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Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News – The Weird, Wastes of Chaos, Coyote & Crow, and more
This week’s article looks at RPG crowdfunding projects that end between October 3rd to 12th. This sampling includes projects from Monte Cook Games, Evil Hat Productions, Kobold Press, Coyote & Crow, Roll & Play Press, and more.
Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
Dark Places & Demogorgons for OSE: An Interview with Eric Bloat
Dark Places & Demogorgons is a great RPG of 80s kids fighting horrors in their hometown. Currently it uses Survive This!!, an old school game engine, but the next version is for Old-School Essentials (D&D Basic/D&D Expert). Eric Bloat, the creator of DP&D, was kind enough to talk to me about his new project coming to Kickstarter in October.
Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Print News – Heward’s Handy Haversack, Modiphius, and More
This is my hundredth RPG Print News and everything is fantasy this week. That is both profound and really not related to anyone’s real life in any meaningful way. So I included a Heward’s Handy Haversack (only magical on Oerth) made of Silver Dragon scales. D&D falls in love, and Pathfinder 2nd Edition goes Special Edition with a previous title. Modiphius has more Conan - Adventures in an Age...
Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News – Amethyst, Black God's Kiss, Eldritch, and more
This week I look at RPG crowdfunding projects that end between September 20th and October 3rd. Lot’s of 5e and related systems this week, but they produce some great options.
OSR  Reviews 
A Tournament of Pigs Review
One of the most fascinating things to come out of the OSR for me is the concept of “the funnel”. These adventures encourage players to make multiple low-level characters that are meant to be folded, stapled and generally maligned by the adventure. It’s a tribute to the lethality of older materials that keeps the player in the game without having to wait around for them to make a new character...
Call of Cthulhu  Dungeons & Dragons  OSR  Traveller  World of Darkness 
RPG Print News – Mongoose, Goodman Games, Modiphius, and More
D&D gets nothing this week. I’m as surprised as you are. However, Dungeon Crawl Classics gets a new adventure and Traveller gets three new adventures that work with the Mercenary Box Set. Dyson also has magic swords for your d20 fantasy. More adventures: a train assault for Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 and a film crew stalked by TerrorHog for Crawlspace. The late 80s are back also with support for...
Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Print News – Cubicle 7 and More
D&D gets more adventures and World War 2 added in, Basic D&D/Old-School Essentials gets a book of hirelings, and the OSR gets more adventures as well. You can now get your own TARDIS in the Doctor Who - The Roleplaying Game Collector's Edition (Second Edition). There are also RPGs about hobbits returning from fighting the dark lord, humanoid animals in a post-holocaust world, and hardboiled...
Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
GEN CON 2022: MAZES at MIDNIGHT
Why attend Gen Con? From time to time, that question arises from gaming fans that have yet to attend. Many of the replies attempt to recreate the dimension of the convention, it’s impressively large, or touch on the excitement that gathering a stadium’s worth of gamers in one place generates. Because the scope of the convention (held across four days in a convention center, a football stadium...
Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News – The Sundering, Stillfleet, Demon Dog, and more
This week’s RPG crowdfunding projects end between August 27 and September 15. This week is a light sampling of what’s available. While I include some RPG zines, the majority can be found here on Kickstarters’s 2022 RPG Zine Quest.
Call of Cthulhu  Dungeons & Dragons  Film & TV  OSR  World of Darkness 
RPG Print News – Chaosium, Goodman Games, and More
The 90s are back with both Rifts and Vampire the Masquerade core rulebooks in print. D&D gets all the adventures of course and the most expensive GM screen I’ve ever seen. Call of Cthulhu gets an updated starter set. And Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG gets supplements. Finally, The Expanse Roleplaying Game goes beyond the ring and into whole new worlds of adventure.
Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News - Tales from Sina Una, Dice The Halls!, Over the Troll Bridge, and more
This week’s RPG crowdfunding campaigns end between August 19 and September 6. While this is only a sampling of what’s available, it’s worth calling out that Kickstarters’s 2022 RPG Zine Quest is live with a number of zines available. For this article, I pulled some items from ZQ and some non-zines to give an idea of the available options. In addition, this week’s list has a subtle theme...
Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News - Battlezoo Eldamon Monster Training, Twilight Fables, and more
This week’s column looks at RPG crowdfunding projects that end between August 17th and September 19th. As with last week’s article, I did not have the bandwidth to dive into Kickstarter's 2022 RPG Zine Quest event. However, I can provide that link and go one further with this Zine Quest 4 Stats Google Sheet (not mine, by the by) which shows this year’s zines.
Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News - Trinity Continuum: Aether, Blood Red Mars 5e, BADLANDER, and more
This week, I look at RPG crowdfunding projects that end between August 4th and 19th. Why such a tight timeframe? Because I’m headed to Gen Con and deadlines loom. This is a sampling of what’s available, but does not delve into Kickstarters’s 2022 RPG Zine Quest event. Moving from its February timeframe for one year, this event is going head-to-head with Gen Con for coverage, which limits some...
Dungeons & Dragons  GURPS  OSR  World of Darkness 
RPG Print News – Legendary Games and More
D&D gets a special cover setting along with a DMless card driven adventure. Pathfinder 2nd Edition gets a new class. GURPS 4E and The Fantasy Trip get a setting and monsters and two small adventures respectively. G.I. JOE RPG arrives with two adventures and yes you do make your own Joe. Finally, Hunter the Reckoning is back in what looks to be a fifth edition, there is a new fantasy RPG, and...
Boardgames  Dungeons & Dragons  OSR  Savage Worlds 
RPG Crowdfunding News - Steinhardt's Guide, Box of Terrors, Land of Eem, and more
This week, I look at RPG crowdfunding projects ending between August 1st to 18th. This sampling includes games crowdfunding on Kickstarter and Backerkit. These are running around the Gen Con timeframe. As the San Diego Comic Con of roleplaying games, Gen Con takes up space on the calendar so it’s always interesting to see its impact on RPGs around this time.
OSR 
Death in Space: Interview with Plogfors and Niblaeus
Death in Space is a beautiful digest sized holographic hardcover RPG in brilliant yellow and darkest black with splashes of other color and with two ribbons, one red and one black. Details, rules, and random table sprawl from end paper to end paper and fill the pages in between. Christian Plogfors and Carl Niblaeus were kind enough to talk to us about this mutating, decaying, war-scarred RPG...

