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Per the OP: RPG Print News covers recent RPG releases and some classics, reprints, and sales available from retailers. It does not cover products that are only available directly to customers only through Kickstarter or as print on demand.

Release dates are an arcane study. Noble Knight usually lists just new releases most likely from the last few months. Miniature Market lists anything they just received as new and usually doesn't have a publish date at all. The same goes for many other online hobby stores. Anything on this list...

Lots of fighting this week. D&D gets a book and decks of cards to create brutal combat encounters. Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG also gets brutal with death maze rules. Savage Battlelords is all about the sci fi merc life, Traveller gets an updated equipment book, and vampires take over Chicago...

Thank you for the compliment, I really appreciate it. I enjoy reading about successful campaigns like yours. I really like your list of recommended reading and your lessons learned: excellent maps, PC backgrounds and motivations, and improvisation with a specific clearly defined world. I'm...

I think those four subclasses you wrote up make a lot of sense. I watch GMs on Youtube and whole channels are devoted to terrain and miniatures like a Propsmaster or mechanics like a Gamesman. GMs who find a subclass like that can build on that strength to sharpen the other tools in their toolbox.

I respectively disagree. If you're willing to get in front of a group of other people and run a TTRPG for them, especially more than one time, you are a GM. The courage it takes to do this job cannot be overstated and it should be acknowledged and celebrated.

Thanks! I would say that spotlight management gets covered here under interconnected and small group: An interest in developing and sustaining long-term an interconnected small group activity that happens over months or even years for hours at a time

Just like in D&D 5E, I see subclass abilities as specializations that not all GMs have. Your additions to the subclass list are more what I consider expert skills that all GMs are going to work on learning. No GM starting out is going to be able to do many of those well except for 9. And 5...

While numbers are hard to pin down, in my experience the average length of a typical table top roleplaying game campaign is six sessions. Yet many rulebooks are two hundred pages or more. This contrast between endless campaign presentation and short-term campaigns may lead to false expectations...

Do you know if Broken Compass is fun to run and play?

Did the game itself look like it would be fun to run and play?

Abyss of Hallucinations freaks me out in the right way, but then One HONK Before Midnight helps me keep from getting my feathers too ruffled. I also want to hang out with Santa Claus master of the dark arts and be one of the few survivors (if any?!) of a found footage video. What a great...

Tiny fey PCs explore the nations found in a House in Household. Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG gets myths of Uganda, a new world to explore, and an adventure about bears. D&D and Old-School Essentials get adventures and other support. And there are werewolf dice. Note: RPG Print News covers recent...

UltraViolet Grasslands and the Black City Second Edition (UVG) is a revised RPG setting and rule set written by Luka Rejec. Player characters travel into the depths of a vast and mythic steppe filled with the detritus of time and space. It is the ultimate point crawl setting with a Grand Long...

It provides both with descending and THAC0 listed first and ascending and plus to hit in parenthesis right next to those stats.

Vaesen is an RPG of nineteenth century Nordic horror set in the Mythic North. The Lost Mountain Saga takes an RPG centered on mysteries, the danger of the wilds, and the changing nature of society itself and not only covers those themes but also covers Viking heritage, sacred rituals, and...

I agree. And if the demand ever dries up (I hope it doesn't) Troll Lords doesn't sink money into something that might not sell as expected. Which can really hurt a small RPG business.

The kickstarter made $58,000 but with only 492 backers. So a small number of people like it quite a bit it seems. One of those people dropped $300. Not bad for a product that has been around that long.