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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #190

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Yikes! The OGL drama has cooled down, but I’ve been caught out. If you’re reading this news summary at midnight, it’s incomplete, and I’m backfilling the holes.

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Let’s start with the summary of RPG news summaries

  • Kobold Presses on with Project Black Flag
  • Paizo presses on wit ORC
  • ZineQuest is booming

What caught me out? It’s the boom in ZineQuest. It’s taken nearly 2/3rds of my Routinely Itemised time just to compile the data.

That’s a great problem, though. The RPG scene is booming!

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You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

Anatomy of a Spell - Spellweaving Zine cover art and mystic pages
  • Anatomy of a Spell – Spellweaving Zine from Airmail Adventures kickstarts “A journalling RPG which can be embedded into 5th Edition to have players learn and create new spells.”
  • Themed Character Sheets (Make 100) from Ghotitank introduces “Redesigned character sheets to enhance your immersion and bring your character to life”
  • Rolling with the Youth from Jaclyn Lewis suggests “A guide to running inclusive, safe, and fun tabletop-roleplaying games for all ages”
  • Delver 7: Resources for the Random-Rolling Referee from James Floyd Kelly raises funds for “Delver is a magazine for Referees of OSR fantasy roleplaying games.”
  • Four Kingdoms: A Storytelling and Map Drawing TRPG Zine from Tanuki Games proposes “From a blank parchment, develop a new world in a GM-less, drawing and storytelling role-play experience! #ZineQuest2023!”
  • Beneath Hallowed Halls – A Dark Academia PBTA Zine from Spilled Coffee Creatives proposes “A Powered by the Apocalypse TTRPG of friendships that run deep and bodies that are buried even deeper for #ZineQuest23.”
  • Small Crew Big Space from Bryce McWhirter submits “Small Crew Big Space is a 40 page, rules-lite spaceship building TableTop RPG for ZineQuest #5.”
  • Wældæg: A Roleplaying Game Zine from Joseph Chambers raises funds for “Take your boat of dark age explorers and venture into a vast and misty sea past a melted glacier in the North”
  • Normie Generator & more: Worldbuilding pamphlet games from David H. K. Jackson crowdfunds “Three pamphlet hacks of Takuma Okada’s journaling game Alone Among the Stars. Normie Generator | Alone in Jodomundi | Final Boss”
  • Hunting High & Low from Pontus Björlin crowdfunds “An adventure for table top roleplaying game ALTNYC88. The third and final part of the Dr. Zeke’s garments saga.”
  • Monster Watch from Sealight Studios crowdfunds “A Storytelling RPG of Magnificent Monsters”
  • Digital Map Bundle Two from Declan Gray kickstarts “Battle maps for any fantasy TTRPG”
  • One-Hour RPG: The Wizards of the White Tower (for 5e) from S.K.Dinning kickstarts “Low level 5e adventures for new and experienced GMs and players, each playable in under an hour. #ZineQuest”
  • Ends of the Earth from Chris Longhurst introduces “A weird-fantasy hexcrawl for your favourite fantasy RPG”
  • The Haunting of Abimond Manor from Cat Elm submits “A ghostly adventure into a sinister manor house, for use with OSR and sword & sorcery tabletop roleplaying games.”
  • The Electrum Archive – Issue 02 from Emiel Boven is working on “Return to the science-fantasy world of Orn in this tabletop RPG zine exploring the bustling desert city of Titan Port.”
  • Darkness of the Demimonde – A Victorian Pulp Horror RPG from Joseph Salvador proposes “Utilizing a rules-light system for fast play and immersive narrative in a world of investigation, horror, and the supernatural.”
  • Loot Hunters – Pouch of Gold from XploringMap pitches “A system-neutral supplement for any RPG. B&W fantasy tabletop maps and art. Ready adventures and random tables. A5.”
