It’s August, it’s ZineQuest, it’s GenCon, it’s the Edinburgh Festivals, and this is your summary of RPG news!
Welcome! This week’s RPG news summary of summaries is:
- Owen KS Stephens takes a role at Evil Genius Productions, which launch a publishing license and have a launch partner with Luke Gygax’s Gaxx Worx.
- DriveThruRPG launch their first ever game jam with PocketQuest.
- Cubicle 7 announced a new Warhammer 40K RPG Imperium Maledictum.
- New releases include Tales of the RED: Street Stories, Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set and the week long Target exclusive of Dragons of Stormwreck Isle.
Last month, Long Shadows Press was in Geek Native’s RPG Publisher Spotlight. This month it’s Izegrim Creations.
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- Battleaxes and Brimstone
- ChamomileHasAdventures
- Game Tile Warehouse
- Breaker Press Games
- Savage AfterWorld
Now, let’s dive in with all that tabletop news;
Patron: Town Hall
RPG news from Geek Native
- Luke Gygax’s Gaxx Worx signs Everyday Heroes license as Owen Stephens joins Evil Genius as Line Editor.
- DriveThruRPG kicked off a celebration of indie publishers and light rules with the first ever PocketQuest.
- Free League Publishing will translate the 40-year-old Drakar och Demoner into English for the first time, announcing Dragonbane.
- Marvel’s TTRPG Multiverse Role-Playing Game Playtest Rulebook is now on Marvel Unlimited.
- Interactive and audience-driven D&D-inspired, Edinburgh Festival-headed The Twenty-Sided Tavern get interviewed.
- Geek Native also talked about Ultimate RPG Character Backstory with James D’Amato and slid onto Kingkiller RPG.
- I think it’s sold out already, but the HeroQuest expansion The Rogue Heir of Elethron expansion pack was announced.
- Table Salt Gaming Designs released the short solo-RPG expansion Rusty Dagger: Den of Rats for free.
- Sam Petto lets you name your own price for the 5e setting Kiera’s Blades.
- At the Bundle of Holding, there are Lightspress Toolkits in a flash sale and BattleTech goodies.
- Humble has a new Essential Classic Fantasy RPG Collection.
- Monte Cook Games offers their stand and games as a safe space during Gen Con.
Spotlight: Izegrim Creations
RPG news from around the web
- Cubicle 7 have announced a new Warhammer 40K RPG series called Imperium Maledictum.
- Ajit George won this year’s Diana Jones Award.
- EN World got a look at the upcoming Spelljammer Boxed Set.
- Polygon’s Michael Rancic writes up A decade on and Monte Cook Games is still setting the bar for innovation in tabletop RPGs.
- Bell of Lost Souls wrote up Level Up’s forthcoming Dungeon Delver’s Guide.
- Cubicle 7 write up their Summer Interns and Summer Camps.
- World Anvil now supports The Dark Crystal Adventure Game.
- TGN noted that Don’t Panic Games Posts Updated Cowboy Bebop RPG Beta Rules.
- Alida Saxon has been promoted to art director for PEG and Sigil too.
RPG reviews and interviews from around the web
- Paul Mackintosh gave RPG.net a Swords of the Serpentine review.
- Throat Punch shared a Ring Side Report review of Pathfinder Adventure Path #164: Hands of the Devil (Abomination Vaults 2 of 3).
- Tribality offered up a review of Free League Publishing’s The One Ring.
- Reviews of R’lyeh, impressively relentless as ever, wrote up the d20 Witchfire, Atlas Games’ The Al Amarja Quartet as well as Onyx Path’s Legendlore.
- Seed of Worlds reviewed Brancalonia.
- Signals from Delta Pavonis shared first impressions on Dark Nation.
- The Gaming Gang’s Sami Yuhas penned a review for Pathfinder Book of the Dead.
- CGM called Journey Through the Radiant Citadel A Refreshing New Destination.
RPG new releases
- R. Talsorian Games hit publish on the cyberpunk Tales of the RED: Street Stories.
- Chaosium gives us a hardcover release of RuneQuest – Weapons & Equipment.
- Modiphius released the PDF version of the Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set.
