TTRPG Information, New Releases, Crowdfunding

It feels just like the final month of gaming information has been a complete decade. Bear in mind the OGL 1.1? That occurred lower than three weeks in the past! For these of you who don’t pay attention to Dungeons & Dragons (train me your methods), you’ll be able to try our explainer here. In any other case, right here’s some unimaginable video games as we gear up for Zine Month—a complete 28 days of indie RPG crowdfunding that can absolutely drive me mad and empty my pockets.

Newest Releases: Apocalypse Body, Wayfarer’s Deck, A Pinch of Magic, The Worry Bundle

“APOCALYPSE FRAME makes use of the LUMEN recreation engine, increasing upon that system to make a tactical mecha roleplaying recreation influenced closely by Armored Core, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Battletech, and XCOM. In a ruined and terraformed world the place most of humanity is beneath the yoke of a brutal regime, the previous employees of a once-remote manufacturing facility—now often known as the Collective—have risen as much as create a way forward for freedom from oppression.”

“Neon Nights is a system-agnostic and cyberpunk-themed deck of runner hangouts, shady bars, gang turfs, and badly lit avenue corners prepared to make use of in your tabletop RPG of alternative. Throughout 50 illustrated tarot-sized playing cards, you’ll discover suspicious sellers, undercover cops, well-guarded soup kitchens, and extra.”

“A Pinch Of Magic is a lighthearted prompt-based set of one-page RPGs about many witchy issues. It may be performed by 1-4 gamers. This anthology collection accommodates the essential guidelines to get you began together with 10 One Web page RPGs centered across the witches you create.”

“The Worry Bundle is assortment of indie tabletop RPG dietary supplements from among the most artistic indie RPG designers, each veterans and first-time authors. We’re speaking about 11 dietary supplements, packaged in a good looking black folder. The bundle modular construction permits you to construct your individual gaming expertise and play for weeks, each group and solo video games: survive in a metropolis ravaged by Kaijus, run on your life in a zombie-infested world, battle your approach out of company horror, get by means of a suburban nightmare, battle, and rather more horrific adventures.”

Crowdfunding: The Fifth Season, Lichoma, The Seek for Misplaced Species, Kobolds Ate My Child, Huge Grimm

“The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game is designed so that you can play out adventures and tales set on this planet described within the Damaged Earth trilogy of novels by N.Okay. Jemisin—a world the place fixed and unstable tectonic and volcanic exercise threaten all life; a world whose peoples have realized to adapt to be able to survive. It’s a world the place everybody learns that Father Earth hates his kids and is all the time attempting to kill them, the place steel rusts and even stone crumbles, and the very best you are able to do is be ready for the following catastrophe. On this planet of the Damaged Earth, group—the comm—is all the pieces, as a result of in group there may be assist and an opportunity to persevere.”

“Lichoma is a political, dystopian RPG outlined by ecological collapse, social strife, and body-based economics and know-how. Character ideas and talents are based mostly on their playing cards however are in any other case freeform and interpretive, not certain onerous and quick by lessons or mechanics. This artistic facet is complemented by an intuitive, streamlined system. The core guidelines match on a single card and embrace quick procedures for non-combat Challenges and violent Conflicts. Extra, non-obligatory guidelines enable teams so as to add extra depth and nuance to suit their most well-liked play type.”

“The Search for Lost Species takes the deductive gameplay of Seek for Planet X to a extra terrestrial airplane, delving into remoted elements of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea looking for animals believed by many to be extinct. Renegade partnered with Re:wild, an actual life group that’s actively trying to find Misplaced Species in our world.”

“The cult traditional Kobolds Ate My Baby returns with a brand new version powered by polymorph. It’s quicker, simpler, and funnier than ever! All Hail King Torg!”

“Vast Grimm is a stand-alone, art-filled, punk-fueled OSR role-playing recreation concerning the few people remaining in a universe being consumed by rising parasitic würms. It is a recreation about survival, irrespective of how ugly issues get, humanity should survive.”

In Different Information

• MÖRK BORG opened pre-orders for Ikhon, a heretic-based OSR module based mostly on the unique recreation.
• Join the Party’s third marketing campaign, The Rising Tide, delivered to you by Multitude and DM’d by Eric Silver, will run on Tuesdays from January 31 till February 21; story episodes start on Tuesday, February twenty eighth.
• Solo but Not Alone, a TTRPG charity bundle, is again with all funds going to Jasper’s Sport Day, a TTRPG-based suicide prevention charity.
• Acheron Games, Studio Agate, and Uhrwerk Verlag have introduced the creation of the European RPG Studios Union.

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