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RPG Crowdfunding News - The Price of Coal, Herbalist’s Primer, SLA...
This week’s article looks at some of the RPG projects on Kickstarter ending between September 9 to 24. This is not a complete listing of all of the RPG-related projects available, just a sampling. I’ll...
View ArticleNumber of players
So, lately I have acquired half a dozen new TTRPGs. Can't wait to try them. In the meantime, I've been reading them. I'm obviously not done, but for several of them, I jumped around looking for one...
View ArticleBlades in the Dark TV series?
"UK-based production company Warp Films has formed a creative and commercial partnership with Anglo-French producing and financing outfit Anton to develop a slate of features and television series with...
View Article[SWADE] Super Powers Companion Crowdfunding
Look! More Savage Worlds Adventurer Edition (SWADE) goodness! Super Powers Companion Crowdfunding!! Looks like they've hit all their stretch goals. Very curious how this is gonna work out for them vs....
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RPG Print News – Cubicle 7, Necrotic Gnome, and More
Another amazing week with so many releases. Plenty of adventure support (and more for D&D) for D&D, PF 2E, PF 1E, and OSE/D&D Basic and D&D Expert. Soulbound gets its first rule...
View ArticleNews Digest for the Week of September 3
Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! Updates on the Transformers, GI Joe, and Power Rangers RPGs, Blades in the Dark getting a TV series, new Paizo releases for September, and...
View ArticleAvatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game Kickstarter is live!
The Kickstarter for Magpie Games' Avatar: Legends RPG has launched and is hurtling towards $1M in its opening hours. Set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and The Legend of Korra, this...
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Podcast #166: Esper Genesis Master Technician's Guide with Rich Lescouflair
This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by Rich Lescouflair from Alligator Alley Entertainment to talk about Esper Genesis. In the news, one million-plus Kickstarter ends and another begins, more info...
View Article[Creative Exercise] Supreme beings in a summary, Deities in a dispatch
Inspired by the "Worlds In A Word, Planes In A Paragraph" and "Campaigns In A Nutshell, Adventures in a Sentence" threads, this is a thread to brainstorm ideas for deities. I'll start the ball rolling:...
View ArticleWho's going to GenCon
We're two weeks out from the best four days in gaming (are they still using that slogan?). I'm planning to attend, albeit with a suite of facemasks and perhaps a long stick to keep people at bay,...
View ArticleAnyone for a game of Cyvasse?
I've been rereading ASOIAF in prep for the release of season 4 (OK, going beyond, since I'm in ADWD), and decided to write up my own version of rules for the game of Cyvasse. There are a couple of good...
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CORELINE (D20 Modern/D20 BESM Setting).
Looking toward the Worcester Mists. Typical Pre-Vanishing/Fiction fight. Original Setting Thinktank Thread Here. Original Guns/Gear Thinktank Thread Here. "Ever hear of "breaking the fourth wall"?...
View ArticleScheduling for the IRON DM 2021 Tournament!
At last, the time has come around again! Do you have what it takes to succeed in a tournament that began 20 years ago to test your mettle in three grueling rounds of intense and competitive...
View ArticleLance: Classless 'tempered' fantasy RPG - seeking feedback
Hello! I'm ArronRiley / Jesse Brown, and am seeking feedback for my RPG system Lance. Below is an outline of features as a primer, and links and downloads to check the system out. I need any and all...
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SOLVED: Are Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu / Basic Role Playing forums down?
Hi folks, Subject line says it all... is anyone else having trouble accessing Chaosium's forums, or is the problem at my end? Thanks in advance to those willing to help in me figure this out. BRP...
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When and what game did you start with.
John R Davis said: I didn't start with D&D ( maybe that needs it's own thread) Click to expand... John, over at the My First Game: Top Secret/SI thread is right! That would be an interesting...
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Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club
Avatar Legends leads the pack in an exclusive club -- Kickstarters for tabletop roleplaying game products which have broken the $1M barrier! It is currently the most successful TTRPG Kickstarter in...
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As One Million Dollar Kickstarter Ends, Another Appears!
As you may know, I started keeping track of the Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club a while back. What I've noticed is the increasing frequency of these Kickstarters which gross a million dollars or...
View ArticleBattle Mat Ghosts
I have a few Chessex battle mats. I've found that in hotter weather if you dont wipe the wet erase off the same night, when you do wipe it off it leaves "ghosts" of what you've written. Anyone else...
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Wotc Is Sponsoring A Football Team
Magic: the Gathering logos will be on Leyton Orient FC's training wear. The sponsorship is for the 2021/022 season. Leyton Orient FC is an East London football club dating back to 1881. It competes in...
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The Price of Coal: A Story Game of Labor Rights – An Interview With Jennifer...
100 years ago this year, the largest battle for labor rights in the United States took place in West Virginia. This real world event inspired a new RPG by Jennifer Adcock, author of Only One Bed and...
View ArticleHandling Permanent Injuries
When permanent injuries are on the table, there are two basic ways things can go. Good Ending: He cuts off my hand? Like Skywalker at the end of Empire? Badass! Bad Ending: Thanks for making my guy...
