delta green: impossible landscapes, delta green: static protocol, Deviant: The Renegades, drivethrurpg, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, greg gillespie, halls of the blood king, joseph mccullough, knight, mothership, mothership: gradient descent, mummy: the curse, Necrotic Gnome, occam's razor, onyx path publishing, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, trails of ash and bone, Tuesday Knight Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, wyrd miniatures

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: 3dice, 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, Ad Infinitum Adventures, anderian designs, Andrew Valkauskas, attack dice, bandit camp, batteries low getting dark, black cube games, Brittannia Game Designs, broken shield, cairn, carbon 2185, Chaosium, Chivalry & Sorcery, coyote & crow, david brunell-brutman, Dishonored, dragon turtle games, dreampunk, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, fairy trails, fallen highway, fire&steel, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, forged in the dark, gio lasar design, gregorius21778, Gunnar Roxen, heroes of wakesong, holy mountain shaker, Hymgho, icons: evil rising, ind of the year, Inkwell Ideas, ironsworn, Keith Baker, kickstarter, legacy of mana, lynnvander studios, metro mage games, neonrot, next level board gaming, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, planet apocalypse, raven of the scythe, Renegade Game Studios, rising miniatures, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, sabbat: the black hand, secret garden games, shannon appelcline, shattered city, sleddog games, squid ink games, Steve Kenson, strixhaven, swords of the serpentine, terribly beautiful games, the dee sanction, The Very Good Dogs of Chernobyl, thom wilson, traveller, Troll Lord Games, TSR, ufo press, Umerican Survival Guide, Vampire: The Masquerade, voidheart symphony, wizards of the coast, worlds without number, xavid

World of Darkness Nexus announced as official VTT and digital toolset for Vampire, Werewolf and Hunter

November 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The World of Darkness Nexus will be the official toolset for Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Hunter: The Reckoning.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adam bradford, demiplane, hunter: the reckoning, Vampire: The Masquerade, virtual tabletop, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, world of darkness, world of darkness nexus

Here’s what was announced at Roll20Con: Mobile app and new games

November 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The headline news from Roll20Con 2021 is the launch of the mobile app.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: adventures on a dime, Andrews McMeel, call of the netherdeep, Chaosium, coyote & crow, cyberpunk red, dimension 20, does love forgive, dungeons on a dime, exquisite crime, fallout, flames of freedom, hunters entertainment, jambo editora, Modiphius Entertainment, power rangers, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, strixhaven, the dark eye, the unsleeping city, tormenta, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, zweihander

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