Howdy, it’s the first Friday after UK Games Expo, and it’s back to writing up the RPG news summary.

Let’s see what happened since the Expo and dig into those summaries;

• The Elden Ring RPG isn’t cancelled.
• The Witcher RPG isn’t cancelled.
• OneBookShelf published a Big Bad Con supporting mega bundle.
• Hasbro’s boss bets on middle-aged gamers.
• UK Games Expo apologises for an error which banned queer-themed RPGs.
• GAMA Expo moves to Louisville despite it being Kentucky.
• Battlefield Press is an admirable battle to survive.

Did you go to the UK Games Expo, readying for Big Ban Con or Gen Con? Let us know in the comments or pop over to the Discord to coordinate meet-ups with other gamers.

Conventions tend to make for busy news cycles, but what you might miss as a blogger is weird. I’m late and slow on the news that UK Games Expo is apologising for not allowing queer-themed RPGs. While I was there, which is a day longer than most, I saw plenty of (probably) queer gamers. Hand on heart, it felt like a safe space.

I can only imagine that an American con feels like, or a French one, or say, a South African one.

Right, let’s see what the news looks like right now.

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RPG news from Geek Native

• KiwiRPG Week returns on June 10th.
• In Geek Native’s UK Games Expo coverage, there’s;
  • A first look inside Vynestra and free previews.
  • Free Breaking Infinity RPG.
  • RPG publisher Battlefield Press Internation asks for patience as it’s in n battle for survival.
  • UKGE apologises after refusing queer-themed RPGs.
• The Royal Mail does Warhammer stamps.
• Brabblemark Press will release I Am Furious (Pink).
• WrightWerx publishes the free-to-download Mecha Vs Kaiju 202x 5e quickstart.
• We list the RPGs and other categories in the 2023 Origins Awards.
• RPG and board game publisher Catalyst Games Labs insists BattleTech is for everyone.

Spotlight: Lone Colossus Games

RPG news from around the web

• Dicebreaker’s Matt Jarvis notes Elden Ring tabletop RPG gets a release date, but….
• R. Talsorian Games confirms they’re still doing more content for The Witcher RPG.
• Monte Cook Games readies for pre-orders and looks inside Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game.
• GAMA notes Kentucky’s human and civil rights record as it confirms GAMA EXPO will move to Louisville, KY.
• We’re getting old and Hasbro knows it, Fortune writes up The struggling toymaker behind Dungeons & Dragons and Play-Doh is banking on middle-aged shoppers as the ‘heart and soul’ of its business.
• Chase Carter at Dicebreaker reports Dungeons & Dragons lead designer says 2024 rulebooks will “prepare the game for its next decade” .
• ICv2 lands an exclusive with Paizo Partners with Fanroll Dice for ‘Pathfinder RPG’ dice and accessories.
• Alex Speidel, one of Paizo’s bi-staffers and organised play coordinator, writes up Paizo Pride 2023.
• ICv2 confirms Catalyst’s Shadowrun Body Shop.
• Chaosium confirms they’re participating in Gen Con Online and asks for GMs.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Origins Award-nominated review site The Rat Hole looks at Freespacer.
• The Alexandrian reviews the Waterdeep Rescuing Lulu From Elturel.
• Jared Rascher, quick off the mark again, shares first impressions of Arcadia Issue 28.
• At RPG.net, Paul Mackintosh writes up thoughts on Delta Green’s From the Dust / Presence.
• Over at the Grognardia blog, there’s a Retrospective on Cyborg Commando.
• MJR RPG reviews the Call of Cthulhu Mr. Corbitt.
• Reviews from R’lyeh looks into Roll & Play.
• Play On The Table talks board games to RPG author and designer Steve Jackson.
• Charles Dunwoody talks OSR’s Kobayashi.
• Geek Girl Authority talks to Adam R. Crymble.

RPG new releases

• Renegade has been busy with their Essence20 RPG projects and has released;
  • Power Rangers RPG.
  • Transformers RPG.
• Free League Publishing has released Coriolis: Wake of the Icons.
• Spilled Ale Studios hits publish on Wasteland Woes: Fifth Edition Foes and Threats For Post-Apocalyptic Worlds.
• Cosmic Sorcery Society asks that you Pay What You Want for Blood Reign: A Grimdark Sword Dream RPG.
• In print and from Streamforged Games, there’s the Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game – The Tome of Strange Beings.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $141.34 (85%) on OneBookShelf’s bundle to raise money for Big Bad Con.
• Save $55 (65%) on Orbital Intelligence’s Dungeon Grand Prix print bundle.
• Save $36 (32%) for Troll Lord Games’ Castle Keeper’s Starter Bundle.
• Save $23.98 (40%) in the DMsGuild’s Indestructo bundle.
• Save $4.40 (26%) with Agenca Especial and the Mediterranean Theater bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• The Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games refreshed their Gamers in Need resources.
• At ScreenRant, Alex Keenan opines Is Critical Role’s Success Good For D&D? Why There’s No Clear Answer.
• D&D Beyond’s Alyssa Visscher notes 9 Queer Creators to Follow This Pride Month.
• Did you know the jury is out on whether the D&D movie did well enough in cinema for a sequel? If you hope it does well, good news, it’s been a streaming hit.
• Yet, We Got This Covered notes Ryan Reynolds inadvertently casts doubt on a ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ sequel.
• At CPR News, May Ortega writes up To make a living off Dungeons & Dragons, Ginny Di knows how to battle some trolls — in-game and online.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• The Complete McCaigue Creature Compendium Volume 2 – 5E from Katelyn McCaigue submits “Original Monsters, Items, and Playable Races for your D&D 5e Games! Volume 2 in our Creature Compendium Series!”
• Mangled Morbid Miscreations: A Mörk Borg Supplement from Weird Roll crowdfunds “Grotesque beings, treacherous artifacts, enigmatic classes, incantations, oracles and companions — a dark compendium.”
• D100 Rumours for Lovecraftian TTRPG’s from Samuel Steele kickstarts “100 pieces of gossip and rumour to add interest and intrigue to any Lovecraftian tabletop RPG. Just roll a dice and see what you hear..”
• CircuitDice: Rolling for a Sustainable Realm from Casper Hon nominates “DnD dice made of 100% recycled scrap electronics.”
• Overlooked Creatures of the Backwoods 5E Bestiary from Nat 1 Gaming raises funds for “A book of 10+ creatures overlooked by adventurers as they trudge through the forests all with rolling a natural 1 special rule in PDF.”
• Gods of the Eastern Sky from Dark Eagle Games introduces “An original pantheon of gods for your 5e campaign. It’s a DM world-building resource.”
• Pact of the Mouse vs. the Public Domain from Chamomile Has A Project offers “Two 5e subclasses and associated lore for the battle over omnitellectual property. A 1-week micro-campaign.”
• NPC Nation, Undead part 1, (D&D 5e Supplement) from Black Cube Games introduces “A variety of one-of-a-kind NPC collections (Vampires, Zombies, Skeletons) compatible with DnD 5e. searchable with the provided tags.”
• The Fallen Lineage from Last Sword Miniatures pitches “A Dark Elves Campaign”
• $1 D&D 5e Adventure: Tournament of Wonders from Dumb Cane Games raises funds for “A 2-3 session adventure for 3 to 4 characters of level 3 to 5. Game master friendly format.”
• DND COINS OF MANY THINGS from strange arcade offers “A NEW TWIST ON THE DECK OF MANY THINGS. (dnd/fantasy RPG)”
• Tomb of Zines, a Storage Box for your Fantasy RPG Zines from Philip Reed offers “Pack this box with your zines, brochures, loose cards, flyers, and other assorted fantasy roleplaying game materials!”
• Nasty Brutish and Long from Michael Elliott is working on “A simple RPG about lives complicated by revolution.”
• Rescue Rainbow City for Pf2e & 5e – LGBT+ adventure from Awfully Queer Heroes pitches “The Queer capital city of all realms has been taken over by an evil entity. Show your Pride and adventure to restore the Gayness”
• Boro Dice: Original Dream Collection from Heather and Mario pitches “Seven piece sets of extremely sharp edged resin dice for tabletop RPGs.”
• One Dollar Adventures – Arctic Expedition: Part I from Cave Gaming nominates “An expedition into the nearly unexplored tundra. What could possibly go wrong?”
• Celebrations and Dragons from The Oracle pitches “Two periodicals full of rich, detailed fantasy RPG content suitable for all game systems, 100pgs content”
• Dungeon Domains: The Weeping Caves from Bart Wynants crowdfunds “A system-agnostic fantasy RPG dungeon with endless opportunities for expansion”
• ASSIGNMENT: DANGER! from Hounds & Jackals – Games & Magic proposes “Espionage Thriller RPG for EZD6”
• Godspeeders TRPG 5E – Episode 1: Farewell and Godspeed from Alvaro Whatsabi suggests “New roleplay game based on the 5e of DnD, with an anime-inspired aesthetic and set in a world of space fantasy. Queer friendly”
• 20 Bounties & Most Wanted from SideQuest20 submits “Twenty one-shot bounties and most wanted sidequests, complete with printable paper minis and tokens”
• Mad Alchemist: 3 Dungeons for 3 bucks for 5e from Fleet Save Games introduces “Chase the Mad Alchemist’s fabrications in three increasingly crazy dungeons for Dungeons and Dragons 5e!”
• ZOTH-LACED WORM TRAILS (A Cha’alt Zine) from Roger C. Jones introduces “System-agnostic OSR RPG content for use with Cha’alt, Alpha Blue, Encounter Critical and other old school, science fantasy RPGs.”
• Roleplay Relay from Nerdy Nightly is working on “Nerdy Nightly Presents A Week Long Table Top Marathon”
• Delver 9: Old School RPG Resources for GMs and Players from James Floyd Kelly submits “Delver is a magazine for Referees of OSR fantasy roleplaying games.”
• Meridian Games OTHERTIME #1 – The Cleanie Genie – For DCCRPG from Philip Padovani pitches “READY TO GET SUDSY? This is a wacky and silly Level 1 module for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game”
• The Mystery Business from Greg Leatherman offers “A game about meddling folks solving mysteries and unmasking villains just like your favorites did every Saturday morning.”
• Knightmare miniatures : Roghlod mercenary ogres from Diego Serrate Pinilla suggests “Oldhammer – 28 mm compatible greatly detailed ogre models!”
• ModuBases: Universal Basing System from Warscape introduces “3D printable Modular Miniature Bases. Use any mini in any game with these snap-fit bases to change base size and shape between games.”
• 5E OLD SCHOOL – House Rules for 5E D&D – $1 from John & Nicole Clark crowdfunds “A curated set of house-rules from a pro-DM to add to your 5E D&D campaigns to make them feel more gritty, immersive and old-school.”
• Omni Dice: World’s First 12-in-1 D6 Dice in Your Pocket from Unique Dice pitches “A Revolutionary 12-in-1 function dice just in a single D6 cube. For your games and your daily life.”
• Deadlock: A D&D 5e adventure from Terry Bonds crowdfunds “Become embroiled in city politics, uncover hidden conspiracies, and fight for survival in the face of an ancient and powerful enemy.”
• Memory. – An Adventure for Mothership from Crab Dominion is working on “Crashed on an alien planet with no memory of how you got there, your only option is to try to escape.”
• SIDEQUEST Annual Year 2 from Icarus Games submits “Another year of 5e content available in print for the first time.”
• Quest Chest: Immersive Tabletop Roleplaying Adventures from QuestChest suggests “A Year of Quest Chests: system-agnostic TTRPG modules, packed full of physical props, puzzles, narrated voice over, music and more!”
• Character Coins 2.0: RPG Token Sets by Dice Dungeons from Dice Dungeons crowdfunds “Coins and Miniatures All-in-One! Track DnD & RPG Characters and Monsters with Distinctive Engraved Tokens.”
• Castles & Crusades Adventurers Armory from Stephen Chenault proposes “An encyclopedia of weaponry and armor, shields and helms! Both the mundane and exotic to flesh out your wild fantastic adventures.”
• Veil of the Void Yggdrasil: A Sci-fi Norse TTRPG Expansion! from SDG Interactive Publishers introduces “Yggdrasil is the expansion to Veil of the Void that brings 350+ pages of new Sci-fi Norse inspired content to use in your storytelling.”
• Roll on the Range – PNP Roll & Draw Game from Chad Elkins is working on “A fun print at home roll and draw game for 1-4 ranchers. Designed and illustrated by Danny Devine.”
• Horror Epics: GrymWyrd Omnibus 5e from STONEworks Gaming suggests “A monstrous collection of ghastly adventures, vile creatures, & dastardly player options for 5th Edition gaming!”
• Dice Fanatics: Dice Collector App from Dice Fanatics crowdfunds “Complete your dice collection and explore new options with our database driven app for iOS and Android!”
• Legacy of the Dragon, a dragon themed supplement for 5E from Niels de Jong is working on “Legacy of the Dragon is a hardcover book that adds additional dragon themed races, subclasses, and other content to 5th edition.”
• FAST RPG: Compendium Volume 1 from Scott Taylor submits “Add more role-playing game content to your FAST experience with the new line of Compendium updates.”
• Petero’s Tome of Adventure from One Dollar One Shots raises funds for “200+ pages of NEW DnD adventure….Packed with new monsters, magic items, NPCs, battle maps, area maps, original art, lore & more!”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.

This is weird. It’s UK Games Expo, and your editor is there, not writing this post.

This week’s Routinely Itemised was penned on Wednesday night. Therefore, this is the same Routinely Itemised RPG news summary but truncated. It may get updates during the event.

It’s the news so far, and let’s see those summaries;

• Drow has (must be) dropped by Paizo for Pathfinder Remastered.
• The new Roll20 is out.
• The official Lara Croft Tomb Raider TTRPG is free.
• Jonathan Hicks announced A Dark Star to Sail By.

The Spotlight winner for this month is Lone Colossus Games.

Before rushing off to UKGE, there was just about time to tally the Patron votes for the July shortlist. Candidates are;

• Lost Spheres Publishing
• RPGGamer
• Starry Knight Press
• Grey Desert Studio
• The Grinning Frog

Patrons can vote at a private poll.

This year we’ve also shone the light of publicity on;

• High Level Games
• Of Gods and Gamemasters
• Random Rambling Press
• Catilus

Right, let’s see what the news looks like right now.

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RPG news from Geek Native

• It’s free, official, but not canon, and it’s Lara Croft’s Tomb Raiders RPG.
• One Million Words and David Michael Williams permitted Geek Native to preview some magic from The Curse of Er’Mah’Gerd .
• Geek Native had an UK Games Expo preview of SBG Edition’s Cursed Empire 3e.
• We also had early UKGE news from Parable Games about their forthcoming Don’t Play This Game.
• We don’t normally put Kickstarters in here, but it’s not common for an author who had a fight with the religious Brigham Young University to be signed up for a Mork Borg-powered setting.
• In the Bundle of Holding, there are two, one old and one new, offers for DCC Lankhmar.

