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News Digest: Pathfinder Playtest Update, Harlem Unbound 2nd Edition, Playtest for Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, and more!

Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! Pathfinder 2^nd Ed Playtest updated, Harlem Unbound 2^nd Edition?!, a playtest for D&D’s Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica, Games Workshop seeking movie/TV deal, and more! ...READ MORE

Tink-Tink-Boom vs. the Death Spiral: The Damage Mechanic in RPGs

Broadly speaking, every traditional role-playing game has some sort of system for tracking the health and well-being of its characters. Classically, as in Dungeons & Dragons, these are expressed as Hit Points. Other systems such as Savage Worlds or Vampire: The Masquerade use some sort of qualitative wound mechanic. For the purposes of this article, which will compare the relative merits of each approach, we’ll call the former approach Tink-Tink-Boom (or TTB for short) and the latter the Death Spiral. ...READ MORE

Dragon Reflections #8 – A Whole New Multiverse

The Dragon Issue 8 was published in July 1977. It is 32 pages long, with a cover price of $1.50. In this issue, Gygax massively expands the world of Dungeons & Dragons. ...READ MORE

RPG Crowdfunding News 109: The Expanse, Fantasy Trip, Your Best Game Ever! The City That Dripped Blood, 5th Edition Players Guide to Aihrde, Legacy of Darkness, Oddity High, Cthulhu Mythos Cultist Badges

This week sees us look at three of the year's big campaigns - The Expanse, Fantasy Trip and Your Best Game Ever! - each already with over $200k of funding (with The Expans!e on over $300k), plus something for fans of 5th Edition, Ubiquity System, Swords & Wizardry, PbtA and some not so subtle pins for the Cultists amongst you. Welcome back to our weekly RPG Crowdfunding column! ...READ MORE

Everything You Wanted To Know About Kickstarter

In this episode of Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk, Morrus and Peter delve into what it's like to run an RPG Kickstarter campaign, and Morrus offers his best tips, which may or may not be good. Also Morrus gets a surprise package delivery from WotC live while on air, and we cover the latest RPG news including the Starfinder Beginner Boxed Set and D&D on The Late Show. Plus our favourite game in all the world, and more!
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Mind Flayers, Flumphs, and Owlbears Feature In This D&D Colouring Book

On Monday, right in the middle of recording our latest podcast, a package from WotC arrived - which, incidentally, I opened live on-air in an audio-only medium, which is always the best way to show off a colouring book. The package contained a Dungeons & Dragons colouring book (illustrated by Todd James) called Adventures Outlined, which is apparently due for general release next week (it should be in some local game stores already). ...READ MORE

Check Out the Scene at Atlanta’s MomoCon 2018

Atlanta, Georgia’s MomoCon 2018 ran from May 24^th to 27^th and welcomed “over 35,400 unique attendees”. The convention is a mash-up of cosplay, anime/manga, gaming, and comics in roughly that order of focus. ...READ MORE

Gale Force Nine Sign Master License for Dune ‘Games’; Modiphius Designing RPG!

Gale Force Nine have announced they have entered a multi-year deal to act as master Licensee for ‘Games’ for Frank Herbert’s Epic “Dune” Series. The deal will see Gale Force Nine publish a range of games based upon the property, as well as sub-license the rights to partner companies. The first of these has been assigned to Modiphius Entertainment for the Dune Roleplaying Game. ...READ MORE

Star Wars RPG Delves Into The Clone Wars!

Rise of the Separatists is a new sourcebook for Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars RPG. It's a 144-page sourcebook with new character options, equipment, vehicles, and stats for various Clone Wars characters. ...READ MORE

Fleshing Out a Backstory...with Cards

GMs and players share a common problem – getting a group started. No matter the RPG or the genre, turning individual characters into an adventuring party, superhero team, supernatural coven or pack, etc. is hard, and yet it's essential for a good game. Group connections help to raise the stakes when something goes wrong and provides incentive for them to act. ...READ MORE

Unearthed Arcana August: Races of Ravnica

This month's Unearthed Arcana, by James Wyatt, introduces four new player races! "A group of races from the world of Ravnica have arrived in Unearthed Arcana: loxodons, Simic hybrids, vedalken, and viashino. While native to Ravnica, these folk could potentially be used in any D&D world. They are destined for the upcoming book Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, out this November. Now is your chance to help shape their final forms!" ...READ MORE

Gail Gygax Sued By Movie Producer

In June it transpired that Gail Gygax, the widow of D&D co-creator Gary Gygax was being sued. This isn't the first time she has been embroiled in legal disputes, there having been major family disputes between her and Gygax's children over recent years, but this is the first time with a Hollywood movie producer! ...READ MORE

