Cypher System

Matt Forbeck and the Bundle of Holding launched a single-tier Shotguns and Sorcery offer. It’s a wisely timed deal as…

Monte Cook Games' latest Kickstarter features a cursed moon which crashes through the planes. A 5th Edition campaign, this includes…

From September 2nd through the 6th, 2021, Dragon Con returned in Atlanta, Georgia. Along with 42,000 fans, I attended the…

RPG news from Geek Native as Routinely Itemised looks back at stories from this blog and others. Reviews? Gotcha. Interviews?…

Monte Cook Games has released a 16-page Claim the Sky preview for the Cypher System. The tabletop RPG is a…

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Sales from links may earn us money The darkness is beginning…

It’s the week after Gen Con, and so, as predicted, there’s no shortage of RPG news and new tabletop releases…

This week: Gen Con is underway, but crowd control causes some controversy. Meanwhile, stories of a toxic culture at Paizo…

It’ll get easier for third party writers to write and sell content for Paizo’s Pathfinder and Starfinder RPGs. At the…

This week: a new RPG from the co-creator of Dragonlance; a new initiative looks to bring the magic of ZineQuest…

The earth shook. To Iphra, the rumbling sounded like a passing heavy transport. She realized she wouldn’t maintain her footing.…

This week there’s yet another RPG to TV announcement, with a show based on the Exalted RPG headed to the…

Explore the Ninth World for less with the Numenera Discovery Bundle currently featured on the Bundle of Holding website. Focused…

Monte Cook Games’ RPG Numenera is set a billion years in the future, and it’s never been in the Bundle…

Free RPG Day will be happening in 2021, albeit in autumn, October 16, rather than summer. You need to check…

When putting together a book, the lead designer or developer gives the text its framework and structure, with the authors…

Etiquette & Protocol (E&P for short) is an occasional feature where I venture into the sometimes thorny OOC arena of…

This week, ICv2’s top-selling games show the success of Cyberpunk and third-party 5e games. Hasbro reveals its Q2 results, showing…

The Devil Made Us Do It is Monte Cook Games’ latest Kickstarter, already an all-in success with over $150,000 pledged,…

Pull off the perfect heist with Stealing Stories for the Devil, an upcoming roleplaying game designed by the co-designer of…

The influence of comics artist Jean Giraud, better known by his pseudonym “Moebius”, stretches as far as the desert horizon.…

Sadly, it’s impossible to omit the ongoing drama around TSR Games (3) this week. I’m sure everyone is wishing we’d…

Monte Cook Games will release eight adventures in sites connected to the datasphere in a supplement for Numenera. The book…

It feels like a spicy week, with plenty of news and a noticeable uptick in Kickstarter activity. Oh, and the…

We’re back after a short break with a big issue. It’s a big week for D&D as Wizards of the…

This week: the rise of LARPing in China; D&D’s big plans for Summer releases; and the conflicting stories about who…

Monte Cook’s Ptolus: City by the Spire is a $150 RPG but the Player’s Guide is free. At least, the…

April 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission Howdy, geeks. Once again, we find ourselves at…

This week: the GAMA expo brings interesting insights into the RPG industry; an ill-thought-out Asian-themed sourcebook is pulled from production;…

Monte Cook Games promised us a new type of RPG product with The Darkest House. The campaign launched last night…

This week: the Old School Revival revival; a beautiful Hellboy-inspired RPG; and a fascinating Kickstarter that blurs the line between…

The tabletop RPG translation of Druid City Game’s competitive board game Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef will be coming…

Well, now, Kickstarter’s Zine Quest was huge, and it ended with piles of stinky brown stuff hitting the whirling blades…

Play and run a horror roleplaying game entirely online with The Darkest House, an upcoming RPG from the publisher responsible…

Travel a billion years into the future where technology is basically magic and everyday is a treacherous and beautiful adventure…

January 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Ads: Links may earn us money Our first full week of…

Monte Cook Games’ Cypher System Edge of the Sun is due out in February, but a free to download preview…

MEDIA RELEASE – for immediate release This month is New Gamemaster Month, and we’ve joined our friends at Monte Cook Games,……

It’s time for another Top 5 list! This time, I’m laying out my Top 5 favorite generic RPGs. Please note:…

2020 was a hard year for so many as we, as a planet, dealt with untold tragedies throughout the world.…

A summary of 2020 RPG stats, a round-up of the news, lots of reviews and product releases all together in…

This week D&D hired a new senior game designer, an army of monsters appeared on Humble Bundle, publishers backed New…

Monte Cook Games is bringing the superhero genre to their Cypher System with a new Kickstarter. Heroes of the Cypher…

And we’re back with all the news that we missed over the past three weeks! Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything disappoints…

Is 2021 the year you become a gamemaster and run tabletop RPGs for friends and family? Publishers like Evil Hat,…

December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Links may earn ad money Here in the North, it is…

The Cypher System Creator Program is one which lets third party creators, people like you and me, create, sell and…

November 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn ad money Hello and welcome to another week of…

It’s time to awaken from your boring fake life and join the world of magic and the weird as we…

This week: Paradox takes back the reins on the World of Darkness; controversy around Matthew Mercer's character on Haunted West;…

November 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentAds: Sales from links may earn us money It’s Friday the 13th!…

There’s a growing range of RPGs for the impressively flexible Cypher System and with the Heroes of the Cypher System…

Heroes of the Cypher System, the newest project from Numenera designer Monte Cook Games, provides players with two books featuring…

October 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💶 Links may earn commission Looking for an RPG news summary? You’re…

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

Has Robert Schwalb’s horror RPG Shadow of the Demon Lord been on your radar? There’s now a chance to plunge…

Acheron “They say whoever controls the flow of history, can write the future. For centuries, The Council has curated the…

September 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Links may earn ad money PAX Online and D&D Celebration 2020…

Monte Cook Games’ latest supplement for the Cypher System is We Are All Mad Here. The setting is based on…

Monte Cook’s Cypher System has had some recent wins, I’d argue, with the likes of Pandemonium Noir picking it, Shotguns…

September 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Links may earn ad money Subscribers of the daily digest email…

Weird Tales Magazine was founded in 1922 and published the early work of H.P. Lovecraft – including Call of Cthulhu…

Shotguns and Sorcery is a series of novels by Matt Forbeck, which I have not read, and then thanks to…

August 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💶 Links may earn ad money Phew, what a busy week; another…

Free RPG Day has come and gone — a strange one in the middle of lockdown, but we still came away…

Tomorrow is July 25th and that means it’s Free RPG Day. I know, that’s not the usual date for Free…

I was looking at my list of blogs I’d sketched out back in December. I don’t normally do that, but…

I recently sent out the call to my mailing list to help me fill in some additional gaps in my…

Art by Larry Elmore At the beginning of last year, I was body-snatched and convinced that doing something for the…

Before any daring cartographer mapped underground dungeons in pursuit of fantastic adventure, Chainmail described a system for subterranean tunnels on…