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Strange Times returns

April 1, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In 2017, W.M. Akers started writing a free history letter that runs through the 1921 New York Times.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: history, w.m. akers

Solidarity: Pinkerton-free TTRPG PDF offer

April 29, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

After money-transfer fees, 10% of each sale goes to Corporate Accountability. Corporate Accountability is a charity which tries to stop global businesses from dancing on human rights, wrecking the planet and ruining democracy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bully Pulpit Games, bundle of holding, bundles, Evil Hat Productions, w.m. akers

Who’s topping DriveThruRPG’s Small Press Spotlight Sale?

October 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The search features at DriveThruRPG tell me there are 52,468 qualifying products in the sale! Hard to get noticed, huh?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 26 letter publishing, Alligator Alley Entertainment, Battlefield Press, bluebeard's bride, drivethrurpg, Esper Genesis, evil beagle games, magpie games, masks, Prowlers & Paragons, raging swan press, sales, scp, unity, w.m. akers

Exclusive: Explore inside Critical Hit – A Gaming Mystery

May 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Novelist and game designer W.M. Akers has just launched their latest Kickstarter. Critical Hit is a mystery novel about murder and tabletop games, and Geek Native has an exclusive extract.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: exclusive, kickstarters, w.m. akers

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #83

January 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs summarises weekly RPG news, new releases, interviews with roleplaying designers and handy tips.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, amit moshe, Arcadia, blades in the dark, Brittannia Game Designs, candlekeep mysteries, chessex, Chivalry & Sorcery, city of mist, crafty games, Cults of the Blood Gods, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, Ill Gotten Games, Inkwell Ideas, mcdm, mork borg, onyx path publishing, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, tombpunk, trokia!, vaesen, w.m. akers, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #37

February 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The future of D&D, the possible future of D&D Beyond and enough RPG Zines from Kickstarter to break any set of shelves.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, exalted funeral, goodman games, hasbro, judges guild, matt mercer, Mike Pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, solo rpgs, soulbound, unearthed arcana, w.m. akers, warhammer age of sigmar, wizards of the coast

The best selling family RPGs of 2019

December 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this post, we’re counting up those RPGs, accessories and supplements published this year and uploaded with the “Family” tag.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, My Little Pony, river horse, w.m. akers

The best selling family RPGs of 2018

December 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The good news is that the ‘family genre’ at DriveThruRPG is the cheapest, by a large amount, of the genres we’ve looked at so far.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, joseph mccullough, onyx path publishing, pugmire, Ryuutama, w.m. akers

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