Spotlight: Lone Colossus Games

RPG news from around the web

• Dve at GameTalkNetwork got to the point with Pathfinder Remastered will drop Drow.
• Roll20 launched its redesigned virtual tabletop.
• Roleplayers Chronicle writes up that Open Beta Now LIVE for Demiplane’s Pathfinder NEXUS.
• Helpfully, Dawn Dalton compiled a thorough Paizo News: PaizoCon Online Wrap Up
• Writer Jonathan Hicks previewed the new A DARK STAR TO SAIL BY – A Roleplaying Game of Horrific Encounters in the Age of Sail.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Reviews from R’lyeh reviews Nightfall’s Terminator RPG.
• Throat Punch Games pen a Ring Side Report on Starfinder Society Intro: Year of Fortune’s Fall.
• In a round-up post, The Other Side compiled a The Doctor Who Sourcebooks review.
• Site with the ads, Bell of Lost Souls, opined ‘Critical Role’s ‘Candela Obscura’ Might Not Be Forged In The Dark But It Sure Feels That Way.
• Charles Dunwoody talked to JM about the Elemental RPG and Its Continual Free Support.
• On Gnome Stew, Matthew J. Neagley interviewed the professional GM Thor Goodman.

RPG new releases

• OddFish Games released an RPG design technique using large cards – The Luminous Campaign Engine.
• Pay What You Want for Nightfall’s purchased, revamped and 2nd edition Corporation quickstart.
• Name Your Own Price for the quick and dirty QuAD RPG.
• It’s a best seller already; Shane Ivey and Arc Dream release Delta Green: Presence – APU8165.
• White Witch Games’ Savage Worlds dark fantasy is out with Vermilium.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $21.89% (69%) with Skirmisher Publishing’s Mythic North bundle.
• Save $18.87% (68%) with Skirmisher Publishing’s Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage bundle.
• Save $8.55 (46%) with Elven Tower’s One-Shot Archive.
• Save $5.60 (25%) with Agencia Especial’s True Investigators bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Geek Native interviewed UK Games Expo magazine designer Akha Hulzebos.
• The Alexandrian pens a post on Pacing for the Beginning GM.
• On Bleeding Cool, Gavin Sheehan shared A Slightly Deeper Dive Into The Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Rules.
• On Fatherly, James Grebey talked about how My Dad and I Never Played Dungeons & Dragons — But Next Year It Will Be Easier For Families Everywhere.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• SPACE ‘N’ MONSTERS: A Table Top RPG and Comic from Zam Sunshine kickstarts “A New Psychedelic TTRPG for Weirdos and Psychonauts!”
• Akeroth – TTRPG Campaign Setting & Worldbuilding Guide from Crossed Paths is working on “A comprehensive TTRPG guide to the mystical realms of Akeroth. 250+ Story Hooks, Over 100 Statblocks & Items and 100 new locations”
• Create AI Adventures in no time, click and be amazed! from Fredrik Rosado kickstarts “Create adventures, backstories, NPC’s, monsters, spells, and much more for +30 TTRPG Game rules in +20 languages.”
• Freshwater Foes: New Monsters for 5E from Ndeboy submits “A $2 micro-bestiary for a freshwater estuary.”
• Maximum Mayhem Dungeons #0: Village on the Borderlands from Mark Taormino kickstarts “A 64 page SOFTCOVER + PDF RPG Module for Levels 1-3 AD&D 1E / 5E, OSRIC or OSR role-playing games and it is READY TO PRINT & SHIP!”
• €1 One Shot: The Road Less Travelled from Ardann Creative raises funds for “A 5e Compatible Adventure”
• DIRECT Effect (Range & Direction) plus Called Shot from Tree Bee Games pitches “Enhance your 5E & RPG with DIRECTION options. Templates, Custom d10, Card Effects and NEW 2d6 Called Shot dice. I call head shot!”
• Broken Tales: Lost Stories from The World Anvil Publishing raises funds for “The dark TTRPG of upside-down fairytales returns, complete with a brand-new expansion, accessories, and the entire back catalog!”
• A night of sacrifice: One shot adventure (D&D 5e) from Maciontherrocks pitches “A investigation one shot adventure suitable for new and experienced players! based on D&D 5E .”
• Darragon Chronicles – Campaign Adventures for 5e DnD from Ready to Play suggests “A collection of six adventures in two adventure paths for the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons”
• Horrors of the Deep: The Campaign Setting for 5th Edition from Ert’s Treehouse proposes “A Dark Fantasy Campaign Setting themed all around Nautical Horror and Ocean Exploration for Tabletop Roleplaying.”
• Neo City – A Cyberpunk Location Guide for RPGs from The Grinning Frog submits “Complete with history, locations, organisations, NPCs, creatures, cyber threats and more! System-neutral.”
• Ancient Realms – Hollow Adventures from XploringMap pitches “A system-neutral supplement for any RPG. Hand-drawn B&W fantasy art and tabletop maps. Random adventure tables. Homebrew items. NPCs.”
• Unlimited Online Tabletop RPG from Damian D Willis introduces “Creating a dual experience tabletop game for a new generation.”
• Roll For Your Life from Dakota Sandoval crowdfunds “An illustrated activity book that helps you create heroes, monsters, worlds, and weapons with the roll of a die.”
• Cthulhu Parlour: Sounds of Madness Vol 6 & Hotel Lovecraft from Oliver McNeil proposes “OVER 8 HOURS of 20 New Lovecraft-inspired & horror soundscapes for roleplaying & board games. Plus, “Hotel Lovecraft” audio RPG PDF.”
• Errudia – New Pen and Paper Universe with RPG from HotSpot nominates “A new pen and paper universe consisting of a starter set, expansions, app, RPG”
• Tinker 5E class – 2€ from Nerdura Games suggests “Unleash the power of ingenuity in your campaigns!”
• UnderLand Part 1 for S&W DCC MCC D&D from Skeeter Green offers “A new series of ‘zines exploring setting-mashing. Each book expands on the idea!”
• Hell Train – A Weird Frontiers Adventure from John F. Watson raises funds for “A 1st-level DCC-compatible adventure for Weird Frontiers Roleplaying Game.”
• Explorer’s Guide to Poisons from Diego Pisa Artworks kickstarts “A natural fantasy foraging guide on poisons. For use with Fantasy RPGs such as DnD 5E, Pathfinder and OSR.”
• Quantum State: Light Edition from J.C. Kohl raises funds for “An immersive tabletop roleplaying experience in a technomagickal world inspired by Westerns, Cyberpunk, and Dark Fantasy.”
• SLAV BORG – A Post-Soviet Semi-Fantasy RPG from Slavdom Studio nominates “Rev the engines with your goblin crew, steal some sweet new orc wheels and put the brakes on the Eastern Bloc’s slimiest necromancer.”
• Book of Conflict: Brutal Races -Orcs & Goblinoids for D&D 5e from RPCraft Publishing crowdfunds “A sourcebook for orcs & goblinoids. 400+ pages of races, subraces, classes, subclasses, feats, monsters, magic items and lore! (DnD 5e)”
• Blueprint Studio from Tabletop Workshops is working on “Draw the blueprint for the ideal house in this Roll & write game. Fast and easy to print at home.”
• A Strange House: A Surreal and Whimsical Adventure for OSE from Crumbling Keep crowdfunds “An Old School Essentials adventure full of whimsey with art by Evlyn Moreau”
• THE ULTIMATE ACCESSORY Vol.II from Brain Conceptual Entertainment introduces “A UV-printed themed wooden Dice Box | Dice Tray along with metal unit coins, a personal tray and so many more in your pack!!”
• The Mystery of the Cursed Statuette (5e) from Midnight Tower kickstarts “A Detective Mystery Adventure Inspired by Sherlock Holmes for Fifth Edition (DnD/Fantasy RPG)”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.

It’s the last Friday before the UK Games Expo, the biggest tabletop convention Geek Native will attend this year. Not sure what that means for this RPG news summary next Friday, but for now

The summary of RPG news summaries!

• Critical Role’s Darrington Press’s and a Candela Obscura Quickstart Guide for their new RPG.
• Kobold Press is having a great time on Kickstarter funding their D&D-not-D&D with Tales of the Valiant.
• The cost of D&D books is going up.
• PazioCon Online is on right now.
• Wizards of the Coast share 2024 releases and more VTT info.

Zotiquest Games are in the Spotlight and interviewed!

The approaching end of the month means we should remind Patreons to vote privately for one of June’s candidates. They are;

• Lone Colossus Games
• Deep Light Games
• The Scrying Dutchman
• Midnight Owl Games
• dicegeeks

There will be loads of social media coverage for the UK Games Expo.

But first, it’s time to get on with the RPG news!

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RPG news from Geek Native

• Kobold Games launch the Kickstarter for Tales of the Valiant with a free preview.
• Top-tier Geek Native patrons are getting a copy of The Lair of the Leopard Empresses RPG.
• Geek Native talked to Giovanni Poli about the dark solo RPG Anno Domini 1252.
• Geek Native also talked to Roleplay Elixir about Tales of Kings & Dragons.
• Steamforged Games and Kickstarter forge a partnership deal.
• D&D has licensed official mini backpacks.
• The Bundle of Holding and Green Ronin have a Freeport Pathfinder deal.

Spotlight: Zotiquest Games

RPG news from around the web

• Paizo kicks off with PaizoCon Online 2023 Kicks Off With Glimpses Into The Future Of Pathfinder, Starfinder, And More!.
• At IGN, Travis Northup covers D&D Creators Reflect on ‘Painful’ OGL Missteps: ‘We Did Some Damage to Trust’ .
• On a roll, Travis also offers The Biggest Changes Coming to D&D’s Core Rulebooks Overhaul.
• GameRant’s Eric Law has the news that Dungeons and Dragons is About to Get More Expensive.
• While Polygon’s Charlie Hall notes D&D’s next adventures are being designed to come apart at the seams.
• Benjamin Abbott follows up with D&D chooses chaos with new magical cards and reveals upcoming book info.
• At Dicebreaker, Matt Jarvis writes up Mirrorscape’s open-licence rival to D&D’s virtual tabletop wants to be “the Apple of VTTs” .
• While, Rob Wieland (read count burning click) has A Hands-On Look At Dungeons & Dragons Ambitious Virtual Tabletop.
• Tabletop Gaming News is quick with Chaosium Expands Miskatonic Repository to Roll20 Virtual Tabletop.
• TechRaptor’s Tyler Chancey goes with Alchemy RPG, VTTs, and A Focus on Roleplaying.
• Dynamite Entertainment run a crowdfunding campaign for new Starfinder and Pathfinder comics.
• Pop Geeks’ Peter Paltridge writes up Two Expansions Coming For Lord of the Rings Roleplaying.
• Game Talk Network has a Pathfinder Remastered Ancestries Preview.
• The Gaming Gang notes Full Details Emerge for Dungeons & Dragons: The Practically Complete Guide to Dragons.
• Arc Dream announce that Delta Green is now on Roll20.
• Challenger, Role now has Custom Dice.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Jared Rascher, on Gnome Stew, reviews Hard City.
• At Jared’s own site, he looks into Arcadia 27 and Candela Obscura, and part 6 of My Enemy’s Enemy with Agents of the Empire.
• The Other Side reviews the RPG Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space and the Limited Edition hardcover, not to mention the Doctor Who RPG supplements.
• Reviews from R’lyeh looks at the world of Okkorim with OS2 The Heart of Chentoufi, Treasures Of The Troll King and Ubersreik Half-Dozen.
• Throat Punch Games has Dungeon Crawl Classics Dying Earth #1: The Laughing Idol of Lar-Shann.
• MJR RPG pens Memorable Major Wounds – Critical Tables and Expanded Injuries for Call of Cthulhu.
• At Gizmodo, Linda Codega talks to Andrew Gills in Girl by Moonlight Is a Magical Girl Role-Playing Game About Hopeful Transformation.
• On Forbes (free read consuming click), Rob Wieland talks to Adrian Mejia in Koboa Brings South American Voices To D&D (And More).

