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Sir Ian Livingstone renews All Rolled Up’s Fighting Fantasy deal

May 31, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

British games store All Rolled Up has Fighting Fantasy merch at this weekend’s UK Games Expo after a down-to-the-wire renewal with gaming legend Sir Ian Livingstone.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, Fighting Fantasy, uk games expo

Elizabethan supernatural RPG: The Dee Sanction funds a Monad Edition

April 1, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The indie RPG is common at tables at UK gaming conventions, and now Just Crunch Games has taken it back to Kickstarter to fund the Monad Edition.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, just crunch games, kickstarters, Paul Baldowski, the dee sanction

Warpland, the psychedelic heavy metal-inspired TTRPG, returns to Kickstarter for an improved European edition

June 1, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You won’t have to be in Europe to back Warpland on Kickstarter when it launches on Monday.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, dice bag, gavriel quiroga, uk games expo

Sanction: Kickstarter success for a generic RPG system of challenges and hacks

September 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Adapting the game to a setting requires a little work by the Game Moderator— configuring a set of skill-focused tables to generate characters; defining any unique mechanics, like angelic favours, expendable gadgets, or uncanny good luck; and customising unpredictable but determined foes to stand between success and failure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, kickstarters, Paul Baldowski, the dee sanction

Sanction RPG engine: A first look at the settings and goals

August 27, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sanction is a simple system for challenge-driven games, with player characters who are usually anything but heroes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, Paul Baldowski, the dee sanction

UKGE 2022 Awards: The best RPGs and board games of the year

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The UK’s largest and one of the most significant gaming conventions in Europe is over, and the UK Games Expo is done for another year. The busy event has many attractions, one of which is the influential UK Games Expo Awards. The UKGE 2022 Awards has two categories, Judges and People, which means two winners […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, All Rolled Up, awards, exploding kittens, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, frostgrave, Iello, lord of the rings, magpie games, osprey games, parable games, root, shiver, the dee sanction, the thing, twilight: 2000, uk games expo, z-man games

Slightly supernatural: A review of The Dee Sanction

November 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

John Dee and Francis Walsingham, men with very different approaches and outlooks, run a secret agency for the Queen to protect the country from the rising supernatural threat.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, just crunch games, Paul Baldowski, reviews, the dee sanction

Five years on, the Cthulhu Hack RPG returns for your soul, cash and a second edition

November 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Like the original edition of Cthulhu Hack, players assume the roles of investigators exposed to the cosmic horror of a universe far beyond their comprehension.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos, kickstarters, Paul Baldowski, the cthulhu hack

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116

September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As it’s Friday, it means RPG news in summary form. Routinely Itemised doesn’t just summarise Geek Native’s own content.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, Arcadia, blades in the dark, bloat games, brancalonia, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, character sheets, Chris McDowall, city of mist, dead channel studios, exalted, Freddie Taylor-Bell, Free League Publishing, gen con, Into The Odd, James Introcaso, jay dragon, kobold press, leyline press, long tail games, Massif Press, mcdm, mothership, Paizo Publishing, Paradox Interactive, pendragon, R. Talsorian Games, role, roll for combat, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, sine nomine publishing, Stars without Number, survive this!!, the dee sanction, the oracle, wizards of the coast, Wyrmworks Publishing, zweihander

UK Games Expo 2021 Awards winners

August 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The UK Games Expo is one of the first significant gaming conventions to push on ahead into the opening wake of the lockdown. As a result, the prestigious UK Games Expo Awards has winners for 2021.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, All Rolled Up, board games, Brittannia Game Designs, card games, destroyer of worlds, Free League Publishing, Iello, Legend of the Five Rings, Loke BattleMats, osprey games, river horse, stargrave, the dee sanction, uk games expo, vaesen

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