- Dice Monkey / Mark Meredith released the system-agnostic setting Curse: The City of One Thousand Martyrs.
- Outland Entertainment has published a 2320-page chunky ashcan version of Christopher Helton Action-Heroes RPG.
- Michael Tresca hit publish on the 5e RPG Steampunk Adventures.
- Rose on Mars released the indie pulp fantasy fairy tales of Witchblood.
- Lastly, a Target exclusive for the next week is D&D official new starter set, Dragons of Stormwreck Isle.
RPG bundle deals
- Save $19.73 (33%) on the DMsGuild’s Amarune’s Almanac: Biomes of the Realms.
- Save $19.90 (67%) with Deep Light Games’ 18XX bundle.
- Save $11.45 (49%) with The Other Side Publishing’s 2022 Pagan Witch bundle.
- Save $9.60 (20%) on Lightspress Media’s Hippogryph Complete bundle.
- Save $7 (26%) with G. Hawkin’s Gunderholfen PDF bundle.
- Save $6.22 (24%) on Aether and Steamworks’ A&S Celebration bundle.
- Save $5.50 (36%) on Atelier Clandestin’s July 2022 ATCL Releases bundle.
- Save $2.95 (21%) with Elven Tower’s Mystery in the Chicken Church Foundry and PDF bundle.
RPG ideas, tips and discoveries
- Ben and the genre police look into the detective genre for RPGs.
- Cute, deadly and handy! They are gel cube notepads.
- MovieWeb’s Ross Lombardo opined 5 Tabletop Role-Play Game Settings That Would Make a Great Movie or TV Franchise.
- Laptop Magazine’s Rami Tabari answered How do I find a group for DND and other TTRPGs? — 5 great tools.
- The Angry DM asserts that There’s No Such Thing as a Skill Challenge.
RPG Crowdfunding
You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught GeekNative’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;
- Brave New Worlds have smashed funding goals for a tactically engaging catacomb. Dare you explore the Tomb – A Dungeon Crawl For 5e?
- Matthew Clark, aka Maeca Art, is funding a journey through a magical land with Echtrai: Art Book and Campaign Setting.
- Alone in the Labyrinth is Kickstarting a stone-and-sorcery sandbox RPG called Atop the Wailing Dunes.
- Daniel William Krause wants to improve the gaming experience with an information tracking The Master’s Hub.
- Fabio Bertone has designed a hangout were “a bad night if the body count is under twelve”. It’s The Cyberpunk Nightclub.
- Anthony DeMinico is writing a zine-sized tabletop RPG with shape-changing heroes and Dualities.
- Jean Francois Senay has three themes of hand-drawn Modular Hex Tiles for Tabletop Role-Playing Games.
- James Lennox-Gordon has successfully funded a zine collection of five micro-games in 1400 Lo-Fi Hi-Fantasy.
- Laidback Dungeon Master is back with 58 more pages of SHOTGLASS ROUNDS #11 – DUUMHAVEN.
- Tim Sattley has a ZineQuest project for level 1 characters. Get Me the Juice – An MCC Adventure Module
- Stuart Watkinson is working on a Wretched & Alone game set in a post-apocalyptic Wretched Wasteland: Revised & Reprinted for ZineQuest 2022!.
- Gregory Rapp’s ZineQuest offering is a fantasy-noir city of Dragontown: City of a Billion Souls (RPG Zine).
- Pharaoh’s Workshop returns with STL files for a Wasteland Container House 3 – Pay what you want.
- Vitali Demura, with an address listed in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, is funding a high-octane adventure in The Average Trooper: Skeleton Mayhem.
- Robert Hemminger is a teacher, artist and designer funding a 5e system for Avalon Solo Adventures, Freehold.
- Nick Ribera has put everything you might need to explore a haunted house, a 1960s NYC party, or a Parisian underground in Three Pocket-Sized RPGs by Ready Play.Games.
- Lucia Versprille has shattered funding targets for a 5e adventure anthology from the islands and Tales from Sina Una.
- Madness Heart Games has hit campaign goals for Morkkabeans 1:1 – A Mork Borg Zine.
- Christian Buggedei is cleverly putting the post back into the “post-apocalypse” with Zine Quest: Mail Order Apocalypse, an Into the Odd Hack.