RPG new releases

• Grab a free preview of Critical Role / Darrington Press’s new and not D&D RPG with the Candela Obscura Quickstart Guide.
• Fel-Dark Entertainment have issued the challenge of their sword and sorcery RPG Blood and Steel.
• Evil Genius Games have released another cinematic adventure for Everyday Heroes with the movie-based Total Recall.
• The Geek Lyfe introduces a world with the constant threat of chaos magic in the Emerald Templars Core Rule Book.
• B. Brother Press offers up a horrific setting for OGL games with Etibonisia City Under Oblivion.
• Akhelas and Austin Conrad have released the RuneQuest adventure The Queen’s Star.
• MS Edizioni has published the 320-page Fantasy World core book.
• Roll of the Dice have published their narrative-driven T.R.O.P.E..
• Leandro Zerbinatti de Oliveria offers a fully customisable IMAGINAERY RPG System.
• Desks and Dorks challenge you with A Fear Within: The Roleplaying Game.
• Bloat Games publish SURVIVE THIS!! Scorched – An Apocalyptic Science Fiction Roleplaying Game.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $156.62 (51%) with MmpApps’ ALL our Maps bundle
• Save $134.75 (77%) with Eldritch Osiris Games’ Eldritch Osiris Games DriveThruRPG PaizoCon 2023 bundle.
• Save $14.96 (50%) with Gallant Knight Games’ Tiny Taverns Complete Collection bundle.
• Save $8.55 (46%) with Elven Tower’s One-Shot Archive bundle.
• Save $1.98 (17%) with Darrin Drader’s Complete Ruins of Adebeth.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Hannah Alkadi shares Du’as and Dragons: How a Roleplaying Game Taught Me About Parenting.
• DungeonSolvers help with Unlock Your DM Toolbox: A Guide to Conditions in D&D 5e.
• Metal Hammer gets to the point with 11 metal songs inspired by Dungeons & Dragons.
• Sly Flourish asks and answers How Many Encounters Per Day in D&D?.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• LOOM: Portent of the Vale from Jay Merritt raises funds for “Solo adventuring across an arcane land! The Print & Play game with a System Neutral setting for fantasy TTRPGs. Weave your own tale…”
• Monsters! | A Mörk Borg Supplement from Christian Eichhorn kickstarts “A collection of the most disgusting and terribly vile monsters!”
• Rook Towers from Bradlee Walton submits “Vertical movement platforms for TTRPG and board games”
• Knight from Mark Baker crowdfunds “Will you ride into legend?”
• The Bard’s D&D: Mercante di Venezia from Baldrick proposes “The 2nd adventure in the Shakespeare series, ‘The Merchant of Venice’. Will your party help or hinder Shylock?”
• Flat Dungeon Fantasy 3 : OpenLOCK Edition from Flame of Udun Studio suggests “3D printable & modular system ( openLOCK ). For tabletop games, D&D 5E, Dungeon Crawl Classics ( DCC ), board games and wargames.”
• The Flying Dutchman: A Dutch D&D 5e All-in-One Adventure from Creeps & Sheep suggests “All the content of a 5e boxset incl adventure, tokens, battlemaps, item-cards and more but in 1 budgetfriendly printable pdf.”
• Ted’s Bazaar of Magic for 5e from The Wondrous Quill crowdfunds “A supplement of 300+ unique illustrated magic items for 5th edition.”
• Action! System 2.0 from Neon Necromancer Games pitches “A new, updated version of the second commercially-supported OGL tabletop RPG. Multi-genre, crunchy tactical combat, late-’90s-style.”
• The World of Kedor from N E R D C A S T L E is working on “An RPG campaign world written by players for players. Kedor is a expansive world that offers high magic, wild west a steampunk alike.”
• Lost Fools of Atlantis from Newt Newport crowdfunds “A Dark Comedy Roleplaying Game of Conspiracies”
• The Gloaming Swamps & Wilderness from Printable Scenery nominates “Swamp and wilderness terrain for wargames and roleplaying games. Designed to print perfectly on your home 3d printer”
• The New Dark Age: The Death of Magic from Matthew David introduces “Take a pivotal role in the struggle for the future of magic in this dramatic and captivating D&D 5e campaign.”
• Dragon Dowser from Hatchlings proposes “Rescue and rear dragons in this solarpunk tabletop RPG for one player.”
• Nexaria – Campaign Setting for 5e/Pathfinder 2e from Luis Castro raises funds for “A campaign setting for 5e/PF2e. A godless world with dark secrets, eldritch creatures, and a blight that threatens to taint everything.”
• Epic Threats: High Level Monsters and NPCs from Morrus nominates “CR 11-20 monsters and NPCs to challenge your players in your 5E roleplaying games!”
• Arcane Imperfections Volume 6-10 from Eternal Echo Entertainment offers “Spells to add a little more flavor to your DnD 5e game.”
• Tales from the Smoking Wyrm issue 7 & 8 from Blind Visionary Publications nominates “Tapping into the DCC awesome sauce once again!”
• The Mechanized Wargear Catalogue Volume 1 from Diamond Recreational Studios pitches “A LANCER project”
• Wild Earth Dice : The Liquid Core Collection from Paintingswow submits “Handcrafted, luxury dice sets. An exquisitely designed collection of liquid core designs and chonk dice. A treat for the eyes.”
• UnFamiliar: Release the Tiny Beasts from Jerry Joe Seltzer is working on “Playable critters for 5th edition D&D”
• Night of The Werebear: A Horror-Themed Queer DnD Oneshot from Jack Dixon nominates “Leather-clad werewolves, dubious reverends and more in this pulp horror-themed TTRPG oneshot!”
• Even more Modern Day mapping content for MapForge software from Battlegrounds Games, LLC suggests “The goal: to provide GMs of tabletop RPGs with even more mapping content to make MapForge the “go to” app for creating Modern Day maps.”
• Forty Foes – A Cy Borg Compatible Bestiary from Crow Heart Roleplay Resources is working on “Features forty sci-fi foes, each with stats and backgrounds rooted in the dystopian future horror of Cy_Borg”
• La Torre – Alberver’s Redemption. D&D 5E and 3.5 Adventure from The Velar Company proposes “The epic DnD 5E and 3.5 Adventure into the fantastic world of La Torre”
• Rigo’s Register of Roguish Quests from Steven Chabotte offers “D100 Adventures and Missions to Designed to Delight the Thief in Your Party.”
• The Dice Gremlin from Laura Hammonds is working on “Tabletop gaming accessories for the mischievous dice collector in your life.”
• Tool Craft: Dump Stat’s Workshop of Tools for D&D 5e from Dumpstatadventures kickstarts “A massive book of homebrew for tools, kits, and supplies in D&D 5e! May 25th Launch Date”
• Artifacts of Legend from Douglas H. Cole pitches “Two volumes of epic magic items for your Dungeon Fantasy RPG campaigns.”
• Into the Wild Omnibus Edition from Todd is working on “A revision of Into the Wild, Filling in the Blanks, and A Guide to Thieves’ Guilds.”
• A new collection of 3 Print and Play games from Marco Salogni pitches “A new great collection of 3 Print and Play, Roll and Write games”
• They Came From the RPG Anthology! Tabletop Roleplaying Game from Richard Thomas pitches “The next They Came From tabletop RPG, containing Western, Noir, Costume Drama, Space Opera, Theatre, and Genres Voted on by YOU!”
• You Are Now Orbiting Trepis VII from Charlie Thompson crowdfunds “A setting and Archeology rules Supplement for Mothership RPG”
• The Guild of Beggars from Midlam Miniatures offers “A set of ten fantasy characters for all of your fantasy games.”
• HYPERBOREA RPG Map from Jeffrey Talanian offers “A 32 x 40-inch map of Hyperborea in poster and canvas”
• Adventures for Everyone, Everywhere. from Dead Channel Studios is working on “An epic collection for 5E, designed to slot effortlessly into your campaign. Featuring award-winning writer Darren W Pearce!”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.

We’re nearly through May and approaching the halfway mark of the year. Around the corner, just at the start of June, Europe’s giant UK Games Expo and Geek Native will be there.

But first, the summary of RPG news summaries!

• Russ Nicholson has passed away
• Free League will launch an Aliens RPG tournament
• Leyline Press cut ties with an editor in an ethics row
• Ares will release Fantasy World RPG
• Schwalb Entertainment confirms When the Wolf Comes
• The second draft of ORC is ready

As a reminder, there’s sometimes activity off-site such as Patreon, Telegram, and there’s an (almost) daily summary story on Instagram of what’s gone on with the blog.

You can, and if possible – should – even subscribe to Geek Native via Apple News. I mean, it only took years to get there. No biggie.

As the witching hour draws close, it’s time to wrap up this introduction.

In fact, it’s time to get on with the RPG news!

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RPG news from Geek Native

• Free League Press will launch an official Alien RPG Masters Tournament.
• Leyline Press caused a debate by cutting ties with an editor in an ethics row.
• The World of Darkness and Choice of Games entered a new partnership with new WoD solo RPGs.
• In another partnership, Bare Tree Media launched official D&D mobile stickers.
• We had an exclusive look inside the buyfunded Living Nightmares.
• Geek Native looked at the pay what you want RPG Lost Roads of Lociam.
• At the Bundle of Holding you can encounter Arc Dream Mythos.

Spotlight: Zotiquest Games

RPG news from around the web

• Ares will release, in English, the PbtA Fantasy World RPG.
• Schwalb Entertainment officially concerns the When the Wolf Comes RPG.
• Paizo made ready the Second Draft of the ORC License Ready for Public Comment.
• In sad news, popular fantasy art Russ Nicholson has passed away.
• With the Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine out in PDF and heading to the printers, Chaosium published a review roundup.
• Modiphius’ John Houlihan shines the community spotlight on Achtung! Cthulhu’s Season of the Snake.
• Necrotic Games published an update on Dolmenwood.
• Tabletop Gaming News digs into Cubicle 7’s update on Victoriana.
• In positive news, Monte Cook Games are donating 50% of No Thank You, Evil! sales to the Help Save the Bees Foundation to celebrate World Bee Day.
• In quirky news, a Dungeons & Dragons-themed Vista brewery wins gold at Olympics of beer competition.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Reviews from R’lyeh wrote up a Quick-Start Saturday for Cursed Captains of Cthulhu.
• Jared Rascher wonders what they know about Twilight Accord and Arcadia Issue 26
• MRJ RPG has reviewed The Dark Brood.
• Grognardia offers up a retrospective on White Dwarf #74 and the old D&D Death’s Ride adventure.
• Seed of Worlds reviews Monkey’s Paw Games Unconquered.
• The Other Side reviews the 1991 Time Lord, the Doctor Who RPG.
• On RPG.net, ShyberKryst wrote up a review of the 5e Lord of the Rings game.
• Egg Embry talked to NerdBurger’s Craig Campbell about Without Dark RPG.
• Still on EN World, Egg also talked to Andrew Cawood about Monsters of the Dungeon.
• Charles Dunwoody talks Knave 2E with Ben Milton.
• Julia Roth Tavern Talks with Mark Meer.

RPG new releases

• Mindjammer Press returns to action with a Monsters! Monsters! powered RPG The Lair of the Leopard Empresses.
• Monte Cook Games released Bruce R Cordell’s Planar Character Options for Cypher System.
• Pinnacle Entertainment expanded Deadlands, the weird west RPG, with Lost Colony – Maw of Oblivion.
• Steamforged Games gave us Animal Adventures: the Faraway Sea.
• Sleepy Sasquatch Games hit publish on their solo RPG Wandering Souls.
• Weird Works shared their Eldritch Overload Fantasy Cyberpunk Tarot Deck & Codex.
• Anima Project published Prometheum Exxet.
• Penguin Comics unleashed their Unseen Unraveling – a Cthulhu/Lovecraft-inspired Horror Campaign Creation Package.
• Juan Ferrer has made ready Shadow of the Demon Lord Compendia Demon Lord’s Companion for Foundry VTT.
• Darrin Drader has published the low-cost Corpse Kings & Crypt Crawlers (5E OGL).
• In physical and pre-orders, there’s the Lord of the Rings 5e RPG, its supplement Shire Adventures hardcover and the Zombicide RPG campaign Road to Haven.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $21.00 (50%) with Lightpress Media’s Forgers Guild Factions bundle.
• Save $7.25 (29%) with the DMsGuild’s Outcasts Class bundle.
• Save $7.25 (29%) also with the DMsGuild’s The Alternates bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Ben and the Genre Police talked about setting a stage for a campaign.
• There’s a new Drizzt Golden Archive model.
• CBR’s Haley Mccullough noticed that a Dungeons & Dragons DM Exposes Cheating Players With Clever Ploy.
• The Boar wrote ‘Dungeons and Dragons’: Campaigns and one-shots.
• Rob Wieland’s Forbes column said that Every Dungeon Master Should Have A Mini Dungeon In Their Pocket.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• Inkheart Dice – Tabletop Game Dice Set from Inbreak submits “When ink drips into the core of the dice, art collides with reality to create the stunning Inkheart dice set.”
• The Fey’s Guide to Epic Levels from Samantha Rodriguez introduces “A guide to raising player characters above level 20 and beyond.”
• Comic Crawl Classics from Ed Stanek submits “This rule book applies the fun, dynamic style of Dungeon Crawl Classics to the super hero genre. Launching May 16.”
• TsunamiCon 2023 Wichita’s Premier Tabletop Gaming Convention from Erik Carl nominates “Join our 10th annual tabletop gaming celebration, located right here in the Heartland!”
• Grab and go Bundle of Maps – Town edition from Enchanters of the Realm is working on “Need a whole town setting for your next campaign or one shot? High definition maps for 5e compatible TTRPG or VTTRPG.”
• Tome of Essential Horrors from Necromancer Games suggests “The Tome of Essential Horrors contains more than 100 monsters, as well as an OSE stat block, B&W art, and an encounter description.”
• Tales of Kings & Dragons from Roleplay Elixir proposes “Historical-fantasy RPG set in Ancient China, Arthurian Age and Crusades Era – 5e”
• Renegade City from The Polyhedral Knights suggests “Modern Day Criminal Roleplaying Game”
• Fichte’s Rumors of Lost Treasures, by Philip Reed from Philip Reed proposes “D100 rumors and two dozen magic items for use in fantasy roleplaying games.”
• Wulfric’s Bazaar of the Bizarre: a D&D 5e Adventure & More from J. D. Brink offers “Multi-episode fantasy RPG adventure, 12 new character subclass archetypes, optional rules, & more for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition”
• The Queens of the Lost Fire from Mauro Indini offers “Explore the wastelands of Drakonia and please the Queens of the Lost Fire in this print and play, roll and write fantasy game.”
• OSE Quest for the Ruby Heart Adventure Path #1 from Preston Poulter introduces “Old-School Essentials introductory module and comic book, Palace of the Golden Princess”
• Zantrix the Enigmatic’s Tome of Mild Mayhem: d66 Mild Curses from Peter Raines is working on “Zantrix the Enigmatic’s Tome of Mild Mayhem: d66 Mischievous Curses for Any OSR Fantasy Adventure”
• Twisted Expeditions for DnD 5e : Journeys into Darkness from Laura MCL kickstarts “10 adventures with horror themes for D&D 5th edition rules!”
• Botanical, Cage, Helix, and Thorn Metal Dice from Chuck Stover pitches “Four Classic 3D Printed Metal Dice Sets”
• The Mystery of The Ancient Cave 2.0 | STL from 3D-Fortress proposes “3d models for 3d printing (Modular cave for RPG games)”
• The Baleful Barrow of Thieves from Thanazrael pitches “A swords-and-sorcery module, presented in 5e and stand-alone OSR formats.”
• Tome of Events from Sergio Dosc pitches “A collection of 2000 random events. 100 events for 20 different scenarios to add excitement to D&D 5E, pathfinder and other games”
• Monsters of the Realms, Series 1: The Wilds from Taylor Hokanson raises funds for “A collection of 8 .STL files of fantasy monster miniatures for Pathfinder, DnD, and table top role-playing game fans and enthusiasts.”
• Castles & Kingdoms from Utopia Tabletop suggests “The RPG Rulebook for Armies, Navies, Strongholds, Followers, and Rulership”
• £1 to play! (5e) The Drowned Dragon from Andrew Highton nominates “Adventure modules to drag and drop into your 5e campaign! Adventures! Battlemaps! Magic Items! And more! All for just £1!”
• Nankaina: A Mörk Borg Supplement from FumbleCat Games suggests “Nankaina is a bloodstained Mörk Borg supplement set in the Feudal Era. Compatible with Ronin.”
• Colostle: Kyodaina – The Third Expansion to the Solo RPG from Nich Angell suggests “The third book in the ENNIE award winning solo RPG series, Colostle. Kyodaina introduces a whole new eastern-themed area and story!”
• TABLETOP GAME FEST! from Mike Federali introduces “A one day Tabletop Gaming convention in Virginia Beach, VA.”
• 2023 RPG Dice Advent Calendars from Dicebound kickstarts “Add a touch of magic and adventure to your holidays with this one-of-a-kind treasure trove of gaming goodies!”
• Luncheons and Dragonflies from Adam Hancock introduces “Play as a tiny woodland mammal in this original, dice-hoarding tabletop RPG”
• Mining for Zogolyte — a (solo) dice roll game from John H. Kohn raises funds for “In a future where the only way out is through prospecting!”
• Digital Campaign Journals for Dungeons and Dragons from Jess Francis suggests “A collection of Digital Campaign Journals that can be used for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. These PDFs are usable with Goodnotes.”
• Dretelia Campaign Setting for D&D from Drew Wale nominates “An idyllic, magitech surface world with sickened, dysfunctional depths below! For DnD (Dungeons and Dragons) 5e.”
• Mörk Manual, the classic fantasy hack for Mörk Borg from Booger Goblin proposes “Mörk Borg mayhem in a grunge fantasy world. The Dark Lord is coming and he’s bringing more scrolls, 10 classes, and 70+ monsters.”
• Go RPG from Urbantek offers “The deck that all true RPGers, D&Ders, and Pathfinderers will love to own! Join on discord: https://discord.gg/vXJUcTwRJQ”
• CHAINSAW WIZARDS, HECATOMB CREEPS & OTHER UNGODLY BASTARDS from Levi Combs pitches “A Rogue’s Gallery Compendium of Weird Fantasy RPG Villains for Your OSR Games”
• Eldritch RPG 2nd Edition: Ainerêve Reimagined from Dan Cross offers “Semantic Design – How You Say It Is How You Play It. Immerse Yourself in Endless Possibilities in the Fantasy Milieu”
• Dice Cubes: Fidget, Roll, Spin, & Play your way!! from Notion Builds LLC pitches “Precision machined from Solid Metals, Dice cubes are a perfect companion for Fidgeting, RPG, DND and tabletop games.”
• Creature Features – a Print & Play Card Game from Kristopher Neal McClanahan offers “A quick and curious game about building monsters and bringing them to life!”
• Realm of Riddles: 100 Enigmatic Puzzles for D&D or any TTRPG from DM Backpack submits “Evolutive Project from 1€ with Mysteries, Puzzles, Enigmas, and Conundrums for Adventurers & Dungeon Masters for DnD and more!”
• Rudok’s Cards – 5e Item Collection from Rudok’s Tavern pitches “A Collection of 200+ Magic Items for 5e in physical or digital form.”
• Giant Silicone Dice Set from Robin’s Nerd Supplies submits “Giant Sets of Bouncy Silicone Dice. Get a full 7 Piece Set or single D20s, D10s, and D6s.”
• GUILDS, COSTERS, AND CABALS: Exciting Factions & NPCs for 5E from Wyvern Blade Games proposes “Inside these 40-plus pages you’ll find various organizations and an array of enthralling NPCs comprising them for your 5e campaigns!”
• The Puzzle Masters Handbook for 5th Edition: from Daniel Jefford nominates “The ultimate 150+ page guide to puzzles and traps for your Dungeons and Dragons campaigns or favourite RPG”
• SHIPS: A supplement on spacecraft for TERMINATION SHOCK from Crankshaft Constellation is working on “The long-awaited supplement SHIPS: HOW TO BUILD AND BLAST THEM is finally ready! Design, understand, and annihilate your own starship!”
• Fantastical Magicks: Royalty-Free Fantasy Stock Art for D&D from Fantastical kickstarts “A collection of 300+ images of magical figurines and trinkets! Great for DnD 5e, Pathfinder 2e, or any game with magic items!”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.

