Gaming news: a bundle supporting Meguey Baker’s fight against cancer is available, D&D Direct airs on the 27th, Paizo reverts its community use policy, and R. Talsorian Games releases a starter for Shadow Scar.
Lumpley Games back on Kickstarter: Vincent and Meguey Barker introduce The Wolf King’s Son
Meguey and Vincent Barker are designers with loads of geek street cred, with designs like Apocalypse World, Psi*Run and Under Hollow Hills in their impressive portfolio.
Tolkien unburdened from Tolkien: Back Again from the Broken Land RPG
The world of RPGs owes so much to Tolkien. But it feels sometimes like only the surface of his work shows up in major fantasy rpgs—Elves, Dwarves, magic swords, yes, but what about the terrible cost of facing despair, the small acts of mercy that keep hope alive?
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #133
It’s the end of the week, the month and the year. It is, therefore, time for one last look back at the RPG news from 2021 with Geek Native’s Routinely Itemised: RPGs.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #127
RPG news from the week. Paizo share an update with apologies, Judge Dredd’s RPG will end, and a historic D&D adventure is back in print.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #118
A newly announced D&D event, new directors at GAMA, controversy and a whole tonne of new RPGs.
Layout Level-up! 67 RPGs for $20 to buy designers publishing software
For every two bundles bought; 1 designer gets a license for Affinity Publisher.
Bite Me! The werewolf RPG with emotional teeth
This is a game about the complex relationships that create a Pack. Wolves are usually social animals and Bite Me! looks to layer on the drama that being werewolves, part human, part wolf, will likely bring to that.