  • Dead Air – a game about Radio Activity from Fiona Ruthven suggests “A solo RPG about radio after the apocalypse”
  • The Merchant from Adrian L. Sanjuan crowdfunds “A solo RPG about traversing an arcane wasteland for plentiful coin”
  • Advanced Double D6 from Luke Earl kickstarts “An OSR’ish fantasy role-playing game”
  • The Inn at the Edge of the World from Master Badger submits “A Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TTRPG) about a mysterious Inn and the traveling heroes called to face their destiny. #zinequest #OSR”
  • dreamlike from Holger Nahm crowdfunds “play emergent stories – solo-friendly rpg-like – tarot arcana”
  • Pride and PrejuDice, a Regency Roll and Write from Benjamin Sperling submits “a print and play roll and write set in the era of Jane Austen with the players playing matchmaker!”
  • Fiends of Fairwick – A Monster of the Week Miniseries from Greater Restoration submits “A Monster of the Week actual play, providing heartwarming stories of a found family as they face various monsters.”
  • Sanctuary & Sentinel from Meghan Cross submits “A TTRPG zine containing two full GMless games about a place of great power and the guardians charged with protecting it.”
  • The Web of Dreams: Ancestries from Andrew Taylor introduces “A 5E Compatible ZineQuest 5 project for 5 Mini-Zines: Each focusing on a new ancestry that draws their power from the Web of Dreams.”
  • Low-Res Futures: Two RPGs, One Flipbook from Aaron King kickstarts “Millenarian cyber witchcraft augmented reality death games from 199X.”
  • Advanced Ancient Academy from Stuart Robertson offers “An expanded version of the classic dungeon crawl adventure, for Old School Essentials and other Fantasy Roleplaying Games.”
  • Roboworld & Space Station M – RPG Monster Manual Zines from Eric Bloat offers “2 zines, 1 Kickstarter – Available for 5e, DCC RPG, SURVIVE THIS!!, and System Neutral Rule Sets – from the creators of Overworld.”
  • DUNGEON MALARKY – Weird Resources for Your OSR Fantasy RPGs from Levi Combs raises funds for “An illustrated guide to hazards, magical items, strange plants & bizarre spell components for world-builders, alchemists & gamemasters!”
  • The Goddess and the Fox from Rughalt is working on “Uncover the Dark Secret of the ancient woods of Aeyx and save them in this adventure for 5th edition and Pathfinder Second Edition”
  • The Arctic Infiltration: A D&D Adventure Supplement (5e) from X0RBYT3 pitches “Survive the bitter cold of the north in this 5th Edition One Shot inspired by John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’.”
  • Bada$$ Bunnies! from Tim Sattley submits “An RPG Zine and “reverse adventure” module designed using the Mutant Crawl Classics TTRPG system.”
  • For the Lord RPG from Ronald V. Smorynski proposes “A Christian role-playing game, #zinequest and webseries”
  • Judge Phils’ Zine of GOODIES Volume 3 from Philip Padovani proposes “From Dungeon Crawl Classics gamers at the Game Keep in Hermitage, TN, we have a third volume to share (first two sold by Goodman Games)”
  • Bio-Drones & Cryo-Clones from ChrisAir Games proposes “Become the mutant in this biopunk facility-crawl zine for Mothership RPG.”
  • LORDSWORN from Marren’s Musings submits “GMless TTRPG of a band of broken soldiers trying to return Home during the apocalypse. Your God is dead, you only have each other now.”
  • The Curse of The Blood Goblin from Pepper raises funds for “Quick and dirty dungeon diving with just enough crunch.”
  • A Butterfly Dies from Marco Serrano pitches “A Primal Quest zine inspired by Mexican myth and the Mexican Muralist Movement.”
  • Stargems: A TTRPG for Young Adventurers (ages 4+) from Leslie Arambula introduces “An adventure created using a simple and ready-to-use tabletop role playing system built for getting young adventurers into the game.”
  • Corvid & Finch’s Caravan of Flim-Flam: A 5e Supplement from Ethan Buckley crowdfunds “A short collection of homebrewed 5e items, collected in a zine and hosted by a duo of kindly bird shopkeepers. Part of ZineQuest 5.”