How was your week, and will this round-up of RPG news make it a bit better? Let’s hope so!

In summary of summaries:

• The official 5e Lord of the Rings RPG is out
• BrikWars is getting an official tabletop RPG
• A gender-neutral DCC edition has been announced
• AI is coming

Is that all? Well, what can I say? This blogger had a birthday this week, and frankly, helper gremlins had to roll him to his desk after all the birthday cake eaten.

Oh, do you want to know about the matcha, mint cake, and steampunk top design? Sorry, this is an RPG news post, not a place for bragging about tasty baking. Ahem.

Instead, let’s use the chance to point out the social media options as well as news for Geek Native. You can follow us on Apple News or Google News if it’s handy!

Now! It’s time to get on with the RPG news!

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RPG news from Geek Native

• Modiphius announced an official tabletop RPG for BrikWars.
• The world’s second-oldest RPG and its sibling games have a brand new and grimdark British owner.
• There’s a freebie on offer with Roleplay Elixir’s Tales of Kings & Dragons.
• RoleBooster sets out to tackle tabletop RPG’s biggest monster; game night.
• Geek Native talked to Vincent Baker about RPG design.
• I took a look at the unusually pizza-themed Za RPG.
• The Bundle of Holding has a deal on Iron Kingdoms: Requiem, and there are a few more days left on Honor + Intrigue.
• Humble has a large Starfinder Solidarity bundle.

Spotlight: Zotiquest Games

RPG news from around the web

• CNet’s Adam Benjamin calls it and says AI Is Reimagining the Way We Play Role-Playing Games.
• In an exclusive, ScreenRant has discovered that Wizards of the Coast didn’t originally want a fat dragon in Honour Among Thieves.
• World Anvil revealed this month’s favourite one-shot designed game.
• Embattled publisher Dragon Turtles announced a flash sale to support foodbanks in the UK at their webstore.
• It’s the Crowd Vote stage of the LEGO: D&D Building Instructions Cover design.
• Linda Codega writes up Wizards plans for a 24-Hour Streaming Channel.
• Goodman Games announced Dungeon Crawl Classics core rulebook that’s hyperlinked and gender-neutral.
• Dr Russell Moul at IFL Science notes More Than Just A Game – How Dungeons And Dragons Is Making Its Way Into Therapy.
• There’s a brace of days left to back Break!! on Kickstarter, and it’s been such a success Polygon called it the next big crowdfunding hit.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Halfway Station 3.0 reviewed the Fantasy Companion.
• DungeonSolvers wrote up a retrospective on the Curse of Strahd.
• Rob Wieland reviews the OSR-vibe NSR-designed ShadowDark.
• At Gnome Stew, Jared Rascher writes up a Book of Ebon Tides review.
• At What Do I Know About, there’s a review of the Star Trek Aventures Mission: Lurkers and Kobold’s Tales of the Valiant.
• Steve Esposito of Seasoned Gaming has written up a review of Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E : The One Book to Rule Them All.
• On EN World, Egg Embry interviews Philip Reed about Zeck’s Shoppe of Riches.
• Julia Roth of Geek Girl Authority Tavern Talked to Josh Dean.

RPG new releases

• Free League has released hardcovers and PDF The Lord of the Rings 5e RPG.
• Cubicle 7 has travelled through time and space to publish the Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Sourcebook.
• Privateer Press hits release on;
  • Iron Kingdoms RPG: Borderlands Survival Guide
  • Iron Kingdoms RPG: Borderlands and Beyond
• Parts Per Million worked with Modphius’ 2D20 SRD to produce the Solo Playing 2D20 Game Systems
• Big Chamber Games has us join the God Kults with The Crucible of Lorn: Core Rulebook.
• Squidhead Games has published a Pay What You Want Heroic Tales: Rules-Lite Fantasy RPG.
• Danl Dungeons has released a combination of a system-agnostic RPG and music album with The Shifting City.
• Evan Perlman has all five-star reviews so far with In Strange Seas: Horror in the Royal Navy for Regency Cthulhu>
• Modiphius hit best-seller heights quickly with the release of Star Trek Adventures Lower Decks Season 2 Crew Pack PDF.
• In physical and pre-order you can now secure your copy of the Deluxe Edition of the Die RPG or the standard Die RPG.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $11.50 (37%) with The Cabinet of Curiosities’ CBR+PNK Augmented bundle.
• Save $3.97 (25%) with Nomadic Delirium Press’ The Complete Rocks on the Other Side bundle.
• Save $2.98 (30%) with the DMsGuild’s Solo Adventures in the Underdark+ bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Merchoid scored a hat-trick of D&D official t-shirts.
• Charles Dunwoody explored The Lord of the Rings RPG Shire Adventures.
• Marcia of Traverse Fantasy writes up a Evolution of Fifth Edition, Part 1: Thank You, Next!.
• Lucas Maxwell of BookRiot shared tips on How to Run a Dungeon & Dragons Session Zero for Kids and Teens.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• Rock & Roll Greatest Hits Volume 1 for 5E from Eric Garneau crowdfunds “Adventures & more for the world’s most popular roleplaying game inspired by your favorite records, fully illustrated & rad as heck”
• Relic Heist: A D&D 5e adventure from Natasja van Gestel pitches “Pull the heist of the century and snatch a mysterious idol straight from a prestigious exhibition”
• The Village at the End of the World from Mauro Indini submits “Challenge your friends in this horror storytelling game. Nothing is as it appears, everything is as it seems to you.”
• TGMG: Lethal Labyrinths a Compendium of Traps from The Monster Directive raises funds for “Master the art of deception and danger with 200 Traps designed to test your players minds and patience.”
• Savage Worlds Skirmish Battle from Graham Bottley kickstarts “Using the Savage Worlds ruleset to power miniature wargames”
• Tome of Mystical Tattoos II for DnD 5e from Karl Nicolas suggests “A massive addition to the original tome containing 200+ brand new magic tattoos compatible with 5E—don’t miss out on the new ink!”
• GRAB’n’GO – Pre-built TTRPG additions from HeroicHouse Creations submits “200+ Page books filled with detailed characters, towns and quests. Perfect for building an immersive fantasy worlds on the fly.”
• Arlic’s Magical Item Shipment! from Arlic The Merchant introduces “Arlic’s Customizable 5e Item Card Collection – Modify values and create items that stay relevant no matter the party size or level”
• Booger Eater! A bizzare and zany Tabletop RPG. from FumbleCat Games nominates “Booger Eater is a tongue-in-cheek rules-light TTRPG. You are a Kleenr, cleaning out the sewers of monsters, all to make the boss happy.”
• Rise of the Black Coven : Campaign & Setting from Christian Allaire crowdfunds “Children are being taken. A dark cult is on the rise. Will your party be able to uncover their wicked schemes? 5e adventure & setting.”
• Grieveborough: 3D Printable Miniature Set from Philip Sin proposes “28/32mm 3D Printable STL Terrain & Miniatures for Wargaming and TTRPG. Compatible with OPR, DnD, 5e, Pathfinder, Warhammer, AoS, etc”
• $1 One Shot 5e Adventure: The Trouble With Gnolls from Tabletop Outfitter pitches “A 3 to 6 hour adventure for 4 to 5 characters of levels 3 or 4. Game master friendly format and battle maps.”
• Red Moon Adventures from crowdfunds “A collection of eleven adventures for the Westlands 2D6 system role-playing game.”
• ZOMBIE HELL THE DARKEST DAYS from 3D IPStudios suggests “3D zombie Miniatures STL files 3D Printing STL Miniatures and terrain for Role Playing Games, Tabletop, Wargames, other RPG needs”
• Steve Jackson Games’ GURPS Print-On-Demand Extravaganza from Warehouse 23 kickstarts “Bring these five releases to the physical world as print-on-demand books! With your support, we’ll expand our GURPS On Demand catalog”
• DARKHEIM: The Reaper from Rocket Pig Games is working on “A legendary (5e) monster miniature for tabletop games (3d printable STL for resin printers) and 5e compatible PDF.”
• The Era of the Elementals from Gegalix Halcyon introduces “Master the Elements of your choice in this unique Sci-Fi Table Top RPG!”
• Bloodlines: A Thrilling 5e DnD Adventure! from Enchanted Emporium raises funds for “A 5e one shot, STLs and stretch goals! 7 vampire houses and their blood lines battle for supremacy to determine the fate of all!”
• Shadowhaven, Modular STL Terrain for Tabletop Gaming from The Board Hoard suggests “High quality, low cost, modular STL terrain. Suitable for multiple genre, tabletop wargames and TTRPGs. Quick print times!”
• Fell Hypogeum — an adventure for D&D 5E from Rafael Chandler proposes “Fell Hypogeum (“underground burial chamber of the wicked”) is a 10-level dungeon inspired by escape rooms!”
• Chronicles of Ivria : Shadows Of War – 5E Supplement from Galandir’s Pit introduces “5E D&D supplement from the chronicles of Ivria. A dark fantasy with elves and orcs, perfect for TTRPG lovers like DnD and else!”
• Koboa: The South American 5e, PF2 and CFR Setting from The Word Refinery offers “Koboa is a Tabletop RPG setting for 5e, PF2, and CFR created by an all South American team and based on our stories and culture.”
• Multiverse Battle Map Books for RPG’s from Lion Banner Games raises funds for “Upgrade your gaming experience now with MASSIVE Battlemaps! Don’t miss out on the action – pledge today on Kickstarter!”
• Sanctuary: Dungeon Tales, Mystic Natural Fantasy Setting 5E from GAME START is working on “Sanctuary: Dungeon Tales is a 5E Mystic Natural Fantasy Role-Playing Game, and a 3D Modular Dungeon Set and 200+ plastic miniatures”
• Critters, Creatures and Beasts from Adventure Squared offers “A collection of 36 new monsters to add to your TTRPGs”
• NIGHTPORT – An original 5E Dark Fantasy Campaign Setting from Matt Evans introduces “A dark and twisted, low magic, horror 5E sourcebook.”
• Dawnsword-Forge from Runeforged kickstarts “A 5E compatible web-based mobile friendly resource and character sheet app.”
• Zenesis from ZettaSysStudios raises funds for “Zenesis is a d20 based TTRPG System inspired by the 1800s-1900s set within a world where fantasy and technology advance hand in hand”
• Resin Crafts – a tabletop resource and so much more. from Bobbi Evans proposes “Resin Crafts is a home-based business specializing in the creation of resin-based products such as dice, jewelry, dice cases, pet IDs.”
• Handcrafted Dragon Egg Gemstone Dice from Diving Hippo Studio introduces “Polyhedral dice with silver engraved fantasy theme font for collections, dungeons and dragons, board games, rpg and tabletop games.”
• Versatile Hand Drawn Fantasy Map – $1 PDF from Danny B. introduces “Two RPG Maps that are Hand Drawn with or without names of Locations making it simple and easy to incorporate in RPG Settings.”
• Kingdoms Between Time from BlacKitten kickstarts “Embark on adventures in a strange and wonderful land, where walking through an arch may just send you to the end of time.”
• Dungeon Art Decks – Visual Aids for D&D Story Telling from Joshua Cade offers “Bring your TTRPG to life With Dungeon Art Decks- Large cards printed with NPCs, Storefronts, Items, and more!”
• The Haunt of Erminsk from Legends of Athelu crowdfunds “A mystery for adventurers level 3-5.”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.

We’ve made it to the end of the week, and here in the UK, it’s a long weekend for something that could have come from a game of D&D. We’re crowing a new King.

Maybe there will be knights and dragon attacks?

Let’s not worry about British weirdness; let’s first do our summary of RPG news summaries!

