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Stay alive: Starship Scavengers solo sci-fi takes on Station Thirty One

December 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This expansion includes the time limit on the game and emphasises replayabilty. It also comes with its adventure deck of cards (if you want) printed on tarot-sized 400gsm card stock.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, solo rpgs, the grinning frog

RPG Publisher Spotlight: The Grinning Frog

July 18, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I know The Grinning Frog from The Oracle magazine, DriveThruRPG lists the company’s hottest seller as 10 Tips for Roleplaying Villains, and we read about plenty of other games in this interview.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: spotlight, the grinning frog, the oracle

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #136

January 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week as Wizards of the Coast make an important D&D hire, Green Ronin plot Cthulhu content done right, and one of the most significant savings you’re likely to see on DTRPG goes live.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, avatar legends, bloat games, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, critical role, cubicle 7, dark places & demogorgons, darrington press, flames of freedom, gen con, goblin slayer, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, laidback dungeon master, Legendary Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, Nightfall Games, Outland Entertainment, raging swan press, routinely itemised, star frontiers, star trek adventures, stokerverse, the grinning frog, todd kenreck, wanderhome, william murakami-brundage, wizards of the coast, yen press

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #125

November 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Fortunately, there’s been plenty of RPG news to keep brains distracted here in the North from the unrelenting encroachment of winter of darkness.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, adam lee, alien rpg, banana chan, battlelords of the 23rd century, Call of Cthulhu, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, ghost hunters, goodman games, Ill Gotten Games, Jim Butler, kickstarter, Legendary Games, leyline press, lord of the rings, modern age, Mongoose Publishing, neverending, Newt Newport, Numenera, Paizo Publishing, planebreaker, Polyhedra Games, Porcupine Publishing, roll20, routinely itemised, salvage union, savage worlds, scp, sidequest, the grinning frog, the merciless merchants, The One Ring, traveller, Troll Lord Games, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #114

August 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news in the week that Chaosium’s Steve Perrin passed away and Geek Native moved HQ.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, alien rpg, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, Asmodee, avatar legends, blackmoor, bundle of holding, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, cmon, critical role, cubicle 7, darkraven games, diego pisa artworks, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, elemental, Elephant & Macaw Banner, ENnies, fallout, Fantasy Grounds, Fat Goblin Games, Free League Publishing, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, GURPS, Jim Pinto, mindjammer, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, postworldgames, Robert J. Schwalb, routinely itemised, savage pathfinder, savage worlds, silver vine publishing, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, the grinning frog, Tracy Hickman, TSR, wizkids, wrath & glory, Zadmar Games, zombicide

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #87

February 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is RPG news summary round-up complete with reviews, tips and a flood of Zine Quest Kickstarter projects.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Battlefield Press, Chaosium, cubicle 7, everway, gale force nine, jonathan tweet, JVC Parry, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, Nightfall Games, obsidian portal, onyx path publishing, Palace of the Vampire Queen, Precis Intermedia, routinely itemised, soulbound, star trek adventures, stiff whiskers press, terminator, the grinning frog, warhammer, weird frontiers, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #82

January 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New RPG releases, news from creators and publishers along with reviews, interviews and a host of new Kickstarter activity. It’s Geek Native’s weekly round-up in Routinely Itemised!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, bundle of holding, Chaosium, cthulhu dark, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, Fainting Goat Games, goodman games, Graham Walmsley, ICONS, level up, lords of the middle sea, Monte Cook Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Porcupine Publishing, righteous blood ruthless blades, routinely itemised, Sanguine Productions, shadowrun: collapsing now, Steve Kenson, the grinning frog, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #75

November 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the RPG news this week we’ve a review roundup of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, a legal fight between Wizards of the Coast and a partner, Kickstarter projects to look at a website from Google that makes monsters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Absolute Tabletop, alice is missing, astral tabletop, awfully cheerful engine, Battlefield Press, blue rose, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, gale force nine, gallant knight games, grant howitt, Indie Press Revolution, itch.io, Keith Baker, liminal, magpie games, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mythic table, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Palladium Books, Paradox Interactive, parts per million, Porcupine Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, Steve Jackson Games, Symbaroum, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, the children of fear, the fantasy trip, the grinning frog, the oracle, the wildsea, those dark places, traveller, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, world of darkness

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #71

October 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news summary, complete with a roundup of new releases, freebies, interviews and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, adventure system, Arion Games, astate, beadle & grimm, Bruce Cordell, bundle of holding, Chaosium, Corpus Malicious, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dnd beyond, Dragonlance, Dream Realm Storytellers, Elder Scrolls, en publishing, fat dragon games, Free League Publishing, gama, halloween, handiwork games, idyll creations, Inkwell Ideas, king arthur pendragon, kobold press, Loke BattleMats, lynne hardy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rhianna pratchett, Rivers of London, roll20con, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadow of the Demon Lord, soulbound, stargrave, terminator, the grinning frog, the wildsea, vaesen, warhammer, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #66

September 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a busy week of RPG news, and a quick scan will stop you missing out on the free D&D downloads from Wizards of the Coast and others, or any of the new releases and headlines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: animal adventures, Avalon Hill, black void, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, cubicle 7, cypher system, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, exalted, fallout, Free League Publishing, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, HeroQuest, icewind dale, Into the Mother Lands, izegrim creations, James Introcaso, Jim Zub, judges guild, kobold press, lords of the middle sea, magpie games, manticore games, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, rime of the frostmaiden, roll20, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, RPG Superstar, savage worlds, soulbound, stargate, Steamforged Games, Symbaroum, the grinning frog, trollish delver games, wrath & glory, Wyvern Gaming

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