Based on The Black Hat RPG, a system praised by many geeks in the know is Just Crunch Games’ Cthulhu Hack. That’s also an RPG praised by tastemakers and with award-winning supplements like Valkyrie Nine.
Guy Sclanders’ The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great GM surges through 2,000 backers
The 250+ page book promises to help people run better tabletop games.
Murder and death for Progress: A review of SLA Industries 2nd edition
I nominated SLA Industries as one of my top 10 RPGs of 2020 for my local indie gamers zine.
Mike Shea and SlyFlourish package up RPG help with The Lazy DM’s Companion
In the 5e guide, there’s an abundance of generators and guides to help run fantasy tabletop games.
Free to Download: Hack100 rulebook
Hack100 has a classic d100 system that maps easily onto most genres. The free download has rules for character generation and progress, tasks and test resolution, combat and special powers such as magic.
$267 worth of RPGs for $20: Charity Bundle for Afghan Support
$20 will get you $267 worth of downloads for the next month as the goal of $1,000 approaches rapidly.
Screaming death: A review of Vast Grimm
Think you might be tempted by a sci-fi game without rules for spaceships, except for the role to see if this life raft has actually broken down or not?
Making fidgeting cool: Dog Might Games carves wooden d20 spinners
On offer are 20 different wood types, 18 designs and 16 dials that go together to create a forest of different combinations of d20 fidget spinners.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #120
We’re getting 50th-anniversary games, and that’s new paper to buy, but we’re not yet sure whether we will get more D&D 5.0, 5.5 or even 6.0.
The dead have risen: Survival of the Able is a tabletop RPG about people with disabilities trying to survive the zombies
You’ll encounter not just zombies but discrimination in Survival of the Able as your character’s disabilities provoke reactions from people, and through the fear, you might be a zombie.