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Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
A Preview of The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977
With The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977, Wizards is going back to the roots of the game, presenting material other histories have not.
2d20  Reviews 
Witness The Fall Of Dune’s Imperium First Hand
Put the players within spitting distance of the fall of House Atreides and the rise of Muad’Dib.
Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
Wizards Goes Big with Vecna: Eve of Ruin
For its first book of D&D's 50th anniversary year, Wizards is going big with a multiverse-spanning, multiverse-threatening adventure where players will face off against one of the game’s most legendary villains.
Reviews 
The Monster Overhaul Is More Than A Mere Manual
A great monster book on its own but also useful as a supplemental guide to pre-existing fantasy worlds.

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons  Film & TV 
Paramount+ Will Not Proceed with Dungeons & Dragons Live-Action TV Show
Hasbro will update the project and pitch to other networks and streamers
Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
A Preview of The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977
With The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977, Wizards is going back to the roots of the game, presenting material other histories have not.
Dungeons & Dragons 
New Dungeon Master's Guide Cover Features Venger (From the D&D Cartoons)
The 2024 DMG cover has been revealed by the UK's Mirror newspaper.
Dungeons & Dragons 
Kick Off Your Boots, Don't Mind The Monster
For the small price of accepting a bit of healing from its quirky host you too can stay in this aged and storied temple.
Dungeons & Dragons 
Check Out D&D's New Gold Dragon Redesign
Gold dragons no longer have wings--just like they used to be!
Dungeons & Dragons 
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks Would Like To Explore Kara-Tur
Hasbro CEO plays in an Eastern Adventures D&D campaign.

Industry News

Industry 
5E-Powered Adventure Time Joins Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club
D&D-powered cartoon fun from Cryptozoic Entertainment.
Dungeons & Dragons  Industry 
Kobold Press' Black Flag System Reference Document Released
Developer tool released under Open RPG Creator (ORC) License.
Dungeons & Dragons  Industry 
2024 D&D Core Rules Will Be Added To SRD In 2025
SRD 5.2 will be released under Creative Commons next year.
Dungeons & Dragons  Industry 
Field Guide to Floral Dragons Joins Million Dollar Kickstarter Club
One of only two TTRPG creators with four separate million dollar Kickstarters!
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