Routinely Itemised: RPGs #298

It’s the weekend, as surely as Russia invaded Ukraine.

Here’s the summary of TTRPG news summaries;

• Ernie Gygax has passed away.
• There’s a new Warhammer game coming, and it’s the Horus Heresy.
• D&D’s own VTT is finally out, and Project Sigil is now just Sigil.
• Lost Odyssey: Godfall is a celeb TTRPG one-shot for charity, and it’ll feature VR.

It’s the last day of the month and so Geek Native supporters can vote for the next RPG Publisher Spotlight.

• Stonehome Games
• Wendigo Workshop
• Original Frontiers
• The Quicksilver Adventuring League
• Cabal of Enchantment

Patrons can vote at this private poll.

On with this week’s news!

Spotlight: Dunderdagar.

RPG news from Geek Native

• Cubicle 7 has announced a new Warhammer RPG. It’s not Warhammer 40K but Warhammer 30K and the Horus Heresy.
• Free League have a new Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) RPG on the way with Invincible.
• Are you brave enough to wish Chaosium a happy 50th?.
• TTRPG celebs Brandon Routh, Deborah Ann Woll, Felicia Day, Matt Mercer and Reggie Watts will star in the VR/streamed Lost Odyssey: Godfall.
• In the Bundle of Holding, there’s a host of adventures from The Potbellied Kobold.

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RPG news from around the web

• Wizards of the Coast released, free to anyone with a D&D Beyond account, their 3D VTT Sigil.
• Son of Gary Gygax, Ernie Gygax, has passed away.
• Bleeding Cool’s Gavin Sheehan covered Dungeons & Dragons Made Two Reveals At MagicCon Chicago 2025.
• At Screen Rant, Christian Hoffer penned D&D Shows Off Cover Art For This Summer’s Next Big Adventure Book, Teasing Massive Dragon Adventures.
• PCGamer wrote up Cubicle 7 explains why its fantasy RPG based on Warhammer: The Old World will be a separate game and not a line of supplements for WFRP.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Reviews from R’lyeh covers the solitaire RPG from Parable Games Ion Heart and Chaosium’s Cthulhu by Gaslight.
• Ted Adams wrote up The Game Master’s Book of Non-Player Characters.
• Ill Met by Morrslieb reviewed Wrath & Glory Starter Set.
• Admitting a bias, Horacio Gonzalez has a review of QuestWorlds.
• CBR’s Jenny Melzer says :Otherscape Is the Futuristic Cyberpunk TTRPG Your Table Needs.
• At Forbes, Rob Wieland has published Jason Charles Miller Discusses The Influence Of Dungeons And Dragons.

RPG new releases

• Independence Games has released the Cepheus-powered Defiant: Native Americans in Rider.
• Dreamslayer Studios has published a horror compendium for Everyday Heroes called Requiem.
• RVN Creative Studios published Otto’s Guide to the Orcs of Oerth.
• Evil Hat released a Roll20 of the cosy RPG Stewpot.
• Adventurica released the 5e-compatible A Collection of Seafaring Adventures.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $47.99 (38%) with Seventh Son Publishing’s SAKE bundle.
• Save $20.00 (40%) in Evil Hat Production’s Roll20 Stewpot bundle.
• Save $7.16 (20%) with A4 Play’s Cyber Hack digital bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Josh Storey writes up Navigating the Cosmere – Designing in Someone Else’s Sandbox.
• Alphastream shared views on An Alternative to Removing Orcs and Drow from D&D’s Monster Manual.
• The Angry GM shared part one of What Do You Do When You Lose the Plot.
• The Alexandrian looked back in time and to Reactions to OD&D: The Influence of Little Rules.
• At Gnome Stew, Phil Vecchione shared thoughts on Prep Your Published Adventure.
• Nerdarchy runs with Post-Apocalyptic Roleplay: Building a City Like Crystalia.
• At GamesRadar, Katie Wickens notes that Solo RPGs and journaling games give me advantage on mental health rolls in a way D&D couldn’t.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can find the Kickstarter campaigns that have caught Geek Native’s attention at Kickstarter watch. Here are some noteworthy industry projects to mention:

• Cosmic Creatures & Curses – D&D 5e from Mike Whoudini is working on “Cosmic Familliars, Monsters & One-Shots for D&D 5e!”
• Escape the Devil’s Eye from Third Castle Games nominates “A new sword & sorcery adventure for Old-School Essentials. Part of Zine Quest 2025.”
• Dungeon Buddy – Your ultimate character sheet manager! from Lady Raccoon introduces “Join us on an epic adventure and aim for a critical success! Dungeon Buddy lets you store, manage & use character sheets with ease.”
• The False Temple: An OSR mini-mega dungeon from The Azorynian Post offers “From the Azorynian Post, a 100+ room, multi-level lair of an evil, demented demigod. Designed for parties of levels 4-7.”
• Smallfolk – A Whimsical Gnome TTRPG from Lance offers “A Tabletop Roleplaying Game where you play as a familly of whimsical, bickering Gnomes in the tiny land of Willowbrook.”
• Dead or Alive – Volume 1 from SideQuest20 suggests “Track, hunt, and capture the most wanted criminals in the realm—20 villains, 20 quests, and 20 statblocks for D&D 5e!”
• KERGÜS! – A Brutal Solo Hexcrawl adventure! from Daniel Finney kickstarts “Explore the desolate wastes of KERGÜS! Compatible with Mork Borg & Forbidden Psalm.”
• The Deluxe Dice Bag Project from Alice raises funds for “A chance to grab a handmade, personalised suede and canvas high quality dice bags”
• Dice Card Decks: Elemental – Replace your dice with cards from SPARCS Games submits “A card-based dice alternative for TTRPGs, board games, or anything else that uses dice. — Print-N-Play or POD!”
• Pitchfork Extended RPG from Christian Svalander pitches “A tabletop RPG where ordinary villagers must face a war-born horror with nothing but courage, wit, and the tools of their trade.”
• Sweet Treats for Adventurers: A 5E Culinary Supplement! from Tales & Tastes submits “A book that combines D&D and cooking, featuring dessert recipes for the hungry adventurer along with plenty of 5E-compatible content!”
• The Forgemaster from Kontent Punch raises funds for “A D&D 5th Edition module that gives the players the ability to rescue a legendary smith under duress”
• Rising Legends Tabletop Roleplaying Game: Quickstart Guide from Obsidian Games kickstarts “A new tabletop roleplaying game quickstart arriving just in time for ZineQuest 2025”
• Doom Desert in the Decanter of Delirium Zine from WatcherDM submits “A Psychedelic 5e Adventure Zine for Four to Six Characters of Level 1 – 2”
• Ill-Gotten Power – An Adventure for OSR and 5e D&D from Xacur suggests “A low magic high level Old School-inspired Dungeons & Dragons Adventure for OSR and 5e DND”
• The Black Ledger: An Underworld Guide For D&D 5E from One-Eyed Werebear Gaming introduces “Every City Needs A Dark Underbelly. An Underworld Source Guide For Dungeons And Dragons 5E (2024, etc) And All Your Favourite RPGs!”
• Journeyman from Zachery Bir nominates “A rules-light, trust-heavy tabletop roleplaying game. Build (or bring) your own world.”
• Time Force RPG: Trip Through Time to Save the World! from Mythworks suggests “Hop, skip, and trip through time to save the world in this one-shot zine TTRPG!”
• Guardians Of The Abyss – Rpg TableTop Game from Studio Lyra nominates “Become a hero in a fantasy world in Guardians Of The Abyss. Defeat evil and save the world with a party of four.”
• Resistance is Required RPG from Daniel Baker-Zakala crowdfunds “A Table-Top Role-Playing Game for the Modern Revolutionary”
• Tales From The Spectral Sea from Sam Armstrong introduces “A Swashbuckling RPG of Adventure, Folklore, Death, and Loss.”
• D66 Diverse Magical Doors from Azukail Games proposes “36 magical doors suitable for fantasy TTRPGs, especially OSR.”
• Black Trenches (Solo Adventure Gamebook) from Hycean Studios submits “Choose your own path in this horror gamebook set in the German trenches of 1917.”
• Secrets of the Grave: Undead Monstrosities & Spells of Decay from Morrus introduces “New undead monstrosities, new spells, plus an undead adventure for PCs of 2nd to 4th level for D&D.”
• The Ruins of Volduron – a GM’s Guide from Blood Moon Games suggests “TTRPG Campaign Scenario: A clandestine mission of reconnaissance will unearth dark truths that may shatter the foundations of an empire”
• Avalantas: DnD 5E+ Setting & Campaign, Book 1 – Dark Rising from Magic Mirror nominates “A continent divided. North and South, Light and Dark. Not all that follow the light are good, nor all that worship the dark, evil.”
• WraithBorn | A Grim Folk Fantasy Setting for Mork Borg/OSR from Theatre Macabre proposes “Be Born Again! In the shadowed realm of the Un-Dead. Escape the horror, enact ritual & cast your own light in this tortured world!”