- Tori Smith’s ZineQuest is to find the theatre kids in us all with Toche Thespians.
- Bryce Lickfield or Bryce’s Dices.com, has hit target for Deadly Panlong Dice | Plus Mega Dice Drop.
- Fantasy, modern and sci-fi support in Steve Jackson Games’ 2022 GURPS Pyramid Scheme.
- There’s more than 200 5e magic items in the crowdfunding Adventures Await: Arcane Armaments.
- Nathaly Aupin is collecting backers for 38 Fantasy outdoor Maps with 3d views for tabletop RPG’S.
- KessCo is offering brightly coloured Drop Dots D20 Jumbo Dice.
- Meromorph Games return to Kickstarter with a standalone but Season I compatible Atma: A Roleplaying Card Game – Season II.
- Jeffrey Jones has hit the campaign goal for an OSE zine called Gary’s Appendix.
- It’s Kickstarter success for the Milton Keynes-based Dice Goblin Session #0 – Goblin Themed TTRPG Dice Sets.
- Strategemma has made target for a pre-apocalyptic about the last days of the “Cradle” in the U26 Experiment.
- Sarah Breyfogle is a professional GM who’s hit their Kickstarter target for the monster and micro-setting filled Stranger Sights: Challenges for 5e and Advanced 5e.
- Harry Menear brings strangeness and terror from beyond the grave with The Beast of Borgenwold.
- Chamomile Has A Project has reached funding goals again for a zine-sized 5e collection of pug knights, goblin merchants and mazes in The Traveler’s Guide to the Goblin Fells.
- Joel Salda is raising money for the Action Figure Rescue Squad: a Milk Caps Tabletop RPG!
- Roger C. Jones has a 5e-compatible sci-fi horror one-shot inspired by The Thing. It’s XENOZINE ISSUE 2: Enemy Within.
- August McDaniel expands on previous successes in the Cave Map Expansion Set.
- Red Oaks Creative’s ZineQuest offering is GunPlaya – a SpiralsRPG Zine #Zinequest.
- Violet Ballard makes Mothership and Panic Engine games and invites you to explore the Geppetto Station. What could be Rampant?
- Elliot Selle brings dark rites and cannibals to the table with Tasting You Bleed: Dungeons & Dragons D&D compatible module.
- Michael Elliott is nearly x10 of target for a solo dungeon delving RPG called A Torch in the Dark.
- Rob Hessler is funding a rules-lite tabletop about a family history you never had in Living Room Heroes.
- Casey W Christofferson wants to add more feline content to your dungeons with Catpocalypse Meow: 5e.
- Jennie Ergott is crafting a game where you’re a halfling getting ready for winter, which means getting ready for hibernation. The name? Halflings & Hibernation (Zinequest 4).
- Jeff Williams has funded a procedural solo or PvP Troika! powered Flying Ostriches & Floating Castles.
- Bryce Curtis Miller has a game based on 5e that balances combat, social and exploration. It’s the Three Pillars: A Reimagining of D&D 5e.
- Derek A. Kamal is funding a fantasy RPG about journeys and feasts around great inns. Join The Broken Cask Society.
- FantasyDesigns is offering 3D designs in STL files for terrain and more in Fantasy Forest Returns !
- A system-neutral GM’s Tool Mag- A Zine by Adventure Squared
- GreysonWHY is funding a zine of jobs that should be done discreetly. It’s Knives Out — for MÖRK BORG.
- Timothy Watkins is working on a universal RPG in True Horizons + The Mystery of Pigeon Keep.
- Joshua LH Burnett has funded a fanzine for DCC with Crepuscular #2: Triumph Over the Grave.
- D G Chapman is offering up a pamphlet miniseries for Mothership with ADSPACE.
- Robert Turk is an award-winning author, ENnie-nominated game designer and project lead on Fixers from the Floorboards: an RPG Zine.
- Rughalt asks that you stand In the Court of the Frozen Queen: Refrosted.
- FeralGames are an indie publisher offering a 5e sourcebook of Assassins, Rogues and Outlaws.
- Lavender Todd is funding a system for any story with Follow Your Heart – ZineQuest.