  • Ziggurat of the Blood God from Sharktopus Games proposes “Do your players dare explore the terrifying secrets of the Ziggurat of the Blood God? An adventure for DCC, OSE & Mork Borg.”
  • Sewer Rats (ZineQuest) from Tricky Troll Games proposes “A tabletop RPG of comic book mayhem where players take on the roles of mutants in the concrete jungles of the 1990s.”
  • Bug Out: a Post-Apocalyptic micro TTRPG from Samuel nominates “A casual TTRPG about cockroaches and the world they’ll inherit. Part of Zine Quest.”
  • Pixie Punks – A unique TTRPG of fey gone bad #ZineQuest5 from Andy Hand kickstarts “Play as unseelie fey trying to stop an invasion of the lands of Fairy. Unique rules and mechanics.”
  • Old School & Cool Vol. 4: The Undead Issue from Wind Lothamer raises funds for “A collection of ghoulish goodies, macabre monsters, and necrotic notions for Old School Essentials.”
  • Saved by the Morph: Turning Teen Sitcom Into Sentai from Eric Garneau crowdfunds “Part Game Setting, Part Bestiary, Part Media Analysis, ALL RADICAL”
  • Horse Girl from Leyline Press raises funds for “Horse Girl is a solo GM-less journaling game in which you will document your surgical and mental transformation into a horse.”
  • The Doom of Blackwinter from Mark Meredith introduces “A Zweihander and OSE tabletop RPG adventure into the frozen high mountains to stop a renegade fey force. Part of Zine Quest 5.”
  • Chthonic Crawl #2 – Merchants and Monsters for DCC and OSR from Mike Moore crowdfunds “Unique merchant NPC’s and monsters for your Dungeon Crawl Classics or OSR-type games.”
  • Dramatis Personae from Bridget Meredith proposes “30 new NPCs and Adventure Hooks for any Tabletop RPG. Part of Zine Quest 5”
  • Splat #4: Frights from Sam Hotchkiss crowdfunds “Essays about playing with horror in TTRPGs.”
  • Hex 14.42 — Troll Mountain from Todd submits “The final hex in the Keep of the Rawhide Gang cluster”
  • MÖRK BOLL sportsball at the end of the world from Kevin Rahman crowdfunds “MÖRK BOLL sportsball compatible with MÖRK BORG. From the creator of Forbidden Psalm comes sportsball at the end of the world”
  • Stranger Tales from Antonio Ferrara suggests “An innovative role-playing (RPG) and Horror Board Game set in the teenage years where you will be the protagonist!”
  • D100 Rumours for Fantasy RPG’s from Samuel Steele kickstarts “100 pieces of gossip and rumour to add interest and intrigue to almost any fantasy RPG setting. Just roll a D100 to see what you hear..”
  • Sky ov Crimson Flame + Blights ov the Eastern Forest from Thorin Thompson submits “Two adventure modules for Dungeon Crawl Classics brimming with FOUL SORCERY and the ABHORRENT STENCH OF CHAOS!”
  • Masks: Duos from Cape and Cowl Productions offers “A third party supplement for Masks: A New Generation designed for two players including 5 new playbooks, 25 Frames and more”
  • CRUX Elemental from Ill Gotten Games kickstarts “A complete open-source multi-genre RPG toolset + a souls-like adventure module set in an interdimensional city for Zine Quest 2023!”
  • CANDLE III: Fantasy Audio Magazine from Descender kickstarts “Ring the bell! The original OSR adventure-gaming tapezine is back for round 3, flexing all-new PC classes, magic items, music & more.”
  • Those which gather dust from Grégoire André introduces “[FR/EN] In a Vale protected by a barrier that magic can’t cross, what treasures can be hidden? A point-crawl with VTT material for all”
  • Goblin Gonzo from Tommy Sunzenauer raises funds for “GOBLIN GONZO is a stand-alone art-punk TTRPG built on the Mörk Borg engine. Come get your goblin mode on! It’s gonna get real weird.”
  • HERO CATASTROPHE from Mark Kennedy proposes “the last survival checks of your mightiest heroes: rules-lite RPG starting with your death saving throws, & you play to find your fate”
  • The Blood Moon Vernissage | A FRONTIER SCUM zine from Chalkdown offers “An adventure that takes players through an enchanted art gallery involving a dark ritual, time is running out…”
