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The Dragonlance setting has a long history, and as it’s the time of year for retrospection it seemed a good time to take a look at it.
This week’s article covers RPG crowdfunding campaigns ending between December 18 through 22. This sampling includes options for 5e, Mothership, Exalted, Mörk Borg, and more. In addition to the list below, there are two very different RPG advent calendars that I want to shoutout. The ADVENTure Calendar ⚔️📆 from Garmr Games is a traditional offering with minis, adventures, and maps; it’s...
Dungeons & Dragons gets new magic items and rules for selling and buying magic items including magic shops, and new adventures and adventure prep tools. Basic D&D also gets new campaign length adventures. Shadowrun gets a supplement, an art portfolio, and combo real world calendar with maps and adventure hooks. There are also three compact RPGs about scientists in exo-suits, helping a ghost...
Dungeons & Dragons gets a sea and dungeon adventures and lots of new rules for using ki and kicking monsters to zero hit points and beyond. Wrath & Glory is back with a weighty tome about Machine Spirits and vehicles both Imperial and xeno. HarnWorld has a new kingdom book with all the details inherent in that world. Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG (8th Printing) has had a reprint and has plenty...
This week, I look at RPG crowdfunding projects that end starting on November 28th to December 5th. Headed into the holiday season, there can be a reduction in the number of offerings; however, going into the first part of the holiday season there are many flourishing campaigns. With a number of offerings available, this is a sampler of what RPGs are currently crowdfunding.
Dungeons & Dragons gets hex crawl options for Old-School Essentials and Basic D&D. Lamentations of the Flame Princess gets a ninth printing. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Soulbound RPG get campaign and magical support respectively. There are also new rpgs for neo noir, fantasy, and horror. And a solo RPG of horror and encroaching darkness.
Eldritch horror finds chickens (I have been a Game Mother but never a Chicken Master. Yet). Dungeons & Dragons gets two new rule softcovers and lots of dragons. I don’t know why it took this long to get a Power Rangers RPG but I’m glad to say it gets support with an adventure and maps. Pugmire gets rodents, Exalted Funeral has heavy metal old school support for three RPGs, and Old-School...
Dungeons & Dragons gets a dragon turtle adventure along with two adventures from publishers new to this column. There is a weird MMO RPG for the table top, a DCC RPG The Empire of the East adventure, and new supplements for Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 and Infinity RPG.
A book of adventures for Call of Cthulhu including Down Darker Trails and Cthulhu Invictus. Dungeons & Dragons and OSR RPGs get crab miniatures, a leprechaun class, and adventures including a freaky horror one about unicorn meat. Transformers RPG and Renaissance Italy get RPGs.
This week’s article looks at RPG crowdfunding projects that end between October 27 to November 6. This list includes lots of projects that run on RPG engines with “dungeon” in the title as well as system neutral and an original system. If you’re looking for Halloween themed offerings, there are some winners in this sampling.
Dungeons & Dragons gets a city crawl and a vampire cruise. There are also adventures for D&D and OSR including Mutant Crawl Classics as well as an atlas of Hyperboria. Lex Arcana gets two world supplement for Roman fantasy adventuring. And the week rounds out with a book of missions for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0..
This week’s article offers reviews of RPG crowdfunding projects that end between October 25 to November 2. From 5e and Mörk Borg to DCC, MCC, A5E, and original systems, this sampling of what’s out there ranges from fantasy to sci-fi and beyond.
Dungeons & Dragons gets an urbancrawl set in Oz and another city of shotguns and wands set in Dragon City. 13th Age also gets a city, a city of monsters. And then comes the Halloween horror shenanigans. Cthulhu gets a supplement in Trail of Cthulhu. New two-player horror RPGs out along with another horror RPG set in the Louisiana bayou of days past. Finally, there is a second edition of Hunter...
This week I look at projects that end between October 13 to 20. Some original systems, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Powered by the Apocalypse, OSR Powered by Polymorph, 5e, and more. If you’re looking for a variety pack sampler of what’s available through crowdfunding, this week will give you a taste.
This week brings 14 adventures to Dungeons & Dragons all set in the Shadow Realm. Pathfinder 2nd Edition gets a special edition hardcover, Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG gets an adventure for DCC Lankhmar, and Warhammer FRP gets an adventure and companion to wrap up the Enemy Withing campaign along with a deluxe two book slipcase version. There is also a book of castles, adventures for The Dark...
Moderns are accustomed to cheap and readily available maps that show distance as well as road connectivity. That kind of map is rarely going to exist in a low technology/Medieval setting.

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Play a vampire and kill nazis in WW2!
You won't survive this tragedy of doomed heroes!
A new spin on a retro form of text adventure games.
A one-shot adventure which evokes the generational horror of Stephen King.

Dungeons & Dragons

Alternate Player's Handbook cover art by Wylie Beckert.
Get in, nerds—we’re going to Curdello.
Here are a few more tidbits from Game Informer's magazine coverage of the new edition's rulebooks.
Art by Dmitry Burmak.
Dungeon Master’s Guide contains a sample setting—and that setting is, indeed, Greyhawk.
Game Informer has revealed the cover to the 2024 Player’s Handbook.

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D&D-powered cartoon fun from Cryptozoic Entertainment.
Developer tool released under Open RPG Creator (ORC) License.
SRD 5.2 will be released under Creative Commons next year.
One of only two TTRPG creators with four separate million dollar Kickstarters!
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