• Lair of the Forgotten Queen – For Shadowdark RPG #ZineQuest from Caleb P introduces “From an abandoned aerie to the heated depths, a small collection of linked dungeons for ShadowDark RPG.”
• Dwarven Dice Gazebo and Dice Tray from RC Craigo proposes “A charming collection of dice cages and a dice tray in a style inspired by dwarves! Available as physical prints or STL files!”
• The Blades of Gixa: A #dungeon23 Megadungeon by Quadra from Paradiso offers “Delve deep into the weird underworld to find the fabled Blades of Gixa, legendary tools of the goddess of life and death!”
• Witches! the RPG from Kristina Brown pitches “Use dice and tarot cards to explore crypts, slay monsters, make deals, discover secrets and complete quests.”
• Roll for Cocktails: TuVuoi’s d20 Crystal Clear Ice Maker from TuVuoiUSA offers “Level up your game nights and happy hours with crystal-clear, d20-shaped ice—because every drink deserves a critical hit.”
• Zinequest: Rolling Up Aliens from Dead Fish Books kickstarts “A Game and Writing Resource to Help You Create More Exciting and Innovative Aliens.”
• Square RPG Puzzle Tiles from Hermann Hillmann kickstarts “Complete sets of RPG tiles, optimized for quick and hassle-free printing on FDM 3D printers.”
• Cintilar from Goat Island Games submits “Explore a new world with revised mechanics that will breath fresh adventure into your games.”
• Dungeon Crawl Pocket: $2 Fantasy TTRPG Zine! from Tricky Troll Games nominates “A fantasy Tabletop RPG focused on old school style play with modern mechanics, all in a compact PDF and print booklet.”
• A Fortune Seeker’s Intro to Artifact Acquisition – TTRPG from Brad (Second Rodeo Games) suggests “Quickstart rules and an introductory campaign for Fortune Seekers, a globetrotting pulp adventure tabletop RPG.”
• Post-Human: Cyberpunk RPG zine & comic from GrimskaldGames kickstarts “Cyberpunk TTRPG and Comic Book in an absurd dystopian future: Inspired by Cairn, Anime and Cyberpunk 2077.”
• D100 – Things To Find in an Alley for TTRPGs from Mellow Golem Games offers “A list of 100 things to find in a fantasy alley. System agnostic compatible with any fantasy TTRPG (5e, OSR, Pathfinder, ect).”
• Void Ventures from Carrotpen submits “Shape the future of the facility in this Roll & Write space station construction board game.”
• Underfoot: An Itty-Bitty Fey TTRPG from Ella Carter pitches “Underfoot is a tabletop role-playing game that centers around the big world of little fey.”
• First Watch: A Steel and Shadow Primer for Shadowdark and 5e from Dakotah Cote is working on “Forge Your Destiny as a Warden of Steel: Battle The Shadowed and Restore Balance to a World on the Brink of Collapse.”
• Children of the First Flame – An Urban Fantasy RPG from Cerfnoir Project pitches “Play as an Arcanist in a urban fantasy Europe, where myths and legends are part of your everyday life.”
• The Last Job You’ll Ever Need: A Heist TTRPG from Rohan Kapitany nominates “The Last Job You’ll Ever Need is fast and dirty game for executing a meticulous heist.”
• Emberland: the Zine of an Evolving 5e TTRPG Sandbox from Hangry Dwarf Press offers “Seven zine issues, each adding new territory, NPCs, creatures and adventures to the evolving 5e/OSR TTRPG setting of Emberland.”
• KAIJU WARFRONT: A Solo Roll And Write from B.P. Laverock proposes “Defend humanity’s last cities from relentless kaiju, pilot your mech, and make tactical decisions to save or sacrifice civilization.”
• Starset 2nd Edition, Tabletop RPG from Josiah Mork nominates “Starset is inspired by Arcane, Dune, and Warhammer to tell unique stories of taking hope back from the scifi grimdark.”
• Wayward Words from Grave Goods raises funds for “An Alphabet Zine of Weird Books and Strange Character Development”
• The Promised Garden, a solo campaign for Mörk Borg from Slavdom Studio suggests “9 scenarios and setting inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch, new classes, new enemies, and card-based solo mechanics.”
• The King in Giallo, a Quickstart Adventure for ESPionage from Tone Milazzo kickstarts “A one-shot, RPG, adventure- Ian Fleming’s classic James Bond, as if written by Robert W. Chambers, with a touch of Italian horror.”
• MAZES Handbook for the Player from 9th Level submits “Our spin on classic OSR and RPG fantasy setting character classes for Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying.”

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