• A D&D game broke the world record for the largest ever played
• Jeff Easley’s signature was erased from an Honour Among Thieves poster.
• KB Presents closes
• There’s a significantly huge Atlas Games’ Ars Magica 4th Edition bundle

It’s the start of the month, so I can announce that Zotiquest Games won the RPG publisher spotlight.

Patrons can vote in the next round and for the next month. The candidates are:

• Lone Colossus Games
• Deep Light Games
• The Scrying Dutchman
• Midnight Owl Games
• dicegeeks

I’m taking the holiday anyway.

Now! It’s time to get on with the RPG news!

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RPG news from Geek Native

• You can buy the D&D adventure that broke the Guinness World Record, but can you survive The Dead Wars?
• Egg noticed that Jeff Easley’s signature had been removed from the Honour Among Thieves poster, and after some angst, we ran the story.
• IDW Publishing cut into staff, leaving us to wonder, are the D&D comics impacted?
• VTT challenger One More Multiverse leaves beta and remains free to play.
• In the Bundle of Holding, there’s an all-new deal on early Traveller FASA books.
• Better than a bundle? Free! Geek Native patrons are getting The Curse of Er’Mah’Gerd .

Spotlight: Zotiquest Games

RPG news from around the web

• Build-a-Bear signs up Dungeons and Dragons. A dragon, at least.
• Eberron creator Keith Baker quits Eberron as KB Presents closes and remaining books transfer to Visionary Production and Design.
• EN World runs the latest D&D playtest from Unearthed Arcana.
• The world is a dark place as Lance Gose reports Dungeons & Dragons DM Harassed By Players For Ending 2-Year-Long Campaign.
• SpikeyBits report that Hasbro & Wizards of the Coast Sales Up But Profits Down.
• Roll20 showcase their redesigned VTT.
• Paizo has a Pafinder Society: Year 5 announcement.
• Paizo showcases their forthcoming Starfinder Ports of Call Starfinder hardcover.
• Green Ronin announce future plans for Fantasy AGE.
• DriveThruRPG/Roll20 announce the second-ever PocketQuest design jam.
• ICv2 notes the GAMA Expo News: R. Talsorian reveals new deets on ‘Cyberpunk RED RPG’ book.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• PC Gamer’s Robin Valentine lets you know The new Warhammer 40,000 tabletop RPG is like playing D&D in a horrifying galaxy where everything wants to kill you
• The Alexandrian is up to part 1 and a part two of the review of Shadow of the Dragon Queen.
• Reviews from R’lyeh takes a look at Luke Gygax’s OS1 The Eye of Chentoufi.
• Grognardia offers up a retrospective on Ghostbusters: A Frightfully Cheerful RPG.
• MJR RPG reviews Blackwater Creek.
• The Indie Game Reading Club’s Paul Beakley rounds up even more Q1 reviews.
• The Other Side continues the series of reviews into FASA’s Doctor Who.
• DungeonSolvers reviews The Simple RPG.
• Superjump’s Cat Weblin has an Interview With Realm Architect Creator Nils Philips.

RPG new releases

• David McDonough releases a minimalist fantasy RPG in Spirit & Steel. There are free quick start rules.
• Ghostfire Games give us the grim 5e of;
  • Grim Hollow: The Monster Grimoire
  • Grim Hollow: The Players Guide
  • Grim Hollow: The Campaign Guide
• Borne by a Paladin, stolen by a demon – Frog God eat the Heart of St. Bathus.
• Monsters watch hungrily over humanity in Fabio Silva’s Fate Plus Monster Hunter.
• Onyx Path Publishing has a silver best seller with Trinity Continuum: Adventure!.
• Jonathan Green and ACE Gamebooks have released an RPG set in the world of Beowulf Beastslayer with HEOROT.
• Ross Leiser and Outland Adventure Productions hit publish on the masterpiece edition of Sculptor.
• Kobold Press publish their $5 book on 5e warfare with Book of Blades.
• In physical release news, and with the Target exclusive running out, gamers can pre-order from elsewhere the Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game (Starter Set).

RPG bundle deals

• Save $182.95 (70%) with Atlas Games’ Ars Magica 4th Edition bundle.
• Save $25 (28%) on the Dragon-Knight Publishing Starfall+Hardcover bundle.
• Save $20 (25%) on the Dragon-Knight Publishing Starfall Collection bundle.
• Save $16.76 (33%) with Moon Toad Publishing’s Cepheus Core set.
• Save $9.03 (50%) with the DMsGuild’s SJ: The Dungeoncraft Collection VI.
• Save $8.85 (56%) with the Chaosium community content bundle Call of Cthulhu Survival bundle.
• Save $7.35 (50%) with Azukail Games’ One Week Bundle: Sci-Fi Electrum Best Sellers.
• Save $4.39 (20%) on Aventure Ripples’ Adventures of Ethelon Vol 1 – Dangers in the Forest! bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• ABC Radio Melbourne reports Dungeons & Dragons role-playing skills transferable to the workplace, lecturer says.
• Bell of Lost Souls crunches through the fan discussion and notes Pathfinder Remaster Changes: Player Core Edition – Say Goodbye To Alignment.
• Wired’s Laurence Russell reports Neurodivergent Gamers Are Getting a Seat at the Tabletop.
• Chaosium has free Basic Roleplaying character sheet packs.
• Kobold Press write up their Playtest Packet #3 Design Diary.
• DungeonSolvers look into The Pros and Cons of Playing on a Virtual Tabletop.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• Monsters of Mythic Greece from Ahimsa Kerp nominates “A Very Old School RPG Adventure”
• Korg Slayer | A Solo-TTRPG Game from Caleb Engelke kickstarts “Korg Slayer builds on the solo ttrpg experience by filling the world with heinous foes that must be slain if there is to be peace.”
• Back to BasiX Issue #12 Fanzine from Thom Wilson pitches “Twelfth issue of the series for B/X, OSE, and other OSR games.”
• Devilry For Old-School Essentials from Appendix N Entertainment is working on “Classic & New Devils For OSE”
• The NPC Chronicles from PGScard is working on “Bring Your NPCs to Life: The Ultimate Resource for GMs”
• 20 Wondrous Walls – D&D, Pathfinder, and Black Flag from Matthew J. Hanson submits “Twenty new wall spells for D&D, Pathfinder, and project Black Flag. Wall of paper, wall of vines, wall of death, and more!”
• LOVECRAFT’S TALES from RAPSODA GAMES offers “A unique roll & write game that will transport players into the dark and fascinating world of H.P. Lovecraft.”
• Amazing Encounters & Quests from CZRPG offers “A 5e book with 36 encounters, 36 maps (350+ versions), and new creatures. All this to help you save prep time and impress your players”
• Limitless Lands of Darabok (5E) from Limitless Adventures submits “Expanded combat and spell mechanics, new classes, and exploration in shattered worlds for 5th Edition.”
• 5E Magic Item Cards – handouts for all classic 5E items from Eventyr Games introduces “Make magic items easier to use and more immersive with 300 beautiful card handouts for 5E’s most iconic magic items!”
• Vor & Pal: Knights of Chaos 5E from Eric Bleney proposes “Delve into the twin knights Vor & Pal’s corruption, and unveil the secret behind it in this thrilling adventure for levels 5-7.”
• The Emporium of Wonders 5E from M.T. Black nominates “Surprise and delight your players with 400 new magic items for the world’s favorite roleplaying game!”
• The Traveler’s Guide to the Ruins of the Mana Kings from Chamomile Has A Project introduces “A 5e sourcebook of ancient magic and forgotten ruins, including a new region in the Creative Commons Weskven setting.”
• Viva La Dungeon Issue #1 from Zontco LLC pitches “A fantasy zine filled with maps, monsters and magic for any campaign or solo-play.”
• DnD 5e One Shots of Ethelon Vol 3 – Ancient Temples! from Adventure Ripples crowdfunds “Uncover the secrets of Lost Worlds in these thematic D&D 5e adventures that will upgrade your campaign and keep your players on edge!”
• Yarthe Campaign Setting for 5E & Pathfinder from Draconum Studio nominates “A retro-futurist alternate history setting”
• The Storytellers Screen – Tavern Style Wooden DM Screen from Robert Melrose suggests “Rustic Style DM Screens To Build Your Games Atmosphere”
• Pew Pew: No Disintegrations from Mike Lafferty introduces “A new rules light scifi Tabletop RPG about Bounty Hunters in Space. The latest in the Pew Pew series.”
• It all started in a Tavern – Get your adventure on! from Bea DnD offers “Adventure Hooks, NPC’s, Encounters, Loot and Magic Items for your games”
• The Codex Eternal: Campaign Setting from Horizon’s End suggests “A universal campaign setting with new races, paths to immortality and a classless leveling system adaptable to any tabletop experience!”
• The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG from Christopher Robin Negelein/Ganza Gaming introduces “The official tabletop RPG of the MFPNP website.”
• Architects of the Deep: One-Shot Adventures Vol 2 from Dren Productions Games is working on “Three awesome digital One-Shot Adventures for 5e starting at only $5!”
• SCIENTIFIC BARBARIAN No.5 from Jim Wampler kickstarts “Post-Apocalyptic Role Playing Megazine”
• D100 NPCs from Daniel James pitches “100 system-agnostic fantasy NPC’s to fill your campaigns with!”
• FE Metal Dice – Series 2 from Brother Ming Games offers “7 MORE unique metal dice with detailed enamel designs”
• Mermaid Legend RPG Dice Set from Focus Dice pitches “In the legend, pearls are the tears of mermaids, and now we have added colorful pearls to the dice, and the effect is amazing.”
• OUTER GODS DICE from High Roller offers “Bringing mythos into dice!”
• RPG Resources for Game Masters and Players (5e) from NIMA GAMES suggests “Amazing Print & Play content to improve your RPG session by giving it an amazing look!”
• Aaron Miller’s 5E Ready Reference Stat Cards from Aaron Miller suggests “Quick reference cards for your favorite 5E spells. Wild Shape, Find Familiar, Find Steed, and Conjure Animals and Elementals, and more.”
• Micro Dungeons VII & Shipwreckers Edition (5e D&D) from Ready to Play kickstarts “Micro Dungeon crawling Adventures where the players have to survive shipwreck challenges for the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons”
• Class specific foldable character sheet for Dnd 5e from TornioDuva – Lorenzo Andreozzi submits “Fund 3 months of work to create a class specific sheet for Dnd 5e with a foldable and compact design, customized for each subclass.”
• The Druid’s Curse One-Shot Adventure from Tina Glasneck kickstarts “A 5e adventure with new monsters, magic items, maps, awesome art, and lore. Plus, The Druid’s Oath prequel story. All for ONLY $1!”
• Polyhedral Dice Advent-ure Calendars 11-13 from Black Oak Workshop introduces “Satisfy your sense of adventure and love of dice with one of our fun Advent-ure Calendars! Three new themes await you!”
• THE BOOK OF CHARACTERS: 100+ ready to use NPCs for RPG!!! from Good Ideas… suggests “A collection of 100+ chars ready to be placed in a medieval village during a role-playing game campaign. suitable x D&d and all others”
• Tradefell from Rollforinitiative raises funds for “A complete 3D printable fantasy medieval village for all tabletop role playing games.”
• The Oracles of Aughra: A DnD book of gods and subclasses from Sarsen Games submits “A DnD book of gods with good, evil and chaotic alignments and battle-ready avatars for each, plus over 40 new subclasses.”
• Digital Map Bundle Three from Declan Gray submits “Battle maps for any fantasy TTRPG”
• Zeck’s Shoppe of Riches, A Collection of OSR Magic Items from Philip Reed proposes “This book of D100 magic items and D100 rumors was designed for use with many fantasy OSR roleplaying games.”
• Story Spark Cards: Magical Objects from Story Spark Cards kickstarts “Story prompt cards for Fantasy Authors, GMs and RPG players, Gamebook Authors, Storytellers, and lovers of precious things.”
• Blood and Saints from Mauro Indini is working on “A single player, print and play, horror experience. Choose your path and complete missions. Will you be a Saint or a Sinner?”
• Forgotten Ballad – A Sword & Song Adventure Game from Eric Bloat pitches “Minimalist Tabletop RPG – Inspired by retro video games – by Fellipe da Silva”
• MouseVale from The Mouseketeers is working on “Play as a lil’ guy in a big world! A TTRPG set in a world of fantasy from the perspective of it’s critters!”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.

What a week! How’s your energy level? Mine is low, and I’ve not even had my house raided by Pinkerton agents.

First, we have the summary of RPG news summaries!

• Wizards of the Coast use Pinkerton agents.
• A new revision of Pathfinder is coming.
• Green Ronin will publish Valiant comic book’s official RPG.
• D&D has official ducks.

I wrote up the RPG Publisher Spotlight with High Level Games. Josh Heath is an impressive fellow.

It’s nearly the end of the month, and over on the Geek Native Patron, there’s a tie on the votes for two of the nominees. On the shortlist are;

• Zotiquest Games
• Atelier Clandestin
• Sixpence Games
• Sanctum Media
• Forever People

Patrons can vote, and Patrons also will get a first edition Neurocity RPG thanks to Gavriel Quiroga.

Routinely Itemised doesn’t have a section for tech news that might affect RPG publishers, so let me put in here because Adobe, a PDF giant (and owner) that many creators use will now start deleting content from bins.

With that warning out of the way, it’s time to get on with the RPG news!

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RPG news from Geek Native

• Andrew Ashby of the store We Geek Together broke (smashed) the Guinness World Record for largest D&D game.
• Well! There’s a new revision of Pathfinder on the way; in four parts.
• Green Ronin secures a deal with DMG Entertainment and Valiant Entertainment to publish the Valiant Adventures RPG.
• D&D released official cosplaying ducks. No, really, meet the new Hank the Ranger duck and Diana the Acrobat duck.
• Geek Native secured a look at more art from the crowdfunding 5e folk horror of the Wild Hunt.
• The Bundle of Holding as a big deal on Tiny Dungeon(s).
• There’s also a Bundle of Holding deal on the PvP (sorta) RPG of Fellowship.

