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Year Zero Engine Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Year Zero Engine reporting (Archive Page 3).

Free League announces The Walking Dead RPG

November 17, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Walking Dead TV series is wrapping up with its usual dramatic flare, and the tabletop RPG will head to Kickstarter in the Spring of 2023.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, Nils Hintze, the walking dead, Tomas Härenstam, year zero engine

YZ Worldbuilding: The One Ring Vampire Lair

November 5, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

The Old Dwarf-Mines for Ruins of the Lost Realm is a landmark perfect to expand into a vampire lair. The mines are located far to the north in the Blue Mountains deep inside Dark Lands territory.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips, The One Ring, vampires, worldbuilding, year zero engine, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: The One Ring Vampires

October 2, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This month features a return to Middle-earth via The One Ring Second Edition. PCs need a challenge as they grow in power. My answer? Vampires.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, halloween, The One Ring, vampires, year zero engine, year zero world building

Touched by the Gods: A Year Zero Engine RPG with free download quickstart

September 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Touched by the Gods is a role playing game of gods of the past songs, of heroes destined to great deeds and greater deaths, and of a folk that stood on the edge of total annihilation.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, year zero engine

Free to Download: War Stories Quickstart Year Zero Engine rules

September 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Smear on your war paint and haul your gear as you leap into the world of War Stories, a roleplaying game set during the ravage and ruin of World War II.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, year zero engine

YZ Worldbuilding: The One Ring Spider Lore

September 4, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month features a return to Middle-earth via The One Ring Second Edition and a look at spider lore that just might uncover the webs they spin to cover Eriador in darkness.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, lord of the rings, year zero engine, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: The One Ring Shelob’s Siblings

August 7, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

First up are a Great Spider and a Monstrous Water Spider. Following that are the three siblings of Shelob. These siblings are inspired by three of Shelob’s spawn detailed in The One Ring First Edition. While these spiders are similar, they are tougher and far more dangerous with servants and far reaching webs of terror they spin in Shadow.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, year zero engine, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: Twilight: 2000

July 10, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

World War III has ended, and everyone lost. The PCs, caught up in the final battle, flee the carnage.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Free League Publishing, twilight: 2000, year zero engine, year zero world building

Two Mutant Year Zero bundles are on offer, and weirdly, 2×0 isn’t zero

June 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mutant Year Zero is a Swedish RPG in which the world has pretty much ended, you and your fellows are mutants living in some sort of protected oasis, and you must risk the dangers of the surrounding wilds to get enough food to support everyone and spare parts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, Free League Publishing, mutant: year zero, year zero engine

Blade Runner RPG races towards the million mark

May 3, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s not a surprise, but Free League launched their Blade Runner RPG Kickstarter today and funded within minutes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blade runner, Cyberpunk, Free League Publishing, kickstarters, year zero engine

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