Routinely Itemised: RPGs #231

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You’re in the right place if you’re only on the blog to read RPG news. Thanks for tolerating all the Scotland Loves Anime reviews. In a 12-hour gaming session, you can get up and move, but not so much with feature-length after feature-length. Ow! My butt!

Let’s begin with RPG news summary of summaries;

• The NuTSR saga sales with the attempted sale of the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum.
• A challenger in the TTRPG space has bought Zweihander.
• Pathfinder Remastered is out.
• Evil Genius Games releases both the Universal Solider and Rambo RPGs.
• It’s Teach Kids to Game Week.

Steve Jackson Games are quitting X over Hate Speech, and that’s a timely reminder to point out where you can follow Geek Native.

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Rightyo, let’s roll with the RPG news!

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RPG news from Geek Native

• Call it the TSR Museum or the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum if you like, but as NuTSR’s fight with WotC continues, the business is now up for sale. (A mere $5m).
• World of Game Design, a company that promotes games, has taken one off the hands of Andrews McMeel and bought Zweihander.
• Geek Native talked to Matthew Lillard and Bill Rehor about Faster Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! Other sites talked about D&D. Us? About whiskey and drag.
• Once again, we see indie RPG designers raising money for an important cause with a Doctors Without Borders bundle.
• In tribute to the movie, Lightspress Media released the RPG Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
• Lone Wanderer Entertainment drew attention to their SagaBorn RPG with a free download of the Creature Compendium quickstart.
• It was good while it lasted, but the mega ~$5,000 discount by Fat Goblin Games for new RPG publishers has expired.
• The Bundle of Holding has two deals on the TORG RPG and the remaining Mongoose Ultimate d20 books. Five of the fourteen are lost; the Ultimate d20 bundle is a chance to download the surviving nine.

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RPG news from around the web

• As Dicebreaker notes, The first of Pathfinder’s remastered RPG books are now available, sans D&D influence.
• EN World notes that D&D Adventurers League Unveils New DungeonCraft Document with Planescape In Focus.
• Bloody Disgusting’s Mike Wilson covers Neil Gaiman-inspired Dark Fantasy Tabletop RPG ‘On the Odder Side’ Kickstarter Now Live.
• Steve Jackson Games quit Twitter/X because of hate speech. (You can find Geek Native elsewhere as well.)

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Refereering and Reflection look into Imperium Maledictum: A Broader Darkness, a Greater Heresy.
• Beth Rimmels took A Look at the New Deck of Many Things.
• Flames Rising also shared thoughts on The Deck to.
• Meaghan Colleran at Bell of Lost Souls notes Indie RPG ‘Flying Circus’ Let’s You Design Your Own Fantastical Airplane.
• Reviews from R’lyeh did well at Free RPG Day and followed up with a review of Heckin’ Good Doggos. Also, for Quick-Start Saturday, a look at Dream Machines. In fact, Pookie had a great week with reviews of The Best of White Dwarf Scenarios, Nightfall’s Terminator RPG, and the blue-collar horror of Pressure.
• At the Gaming Gang, Sami Yuhas shakes off the rest with Pathfinder: Rusthenge Reviewed.
• Throat Punch Games reviews The Pathfinder Beginner Box.
• Rob Wieland at Forbes has A Look Inside The Candela Obscura Rule Book.
• Heavy-hitter and RPG returnee Marvel publishes Developer Update #4 Shines a Spotlight on ‘The Cataclysm of Kang’.
• Charles Dunwoody interviews Ellinor DiLorenzo about The Lost Mountain Saga for Vaesen.
• Mollie Russell gets to the point with Matthew Lillard’s new DnD show doesn’t care about the rules.
• GenCon interviews RPGMatch.