The Fatebender: Advanced Class Information (DnD)

Designer Andrew Englebrite presents the Jinx and the Weaver, two new archetypes for the Fatebender class introduced last month in EN5ider! Misfortune follows the Jinx, while the Weaver is an architect of destiny and fate. Illustrated by Rachel Maduro. ...READ MORE

Epic Monsters: Dagon (5E)

Lurking beneath the sloshing waves and crawling onto the Epic Monsters part of the Mythological Figures column is Dagon, the reptilian deep one or maybe Great Old One—as I’m realizing is not uncommon with Lovecraft, it’s hard to be certain. Let’s dive in! ...READ MORE

STL vs. Reality: The Highs & Lows of 3D Sculpts

One of the interesting aspects of owning a 3D printer is that you come to appreciate the difference between a digital sculpt and its physical counterpart. Not all 3D sculpts are made for printing, and the consequences of using a digital sculpt that's not built for 3D printers can be disastrous for the end product. ...READ MORE

RPG Crowdfunding News 108: Reign, Power Outage, Dungeons of the Dread Wyrm, Oracle Sights, Eldritch Century Monsters, Over the Edge, Demon City, Caverns Deep!

Welcome weary traveller, welcome to our latest installment of RPG Crowdfunding News. This week we look at a superhero game developed for children, an old school fantasy adventure, some great miniatures, terrain and accessories, the return of Reign and Over the Edge with new editions, and a new horror game to haunt your dreams. ...READ MORE

New Hobby Releases In Stores & PDF Spotlight: 13th August 2018

Welcome to this week's rundown of the New Releases that should be hitting games stores in the next few days, as well as a look back at some of the PDF releases from the last week. A ton of new Pathfinder and Starfinder books are out this week, as well as the new Alternity RPG in PDF! ...READ MORE

Introducing "Sengoku Punk" by Warsong 2E

Warsong 2e by Ray Machuga of Higher Grounds Publishing leads off with a freshly minted term, “Sengoku Punk." What is Sengoku Punk? ...READ MORE

Conventions All Report Record Attendance

All the main tabletop gaming conventions have announced record breaking attendance again this year. UK Games Expo had 21,700 unique attendees in June, Origins had 18,648 (interestingly not leapfrogging UKGE as it has the last few years), and Gen Con boasted "more than 60,000" unique attendees. Last year, it had 60,819, but they haven't given a precise figure this year. Here's the current chart of the four major tabletop conventions as it stands.
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Where Do They Get Their Money? Part Two

Today we’re going to talk more about money. Last column I discussed some of the quirks of coinage as a unit of weight backed by the commodity metal it’s minted from. This time, I’ll talk about other kinds of money. ...READ MORE
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Pathfinder 2nd Edition News

News Digest: Pathfinder Playtest Update, Harlem Unbound 2nd Edition, Playtest for Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, and more!

New Hobby Releases In Stores & PDF Spotlight: 13th August 2018

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Mind Flayers, Flumphs, and Owlbears Feature In This D&D Colouring Book

On Monday, right in the middle of recording our latest podcast, a package from WotC arrived - which, incidentally, I opened live on-air in an audio-only medium, which is always the best way to show off a colouring book. The package contained a Dungeons & Dragons colouring book (illustrated by Todd James) called Adventures Outlined, which is apparently due for general release next week (it should be in some local game stores already).

Introducing "Sengoku Punk" by Warsong 2E

Warsong 2e by Ray Machuga of Higher Grounds Publishing leads off with a freshly minted term, “Sengoku Punk." What is Sengoku Punk?

Finding the Lost Tales of Myth Drannor

How you feel about Lost Tales of Myth Drannor, which just won the Gold ENnie Award for Best Organized Play at Gen Con, will probably depend upon your needs as a DM and your personal taste.

Opening the Starfinder Armory

Good news, you space-faring fans of Starfinder: the STARFINDER ARMORY is here and it is stuffed to the gills with gear! There are new ways to frag, slag, burn, kill, maim, and otherwise cut a swath across the Core Worlds and beyond in this book, so let’s get cracking!

Exploring the Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

When WotC announced the Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron as a PDF release it caused a great disturbance as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and frustration. The joy is because the most requested setting in the player surveys was finally being released for 5th Edition. The frustration is because it's not a physical book, it's not legal for D&D Adventurer's League and it said that Wayfinder's “will serve to collect feedback on adjusted races, dragon marks, new backgrounds and more,” making it seem like a beta release. By contrast, Curse of Strahd Ravenloft was presented as an adventure and source material.
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