Routinely Itemised: RPGs #55
One week of RPG news: A battle in the Gygax family of D&D's legacy, too sexy vampires and a game designer disowning their award-winning edgelord adventure.
Vampire 5th edition demands the Cults of the Blood Gods
Cults of the Blood Gods is a new style of sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade.
Competition: Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Official Grimoire Willow Rosenberg
It’s between 20 years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer first appeared on TV. Her fandom is still strong. Andrea Robinson is a New York-based writer, deep into vampire lore, and co-author of Vampire Diaries: Unlocking the Secrets of Mystic Falls.…
Mark Rein•Hagen returns to Vampire
At Gen Con White Wolf announced that Mark Rein•Hagen, creator of Vampire: The Masquerade first edition, is coming back to the title. He’s joining the team developing the 5th edition of the iconic roleplaying game.
The 5th edition of Vampire is due out in early 2018 and produced under the auspeces of White Wolf’s new owner Paradox Interactive.…
White Wolf launch the Storytellers Vault
White Wolf have teamed up with DriveThruRPG to launch Storytellers Vault. This isn’t just a specialist site to download World of Darkness products. This is also a platform to create and sell your own non-canonical supplements.…
Back from the Dead: A Review of Chill, 3rd Edition
Every long-time fan of tabletop role-playing has a game they consider amazing that slipped through the cracks, an unfortunate casualty in a hobby where only a few big names dominate the hobby’s attention.…
Exclusive art from inside World of Darkness Dark Eras
World of Darkness Dark Eras is the latest of a string of successful Kickstarters from Onyx Path. At the time of writing there’s more than $70,000 in the coffers, well past the $40,000 funding goal and 18 days still on the clock.…
The anatomy of RPG adventures
Experienced tabletop gamers will know that certain games have certain patterns. It is possible to work out how close you are to the end of the game by comparing your actions against the anatomy of the adventure itself.…
Vampire meets Cthulhu as Orbis Aerden: Reign of the Accursed woos Kickstarter
Dead Eyed Shade Games offer up a multimedia story for Orbis Aerden: Reign of the Accursed for their Kicktarter pitch video. They’re open about their influences; this is a mixture of World of Darkness with Cthulhu and some Game of Thrones style political truths thrown in for good measure.…
White Wolf giving away free games
There has been “2103 is Dead” sale from White Wolf over at DriveThruRPG. It offered 25% off a range of titles. If you missed the news it is because it was announced over at the The Onyx Path.…