  • Quick and Dirties #4: The Priory of Red Peitor from Crumbling Keep suggests “A Quick and Dirty solo rpg adventure delve for Marching Order.”
  • Escape From Spooksy Manor – Solo Journalling RPG #ZineQuest from DicePop kickstarts “What’re the stories of the ghosts who inhabit Spooksy Manor? Can you uncover them, and yet still escape the next morning? Find out!”
  • FEVER DREAM NEXUS from Sophia Tinney nominates “Psychedelic samurai roleplaying in a kaleidoscopic world of surreal dreams and esoteric cultures.”
  • TLD RPG from Billy Blue crowdfunds “Lean, mean Indie RPG gaming. OSR influenced with high action and low crunch. Old school feel with new school mechanics.”
  • NIGHTFRIGHT – Zinequest 5 – 2023 from Alexei Vella introduces “A GM-less/map-making Horror TTRPG, where players take on the role of a group of children in a nightmarish house.”
  • Electrocube War Adventures from Mike Lafferty submits “For the Valor Knights Roleplaying Game”
  • Polite Society: the Zine for Thieves, Rogues & Scoundrels from Mark Finn raises funds for “A quarterly ttrpg zine to transform your campaign into a City of Thieves, full of daring heists and capers! #ZineQuest 5”
  • Escape Dark Hyperion from F.O.E. Fortitude of Empires is working on “A pyramid has been buried for a millennia beneath the ice caves of Filoon. Once you enter a deadly secret is revealed. Can you escape?”
  • The Dark After Dawn from Ryan Wright (Rix Writos) nominates “A Rules light/narrative heavy TTRPG, of mystical horror and chaos! Built on a custom Ruleset.”
  • Monster Rangers RPG from Steam Crow kickstarts “Occult Pulp Adventure set in 1913! Believe, Study, and Protect our monster friends from vile cultists.”
  • AMPERSAND RPG – Tabletop Games for Kids & Parents from AMPERSAND RPG is working on “A new take on classic pencil-and-paper roleplaying games”
  • Roll for Fire: a Prehistoric Tabletop RPG from Weston proposes “A rules-light tabletop RPG where you play as archaic humans trying to survive and thrive in a dangerous prehistoric world.”
  • 7 Fingers – 1st Venezuelan TTRPG Zine! from Rafael Cornholio Rodriguez submits “First Venezuelan TTRPG. Buddy Cop inspired by Dante´s Inferno. Low Budget, Powered by the Apocalypse and will probably get us canceled.”
  • TITAN: Mesozoic (Print Edition) from Spencer suggests “A solo RPG of exploration and survival amongst dinosaurs and a symbiotic alien race.”
  • Public Guest Five from Turtlebun kickstarts “An RPG on a poster about living well before the orbiting artificial planet explodes.”
  • Huang: A Three Kingdoms RPG from Nathan Lusk – Warrior with a Pen proposes “As the Han dynasty draws to a close, China is in turmoil. Make your own epic story in this tumultuous time on your tabletop.”
  • The Connection Machine 🌐 #ZineQuest from Tanya Floaker raises funds for “A science fiction RPG about attachment, trauma and meaningful connection. Art by Julia Nevalainen.”
  • Carapace & In the Heart of Oz – a Hex Flower RPG Bonanza from M Blake is working on “Labyrinthine Procedural Adventure -&- Wizard of Oz Setting Sandbox; both making use of Hex Flower Game Engines”
  • Two Mothership RPG One Shot Pamphlets (Zine Quest) from Matt Parkinson introduces “Dark Side of the Moon and The Mining of Celuron VII are both homemade one shot pamphlets for the Mothership TTRPG.”
  • Under the Graveyard (Zine Quest 5) from Seer Stone Press raises funds for “A rules-light non-combat TTRPG about teamwork and problem solving”
  • Morpholomancy from David Edwards II raises funds for “A linguistic micro-RPG of magical spell-word creation.”
  • Kaiju Don’t Care About You: Solo Kaiju Survival Zine from cicadahuman suggests “Survive kaiju attacks, and experience horrors inspired by Japanese science fiction (aka tokusatsu) movies and tv shows.”
  • Odyssey – Black Tales RPG from Officina Meningi is working on “Discover the truth behind the myth in this grim and deadly RPG, join Ulysses’ crew and face the dangers of the Mediterranean [ENG/ITA]”