- Thom Owen has enough support to bring to life a solo RPG about the horrors of crypto, tech culture and the Fungiable.
- John & Nicole Clark are offering a one-shot The Bloodbay Abduction – Adventure Zine – for DnD 5E – $2.
- Nat Mesnard invites you to play as an animal in a game of drag performances. It’s the Ball of the Wild: A Drag-Inspired TTRPG Zine
- Limitless Adventures return with Lost in the Dark: Solo-play 5E RPG Zine.
- Bleak Horizons Press state that ALL MUST BOW – Sundered Sundries.
- Planet X Games and Exalted Funeral have a new OSR zine in the shape of BIG EYE CHUNGUS.
- Bill Edmunds has easily hit the funding target for four dungeons in the OSR Inn To The Deep (Zine Quest 2022).
- Wayne Robert is nearly 100% over goal for two zines with Worldbreaker / Dark Tides of Zaratos.
- Skeeter Green is working on a collection of pre-genned characters in Derelict’s Diary – A Mork Borg compatible Supplement.
- Appendix N Entertainment offers up five plus new classes and races for OSE and other classics. The project? Zines With Class For Old-School Essentials.
- Mike Moore mixes the dangerous, wonderous and unique in Chthonic Crawl – Magic Items for Your DCC and OSR Games.
- Marco Antonia Piana is writing an eldritch quest with A Shadow over Odir – A Coastal Mystery Adventure for 5E.
- Rob Easton puts the focus on interpersonal drama and a medical mystery in the ACHE Island Zine RPG.
- Caged River Jewelry is funding a system-agnostic module around reducing faculties. It’s A Famine for the Senses
- Catacombs & Comedians has five freakish things for 5e adventures in The Oddity Offprint, No. 1.
- Damian Khaled is funding low-cost modular props and Quick Tiles.
- Zan’s Adventures has let magic run amuck, making animals talk and plants move in Crazy Farm – A 5e DnD Zine Quest 4 Adventure Module.
- Legendary Games has launched a campaign to fund Ultimate Warriors: Martial Classes for PF1 and DnD 5E.
- Wind Lothamer and Knight Owl Publishing are funding an adventure for OSE with Into the Space Worm.
- Greg Brignola is offering undead hugs and zombie hordes for Polymorph with Braindead Buddies.
- Scott Taylor is up to part 4 of the AD&D and 5e mega-dungeon Folio #29 The Ogre Arena Gaming Adventure!
- Cosmondo has funded STL scenes and plans for The Mausoleum of Allan Halsey: A Cthulhu Reanimator Story.
- John Battle is working on a one-of-a-kind tabletop RPG meets literary book and Lilancholy: a guide to a secret world.
- Joshua Greer is bringing sci-fi and horror to 5e in Devoid of Hope: Chapter One.
- Douglas H. Cole and Gaming Ballistic have funded four Old-School Solo Adventures.
- M Blake has a compilation of 100 portraits in the Face Folio (for Zine Quest 4).
- John McGuire has a found footage horror RPG with The Devil In New Jersey.
- MxGRRR is collecting cash for a high school stoner RPG in CannAbyss 4200 A.D..
- Danielle Dalton has an ancient necromage sending adventures back through time in Desolation of the Dread Lich – A #Zinequest Adventure.
- Hrothgar’s Hoard returns to Kickstarter with Character Cards 2.0; 5E Spell and Ability Tracking Cards
- Midlam Miniatures has nine of The Monks of Midlam Abbey
- Mark Finn has a heist of a ZineQuest with Ogre’s 11
- Amarik’s Draught of the Dragon is a 5e and PF2 compatible Kobold Quest.
- Michael Dugan has a clever idea. LIGAMENTS: An RPG about what you carry with you.
- Daft Sheep are all about imaginative struggles. It’s ESP[unk] – The Diceless Psychic TTRPG.
- Ella Lim is a graphic designer who has funded Fox Curio’s Floating Bookshop: A solo TTRPG
- Dalla Croce Studios has some villains designed for you in Ruins of Guardia: The Trolls 28-32mm 3D printable STLs RPGs.
- Morgan Edmonds’ wants you to play the monster, the mook or the MINION RPG Zine.
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