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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #136

January 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week as Wizards of the Coast make an important D&D hire, Green Ronin plot Cthulhu content done right, and one of the most significant savings you’re likely to see on DTRPG goes live.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, avatar legends, bloat games, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, critical role, cubicle 7, dark places & demogorgons, darrington press, flames of freedom, gen con, goblin slayer, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, laidback dungeon master, Legendary Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, Nightfall Games, Outland Entertainment, raging swan press, routinely itemised, star frontiers, star trek adventures, stokerverse, the grinning frog, wanderhome, wizards of the coast, yen press

Flames of Freedom Library launches to enable third-party occult horror

January 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Andrews McMeel’s Flames of Freedom, the Zweihänder powered RPG from publisher Andrews McMeel and written by Richard Iorio and Daniel D. Fox now has a third-party content program. The Flames of Freedom Library is now live on DriveThruRPG and with two launch products. Flames of Freedom is an occult horror set during the American War […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, flames of freedom, zweihander

The best selling horror RPGs of 2021

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Horror is more straightforward of an RPG genre to assign to games; if the designer says, “this is supposed to be horror, ” it’s horror with less debate.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, Arc Dream Publishing, Chaosium, Cults of the Blood Gods, Delta Green, drivethrurpg, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, greg gillespie, joseph mccullough, mothership, Necrotic Gnome, onyx path publishing, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, Tuesday Knight Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, wyrd miniatures

The best selling historical RPGs of 2021

December 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

What’s certain is that this table is a way to get an exciting look at games newly out this year and perhaps see names new to us.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, Achtung! Cthulhu, Andrews McMeel, beowulf, brancalonia, drivethrurpg, edge, fantasy age, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hearts of wulin, jackals, Legend of the Five Rings, Modiphius Entertainment, osprey games, stats, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Design Mechanism, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, wyrd miniatures

Competition: Beyond the Fire, A Manual of Perilous Creatures from Across the Black Diaspora, Volume 1: Shapeshifters

November 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Beyond the Fire is your collection of pocket guides for including mythical creatures from the Black diaspora in your Flames of Freedom role-playing game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: competitions, flames of freedom, grim & perilous studios

Here’s what was announced at Roll20Con: Mobile app and new games

November 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The headline news from Roll20Con 2021 is the launch of the mobile app.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, Chaosium, coyote & crow, cyberpunk red, fallout, flames of freedom, hunters entertainment, Modiphius Entertainment, power rangers, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, strixhaven, the dark eye, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #109

July 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The latest shipping delays at Wizards of the Coast even as we learn more about Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons and the return of gem dragons to the game, a fantastic charity bundle deal, Fragged Empire and Osprey’s Sigil & Shadow.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Accessible Games, animal adventures, arcknight, astate, avatar legends, bundle of holding, charity, chromatic dungeons, cubicle 7, D101 Games, Diana Jones Award, dms guild, doctor who, Dream Realm Storytellers, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, fasa, Fire Ruby Designs, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, flames of freedom, fragged empire, Free League Publishing, Freyja's Tears, gaxx worx, ghostfire gaming, gildor games, Greg Stolze, Iron Crown Enterprises, jackals, James Wyatt, jp chapleau, just crunch games, Keith Baker, Loke BattleMats, luke gygax, magpie games, mork borg, neverending, onebookshelf, OpenQuest, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Palladium Books, R. Talsorian Games, rod wiebel, rogue trooper, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, savage pathfinder, sigil & shadow, starfinder, Steamforged Games, Symbaroum, tales from the loop, the dee sanction, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, tsr games, uk games expo, Vampire: The Masquerade, Victoriana, wizards of the coast, wonderfiled

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #108

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games are gone, conventions are here, but without masks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, city of mist, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darkraven games, dms guild, Fantasy Grounds, fate of cthulhu, flames of freedom, free league workshop, gen con, grim & perilous studios, Gun Metal Games, handiwork games, infinite black, izegrim creations, kobold press, laidback dungeon master, lone wolf, lumen, micro rpg, neverending, neverland, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, queerz, R. Talsorian Games, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, Son of Oak Game Studio, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, storytellers vault, Swords & Wizardry, trinity continuum, trollish delver games, tsr games, uk games expo, vast grimm, wizards of the coast, wonderfiled

Horror and conspiracy in 18th century America: A review of Flames of Freedom

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Below that surface war, though, there is another, and it is even darker. The supernatural is real, dangerous, and actively out to destroy or corrupt humanity.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, daniel d. fox, flames of freedom, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #70

October 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest stats from Roll20, free RPG downloads, new releases, a host of reviews and a bunch of RPG news all presented at bullet point speed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, Atlas Games, awfully cheerful engine, black void, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, castles & crusades, Chaosium, Coriolis, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Delta Green, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout: wasteland warfare, feng shui, flames of freedom, Free League Publishing, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, Greg Stafford, hammerdog games, Into the Mother Lands, JVC Parry, kobold press, Larian Studios, Modiphius Entertainment, neon city overdrive, ontabletop, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, peril planet, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, roll20con, routinely itemised, soulbound, starfinder, steve jackson, Tekumel, the children of fear, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, tome of beasts, troika, warhammer, wizards of the coast, Wolfgang Baur, World Anvil, Zadmar Games

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