Sandy Petersen is the famous game designer responsible for Call of Cthulhu. In the Cthulhu Mythos Sagas, he and his team take some of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror concepts and bring them to meet D&D 5e fantasy.
Call of Cthulhu: Terror Paths is a cooperative board game of Lovecraftian horror
The threat in Terror Paths is Menace with a capital M. At the start of any scenario, players won’t even know what they are up against.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #111
Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s mixed news with $30,000 injected into the hobby but sadness as Brian Fitzpatrick passes away.
TSR Games (3) now distances itself from TSR Games (1)
At this point, TSR Games (3) was quick to say that they are not, in any way, the old TSR and are entirely new.
Mech-dino horrors and Cthulhu-spawn (mostly): A review of Nightmares 1
Nightmares 1 is a collection of monsters for 5e by Cthulhu-famous Petersen Games. It gets a thumb up from this reviewer.
Pencil strokes of madness: The Anatomical Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors
The artist responsible for all the illustrations in the guide is Luis Merlo. The Ecuadorian only works with physical media and the Lovecraftian entities found within the textbook have been drawn by hand. Monsters have been forged with a pencil or pen, but not with a stylus and not with a computer.
Steam hosts a digital tabletop games festival
The goal of the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest is to explore those game which can straddle both online and offline.
Your D&D game ends with Planet Apocalypse
There’s a new Planet Apocalypse 5e-powered RPG and expanded board game in the same Kickstarter. It’s a way to flood your fantasy world with demons. You know; to stop things feeling samey.
Dark Worlds: The Ritual D&D adventure review
A review of Dark Worlds: The Ritual. This set of adventures brings the cosmic horror of the Cthulhu mythos to fantasy heroes.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #53
The latest news from D&D live, Rime of the Frostmaiden, free downloads and big money dice campaigns on Kickstarter.