  • How Many Heads? A Monster Postcard Zine from William Murakami-Brundage pitches “How Many Heads? A postcard zine: receive a Zinequest 5 postcard with an RPG-themed monster and B&W art.”
  • The Hieronymus Box from Emma Lou introduces “A mid-century liminal survival horror RPG adventure”
  • 101 Subclasses for DnD 5e – First Folio from Nicolas Coccaro is working on “A booklet of 12 refreshing subclasses for D&D with tips and tricks for making balanced and flavorful homebrew.”
  • Three MORE Pocket-Sized RPGs by Ready Play.Games from Nick Ribera raises funds for “Everything you need is in your pocket! Explore super-powered characters, haunt an unsuspecting couple, and survive the inquisition.”
  • Banished Dragons from raises funds for “A TTRPG Campaign Setting”
  • Mystery Dice For A Game Store! from Riftgate kickstarts “Help support a fledgling, friendly local game store and get dice + goodies!”
  • The TTRPG Player Wrap from Eric Mickols pitches “A place for your notes, your characters, and your dice. All in one!”
  • The Veil Riders: TTRPG from Guardbro is working on “A Tactical Role Playing Fantasy Game”
  • The Caves of Refuge: The Mines of Misery from Cyrus Duane kickstarts “The fallen leave their souls behind in this DCC funnel, forever trapped in a dynamic Judge controlled cavern scalable to any play time”
  • Meteor Tales: Age of Grit – Dynamic Combat, Roleplaying Game from Spiral Lane Productions crowdfunds “A new TTRPG that introduces the “Grit System” which allows a fast, versatile and immersive gameplay experience (medieval fantasy).”
  • Gary’s Appendix – Issue 2 from Jeffrey Jones is working on “A Thoughtful Zine for Old School Essentials”
  • Time & Fables: an imaginative full scale TTRPG from Time & Fables offers “A brand new TTRPG rule set and adventure campaign in detailed full color! Can be combined with DND 5e Dungeons and Dragons Pathfinder +”
  • Prisoners of the Elf King from Giles Pritchard is working on “Can you escape the clutches of the Elf King without being dashed to pieces in a barrel?”
  • RUNE Card Collection from Spencer Campbell crowdfunds “Card supplement for the RUNE tabletop RPG. All your weapons, enemies, and items in one place.”
  • The TRUE OSR – Obsolete Shitty Rules from Tin Hat Games introduces “Take your revenge against the DM thanks to The True OSR, a parodic old-school RPG spawned from the most ridiculous gaming experiences!”
  • Lollipop Dice Set from SmokyCreation offers “Satisfy that sweet tooth with this candy inspired dice set”
  • Frigid Fathoms from Cthulhu Epics introduces “A short, system-neutral scenario detailing a WWII submarine’s encounter with a Lovecraftian leviathan.”
  • Rainbow Dice Boxes from Lana Krolikowski – Saving Throw Pillows crowdfunds “Boxes that are as colorful as the rainbow!”
  • The Forslin Job for the Age of Ambition RPG from Tab Creations LLC introduces “An action, intrigue and investigation scenario for the Age of Ambition roleplaying game”
  • Make100: Vortex Dice Tower from Benjamin Corliss raises funds for “A stunning design with a unique see-through tower structure and a tray that lines up your d6’s perfectly and … vector dice!”
  • WHIZTOWER: 3D Printable Tower System from WhizToweR suggests “A magnetic system for creating towers and castles for tabletop fantasy RPGs and wargames, delivered in STL files for 3D printing.”
  • Mini-Dungeon Tome for Pathfinder 2e from AAW Games crowdfunds “100+ One shot adventures for Pathfinder 2nd edition.”
  • Kibbles’ Compendium of Legends and Legacies from KibblesTasty pitches “A massive book of martial might and magical mayhem for D&D 5e – 4 epic new classes, 30+ new subclasses, 30+ feats, and over 240 spells!”
  • Rising Star – sports film RPG from Elenor Holme offers “GMless Sports Film Tabletop Role-Playing Game.”

Do you know of an RPG news source that I don’t? Let me know, or leave a comment below.

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