RPG new releases

• Evil Genius Games, still battling Netflix, has published on with their Everyday Heroes cinematic adventure RPGs and with;
  • Rambo.
  • Universal Soldier.
• Ubique Publications follows a hot Kickstarter and a free Players Guide with Welcome to Grimsbury Deluxe Rulebook.
• Wizards of the Coast push through the DTRPG integration The Book of Many Things Roll20 VTT content.
• Sky Bradley and Henry Langdon have boosted the Storyteller’s Vault with Vampire 5 lore with the Baali Clanbook.
• Tiny Furniture has released their famous computer-game-inspired Heroes Glory RPG, and there’s already a Bestiary.
• Foretold published the GMless Strife: The Minimalist’s Survival Guide.
• Solomani releases the Old-Schools Essentials supplement called Wizards & Machineguns.
• Hex Games hits publish on the universal setting of Swan Castle.
• Free League’s machine rolls on with, and not limited to, The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying – Tales From Eriador.
• In physical releases and pre-orders from FLGS like Forbidden Planet et al there’s;
  • Evil Hat’s Monster Of The Week: Tome Of Mysteries .
  • Renegade Game Studios’ Transformers: The Enigma Of Combination: Sourcebook.
  • Hatchette’s Dungeons & Dragons: Adventurer #16.

Note: There’s also an RPG section in Geek Native’s Black Friday Megathread.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $30 (25%) on the DMsGuild’s Monster Manual Expanded Roll20 Compendium bundle.
• Save $9.48 (43%) with Pinnacle Entertainment’s Dark States Conspirators bundle.
• Save $4.86 (70%) in Metal Ostrich Games’ OSR Get Started with Moon’s Haunted bundle.
• Save $0.90 (60%) with the DMsGuild’s Abishai Kobolds bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Geek Native noticed an official D&D decanter set.
• Roll20 shares 10 Games To Play With Kids. In %100 related news, it’s Teach Your Kids To Game Week at DTRPG with discounts.
• WorldAnvil offers thoughts on Sci-Fi TTRPGs: A World of Futuristic Adventures.
• At D&D Beyond, Damen Cook urges you to Embrace Your Fate with the Rewarded or Ruined Backgrounds from The Book of Many Things.

RPG Crowdfunding

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 mentioning;

