Routinely Itemised: RPGs #172
This week's roleplaying game news, reviews, interviews, bundle offers, and advice.
An RPG about hope and zombies: Death Throes
Death Throes quips, "Oh. Great. Another zombie roleplaying game. Just what the world needs", and then adds a "But wait." before explaining why this RPG is different.
Dead Strange: Hot Toys announce the freaky Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness character
This time it's gonna take more than killing me to kill me.
30 years after the T-virus: Netflix’s Resident Evil Live-Action Series
The Netflix series will tell its new story across two timelines.
Zombie minks and Tiktok pasta: Commemorate the year with this D2021
Do you remember the time in 2021 when mink seemed to come back from the dead? It happened. Or Tiktok pasta? That too; and it’s supposed to be good.
Toss in Zoom Cat Lawyer, DogeCoin, PS5 Shortage, UFO Reports, and Gamestonks are you’re getting close to one weird card game.…
Grab the complete Shotguns and Sorcery for the Cypher System for $18
Matt Forbeck and the Bundle of Holding launched a single-tier Shotguns and Sorcery offer.
The dead have risen: Survival of the Able is a tabletop RPG about people with disabilities trying to survive the zombies
You'll encounter not just zombies but discrimination in Survival of the Able as your character's disabilities provoke reactions from people, and through the fear, you might be a zombie.
Samurai dragons and blood: Iron Maiden’s new music video is pure metal fantasy
Heavy Metal is certainly an appropriate inspiration for a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden too. Their latest music video aired on Adult Swim and has now safely made its way to YouTube.
Re-imagining George Romero’s Nightmare of the Dead as an animation
An animated version of George A. Romero's 1968 Night of the Dead, starring Josh Duhamel and Katee Sackoff, is on the way.
Economic horror, plagues and lockdowns: Best-selling Red Markets RPGs get an Itch-hosted quickstart
In Red Markets, characters risk their lives trading between the massive quarantine zones containing a zombie outbreak and the remains of civilization.
