The Barbaric RPG is a lightweight beer and pretzels tabletop requiring neither booze nor baked snacks. In fact, the idea is that it requires very little to play – just 2d6, some writing material and some ideas.
Reformatting in colour and enhanced: Cepheus Deluxe
And now? Stellagama Publishing has teamed up with Menagerie Press for Cepheus Deluxe to add a professional layout, new full-colour art, edits and proofing for Cepheus.
Three core sci-fi RPGs headline the Cepheus retro-clone bundle
Stellagama Publishing’s Cepheus Engine is probably the leading retro-cline of Traveller. It’s certainly very popular, and it’s in the Bundle of Holding for the next two weeks.
The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2021
The league table below shows the best selling RPG products made available on DriveThruRPG this year and which the designers have tagged sci-fi.
Early best-sellers: 4 days of Black Friday/Cyber Monday at DriveThruRPG & DMs Guild
It’s sale season and DriveThruRPG and sister site DMs Guild have impressive Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers. But, only for 4 or so days.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #117
The previews and interviews for D&D’s The Wild Beyond the Witchlight have started to appear and hint at a slight u-turn by WotC. This and other RPG news in the latest Routinely Itemised
Stellagama Publishing releases OSR sci-fi Cepheus Deluxe
Cepheus Deluxe puts you in the shoes of an adventurer visiting distant stars and encountering the unknown.
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.
Barbaric! mutates the sci-fi of the Cepheus Engine into brutal sword & sorcery
The 57-page lightweight RPG uses an evolution of the Cepheus Engine, but the ruleset has become quite distant now, especially with character generation, as the engine is crafted to suit fast play – ideal for conventions, one-off games, and mini-campaigns.
