This week’s TTRPG news roundup includes details on Abaddon: The Angel of the Void from Robert Schwalb, a free trial for Sigil VTT, the sale of Fat Goblin Games and subsequent formation of Kids in the Attic, a Humble Bundle offering the “Lost Works of Gygax,” and the release of the free second edition of the SCP RPG.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #96
Wizards of the Coast are taking back control of D&D in some countries after settling a legal row. Luke Crane’s The Burning Wheel is Roll20’s quickest growing system, and the inhospitable setting round table is coming. It’s an RPG news summary from Geek Native.
The quickest growing RPG in Roll20 last quarter wasn’t D&D; it was The Burning Wheel
The Orr Group’s Roll20 market report puts Luke Crane the headlines again as The Burning Wheel grows faster than Apocalypse World, faster than Cyberpunk and faster than Free League’s Year Zero Engine with some dramatic shifts.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #94
In this week’s RPG news round-up, we have pre-orders on a giant dragon “mini”, the Fallout 2d20 RPG, a Scion RPG TV series and Free League Publishing converting Symbaroum to D&D’s 5e.
Luke Crane apologises and leaves Kickstarter after The Perfect RPG
After a discussion about what is best for Kickstarter and our team, we came to the mutual decision with Luke Crane for him to leave Kickstarter.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #90
Routinely Itemised: RPGs is a regular RPG news summary which, this week, looks at D&D Beyond’s founder joining a new gaming start-up, virtual virtual tabletops, an utter mess over at Kickstarter and a solved mess with The Palace of the Vampire Queen.
Kickstarter’s Head of Community Luke Crane cancels their own RPG zine after controversy backlash
Sometime after launch, at the bottom of an oddly-reversed alphabetical list of contributors, it was noticed and discussed that Adam Koebel’s name was included.
Win an annual subscription to the RPG adventures of The Aperture Guide
Last week on Geek Native we introduced Curious Monk’s The APERTURE Guide. Issue 1 launched this month and delivered four different adventures and a new RPG system that makes clever use of an actual aperture mechanic. It was not just the aperture mechanic that caught my attention, it was that there was an annual subscription […]
Mouse Guard RPG second edition announced
BOOM! Studios and Archaia Entertainment have announced a new edition of the Mouse Guard RPG. The second edition is due out in April and will include both a hardcover rulebook and a box set edition. The Origins Award-winning game is based on the all ages anthropomorphic comic series drawn by David Petersen. The RPG is […]
The Diana Jones 2011 shortlist announced
The Diana Jones Award committee has announced their shortlist for the 2011 award. The original list had 22 nominees and the shortlist contains just five. The winner will be announced at Wednesday the 3rd of August at an event that the Diana Jones Award group describe has the “unnoficial start” of Gen Con Indy. The […]
