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Tabletop games 2022 pre-orders already selling out in the UK

December 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wayland Games is, they say, Europe’s largest independent retailer for tabletop hobbies.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: assassin's creed, Dungeons & Dragons, HeroQuest, lord of the rings, magic the gathering, petersen games, pokemon, Privateer Press, shopping, the witcher, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Wayland Games, z-man games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #132

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

A summary of RPGs news from the week with freebies from WotC and others, indie news, tips and reviews.

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Free to Download: Call of Cthulhu’s Hung by the Chimney with Care adventure

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An urgent telegram from an old ally sends the investigators to a Midwestern town in search of a stolen Mythos tome, a volume of The Revelations of Gla’aki. Once the investigators arrive, they uncover evidence someone has used the book to unleash something dark, dangerous, and ravenous upon the community.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, free to download, petersen games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #130

December 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Drama again this week with attack lawyers dispatched against Wizards of the Coast, hassles over Kickstarters at Dragonmeet and confusion and concern over the direction Kickstarter itself might be taking.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, Ad Infinitum Adventures, bandit camp, Brittannia Game Designs, broken shield, cairn, carbon 2185, Chaosium, Chivalry & Sorcery, coyote & crow, Dishonored, dragon turtle games, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, fairy trails, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, forged in the dark, Gunnar Roxen, Hymgho, Inkwell Ideas, ironsworn, Keith Baker, kickstarter, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, shannon appelcline, Steve Kenson, strixhaven, swords of the serpentine, the dee sanction, traveller, Troll Lord Games, TSR, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, worlds without number

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #128

November 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a calmer week in RPG Kickstarter land as we roll into Black Cyber weekend but loads of bundles, deals and RPG news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, Amanda Hamon, Arcadia, black lantern productions, Darklight Interactive, dms guild, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, Far Future Enterprises, Fighting Fantasy, idyll creations, Imaginary Empire, Iron Crown Enterprises, James Wyatt, laidback dungeon master, leyline press, liminal, mcdm, Mongoose Publishing, mothership, Necromancer Games, petersen games, Point of Insanity Game Studio, riotminds, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, salvage union, Shadow of the Demon Lord, shield maidens, Skirmisher Publishing, soulmist, strixhaven, the merciless merchants, the oracle, Trudvang Adventures, wizards of the coast, wizkids

Free to Download: Sandy Petersen’s Yig Snake Granddaddy Act 1 sample

November 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sandy Petersen is the famous game designer responsible for Call of Cthulhu. In the Cthulhu Mythos Sagas, he and his team take some of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror concepts and bring them to meet D&D 5e fantasy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cthulhu Mythos, free to download, petersen games, Sandy Petersen

Call of Cthulhu: Terror Paths is a cooperative board game of Lovecraftian horror

October 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The threat in Terror Paths is Menace with a capital M. At the start of any scenario, players won’t even know what they are up against.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, petersen games, Sandy Petersen

Speculation grows on Wizards of the Coast and an official D&D virtual tabletop

June 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Speculation is mounting that Wizards of the Coast are working on or considering a virtual tabletop of their own.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, petersen games, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #101

May 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy week, so sit back and treat yourself to a scroll through the headlines; sales, reviews, interviews and stats from the RPG-scene.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, alien rpg, astate, awfully cheerful engine, battletech, brindlewood bay, candlekeep mysteries, carovea victor, chamomile has adventures, cubicle 7, Defiant Awakening, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy age, Flash Gordon, Free League Publishing, gama, game machinery, gen con, ghostfire gaming, goodman games, GURPS, handiwork games, hasbro, jackals, Jim Pinto, jonathan hicks, lion banner games, lord of the rings, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, My Little Pony, neverending, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, postworldgames, red scar publishing, river horse, roleplay elixir, routinely itemised, Russ Morrissey, savage worlds, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound starter set, spelljammer, starfinder, the yellow king, those dark places, Troll Lord Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, voxstory, wanderhome, will power games, wizards of the coast, xploringmap

Mech-dino horrors and Cthulhu-spawn (mostly): A review of Nightmares 1

May 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nightmares 1 is a collection of monsters for 5e by Cthulhu-famous Petersen Games. It gets a thumb up from this reviewer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cat evans, cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, petersen games, reviews, Sandy Petersen

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