Routinely Itemised: RPGs #117
That was the week that was. Now it’s time for an RPG news summary, and a bullet-point speed headline look…
That was the week that was. Now it’s time for an RPG news summary, and a bullet-point speed headline look…
Tracy and Laura Hickman, best known for Dragonlance and Ravenloft in the old TSR days, have announced a new 5th Edition setting. A new…
Alex Rinehart uses the fashionable indie Lumen to power a tabletop RPG in which characters are genetically engineered rats addicted…
Christmas tree dice really are a thing. There’s a successful campaign on Kickstarter with a few days left to run.…
Skyraiders of Abarax is the first new adventure world from Tracy and Laura Hickman since Dragonlance. The 5e setting as…
Prolific authors and game designers Tracy and Laura Hickman have announced they are working on Skyraiders of Abarax, a new…
Tony Vasinda of Plus One Exp has a new RPG crowdfunding, this one on GameFound. Entitled Down We Go, this…
Play as a stuffed teddy bear or a mouse warrior in Valda’s Spire of Secrets, a new supplement designed for…
Prevent an ecological oceanic disaster in a “reverse tower defense” board game with an environmental message called The Spill. In…
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Delta Greet 25th Anniversary Edition Welcome to America at the end…
Magpie Games' Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game core book wrapped up its Kickstarter run on September 1, raising at total…
ZineQuest is a season, a time, on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, during which RPG creators are encouraged to launch small…
A designer collective has announced plans to host SideQuest 2021, an event similar to February’s Zinequest, in November of this…
Hardly anyone was surprised when Avatar Legends, the tabletop RPG adaptation of American animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and…
Mark Rein•Hagen created the World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade; now, for the first time, he’s bringing his world-building…
Tabletop game projects funded and money raised were both up 22% on Kickstarter in the first half of 2021, behind…
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Dying in a decrepit tomb or some twisted mage’s bastion is one of the most time-honoured traditions of the tabletop…
That’s right folks, strap in your grav-harnesses, and make sure you’ve got plenty of ammo. A new one-shot is here…
This week there’s yet another RPG to TV announcement, with a show based on the Exalted RPG headed to the…
Stone Blade Entertainment announced the Kickstarter launch of SolForge Fusion, a new hybrid deck game, which is scheduled to deliver…
Good Brother Studios will launch a Kickstarter campaign for a 5e superhero RPG called Legends of the MetaVerse on September…
Clawhammer Games are asking for $16,000 from the Kickstarter community to fund a gilded age tabletop RPG about mortality, growth…
Beasts, wagons, merchant companies and more await you in a new campaign setting that looks to give 5th Edition a…
Lolies and Meehan are back in the pod booth as they join Matt to talk about what we’ve been playing,…
Survive a myriad of horrors haunting the Louisiana swamps in Gravemire, an upcoming tabletop roleplaying game set in the Bayou.…
The creator of the Forgotten Realms joins Dragori Games to Kickstart the world of Tanares, a new Campaign Setting with…
Make anthropomorphic heroes with tails, ears and hooves in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a new supplementary sourcebook for…
Based on non-western and ancient mythologies, Ankur is an indie tabletop RPG that uses a d12 system. It’s been on…
The Delver’s Guide to Beast World is a Kickstarter success in a week that’s seen no shortage of heavy-hitting campaigns.…
Hello again, and welcome to Outside the Box. This week we have news from Creature Caster, Para Bellum Wargames, Atomic…
September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission It’s a Friday and the start of the…
It’s a busy Kickstarter week and with several significant campaigns launching. When it comes to cash goals, the largest ask…
Panayiotis Lines, the designer of Shadow of Mogg, an appropriately brutal look at Brexit in the guise of a tabletop…
Dive into a science fiction world filled with potential in Stars Without Number, a roleplaying game that’s seeing its first…
I have a weakness for gummies. I love their tasty chew… but they’ve never formed a raid party and attacked…
CMON announced that they will partner with Monsoon Digital to create a new series digital collectibles and promos using non-fungible…
Mage Hand Press has a vast, 380-page, 10 new base classes, and incredible 150+ subclass touting 5e book up on…
Tanares is a new tabletop RPG setting compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 5E that raised seven figures on its first…
Free League Publishing will produce a new edition of the weird-fantasy Into the Odd from Chris McDowall. Mork Borg’s Johan…
Once known as Cool Minis or Not, CMON is expanding further and into the controversial waters of Non-Fungible Tokens. NFTs…
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Blurgh A party game of bad language, crazy drawings,…
Avatar Legends, the RPG of elemental bending and cabbages has broken many Kickstarter records, surpassing $8 million heading into the…
Billed as the Herbalism Book You Didn’t Know You Needed, the Herbalist’s Primer has now earned more than $333,333 in…
Tabletop games have already raised $146 million on Kickstarter in 2021, with more than two dozen projects individually breaking the…
This week, John Harper’s hit RPG, Blades in the Dark, will get a TV adaptation; Virtual Tabletop platform, Role, raises…
Our Haunt, an upcoming roleplaying game about being a household of ghosts, is the next RPG from the publishing company…
Warp Films are working on a Blades in the Dark TV show, as confirmed by John Harper in a Tweet.…
