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.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #119
Games company expelled from Origins, another up for sale at an eyewatering price, and so many tempting new games. A busy week of RPG news!
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #118
A newly announced D&D event, new directors at GAMA, controversy and a whole tonne of new RPGs.
Privateer’s Iron Kingdoms comes to 5e
Privateer Press’ award-winning Iron Kingdoms setting is coming to 5e in the form of Iron Kingdoms: Requiem. First, though, it must pass through Kickstarter.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #56
The heated conversations in the RPG community continue as the hobby space looks at ways to encourage diversity and deal with 40 years of history that don’t always get everything right.
20 years and 16 ENnies later: The Iron Kingdoms RPG returns for 5e
Iron Kingdoms launched in 2001 and used D&D 3 to fuel a steampunk setting populated with Warjacks and Gun Mages.
The 5 best selling RPGs for Spring 2015
Just last year D&D was in 4th place on IcV2’s chart. ICv2’s chart for the top 5 roleplaying games for the spring of 2015 is now out. Given the launch of D&D 5e it might be no surprise to see the iconic title back at the top. Wizards of the Coast will be pleased. Dungeons […]
Top selling RPGs this winter: D&D slips even lower
Industry watchers ICv2 have released their research on which RPGs sold best in the Winter of 2013. This data is based on interviews with retailers, distributors and manufacturers. It’ll be US-centric too. The result? These charts aren’t bulletproof but still a pretty good indicator. You can see the chart for Summer 2013 here which had […]
Top RPGs this summer: Pathfinder top, D&D third and Fate Core new in fifth
ICv2 have released their 2013 summer research into the best-selling RPGs. This list is put together from interviews with retailers, distributors and manufactures. In other words they’ve not examined the bags of gamers leaving stores and some key players like large online book stores and second hand markets may not be included but this research […]
The best selling RPGs of the winter; Pathfinder rules and D&D slips to third (2012)
ICV2 has released their figures for hobby game sales in the US for the winter of 2012. It’s good news for the year wrap-up with hobby store growth being at 15%, that follows from 20% the year before and in wonderful contrast to the 5% decline we saw in 2008. In fact, 2012 is the […]
