The Adventure System is a generic RPG engine for fantasy, cyberpunk, sci-fi, or historically set RPGs.
Free to Download: Sandy Petersen’s Yig Snake Granddaddy Act 1 sample
Sandy Petersen is the famous game designer responsible for Call of Cthulhu. In the Cthulhu Mythos Sagas, he and his team take some of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror concepts and bring them to meet D&D 5e fantasy.
Choose Wisely: Humble discounts games with branching pathways and consequences
We’re talking games like Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls. As Humble Bundle are keen to point out, we’re also talking about a charity donation of your choice. I see what they did there.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #127
RPG news from the week. Paizo share an update with apologies, Judge Dredd’s RPG will end, and a historic D&D adventure is back in print.
The Means of Magick: Fight back against the megacorps in the aftermath of the magick-industrial revolution
Mining operations tear holes in the earth to excavate magick; floating rigs drill magick from ocean beds; forests burn to filter the magick in roots and leaves. The magick they steal from the earth runs their machines and allows unfettered growth at the earth’s expense.
Wizards of the Coast release three sets of classic D&D character sheets
Three trolls, hot, hungry, and bothered, are breathing down your neck in a dead-end catacomb. Is this the end of the line for your noble hero?
Caught by Kickstarter’s crackdown; Nightfall delays Demon Dog
The forthcoming Demon Dog from Nightfall Games has been delayed.
Dungeon Scrawlers: Original, official and kid-appropriate D&D game released in North America
ngeon Scrawlers comes in a pack with 10 unique mazes, and given the use of doors, portals, time limits and different monsters, there’s more than enough here for over 100 different 3-maze combinations.
The Prisoner inspired Be Seeing You RPG pushes back against the surveillance State
In the Prisoner, it’s never quite clear who is running the village. In Be Seeing You, there’s no one person who is the GM.
Free to Download: Bloodheist – an RPG set after Dracula wins
Players in the game are criminals hired by one vampire to steal from another. PCs can be vampires or humans but are always outsiders and not affiliated with any established Great Houses.