Spotlight: High Level Games

RPG news from around the web

• It’s a bit RPG related; it’s undoubtedly the least welcome “get over it” move Hasbro could have made to the OGL drama and this week’s big news. What happened? Wizards of the Coast Raids YouTuber’s House to Magic: The Gathering Cards.
• In juxtaposition, RPG historian Ben Riggs wrote How to Make Dungeons & Dragons a $1 Billion Brand.
• Alphastream is doing a great job sticking with write-ups of the D&D Creator Summit and digging in deep. This week, Wizards Redefines One D&D.
• D&D movie related: Dungeons and Dragons Concept art from Paul Gerrard.
• It’s not all D&D, even if it connects back to the OGL drama, as Blizzard Watch’s Matthew Rossi notes Critical Role’s Darrington Press to release Daggerheart, a new TTRPG system.
• Frank Dudenhausen, Julia Knobloch, et al release the The Open Cthulhu Mythos SRD.
• Also, still using the old brand and from Kobold Press is Project Black Flag’s Monster playtest.
• Polygon also notes that D&D 5th edition will live on in Project Black Flag, and The Vineyard leads the way.
• Typically insightful and helpful, Morrus answers What Are the Changes in Pathfinder Remastered?
• TOS 2nd PRO edition v.20 Character Sheet is out and with two new sourcebooks.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Reviews from R’lyeh has a Quick-Start Saturday review of The Termintor and a review of an Ultimate Chaos Edition Black Sword Hack.
• PC Gamer reviews Imperium Maledictum and concludes The new Warhammer 40,000 tabletop RPG is like playing D&D in a horrifying galaxy where everything wants to kill you.
• Throat Punch Games pen a ring side report on The Dragonbane Quickstart.
• Jared wonders, ‘What Do I Know About Reviews?’ as he reviews Thay Land of the Red Wizards.
• MJR RPG reviews more of the Seeds of Terror with Scream of the Mandrake.
• Charles talks Blood and Doom with Ferruccio Argento.
• Aaron Boehm at Bloody Disgusting writes up ‘Teeth’ – Creators Preview Their Monster Hunting Role-Playing Game.
• Julia Roth at Geek Girls Authority has a Tavern Talk Thursday with Joseph Limbaugh.

RPG new releases

• No surprise to see the bestseller badge appear on the eagerly received Edge Studio publication of Twilight Imperium RPG Embers of the Imperium.
• Newt Newport and D101 Games core and concise SimpleQuest is out.
• Island of Bees has a great name and has created the crafting supplement for fantasy RPGs with Krillo’s Guide.
• Damian L.P. Dusk has released a new RPG with the Dice of Myth | Game Manual.
• Arion Games and Graham Bottley give us Domesday Campaign Book II.
• Cezar Capacle follows successful crowdfunding with the release of Derelict Delvers.
• Matthew Tapp has a Pay What You Want on the Runes of Thernn: A Guide to Ancient Rites.
• Silverhive Games have a playtest release of 3dX System.
• Not available on DTRPG (yet), but on Itch is Chamomile’s Guide to Everything.
• In physical pre-releases there’s Magpie Games’ Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game (Starter Set).

RPG bundle deals

• Save $63.54 (56%) with INfinium Game Studios Complete FlexTale Collection.
• Save $6.98 (39%) with Relentless Fiction’s Meet me at the Crossroads bundle.
• Save $4/35 (20%) with Adventure Ripples Adventures of Ethelon Volume 2 – Mountain Madness! .
• Save $1.00 (25%) with the Chaosium community content The “Tales” Birthday bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Geek Native patrons are getting a free first edition of Neurocity.
• Geek Native wrote up the Chicago Tribune’s investigation into why there’s no Gygax statue in Lake Geneva and calls out The Satan Thing.
• The Alexandrian writes up Part 1 of A History of the Stat Block and Part 1.
• DAME Magazine and Brynn Tannehill opines Dungeons & Dragons Is the Game We Need Now.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• THE WHITE SHEETS from Number B Studio is working on “§QUEST GAME BOOK§ This 13-day project will conclude on the Full Moon. Very symbolic for this grim story…”
• Tragedy at Wood-witch Rise : An Adventure for DCC RPG from Nick Baran crowdfunds “Tragedy at Wood-witch Rise is a tense, 2-3 hour, stand-alone DCC RPG adventure packed into a short zine.”
• Crit/Fail Skill Cards for 5e from Two Starving Gnolls introduces “Critical Success and Critical Failure SKILL Cards for 5e!”
• Kiss Time Dice from Scatter Games introduces “A set of beautiful Sharpe Edged Resin Dice, aesthetically cast, polished, and painted, will win your wows of every RPG times”
• Primordial Behemoths: Rebuilding Terra from Pearlyn Sim crowdfunds “A solo role-playing game about rebuilding Terra, a region once destroyed and poisoned by humankind, and calming frenzied behemoths.”
• Beautiful Dungeon Mats from Ian Schofield nominates “Beautifully illustrated Dungeon Map Artwork for TTRPGs & that Roll to Move Game. Each map is 3ftx3ft & 300DPI, PDF file Rewards only.”
• Return to Domain of Blood – Virtual Boxed Set from Mario Barbati suggests “Maps and resources for seasoned vampire hunters!”
• Citizen’s Guide to Aeopolis 5E from Dev Waslusky proposes “Join the party in a cosmopolitan metropolis in its Golden Age for 5e!”
• March of the Bone King from SideQuest20 raises funds for “An RPG skeleton token set to enhance your gameplay.”
• Revolutionize Your Hobby: Hobby Grid Modular Workspace from MTech Cave raises funds for “Elevate your Painting, TCGs, Brick-Building, Model-Making & Tinkering with Versatile Magnetic Modules for Unmatched Organization”
• What Is Light Without Dark RPG from Craig Campbell nominates “A supplement for the Ennie-nominated Good Strong Hands RPG. Core book available, too!”
• Handy Hubs 2: more versatile maps for use with any TTRPG! from DeepDark Designs Ltd raises funds for “More stunning digital, VTT, and print-&-play floorplans for use with D&D, Pathfinder, or any other fantasy tabletop roleplaying game!”
• WaterSpire from Christopher Abbey suggests “Mardi-Gras Adventure: 3D printable Buildings and Miniatures for TTRPG games and Figurines/Display”
• Wyrmlings RPG – A wholesome, all-ages fantasy TTRPG from Lone Colossus Games crowdfunds “A low-prep TTRPG with the feel of shows like Steven Universe and My Little Pony about young dragons going on adventures with friends.”
• Monsters of the Dungeon for 5th Edition and other RPGs from Cawood Publishing introduces “Brave the Darkness! 100 new monsters for 5E, PF2, and much more!”
• Ars Mechanica – Skies of Heavy Shadows – 5 E supplement from Gearwheel Grimoires submits “Embrace the Skies of Heavy Shadows with your party in this amazing steampunk D&D supplement for any fan of TTRPG like DnD and else!”
• Adventure College Student Handbook – D&D 5e compatible from Fiona Shade Stories is working on “An illustrated magicpunk world with races, backgrounds, equipment, and more! PDF & Paperback!”
• S.P.O.F. Protect the Familiars! Shop, Pets & Roll Tables from TGrejczik pitches “Charity shop with goods, loot tables, and adoptable pets for your TTRPG 5e-Compatible”
• Madinat Al’Asrar — The City of Portals from Brian C proposes “A Dungeons & Dragons 5E and OSE campaign set in an extremely detailed city filled with shops, encounters and portals to mystery.”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.

It’s the first weekend following Scotland’s oldest tabletop gaming convention, so let’s pick up and see what’s up with the RPG news…

First, we have the summary of news summaries!

• German publisher Ulisses Spiele has bought Sigil Services.
• Green Ronin picks up Into the Mother Lands.
• Arby’s sold out of gamer dice.
• Critical Role announces two new RPG systems.
• Gloomhaven’s RPG goes heavy with the tabletop minis.

There’s not much of a trend this week, D&D news, of course, some bundle deals, and perhaps the headline is Green Ronin’s rescue of Into The Mother Lands. What caught your eye?

PEG selling Sigil Services to Ulisses Spiele is also interesting, as it shows vibrancy in third-party virtual tabletops despite Hasbro’s edging ever closer to launch. It’s that subscription model that I used to waffle on about.

Kickstarter had elements of bursting activity in that several $15K+ projects launched, and it might have been a big week. However, volume was low, and the average asking price of a campaign is still relatively static. Perhaps the oddness was the number of ‘first-time’ creators asking for reasonably big bucks.

As for Edinburgh’s RPG and tabletop Conpulsion, well, would you believe I did a TikTok supercut?

On with the RPG news!

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RPG news from Geek Native

• It’s a sign of times as Ulisses buys the VTT-crafting specialist Sigil Services in a deal with Pinnacle Entertainment involved.
• Supporting a Kickstarter, Geek Native has an exclusive of art for the colorblind edition of Neurocity.
• Using the Monster! Monster! system The Lair of the Leopard Empresses marks the return of Mindjammer Press.
• It’s not the only bit of D&D fashion news, but Geek Native began by asking Does EMP have the best D&D 50th anniversary t-shirt?.
• The other and just an impressive fashion story are these character sheet t-shirts from CultureFly.
• Raising money for an RPG family in need, Independence Games, Mongoose, and others launch the Keith Frye Memorial bundle.
• At the Bundle of Holding, there’s a flash deal on the deco-punk Airship Daedalus.
• While, at Humble, there’s a shortlived offer on the impressive 13th Age fantasy RPG.

Spotlight: High Level Games

RPG news from around the web

• The D&D TV series gets Deadpool producer Drew Crevello as showrunner.
• GameRant’s Eric Law points out that the New Dungeons and Dragons DMG Will Be More User-Friendly.
• Green Ronin steps in where Andrews McMeel pulled out and will publish the Into The Mother Lands RPG.
• Confirmed for August is the 5th edition (not that 5e) of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. (Even though Renegade are mean to Geek Native; I’ve pre-ordered)
• Critical Role has two bits of key news, and Dicebreaker covers all with Critical Role publisher announces new tabletop titles and hiatus on Critical Role Adventures.
• Matt Bassil at Wargamer calls out Call of Cthulhu RPG makes AI bot to teach you the rules.
• Polygon and Charlie Hall notes Gloomhaven: The Role Playing Game’s launch plans include more than 600 miniatures.
• Etan Vlessing at The Hollywood Reporter notes that Hasbro is in Talks to Sell Entertainment One to Founder Darren Throop.
• Sold out in a flash as Arby’s relaunched their D&D dice.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Bow down before the wise output of Reviews from R’lyeh and soak up Cthulhu Companion, War Stories, and the James Bond 007 RPG.
• The savvy Jared Rascher gets a first impression of the Demiplane Nexus Vampire Ultimate bundle.
• James Maliszewski pens a retrospective on Traveller’s Shadows.
• Nerds on Earth’s Abram Towle offers a Review Of Lost Omens: Firebrands For Pathfinder 2nd Edition.
• MRJ RPG has an Isle of the Damned Review – Call of Cthulhu (Grindhouse)
• Linda Codega sums up as Kate Welch Reflects on Lord of the Rings, Games, and Play.
• Exiled News talks to Darren W. Pearce.

RPG new releases

• A best seller already, Free League Publishing goes digital with a release of Dragonbane’s core set.
• Al Spader and Aliso Cybe release the Sentience 2d20 Core Rulebook as a Pay What You Want (suggested $10) following the PWYA ($4.99) quickstart.
• Evil Hat, Rae Nedjadi, Josh Hittie, and Darold Ross’ doomsday Apocalypse Keys is here.
• Modiphius, Richard August, Bill Heron, et al publish Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20: Serpent and the Sands.
• Mr Aston’s Name Your Own Price space opera Star Dogs Diceless Edition is out.
• Red Ram Studio has released the UR: Sword & Sorcery, Apocalyptic Bronze-Age, Campaign Primer.
• Shard Studios has a non-traditional bundle/1066-page download with Shard RPG Core Books.
• Yellobyte Studios has the clever idea and publication of the Sci-Fi Monster Manual.
• Warning, there’s mature content in JAMGAS’ survival horror Fate Awaits.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $96.93 (73%) with Matthew Tapp’s Great Thernn bundle.
• Save $9.80 (50%) with the Chaosium community content bundle The Edinburgh Files – Part One.
• Igor Comunale has a gothic RPG of love, death and traffic obsession in which you save $4.49 (50%) with In Remembrance of Claudia.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• The Genre Police begin to doubt genres in On the Watchlist.
• Agreed, it’s an odd one, but Geek Native secured an extra PrintSafari discount coupon.
• Mixed Signals, the RPG blog, weighs in with thoughts on Wizard of the Coast’s problem with trust.
• There are loads of annoying ads, but Great British Life has a write-up to Explore Northern Ireland locations in the Dungeons & Dragons film
• Stargazer writes up WotC’s future VTT – a few thoughts.
• Kobold Press’ Kelly Pawlik details Dungeon 23: Long Way Down.
• 9th Level’s Heather O’Neill addresses What is polymorph, and why is it so AWESOME?.
• Mollie Russell surfaces Find your next DnD setting with this fanmade search engine.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• TGMG: 100 Dungeon NPCs from The Monster Directive proposes “Unleash a realm of unforgettable 100 dungeon NPC’s designed to make your life easier and enthral your players.”
• Gobblers from Stef Wilson submits “Gobblers brings a traditional Dungeon and Dragon adventure with a twist! Gobblers is a twenty page COMIC story with RPG accessories.”
• Be Like a Cat – a solo / two player journalling RPG. from Critical Kit offers “Sharpen your claws and take to the streets in this TTRPG from the creator of Be Like a Crow.”
• World of Lùmina – 5E campaign setting from Nerdura Games nominates “The official setting of One-shot Dungeons adventures.”
• D20^2 – Advantage/Disadvantage from erik rocha offers “Roll once get 2 numbers.”
• Dungeons & You: Monsters & Pets Vol.1 / E5. from Gabriel suggests “”Monsters, Pets, and Advanced Pet Systems, Corruption System, Two Subclasses.” Content Compatible with D&D 5e.”
• C.A.T.O. from Dragon House Press is working on “Cloned Remnants of Earth”
• Tales of Arwana from Feather & Horn introduces “A fantasy setting for Tabletop RPG setting for 5E, set in a world of jungles and mountains inspired by nature of Southeast Brazil.”
• Honor among Thieves – DICE SET from Antonio S is working on “The world first perfectly balanced LOADED dice set for board games & D&D campaigns that will make you the king of every game night.”
• Freeroam from LunarFox Inc proposes “a TTRPG Sytem designed with 3rd party creators in mind. It can be used in almost any setting you can imagine.”
• Fantasy Armies: A 5E Supplement from Assassin NPC submits “A 5E compendium that will help make running fantasy armies fun and easy in your tabletop games. Three unique fantasy armies included.”
• Lords of War – The Epic Conclusion to the Mutanti Cycle from Matthew David is working on “Unite the factions, lead massive armies and save the continent of Mutanti in this thrilling D&D 5e campaign using new Mass Combat rules”
• D&D Dress Up – Human Fighter from Rengin Tümer nominates “11.000+ combos of customized character art for your TTRPG campaigns, for the price of a coffee!”
• All Chimeras Great and Small: Tabletop RPG Adventure Module from Gaming Honors proposes “A 0- or 1st-level adventure compatible with Dungeon Crawl Classics or 5e!”
• Scoundrels of Brixton from Jeffrey Jones suggests “A sci-fi setting of crime and conflict compatible with Cepheus Engine.”
• RŌNIN from Slightly Reckless Games proposes “The Mörk Borg you know and love, disemboweled and resurrected on the island of Kage no Shima. Death before surrender.”
• The Click Modular Counter System from CounterMagic Gaming kickstarts “A Better, Modular Counter for Tabletop Gaming”
• Quest Journals for Game Masters and Players from Roll & Play Press is working on “Effortlessly record your characters, worlds and adventures with our stunning TTRPG binders and notebooks for 5E, Pathfinder and more.”
• Tales from Myriad TTRPG from Carson Daniel nominates “An original fantasy tabletop-roleplay designed for new players and older gamers alike, with a focus on exploration and killer wardrobes”
• CALL of IRAGAS from Yog’du Games suggests “A quick resupply stop at an island monastery becomes a desperate battle against a mind-bending interplanar threat. For 5e & OSE games!”
• The Lost City of Gethamane – 5e adventure ($1 ONLY) from ECLIPTICA suggests “5e PDF adventure designed for a party of 4-6 characters of level 5-7”
• The +2 Rodcast from Tony Binns suggests “What would D&D characters talk about if they could do a podcast? Well, thanks to the +2 Rodcast you are about to find out.”
• One Dollar One Shot – The People’s Prison from One Dollar One Shots introduces “A 5e adventure with new monsters, magic items, maps, original art, lore, and more. All for ONLY$1!”
• The Game Master’s Pocket Pal: Crypts & Cultists from Ardann Creative crowdfunds “A collection of 10 system-neutral maps with an emphasis on the occult”
• Cthulhu Coin 3 – Dormancy from Cthulhu Mythos introduces “We’ve continuously improved the coin, and the color scheme for version 3 is exceptional, with a combination that is very rare.”
• Starry Night – Blue Sandstone DND Dice Set from Professor Edward nominates “The sparkling golden stars cover the surface of each dice in this set, with a hidden galaxy inside each one.”
• Harvest Compendium Vol. 1 for Pathfinder 2e from Anne Gregersen kickstarts “Custom loot for official Pathfinder monsters!”
• INVESTIGATION from Stephan Bilodeau introduces “This RPG board game, developed by two authors, is one of a kind. This adventure is meant to be immersive and simple. For 1-6 players.”
• Ninja vs. Samurai Role-Playing Game from Rayburn A. Jordan Jr. proposes “A fictional roleplaying game inspired by historical events, locations, and people, centered around feudal Japan.”
• Forge: The TTRPG Every World Needs! from Ricky Martinez pitches “Universal: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Zombies, Horror, to heroic. Fun, Strategic Combat with easy ruled. The last RPG rulebook you’ll ever read!”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.