• Shelfventures | 3D Printable Book Nook from Don Stouffer suggests “3D printable book nook diorama. Display your miniatures between your favorite fantasy novels! Delivered as STL files.”
• Deathsend: A TRPG Inspired by Death Note, played via Texting from Vincent Baker nominates “A TRPG where discretion is as important as the air you breathe. Inspired by Death Note. Play with anybody, anywhere.”
• Stonefold Kingdoms: Magnetic Dungeons & Foldable RPG Terrain from Dungeon in a Box pitches “Foldable terrain and magnetic dungeons for swift setup and epic showdowns”
• Witch of Chimney Rock Dungeons & Dragons D&D 5e Adventure from Ancient Sage crowdfunds “Venture into a fey-haunted forest; help the village of Veknis stop a curse and unearth a far more menacing looming threat! 60+ pages.”
• Cyberpunk Noir Second Printing from Gwilym Iorwerth Evans kickstarts “Cyberpunk Noir is is a tabletop RPG of subculture and mystery, set in an original cyberpunk world and using a unique ruleset.”
• Dungeon Illumination, Systemless Fantasy RPG Support from Philip Reed nominates “100 light sources for fantasy dungeoncrawl roleplaying games. Written by Philip Reed.”
• Wayfarers Guide to Austerra from Ardann Creative offers “A New System Set Within a Grim & Bitter World”
• ≋ DISTORTION ≋ from Ann Dominor introduces “Beyond-reality quest with original mechanics. A system neutral TTRPG. Magazine quest”
• Track your D&D adventures in style from DanDMadeEasy is working on “Level up your character sheets and be the talk of the table with stylish trackers that make playing your characters easy.”
• Christmas Dice from MicroToys kickstarts “Christmas Dice”
• $1 One Shot: It Came from the Cellar! from Tabletop Outfitter is working on “A 5e Adventure for Levels 1-3.”
• Corpse Rain: The Desecration of Birchton – 5e Adventure! from Aaron Prior submits “A 5e compatible adventure to the village of Birchton where dark magic has corrupted the villagers and unspeakable horror awaits!”
• You Should Never Have Come Here – An OSE Adventure from Thom Wilson kickstarts “A deadly, low-level adventure for daring players with little attachment to their characters.”
• Hyperweapon from Rookie Jet Studio LLC nominates “A Dart Blaster Infused, Rules-Light, Tabletop-Roleplaying Game.”
• The Coming of Winter from The Merciless Merchants crowdfunds “Three old-school fantasy adventures for levels 3-5 for heroes seeking glory or death in the lands of ice and snow.”
• Eithos Unbound: A Ready-To-Play Short Adventure (D&D 5E) from The Viridian Archives raises funds for “A Ready-To-Play One-Shot for the favorite 5th Edition TTRPG (DnD 5E): Illustrations, Battlemaps, 2D Printables, 3D Miniatures and More!”
• Brain Duster: A Mind-Altering RPG Adventure from Barry Bruner raises funds for “Journey to the center of your mind in an art-heavy Tabletop RPG. Compatible with most game systems.”
• Fernbloom’s Guide to Freebone Vale from Tim van Dalen pitches “A drop-in mini setting packed with adventure for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition”
• Amazing Encounters & Locations from CZRPG suggests “A 5e supplement that brings you 12 fantastic locations ready to drop into your world, each with detailed encounters and gorgeous maps!”
• The Illuminated Arsenal: Weapons of Art and Strategy in 5E from CrazyWonton proposes “A 54 card weapon deck compatible with D&D 5E. Unveil the Medieval Mastery of Arms with Illuminated Artistry.”
• Micro Dungeons: Inner Planes Edition for D&D 5E – $1USD from Ready to Play kickstarts “Micro Dungeon Crawling Adventures in the Elemental Energy Planes for the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons”
• The Almanac of Allies (5E) from T.A. Gray submits “A collection of sidekicks, allies, henchmen, and hirelings compatible with 5E D&D that level along with your adventurers.”
• Month of Misery | for MÖRK BORG from GreysonWHY is working on “Compilation of 31 days of MÖRK-tober into a zine with Eldritch Powers, rules for fishing, apocalyptic band mates, and more!”
• Kor Hadar: Gabriel Mayhem’s Compendium 5E Campaign Setting from Erigo Studios crowdfunds “Step into the shadows of Kor Hadar, a 350+ page 5E setting book and an accompanying novel, inspired by cult and modern dark fantasy.”
• Whispers of Darkness – The Chalice Chronicles 5E Adventures from Loke Battle Mats raises funds for “Incredible 5E Adventure Collection for 3rd to 9th level characters by Stephen Hart written for Loke’s Battle Maps.”
• THE ULTIMATE ACCESSORY COLLECTION Vol. II – RELOADED from Brain Conceptual Entertainment proposes “Enhance your favorite role-playing games with our fantasy accessory collection. We are back with new pledges, features, and more!”
• DnD 5e One Shots of Ethelon Vol 6 – Extreme Cold Expeditions from Adventure Ripples proposes “D&D 5e adventures taking place in the frigid cold that will upgrade your Campaign and keep your players on edge!”
• Krakulu’s Gold Rush Dice Tower Pay What You Want from Krakulu is working on “3D Printable (Support Free) STL Files, Tabletop Terrain, Role Playing Games, Miniatures, Wargames and RPG’s, Pay What You Want”
• Violent Night: a DnD 5e adventure from Fables in Tables nominates “A band of cutthroat carol singers are on a mission to bring festive spirit to the darkest corners of this world.”
• Viking Way Dice: Tonight we roll in Valhalla from VikingWayDice offers “Custom made, personalized and ready to roll. Hand crafted dice sets with the thrill of battle and story telling in mind.”
• Eldritch Horrors: A Compendium of 5E Monsters from The Unknown proposes “A collection of monsters for you and your friends to fight, befriend, and flee.”
• Gary Gygax’s The Hermit from Stephen Chenault pitches “One of the strangest adventures your characters will ever embark upon, by the Father of Role Playing Games himself.”
• Scions of the Fabled Kingdom – 5E Zine from Rudok’s Tavern nominates “A 5e zine supplement that will take you to a mysterious land of Dreams, Stars and Legends.”
• Stormcoils. Anniversary Edition. from 3DPZstudio introduces “Hyper-detailed, Top Quality, 3D-printable miniatures and statuettes to use for your tabletop, roleplaying games, or just to paint!”
• BattleAxe Dice: Spin & Slay with the All-in-One Axe Dice from SmokyCreation pitches “Wield power and control in every game, immersing yourself in a world of adventure and thrill.”
• 100 Unique Puzzles for D&D 5e! from Paws for Effect pitches “A Treasury of 100 Brain-Bending Challenges for Your TTRPG!”
• Winter Holidays Special – Fantasy Dog Dice Tower – STL File from Slope3D introduces “A beautifully designed cool fantasy dog model made as dice tower to make your tabletop gaming fun during this winter holidays.”

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