The creative duo behind popular mecha tabletop RPG Lancer has suspended development on three books originally crowdfunded through its Kickstarter…
Monsters and Dragons and Pirates, Oh My! Tuesday, August 31, 2021 After over a year and a half of…
The latest Bundle of Holding offers both sourcebooks for the detective-meets-urban myth RPG City of Mist, plus a collection of…
The other week I posted an article about one of the current “conversations” around 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons, specifically…
Son of Oak’s City of Mist is a superhero detective noir RPG based on the Apocalypse Engine with custom tags…
Since bookmarking the 5e campaign setting Red Dawn: Into the Dawnlands as a Kickstarter to write up, I see it’s…
There Once Were Dragons is an old school vibe of a tabletop RPG from One Dwarf Army. It’s been out…
A new 5th Edition sourcebook from longtime 3rd-party publisher Kobold Press, Tome of Heroes, will add more than 50 new…
Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent does three things, two of which might be seen as a shakeup. The third…
“We all have a Niobe inside ourselves, and it’s time to let her roar.” That’s an excerpt from the foreword…
Ahoi-hoi and welcome back to Outside the Box! This week with news from North Star Military Figures, Mierce Miniatures, Creature…
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We will soon be removing the playtest documents from this website. If you want to keep them for any reason,…
Below is a list of just some of the many innovations and new features to be found in Level Up:…
Nightfall Games are looking to bolster their stable of SLA Industries books with two more through Kickstarter. The campaign has…
Flex both green thumbs during the next tabletop session with the Herbalist’s Primer, a system-agnostic supplement describing 100 different plants…
Steamforged Games has shared details for the upcoming retail launch of Resident Evil 3: The Board Game, based on the…
In the first part of this two-part series, I reviewed the buildup to the launch of Avatar Legends, the tabletop…
Live through a period of rising tensions just before the US government sent federal troops to quash a workers’ uprising…
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Hizuru This is the true neverending story. The looping…
The summer heat is causing all sorts of monsters to stir from hiding, including the 100+ new creatures in the…
Survive a post-apocalyptic wasteland in the aftermath of the fall of a high magic kingdom in the Red Dawn: Into…
Fling dice at targets to score successful actions in One More Quest, an RPG spin-off from the dexterity board game…
Level Up Narrators will find themselves referring to this table frequently. Along with new monster math and CR values, we…
Welcome to the latest news! This week, another successful Kickstarter, adventures and trinkets, and more spells then you can shake…
Do you have a dice that’s shaped like a Christmas tree? Or a miniature Christmas tree that spins like a…
Negocios Infernales (Infernal Negotiations), a diceless, GM-less, collaborative, “two-shot” role-playing game from the husband-wife team, Carlos Hernandez (The Assimilated Cuban’s…
A tabletop roleplaying game based on the classic Japanese animated series and manga Lupin the 3rd is set to be…
Every so often a project hits this sublime target of subject matter and form that sends a ripple of excitement…
Magnetic Press Play, a tabletop game company whose genesis we covered not too long ago, has gotten their first tabletop…
Hello and welcome back to Outside the Box! This week with news from Para Bellum Wargames, Artel W Miniatures, Wargames…
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Avatar Legends will bring the world of bending to your tabletop, and you can jump in right now with quickstart…
It’s the physical side of tabletop gaming, and it looks gorgeous. Wyrmwood has wooden titles to roll dice, count health,…
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, the computer RPG developed by Owlcat Games, comes out on September 2, and we couldn’t…
I still think of Dream Realm Storytellers as the young publishers behind Svilland. In fairness, though, they’ve probably spent more…
Avatar Legends, the tabletop roleplaying game based on Nickelodeon Animation Studios’ Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra…
The grass so often looks greener, and sometimes all that’s needed is a change. Those are two truisms that help…
Play as the last survivors of the final city in the world in Strange Hills, an upcoming roleplaying game inspired…
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Sun & Moon Resin Minis Welcome, everyone to the…
Doomtown, a card game series set within the same world as the Deadlands RPG, has a new edition. Called Doomtown:…
When putting together a book, the lead designer or developer gives the text its framework and structure, with the authors…
This week, after the death of RuneQuest co-creator, Steve Perrin, his colleagues & collaborators remember his impact on the industry.…
We’ve had a resounding success with our current Kickstarter, plus plenty of vicious flowers and monstrous combinations in our new…
Stop the aliens from invading, push the sewer trolls back into the slimy depths and find the vampire coven hiding…
Find a path back from a distinct planet in The Long Way Home: Second Edition a tabletop roleplaying game spin-off…
Here we go again, this week with news from Corvus Belli, Knight Models, Para Bellum Wargames, Raging Heroes, Eureka Miniatures…
Losing Games and Isaac Williams have taken to Kickstarter to fund a box set and brand new adventure collection for…
The Cthulhu Mythos RPG of dark conspiracy and urban horror Delta Green has an impressive 25th anniversary Kickstarter on the…
Critical Role’s Legend of Vox Machina speeds towards its release, and we all get to once more take a look…
Every month, I buy or am presented with a stack of RPG products. The purchases are for play, the freebies…