The ENnie-winning fantasy that took years to make is a love letter to Sword & Sorcery and (once) Dungeons & Dragons. The game is set in the world of Eana, which while familiar, is also exotic with new twists and turns.
Archives for January 2023
Project Phoenix: RPG developers adopt Paizo’s new open game license
Bastion Press is financing a new open game license, putting some money in so publishers can use it without reinventing the wheel.
One GM and one player RPG: Beowulf – Age of Heroes bundles victories, wyrd and heroes into a discount deal
As studios like Handiwork look to decouple from 5e and investigate their alternatives, we might see more of this; quick bundles of ‘days before’ content put up on offer.
RPG Essentials: Acrylic Creature Tokens for TTRPGs raise thousands
Where are you with virtual tabletops versus meat space and battle maps? Coping with a growing miniatures collection alongside the dice?
Not dead yet: The Ancient Magus’ Bride gets a season 2 trailer
The Ancient Magus Bride is an anime of the sombre fantasy manga by Kore Yamazaki in which a young girl is sold at a slave auction. She’s bought by a skull headed monster who desires to take her as his wife.
Playtest Zero bundle: Showcase of indie games from Thomas Manuel
Designers arisia, Caro Asercion, goobernuts, KTPie, Takuma Okada, and Zuhayri Mohamed have all contributed DRM free material to the deal which offers $24 worth of indie content for $15.
The Spark: Patriarchy-smashing fashion brand secures Wednesday Addams collection
Wednesday Addams spends her time as a student trying to control her developing psychic gift so she can stop and solve the mystery that has her parents, Gomez and Morticia, up in arms.
Free League double whammies with two new OGL alternatives
It’s clear that it is high time for Free League to have an OGL that is fully our own
Free to Download: Denizen! The Magonian Edition
The RPG is a 282-page full-featured core set. It’s about dungeon crawls and heroics with the usual set of six stats but different rules for character generation and skill testing.Â
Genre Police: Evolve Or Die
I am sitting in the afterglow of a summer full of blockbuster moments in campaigns, at least one epic ‘Empire Strikes Back’ style campaign ending, and there are few players who are leaving for other things or shuffling which nights they play on.
