Raiders of R’lyeh: From the Tideless Sea is a recent kickstarter by Quentin Bauer. Quentin was kind enough to talk to me about his new supplement and his pulp and Lovecraftian RPG, Raiders of R’lyeh.
Quickstart rules are a great way for a group to dip their toes into a new system without spending tens of dollars or wrapping their heads around 300+ pages of new esoterica. With the hobby currently expanding, I thought I would take a look at some of these Quick Start rules and highlight a few of my favorites.
IndieGoGo, GameOnTabletop, GameFound, ItchFunding, BackerKit, and Crowdfundr as well as Kickstarter, so many choices to run an RPG crowdfunding campaign on. I have to dig deep to discover all of the RPGs crowdfunding at any given time. From these options, I prepare a sampling of what’s out there for tabletop RPGs. This week, I feature RPG projects that end between February 28th and March 3rd...
One side-effect of 'OGL-gate' is that games other than Dungeons & Dragons are starting to see increased sales--in some cases, drastically so--as gamers explore other possibilities. Games like Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, and our own Level Up, are all experiencing sales surges right now in scenes reminiscent of WotC's 'Game System License' backlash in 2008, which also led to a boom in...
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition gets new adventures, a planar monster book, and supplements including a pirate setting. Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG gets an adventure and the OSR gets a new RPG offering. Finally, there are Yog-Sothoth dice.
This week’s article covers crowdfunding projects that end between December 15th through the 20th. Some are the return of popular franchises like Space 1889 and Grim Hollow while others are one-shots and original concepts. This is a sampling of what RPG projects available via Kickstarter, Backerkit, GameFound, GameOnTabletop, IndieGoGo, and more during the holiday season.
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.
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...
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...
In case you haven’t noticed we are in something of a boxed set Renaissance. Sure, they call them Starter Sets these days, but a lot of companies are reviving the tradition of peeling off the plastics and cracking open a few evenings worth of roleplaying. One of the first boxed sets that really caught my eye was the one for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition. Chaosium recently released a new edition...
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