It has been another busy week of RPG news. Are you keeping up with the free to download material, new releases and headlines?
Roll20 reports 2020 Q2 boom in RPGs; D&D reigns supreme
D&D 5E is the unchallenged champion with 53% of all campaigns in Roll20 using the system and 58% of all players using it.
The ENnies 2020 winners have been announced, and a doom metal art RPG won Best Product of the Year
Hosts Misha Bushyager, Kenneth Hite, Robin D. Laws, Mike Pondsmith and Chris Spivey quickly got to grips with the format, although it was a steep learning curve.
2020 ENnies nominations announced
The 2020 ENnie Judges Spotlight winners and 2020’s nominees have been announced.
BLM: Dissident Whispers from Mothership’s Tuesday Knight Games
There are 148-pages in total, and it took a team of 90 people to make it happen—authors, editors, designers and illustrators.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #44
New releases, free games and the impact of COVID-19. What does this mean? It means RPG news at bullet point speed.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #34
RPG news summary on the week the internet debated whether Love Magic was creepy or not, a heavy metal band released a D&D adventure, and there was one last chance to buy Adventures in Middle-earth.
MÖRK BORG RPG will be released by Free League Publishing
MÖRK BORG is a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and decaying world.
A Doom Metal Album of a game: MÖRK BORG
Johan Nohr and Belle Nilsson describe the MÖRK BORG as OSR but also that they care little about tradition or nostalgia.