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RPG Crowdfunding News – Corpus Angelus, Boricubos, XDM, and more
This week, I look at RPG Kickstarters that end between September 3rd and the 16th. This is not an exhaustive list of tabletop RPG available, just a sampling. Unfortunately, I can’t cover them all, but...
View Article5 Torches Deep Actual Play - Episode 9 - Did you hear hounds?
5 Torches Deep Actual Play is a Youtube series where we play through adventures using the system called 5 Torches Deep. This is a Dungeons and Dragons lite ruleset that focuses on an old school vibe...
View ArticleSad Day In Syracuse
Today, I found out the a big FLGS around here closed down - Altered States. I don't really know when this happened, but it wasn't their doing... the new owner of the property didn't want them there....
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Carrying Dice (With Help)
I have dozens of dice sets and I suspect I'm not alone. But where to put it all? Dice BagsThe first and most obvious choice for storing dice is a dice bag. After all, we store our sets of dice in...
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Go Back To The Medieval Future of Fading Suns
Every gamer I know has a Pile of Shame. It’s the pile or shelf of books and games that they’ve acquired that go unplayed for whatever reason. Maybe the group isn’t into the theme. Maybe something else...
View ArticleCampaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.
Let us gather a mighty hoard of adventure and campaign ideas, compressed to what was most important about them. From me: Tides of Homeland: Four heroes with no place to call home come together to stop...
View ArticleStarter Sets
By crikey my Soulbound Starter set just turned up and for 18quid ( 25 dollars) it's brimming with stuff on really good quality paper/card and even the box internals have stuff on them. I am a sucker...
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Let's Have a Peek At TRANSFORMERS and GI JOE!
Over the last few days, Renegade Game Studios has revealed more information about its upcoming line of tabletop RPGs, including Power Rangers, Transformers, and GI Joe! The three hardcover core...
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Essence20: The New RPG System Which Powers Hasbro Licensed Games
Renegade Game Studios announced last year that it would be making official tabletop RPGs of various Hasbro properties, including Power Rangers, GI Joe, and Transformers. This week, they revealed the...
View ArticleRPG Print News – Mongoose, Catalyst, Raging Swan, and More
This week is filled with amazing RPG books. PCs can play clowns, vampire hunters, mech warriors, gamers metagaming PCs inside an RPG, a lost dwarf, and more. Traveller has a new system to explore,...
View ArticlePogre's 2021 Miniatures and Models Thread - Cool Minotaur, lots of old school...
Welcome to the 2021 edition of Pogre's Miniatures and Models thread. I know I'm pretty late in posting this, but I'll explain below. Anyway, if you have not followed my threads before here is a look at...
View ArticleStars/Worlds Without Number (General Thread)
This is simply meant to be a general discussion thread for Kevin Crawford's Worlds Without Number and Stars Without Number. A few people have been talking about it here and there in the forum, but I am...
View ArticleRPG Print News – Chaosium, Arc Dream, Osprey, and More
Cocaine & Alligators is why I keep searching for RPGs each week. Yeah, the supplement for Troika!, what did you think I meant? Gems like this one keep me sane. And so many other great RPGs this...
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RPG Crowdfunding News – Tanares, Stars Without Number, Down We Go, and more
This week I look at a sampling of the RPGs and gaming related projects on Kickstarter and GameFound. These projects end between September 14th to October 4th and include a game that is at seven-figures...
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Interview with Jeremy Childrey about Cocaine and Alligators
Jeremy Childrey creates RPGs and releases them through Gordinaak Games. His RPGs use systems like Mothership and Troika! to create crazy imaginative settings and options aimed at adults. If you enjoy a...
View ArticleDescribe your last rpg session in 5 words
Proto-molecule in wrong hands... Oups! (The Expanse AGE)
View ArticleUndead Origins
One of the things I like about Undead in D&D is the variety of circumstances that lead to the different undead. I like to use these as game story elements and a bit of world building/cosmology. I...
View ArticleSystems Where You Dread Running Combat
Perhaps I am alone in this, but there are systems I otherwise enjoy with the exception of an important portion of the game - such as combat. For me, some of these systems include Warhammer Fantasy 4e...
View ArticleAnybody read/play “Feed, the vampire mythos RPG”?
Feed is a self-described "vampire mythos" RPG, funded thru kickstarter and released in 2013/2014, that provides groups with guidelines for inventing their own strains of vampirism. It has a humanity...
View ArticleCan you name a good fantasy TTRPG that's not D&D?
Can you name a good fantasy TTRPG that's not D&D?
View ArticleOSR: Only 42 Magic Items. What Should They Be?
As I'm rounding out my equipment tables for my OSR game, I thought of both D&D 3 and Skyrim. In both games, magic items were expected and commonplace, and at times - generic. So I might try putting...
View ArticleIRON DM 2021 Tournament
It’s finally here, folk! The IRON DM 2021 Tournament begins. Herein, seven challengers will attempt to dethrone the current champion by testing their adventure-writing skills through three grueling...
View ArticleThe Great Kilt, the Ultimate Survival Blanket?
I want one! Seriously! If you want to get to the meat of the video go directly to 11:00 minutes. You can watch the rest after.
View ArticleNot the Iron DM Tournament
The Iron DM tournament is currently running - if you're not aware of the concept you get six 'ingredients' to work into an adventure and 24 hours to write that adventure in, within a set word count...
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