Oh, it’s the 200th Routinely Itemised RPG news summary. Why did no one send me a cake?

So, that bundle of RPG news summaries!

• One to highlight is that cancer-suffering Owen K.C. Stephens is raising medical fees with Bundle #1 (saving $723.24 – 95%) and Bundle #2 (saving $728.95 – 95%) (as usual Geek Native will donate in addition to any affiliate fees earned).
• There’s a Star Trek: Lower Decks Campaign Guide RPG coming.
• Holostreets opened on DrivethruRPG for third-party publishers to sell Shadowrunk content.
• There’s still some confusion over what Wizards of the Coast is planning to do with mix-parentage in the next (but no longer One) D&D.

There’s no Geek Native podcast tomorrow, as I’ll be at Edinburgh’s local TTRPG gaming convention – Compulsion.

Watch the blog’s social media for the likely photograph and video spam, sorry, content that I’ll produce. Compared to your big American conventions, though, Compulsion is quaint (and often lovely).

It’s been a week of hard graft from RPG publishers, with Paizo and Kobold pushing ahead with their D&D-not-D&D projects and indies being busy. Kickstarter has had a few cancelled projects, a few big ones, and while that’s spicer than usual, there’s not been much volume.

On the other hand, this news-centric blog rarely gets many blog comments as people read and go, but this week, as you can see in the chat portal, there’s been a few more. That’s always neat to see.

On with the RPG news!

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RPG news from Geek Native

• Modiphius secured the license to produce the Star Trek: Lower Decks Campaign Guide.
• Catalyst Game Labs and DrivethruRPG launched their community commons program for Shadowrun with Holostreets.
• Popular Italian RPG publishing studio Two Little Mice released their quickstart for Outgunned.
• ATypicalFaux has published the free to download VERSE quickstart.
• Geek Native got a first look at Lion Banner’s Multiverse BattleMap Books.
• At the Bundle of Holding, there’s a Mongoose d20 offer and a Pelgrane/Robin D. Laws deal on Hillfolk.
• On Humble, the next-gen TTRPG One More Multiverse has a deal.

Spotlight: High Level Games

RPG news from around the web

• Alphastream put together a helpful The Future of the D&D VTT at the Creator Summit.
• On a similar note, Gareth Branwyn compiled Making sense of Wizards of the Coast’s recent and somewhat bewildering Creator Summit.
• It’s not a straightforward news story, but Dexterto reports that Dungeons & Dragons reworks Half-Species due to “inherent racism” .
• Gizmodo gets into Paizo Releases First Draft for Its Universal RPG License to the Public.
• Chaosium’s own Michael O’Brien pens a really useful Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine—7 changes in the new edition.
• Brian Child’s article for Fortune went everywhere and it’s I’ve been my friends’ favorite DungeonMaster for 2 years now and I gave ChatGPT-fueled Dungeons & Dragons a try. I’m not threatened.
• Bleeding Cool has the Dungeons & Dragons Producer Reveals Which Popular Character Was Cut.
• CNN has a video feature on Solo Dungeons & Dragons adventures.
• We know this already, but The Straits Times notes At nearly 50 years old, Dungeons & Dragons is more popular than ever.
• Tabletop Gaming News covers that Wizards of the Coast Unveils New Anime-Style ‘Iconic Party’ for Japanese Release of D&D.
• Christian Hoffer is swift with the news that a New Dungeons & Dragons Game Announced (boo, autoplay video).
• Kobold Press gets into what some official “Project Blag Flag” (should they still use that old codename>) partners are up to with Project Black Flag Friday: Partners at the Table.
• Paizo is busy Introducing the Stolen Fate Player’s Guide.
• Six Pence Games is putting together an RPG charity zine called Killing for a Cause.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Reviews from R’lyeh’s output is impressive, again, with a fanzine focus on CY_OPS Issue.one, Never Mind The Dice Rolls, Love Letters From The Baker House Band, Polaris Issue 1, Bronx Beasts Volume 1: Games Rules and the Best of… White Dwarf Articles.
• Egg Embry writes up Black Chrome: A Tech & Style Guide [& REVIEW] For Cyberpunk RED.
• Linda Whitson at d20Radio also offers an Astral Review – Black Chrome (Cyberpunk RED).
• MRJ RPG has a Children of Chaac Review – Seeds of Terror (Call of Cthulhu).
• Katy Mauerman at CBR notes D&D Beyond’s Before the Storm Is the Perfect Introduction for New Players.
• Roleplayers Chronicle does a Review: Wizards of the Coast – Keys From the Golden Vault (Dungeons & Dragons).
• Over at Grognardia, there’s a Retrospective: Gamma World (Second Edition).
• Cannibal Halfling Games’ Aaron Marks reviews the new ORC Basic Roleplaying edition.
• Wargamer’s Timothy Linward covers We played as tax auditors in the new Warhammer 40k RPG.
• Julia Roth at Geek Girls Authority talks to actress Kelly Holden Bashar about TTRPGs

RPG new releases

• 13th Moon Games has published their 2d12 game of witches with Coven & Crucible Core Rulebook.
• Play Kong, Crow, Pacific Rim et al. on Foundry VTT as Evil Genius Games release the module for Everyday Heroes.
• Dead Channel Studios has published The GM’s Toolkit For Random Encounters.
• Wil Brown has released the Clan of Death, the Hecata, Those Who Remain.
• Thux Cruo has released the first edition of the fantasy RPG Mordhark.
• High Metric Games has the community content supplement for Genesys with Just Drive! A Ground Vehicle Supplement.
• In print, retailers have had a big WizKids refresh with D&D’s new Onslaught Game, Critical ROle minis and Pathfinder Battles minis.
• Also, there’s the hardcover preorder for Modiphius Entertainment’s Dune: The Great Game: Houses Of The Landsraad.

RPG bundle deals

• Help well-known RPG designer Owen K.C. Stephens who had a pulmonary embolism and a cancer diagnosis together, pay his medical bills with Bundle #1 (saving $723.24 – 95%) and Bundle #2 (saving $728.95 – 95%).
• Save $113.27 (75%) with the DMsGuild’s Big Bundle of Everything.
• Save $9 (50%) with Orbital Intelligence’s Snake-Wolf bundle.
• Save $5.23 (25%) in Grim Press’ Baba Lysaga’s Nocturnes and Nightmares Map Pack bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Charles continues his world-building with Year Zero Dragonbane.
• Helpfully, EN World’s Morrus has put together A Basic Guide To Using ORC (Open RPG Creative License).
• Paramount Pictures shares the Honour Among Thieves cast talking about Gelatinous Cubes and other D&D stuff.
• MovieWeb’s Nathan Williams writes up The Great Dungeons & Dragons Panic of 1982, Explained.
• For Hatchet, Ethan Benn wrote Essay: Dungeons & Dragons may be fantasy, but it has taught me about true friendship.
• Derek Garcia opines Why One D&D Is Actually Terrible For The Future Of Dungeons & Dragons.
• World Anvil pens How to turn your TTRPG game into a novel.
• A Knight at the Opera writes up The Genres the OSR Can’t Do.
• Parody site McSweeney’s wonders Are you playing Dungeons & Dragons or doing your taxes?

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• The Wildsea: Storm & Root from Mythworks kickstarts “The first expansion to The Wildsea, a weird fantasy tabletop roleplaying game set in a rampant ocean of verdant green.”
• D100 chaotic events in a magic store from Alvarowhatsabi crowdfunds “100 Random events and adventure hooks during the visit to the magic store. Compatible with 5E, Pathfinder, 3.5, d&d…”
• Heavy Gear Roleplaying Game Fourth Edition from submits “Project to bring back the Heavy Gear RPG after more than 15 years as a new 4th Edition, compatible with the older 1st and 2nd editions.”
• Infernal Journal & Dwarven Journal for D&D RPG – Notebook 5E from John & Nicole Clark introduces “Level-up your characters with journals from the infernal realm and dwarven mines! (sz: 8.5 x 11) Have cool dice? Get a cool Journal!”
• Stoneburner from Fari RPGs pitches “A Solo-Friendly TTRPG of Demon Hunting and Community Building in a Dwarven Asteroid Mine.”
• D100 Side Quests + Notice Board Asset Pack from Steven Chabotte raises funds for “Create fascinating diversions for your players with 100 simple side quests + build unique handouts with the notice board asset pack.”
• Raven’s Reserve: Arcane Tools and Tokens for Games and Magic from David Savedge raises funds for “A Collection of Hand Forged Magical Artifacts for Tabletop Role Playing Games and Witchcraft!”
• Inevitable: A Doomed Arthurian Western RPG from SoulMuppet Publishing introduces “In this fantasy western roleplaying game, your party of disastrously sad cowboy knights fail to stop the apocalypse.”
• Price of the Dragon: A Role-Playing Game for Couples from Phoenix Grey is working on “TTRPGs and LARPing come together for the next installment in the Lewd Dungeon Adventures series. 5e compatible version available.”
• Folio #30 The Great Maze Adventure! from Scott Taylor crowdfunds “Part 5 of a new AD&D and 5E Mega-Dungeon Adventure Set, The Virgin Mine!”
• Folstavia – Anime 5E RPG World Setting & Monster Expansions from Dyskami Publishing suggests “Six anime role-playing expansions – Folstavia: The Infinite Crossroads setting, monster book, creature cards, background creator & maps”
• Nations & Cannons: The American Crisis for DnD 5E from Flagbearer Games nominates “Experience the American Revolution firsthand with this DnD 5th Edition historical TTRPG sourcebook and campaign guide”
• Why Slay Dragons : When You Could Be FISHING (TTRPG 5e Book) from IO Publishing offers “A comprehensive guide to fishing for your TTRPG World, featuring 100+ fish, compatible with all 5e systems!”
• Dungeons & Lasers ® V: World of Deuslair 5E from Archon Studio pitches “Explore the Deuslair Universe with a 5E-compatible RPG Campaign and Bestiary Supplement, featuring 400+ plastic Miniatures”
• DND/TTRPG Classes | Enamel Pin Set from sleepyrogue kickstarts “A collection of tabletop and DND class inspired enamel pin designs.”
• Borealis-9 Beckons, Who Wants to Live Forever? from Kriegshund Press crowdfunds “A 5E Compatible Table Top Science-Fantasy Game for Adventurous People”
• Amber Mosquito RPG Dice from The Blackstone Bureau nominates “Inspired by the humble mosquito trapped in amber – Dice from when dinosaurs ruled the Earth!”
• The Dark After Dawn TTRPG from Ryan Wright (Rix Writos) suggests “A Rules light/narrative heavy TTRPG, of mystical horror and chaos! Built on a custom Ruleset.”
• Wagham: Original Setting & Supplement for 5e from Paolo Ferrante suggests “Original Setting & Supplement with 500+ pages book for 5e, a new way to play the old way!”
• Adventure Triad | 3 Adventures + Miniatures from Megalithic Prints proposes “Miniatures | 3 Adventures | 3 Settings | 3 Playstyles – across pastoral England, feudal Japan and exploration age Caribbean!”
• Apocrypha Anniversary Hardcover | Mörk Borg from Christian Eichhorn offers “The goat’s rotten corpse stirs. It returns, much improved, to menace once more.”
• Wild & Far Frontiers from Matteo Pastorio suggests “A new original Western Fantasy Campaign Setting for the 5th Edition of the most important RPG ever created.”
• DARKHEIM: Eldritch-One from Rocket Pig Games kickstarts “A legendary (5e) monster miniature for tabletop games (3d printable resin STL) and 5e compatible PDF.”
• Wild Magic Surge Deck for 5E from New Comet Games is working on “A beautiful set of cards to use instead of your Wild Magic Surge rolls for your Sorcerers for 5E”
• Elves, Dwarfs & Orcs – 3D printable terrain sets! from Mujja’s Forge nominates “3D Printable STL Files, Terrain for Tabletop, Role Playing Games, Wargames and RPG”
• 100 Cursed Items for Dnd 5e! from Paws for Effect offers “Unleash the Dark Powers Within: A Collection of 100 Cursed Items for Your Next D&D 5e Campaign”
• Stickman Battlegrounds: a kid-made card-based combat RPG from Bennu Brothers submits “Fight to the end in a world of brutal doodles! Made by a 14-year-old indie game enthusiast from Baltimore.”
• +80 Miniatures Collection STL FILES from Diana Ramírez crowdfunds “+80 ALLS MODELS /WARRIOS /SEXY Models SFW / NSFW MODELS/ only stl files 120 MM /72 MM”
• The Curse of Thayer Hollow: A Gothic D&D 5E Adventure from William Murakami-Brundage introduces “The Curse of Thayer Hollow is a tale of darkness, betrayal, and bitter family ties. A D&D 5E adventure for level 1-4 characters.”
• Infernal Journey: Travels through the Divine Inferno from Alex Darrell kickstarts “A proposed homebrew adventure which will be modeled loosely around the Divine Comedy made playable for 5e roleplaying systems.”
• Unicorn dice 45mm Handmade (Canceled) from MicroToys proposes “Cute Unicorn playing inside the dice.”
• World Well Wasted: Gestalt from Daniel Curbow nominates “WWW: Gestalt is a tabletop role playing game about Gestalts, powerful psychics who also pilot mechs.”
• Viking Saga Miniatures from Chris Abbey @ Sally 4th introduces “Physical(Injection Plastic or White Metal Molded) and Digital(STL) Gaming Miniatures for TTRPG games and Figurines/Display Painting”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.

