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RPG publishers offer alternatives to 5e: Non-OGL Fantasy bundle

January 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As you’d expect, none of the RPGs in the bundle is based on the Open Game License (OGL).

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Advanced Fighting Fantasy, against the darkmaster, bundle of holding, bundles, fantasy age, heroes against darkness, mythras, sword chronicle, the dark eye, the oldskull manifesto, warlock, worlds without number

New Year, New Game: 7,327 titles in DriveThruRPG’s push to persuade TTRPGers to try something new

January 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Like Free RPG Day, the purpose of New Year, New Game is to make trying a new tabletop roleplaying game less scary and more attractive.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cepheus Deluxe, cyberpunk red, drivethrurpg, Hero Kids, sales, savage worlds, worlds without number

What are the best-selling games in DriveThruRPG’s Christmas in July mega sale?

July 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

DriveThruRPG’s big Christmas in July sale has been on for a few days, with about two weeks left. That’s enough time to see which games are contenders for the best sellers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ChamomileHasAdventures, conan, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, cyberpunk red, dark lord, drivethrurpg, Expeditious Retreat Press, Free League Publishing, kids on bikes, m20 the operative's dossier, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Ptolus, sales, sentinel hill press, Shadowrun, star trek, star trek adventures, the dare, the halls of arden vul, The One Ring, thought police interactive, traveller, Vampire: The Masquerade, worlds without number

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #155

June 3, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a RPG news wrap-up from Geek Native and plenty of other tabletop hobby blogs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: andrew gaska, darrington press, free rpg day, grant howitt, kevin crawford, Marisha Ray, Nightfall Games, routinely itemised, sine nomine publishing, terminator, the atlas of the latter earth, worlds without number

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2021

December 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This league table looks like the top 20 fantasy RPGs published this year and sold the best.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a book of tales, age of sigmar: bestiary, altdorf - crown of the empire, champions of order, Chaosium, cubicle 7, dicegeeks, drivethrurpg, fantastic lairs, galder's gazetteer, heirs to the shogunate, hundred devils night parade, kevin crawford, m20 technocracy reloaded, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Monte Cook Games, mythic babylon, Necrotic Gnome, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, Ptolus, R. Talsorian Games, sine nomine publishing, slyflourish, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, the company of the dragon, The Design Mechanism, the great book of random tables, warhammer, wizards of the coast, worlds without number, zipperon games

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

Early best-sellers: 4 days of Black Friday/Cyber Monday at DriveThruRPG & DMs Guild

November 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s sale season and DriveThruRPG and sister site DMs Guild have impressive Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers. But, only for 4 or so days.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ancestral weapons, andrew james woodyard, Cepheus Deluxe, dms guild, dragonix, drivethrurpg, dungeon rollers, Eventyr Games, exploring eberron, fallout, grim press, heavyarms, JVC Parry, Keith Baker, Modiphius Entertainment, monster manual expanded, pathfinder infinite, rob twohy, sales, seafoot games, sine nomine publishing, sly flourish, stellagama publishing, storytellers vault, the armorer's handbook, the return of the lazy dungeon master, the wild beyond the witchlight, worlds without number

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #105

June 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

It’s the run-up to D&D Live 2021, and Wizards of the Coast find themselves in hot water. Renegade and Paradox have pushed turbo on Vampire: The Masquerade, and while Kickstarter activity is down in launches, it’s up in requests.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, against the darkmaster, arc, Arion Games, battle box, black scrolls, bloat games, blood of the lioness, bounty hunter, Brittannia Game Designs, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, dark places & demogorgons, dms guild, dungeon forge, dungeoneer, Dungeons & Dragons, electric bastionland, Elise Cretel, fallout, forgotten realms, Free League Publishing, griffon lore games, guy sclanders, hasbro, HeroQuest, Infinity, Inkwell Ideas, inspirisles, isle of the plangent mage, joseph mccullough, Ken St Andre, ken wickham, land of the rising sun, lawman, lion banner games, momatoes, mork borg, mystic lilies, mythroll armory, nectar of the gods, on the path, orcansee game works, otherworlds, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, rosethrone publishing, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, Sentinel comics, sidequest, Steve Jackson Games, superfantasy, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, the infinite hack, the runewild, The Scourge of the Scorn Lords, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, trollish delver games, twilight: 2000, Vampire: The Masquerade, vincent baker, virtual tabletop, will uhl, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, worlds without number

Free to Download: Kevin Crawford’s Worlds Without Number

March 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Worlds Without Number and its fantasy tools are built to be fully compatible with the sci-fi gaming of Stars Without Number and other OSR games, using classic old-school mechanics such as the traditional six attribute scores, hit points, AC, classes, and levels, along with certain modifications and refinements meant to accommodate more modern tastes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kevin crawford, sine nomine publishing, worlds without number

The RPG Worlds Without Number smashes through the $100,000 mark on Kickstarter

October 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ages of men and of Outsiders have ascended and been forgotten, and only the bones of their cities and the dust of their dreams remain upon this tired world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kevin crawford, kickstarters, sine nomine publishing, Stars without Number, worlds without number

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