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Draconis convinces gamers that D&D can be pacifist

November 3, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are several game modes in Draconis, and one is all about pacifism without even dangerous spells.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarter, studio agate

Studio Agate vs OGL: Fateforge becomes a Pay What You Want protest

January 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The ENnie-winning fantasy that took years to make is a love letter to Sword & Sorcery and (once) Dungeons & Dragons. The game is set in the world of Eana, which while familiar, is also exotic with new twists and turns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, pay what you want, studio agate

Modern and mature: Vermin 2047 is a post-apocalyptic warning

June 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are only a few days left to back the short run, but the successor Gamefound crowdfunding project for Studio Agate’s Vermin 2047.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, gamefound, kickstarters, studio agate

Revealed: The three-page table of contents from Creatures: Netherworld – Monster Compendium & Toolbox for 5E

May 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Creatures: Netherworld is a 400-page monster compendium and toolbox for your next campaigns, featuring more than 180 illustrated creatures for all levels, including 150 entirely original ones and 30 great classics with a new spin.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, previews, studio agate

Studio Agate has a secret project: France’s highest crowdfunded and most award-winning RPGs release nearly a dozen new books

April 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Failure in 2021 looked likely, in what the Studio has called “dark” and “changing times”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fateforge, Shadows of Esteren, studio agate

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #96

April 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0one Games, alan bahr, amazing heroes, astral tabletop, Auroborus: coils of the serpent, blue planet, Call of Cthulhu, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, cubicle 7, deadlands, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout, foundry, humblewood, Jeff Grubb, level up, Luke Crane, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mystara, Numenera, one more multiverse, osprey games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, ravenloft: mist hunters, roll20, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, soulbound, studio agate, those dark places, Ulisses Spiele, warchief gaming, warlock, wizards of the coast

Studio Agate confirm an English version of Vermin 2047

April 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is written in the first person, with survivors explaining the world, and so players reading the book never have complete certainty that what they’ve just read is absolutely and entirely true.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, studio agate

Encyclopedia: Lore Book & Toolbox – a gorgeous way to bring your 5e setting to life

March 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Studio Agate has earned itself a reputation for effective Kickstarters and gorgeous products.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, studio agate

Story Arc System: Shadows of Esteren becomes a rules engine for the Posthuman Saga RPG

February 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Learn the ways of the Wilds, developing your character into a tougher and wilier explorer…unless the mutations turn you into a bumbling knot of limbs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Shadows of Esteren, studio agate

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #68

October 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s weekly RPG news round-up with freebies, competitions, headlines, reviews and new releases all packed into some bullet points.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, alien rpg, bundle of holding, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cypher system, Dungeons & Dragons, fading embers, flames of freedom, idyll creations, Into the Mother Lands, Kate Welch, kobold press, Modiphius Entertainment, Necromancer Games, Paizo Publishing, power rangers, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, runequest, soulbound, star trek adventures, studio agate, the wagadu chronicles, through the breach, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures, Zadmar Games

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