We made it through April’s Fools, although I did think the news about Phil Reed stepping down from Steve Jackson Games might have been!

So, that bundle of RPG news summaries!

• Meredith Placko takes over from Phil Reed as Steve Jackson Games CEO
• Wizards of the Coast’s D&D summit was rocky, and One D&D dropped as a brand
• Chaosium release Basic Roleplaying with an ORC license.
• Project Black Flag is now Tales of the Valiant.
• Christian Mehrstam’s Whitehack Fourth Edition is out.
• Samurai Sheepdog are offering $150 off in the 2022 Annual Collection2022 Annual Collection.

And since it’s the first RI of the month, there’s the RPG Publisher Spotlight to write about.

The winner for April is High Level Games.

Geek Native Patrons can vote here for one of the following May candidates;

• Zotiquest Games
• Atelier Clandestin
• Sixpence Games
• Sanctum Media
• Forever People

If you have got a nomination, then get in touch.

Now, I wonder how many weeks it’s been since D&D drama.

On with the RPG news!

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RPG news from Geek Native

• I’m not sure the ORC license is in its final form, but Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying system ORC-edition is out.
• Project Black Flag enters its final form (or brand, at least) as Kobold Press reveal Tales of the Valiant.
• The new CEO at Steve Jackson Games is Meredith Placko has Phil Reed steps down.
• Goodman Games has published the official and DC-powered Dying Earth RPG.
• At the Bundle of Holding, there’s a flash sale on the horror Shiver bundle and a longer bundle offer on third-party products for Mork Borg.
• Meanwhile, at Humble, there’s a comic book gathering with Return to the World of Dungeons & Dragons.

Spotlight: High Level Games

RPG news from around the web

• Wizards of the Coast’s attempt to turn around D&D creator opinion did not go as planned. Some angles;
  • Daniel Kwan was virtually there and wrote up Thoughts from a D&D Creator Summit Virtual Attendee.
  • From Tabletop Gaming News: D&D Creator Summit Plagued by Controversy and Technical Issues.
  • From GameRant: Dungeons and Dragons Creator Summit Turned Into a Roast of Wizards of the Coast.
• However, there are some big news (headlines) from the event;
  • Reason’s Robby Soave makes the case on Is Dungeons & Dragons Eliminating’ Inherently Racist’ Half-Elves, Half-Orcs?.
  • Christian Hoffer counters half-elves are staying; Dungeons & Dragons Clarifies Plans for Half-Elves and Mixed Parentages in One D&D. (Annoying autoplay videos)
  • GameRant’s Eric Law concludes Dungeons and Dragons is Giving Up the One D&D Name.
• Iconic publication The New Yorker digs into The Magic and Melancholy of Dungeons & Dragons.
• Joseph Kime at GGRecon notes that Dungeons & Dragons directors are ready for a sequel.
• Screen Rant’s Carrie Lambertsen offers a summary with DnD’s VTT: Everything You Need To Know About One D&D’s Virtual Tabletop.
• R. Talsorian Games announces the next book for Cyberpunk RED is the faction and NPC guide Danger Gal Dossier.
• And Edge will finally publish its Twilight Imperium RPG.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Jared Rascher reviews the RPG of queer disco and cosmic horror Moonlight on Roseville Beach.
• Reviews from R’lyeh stays true with a look at Corsairs versus Cthulhu.
• At Bleeding Cool, Rich Johnston curates an autobiographical offering on When Jim Zub Was Going To Turn Down Writing Dungeons & Dragons.
• On EN World, Egg Embry interviews RiotMinds’ Theodore Bergqvist in From Selling Trudvang To Into The Wild (5E).
• Charles Dunwoody found time to talk Raiders of R’lyeh with Quentin Bauer.
• On Tavern Talk Thursday, Julia Roth talked with Steve Trinkl.
• The Mary Sue’s Julia Glassman gets a great interview with ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Directors on the Masochism of Bringing D&D to the Screen.

RPG new releases

• Whitehack has a silver best seller already with Christian Mehrstam’s Whitehack Fourth Edition.
• Evil Genius Games has expanded the cinematic adventures for their Everyday Heroes system with Pacific Rim.
• Roll20 has the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game Core Rulebook Bundle.
• Free to download and from Mats is the light d20 Leap Engine’s Leap Guide.
• Indie publisher, Dr Mike Desing of Splintered Realms Publishing, has released a revised edition of the lost cost core rules Hack’D & Slash’D .
• The Gauntlet releases the Brindlewood Bay-based game of analogue horror with Public Access.
• Name your own price for Wym Lawson’s submission to the Queer Games Bundle 2023 at Itch is Case Closed: A Cold Case RPG.
• Filed under both physical and “I might buy this” is the hardback, and Ben Aaronvitch and Lynne Hardy signed Rivers of London RPG.

RPG bundle deals

• Save $150 (71%) with Samurai Sheepdog’s 2022 Annual Collection.
• Save $11.98 (40%) with the DMsGuild’s The Illuminated bundle.
• Save $3.59 (20%) with ShadeSide Entertainment’s Realm of Shade 2022 bundle.
• Save $3.49 (28%) in the Chaosium community content The Bayou bundle.
• Save $2.98 (25%) in the DMsGuild’s Feywild: Folklore bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• In D&D, which are taller? Halflings or Gnomes? Here’s a fan-made size chart.
• Valid for me, and how many of your friends are metal heads? Louder’s Chris Chantler gets into “When you get communities with a common enemy, you’re in this together”: why heavy metal loves Dungeons & Dragons.
• At Softonic, Randy Meeks writes Beyond dragons and dungeons: Discover new worlds with these RPGs for beginners.
• At CBC, Michelle Villagracia puts together Experts share ways to enhance your Dungeons & Dragons gatherings — online and in-person.
• Science site Phys ORG and Dr Jesse Olsen explain Why Dungeons and Dragons is good for the workplace.

RPG Crowdfunding

You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;

• Roll for Romance: A D&D Date Night from Joanna Mazurkiewicz raises funds for “A role-playing adventure module inspired by Jane Austen for a couple to play together.”
• The Unseelie Saga from Heather Osborne pitches “A trio of RPG adventures where Players take the roles of darkly magical Fae whose actions will decide the fate of the Winter Court”
• The Lost World of Tar’khal from Blayke Humphrey raises funds for “A supplemental legacy campaign for 5e. Inclusive, diverse, dynamic, and built to grow with you!”
• D6 Useless Trinkets for Fantasy RPG’s from Samuel Steele nominates “6 pieces of utterly useless and unimportant trinkets to ‘reward’ players in almost any fantasy RPG setting…”
• The Adventurer’s Handbook from Daniel Jeffs offers “Everything you need to run your very first Dungeons&Dragons module. Stripped back, simplified, super fun and with help at every step.”
• Peripsol, Fantasy RolePlaying Game System Phase 1; Startup from Jeremy raises funds for “Start a journey in the heart of an epic Fantasy / Steampunk world, Complete PDF Core rule book for Game Masters and players”
• Beyond Dread Portals from Newt Newport offers “A Fantasy Table Top Roleplaying game of Multi-Dimensional World Travelling”
• Pilgrimage of the Penitent: a MÖRK BORG Module + Compendium from Nick Ribera nominates “Driven by the promise of absolution, a small group of sinners embarks on a journey at the end of days in this Module and Compendium.”
• Thimbleton Inksquire’s Runic Compendium from Runic Press kickstarts “Tap into the heart of the Weave, and access power and peril beyond that of mere spells.”
• The Saltreach Isles Zine 1: Zilaram from Gold Mountain Games is working on “Start exploring the island of Oscana with this zine! Including rules for 5E, PF2, and Mork Borg!”
• Weather Dice for D&D 5e from Gyld proposes “Roll weather conditions in D&D 5e without looking up the rules. One roll, no charts.”
• ZineCrate Extravaganza! from Sci-Fi Epics submits “Two boxes designed to hold your treasured zines. || Over 50 horror/sci-fi/fantasy zines on offer. || Enormous value!”
• Gobl-Inn Uprising – Battle maps! from The Gobl-Inn pitches “Quality Dungeon and Battle maps to use for your fantasy Tabletop Game, compatible with systems such as 5th edition D&D and Pathfinder!”
• High Quality Double-Sided Tabs for Your 5e Player’s Handbook from Sharktopus Games suggests “These tabs help you quickly and easily find the information you want in your player’s handbook”
• Anyaral – The Twilight Traveller Issue 11 from World of Twilight raises funds for “Printing the latest issue of the Twilight Traveller!”
• Season 2: Scaramouch Tango a 5e compatible adventure module from Bamatick pitches “Bamatick makes roleplaying game adventure modules for popular and esoteric RPGs”
• Host: A Two-Player Micro TTRPG from Ravensridge Press suggests “A duet, card-based TTRPG from the perspective of a parasite and the host it inhabits.”
• Minacious-Midway: A Dare-Luck Club Adventure Trilogy from Louis Hoefer submits “3 RPG adventures that place your misfit adolescents amid the wonders and mystery of a local theme park!”
• Ragnarök Begins – Miniatures for Tabletop RPG – STL files from Ralphy pitches “Ragnarök Begins – Miniatures for Tabletop RPG – STL files”
• 5E Tables the busy DM from Matt Evans is working on “d50 tables for a range of different scenarios to keep your play moving and keep your players engaged.”
• FOLK HORRORS 2 by Ana Polanšćak from Andrew May introduces “A new collection of miniatures for tabletop gaming.”
• The Great Mushi Forest; an add-on TTRPG adventure (5e & pf2) from RedHead Games introduces “Are you ready for a magical add-on adventure in your tabletop RPG?”
• Triverse’s Travelling Tomes: One Last Great DND 5E Expansion from Triverse submits “We present to you a sizable compilation of many new DND5E compatible content including classes, subclasses, mechanics, races and more!”
• Architects of the Deep: Adventurers for Hire from Dren Productions Games suggests “A magazine featuring Notice Boards and 8 one-shot adventures to go with them!”
• Reign of the Sundered Idol from CroWares introduces “Travel through a magically scarred world in this 5th edition supplement. Content ready for players and dungeon masters alike.”
• The Game Masters Grimoire: 100 Dungeon Entrances from The Monster Directive pitches “Unlock the door for your players with 100 Dungeon Entrances”
• Potions and Herbalists III: Mixing Sheets from Diego Pisa Artworks pitches “Mix ingredients, make potions!!! For use with fantasy RPGs such as DnD 5E, Pathfinder, and OSR.”
• 2d20 Core Solo from Peter Rudin-Burgess offers “A set of solo roleplaying tools keyed to any of the 2d20 games systems.”
• To Save A Kingdom—An Adventure Path for 5E & Level Up: A5E from Morrus proposes “To Slay a Dragon, To Stake a Vampire, and To Smite a Fiend comprise this 400-page hardcover adventure path trilogy!”
• Grizelda’s Cursed Curiosities – 5E Ghost Hunting Adventures from T.A. Gray offers “A collection of ghost-themed adventures for 5E from the creators of Grizelda’s Guide to Ghost Hunting. What mysteries will you unravel?”
• The book of villainy: Leaders, DND 5e supplement from Hosein kickstarts “A brutal experience, in which you face 5 villains of magnificent power, who run the world from the shadows. (D&D 5E supplement)”
• The Codex of Crime from Evil Pigeon Games introduces “A DnD 5e supplement to fill your games with crime and criminals! Gangs, subclasses, magic items and more.”
• Sunset Badlands: A Western Punk Adventure from Archangel Design nominates “A Wild West and Weird Western Fantasy punk STL Tabletop Terrain Set for 3D printing – 28 mm to 32 mm Miniature Wargaming and RPGs”
• RPG Adventure Shorts by Fehu Games for Swords & Wizardry from Lloyd Metcalf pitches “Double short, single session adventures for Swords & Wizardry from Fehu Games. Quick Kicks are back!”
• Post Apocalyptic Game Tiles from LingSter Games submits “Custom made tiles fit for a Post Apocalyptic Game World.”
• The Palace of 1001 Rooms, The Depths of Kur from Michael Grayson S kickstarts “A fully illustrated, D&D rules semi-agnostic, 5e & Pf2E compatible, OSR mega-dungeon RPG of unprecedented scale.”
• Emerging Mysteries of the Green Keep from Eric Lizotte introduces “A universal role playing adventure to inject new life into your gaming sessions.”
• Dungeon Epics Adventure Compendium from Dungeon Epics offers “Five stand-alone 5e oneshots building an overarching story to piece together an ancient artifact.”
• RPG Ceremonies, Monstrous Mothers and Wild Children from The Oracle is working on “Two periodicals full of rich, detailed fantasy RPG content suitable for all game systems, 100pgs content”
• Mall Kids 2023 from Matthew Gravelyn introduces “Mall Kids is back with a whole new zine full of new experiences, weird malls, and cool kids.”
• The Traveler’s Guide to the Dwarven Undercities from Chamomile Has A Project introduces “A 5e sourcebook of besieged dwarves, including a new region of the Creative Commons Weskven setting”
• Portents of the Degloved Hand for MÖRK BORG from Exalted Funeral submits “MÖRK BORG Omen Sacrifice Deck”
• Stone Trove from Dana McDonald proposes “Build incredible landscapes with this huge collection of printable rock .stl files.”
• Tabletop Gaming Bundle. Fun stuff to print and use from Luke submits “Tiles, Fences, Walls, Opening Gates and doors, and other fun stuff.”
• Historical Fantasy: Visual Compendium for RPGs Settings – #1 from Joy Games Interactive #2 submits “Abarcative collection of concept designs featuring fantasy characters from different cultures from the 14th to 16th centuries.”

Do you know of an RPG news source that we don’t? Let us know, or leave a comment below.