We’ve spent a lot of digital acreage in 2020 talking about Free League’s RPGs and other books…and if one or more of them interests you, now might be the time to act. Free League has launched a Black Friday Sale that slashes the prices of most of their core rulebooks by 50%. The sale includes […]
Mythroll Armory has brought us many kinds of roleplaying dice, in all kinds of materials, from foldable tin to resin you can doodle on. But they’ve never gone gonzo enough to craft something out of GOLD before. That will change in 2021. Mythroll has announced Stoneheart, a series of precious metal D20s with precious stones […]
It’s the future. Batman is old and retired. Suddenly a teen named Terry — wait, let me start over. It’s the future. Batman is old and retired. But in his absence, Gotham has decayed into a crime-infested cesspool, and Bruce decides he must suit up one more time. That’s the basic plot behind The Dark […]
Critical Role is the nation’s most popular D&D liveplay series, and it’s now a multimedia experience. There’s an official Critical Role campaign book issued by D&D itself. There’s an animated series on the way, and the makers even have their own board game publishing label now. This new announcement from Dark Horse, a Critical Role […]
The company behind a Harry Potter board game, Catch The Snitch, pulled the plug on its crowdfunding campaign abruptly and without warning today. No, it has nothing to do with Her TERFness, but that would at least be a valid excuse. Their publicly stated reason is a bit…weird. “The current situation of uncertainty in the […]
The art studio Conceptopolis has worked for many brands such as G.I. Joe, Marvel, DC, Lego, and Dungeons & Dragons….and it’s that last one that’s the focus of their latest Kickstarter campaign. We’re not talking about an official D&D expansion, but an original campaign that works with D&D’s 5th Edition. Jetpack7 is a spinoff of […]
Alien: The Roleplaying Game, based on the iconic movie franchise, was published by Free League last December. It’s since gone on to become one of the most successful tabletop products of 2020 — no easy feat when you consider the circumstances. Imagine how popular it could get if you could play it remotely. Looks like […]
Earlier this year Free League brought out NORK BORG, the first tabletop game published under their Free League’s Workshop label (a sublabel for externally developed games, as well as a website for fan-created scenarios). MORK BORK is an artpunk RPG from creators Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell. They say it’s “about lost souls and […]
Earlier this year Wizards of the Coat released the first D&D campaign that took inspiration from the popular liveplay show Critical Role. Explorer’s Guide To Wildemount came out last March, and it must have done very well, because Critical Role themselves have decided to get into the business….in a big way. Darrington Press, named after […]
We’d prefer not to bring up the holidays right now, because we KNOW the retailer industry is chomping at the bit to shove it into our faces the very second Halloween ends, and we’d like to enjoy our remaining week. But next week, Mythroll Armory’s ornaments won’t be on sale. Yes, it’s the same Mythroll […]
Free League Publishing has announced a new Coriolis adventure is on the way…The Last Cyclade, the second part of the Mercy of the Icons campaign. Far above in the darkness of space, a lone ship waits to enter the portal. Its crew stands ready to complete their mission: to reach the ghost ship Zafirah first […]
Cincinnati-based Lion Wing Publishing has launched the Kickstarter campaign to bring over the Japanese card battling game Gun and Gun. It was created by the Japanese design studio Keepdry, famous for the Core Connection series. Choose your character, then literally draw your weapons. Pick two of nine available guns and wield one for each arm. […]