RPG Rundown

This week:

New supplement for Pirate Borg: Down Among the Dead
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limithron/downamongthedead

Tabletop Mirror Becomes Hedron
https://projecthedron.com/

Interrupted Interment has you solving your own character's death
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/704342933/interrupted-internment-rpg

New Pathfinder NPC Core book coming

Trades of the Expanse: Pirate, for The Expanse RPG
https://greenronin.com/blog/2024/09/03/trades-of-the-expanse-pirate/

New solo RPG, So You've Met a Thousand Year Old Vampire
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/tim-hutchings/so-you-ve-met-a-thousand-year-old-vampire

DriveThruRPG launches another Game Jam
https://medium.com/drivethru/we-will-be-updating-this-article-next-week-or-producing-an-faq-with-questions-as-we-receive-them-277f3d83b903

New Zombie Road RPG has you playing yourself in your real-world setting, but in a zombie apocalypse
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/dragonmount-press/zombieroadrpg

Free League will release the Electric State RPG on October 1st
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-electric-state-rpg/?mc_cid=0c63b33aff

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks continues to push digital D&D resources as well as AI involvement in the game

Modiphius will launch Kickstarter for a new Discworld RPG

The Town Where Nothing Goes wrong is a rom-com/time-loop mystery game adventure for any system
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-electric-state-rpg/?mc_cid=0c63b33aff

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Dave goes over the multiple Ennie-award-winning tabletop roleplaying game, Shadowdark. It's an Old School Renaissance (OSR) game that prioritizes fast play and fun.

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Dave gives the rundown on the Black Hack RPG system, an Old School Renaissance roleplaying game.

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Tabletop Roleplaying Games, The Black Hack, Dungeons & Dragons, TTRPG

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This week:

* Monster Trainer's Handbook for 5e
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skinny-minis/companions-of-the-wild-5e-animal-companion-supplement

* Old Gods of Appalachia: Deeper Still Expansion
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/monte-cook-games/ogoa-ii

* Dungeons & Dragons at the Strong National Museum of Play
https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibit/dungeons-and-dragons/

* Dungeons & Dragons at Universal Studios
https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibit/dungeons-and-dragons/

* Dashing Adventure launches legal IP Kickstarter for professional DMing
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dashingadventure/infernal-marches

* Greg Tito calls Hasbro shareholders "assholes"
https://bsky.app/profile/gregtito.com/post/3l2xpporyk726

* Return to Darktower quickstart PDF is free
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/491652/mazes-zero-prep-introduction-to-fantasy-roleplaying

* Sleepy Hollow RPG released
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/kids-in-the-attic/sleepy-hollow-a-tabletop-roleplaying-game-of-early-19th-century-folk-horror

* Mythmaster fantasy RPG in open beta
https://t.co/xcpes0hELt

* 2024 D&D Players Handbook rules now on D&D Beyond

* Terra Mortis, new cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic RPG
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/lion-banner-games/terra-mortis-battle-on-the-fringes-year-zero

* New Holland to release D&D themed beverages

* Plasmodics is a new post-apocalyptic sci fi RPG with mutants
https://willjobst.itch.io/plasmodics-preview
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goodluckpress/plasmodics

* Once Upon the Dead is a fantasy/zombie RPG
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/493738/once-upon-the-dead-quickstart

* Terminal State, an RPG about a corporate dystopia
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cvermeren/terminal-state

* Faster Purple Worm is a new adventure book themed around TPKs
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beadleandgrimms/faster-purple-worm-everybody-dies-vol-1/description

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This week:

D&D BEYOND goes back on their plan to remove 2014 items from the site.

A new STRAHD Artifact Pack coming from Beadle & Grimm's.

PAIZO goes back on eliminating the Community Use Policy.

D&D Direct reveals aspects of their new 3d vtt, Project Sigil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3RqehN6hS0

Shadow Scar releases a starter set.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/492149/shadow-scar-starter-set

Pathfinder releases Tian Xia character guide.
https://paizo.com/products/btq02etu

Pathfinder releases Lost Omens: Rival Academies
https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6w1ux?Meet-the-Schools-of-Lost-Omens-Rival-Academies

Marc Miller transfers Traveller ownership to Mongoose Publishing.

SCP RPG second edition out now.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/474650/scp-the-tabletop-rpg-2nd-edition-it-s-free?affiliate_id=31065

Root announces supplement, Ruins & Expeditions.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magpiegames/root-the-roleplaying-game-ruins-and-expeditions

Solasta TTRPG Campaign Rulebook released.
https://modiphius.us/collections/solasta/products/solasta-campaign-rulebook-revised-edition-5e

Kedamono Opera RPG on Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/basementgameboutique/kedamono-opera?ref=geeknative

Shadowrun Smooth Operations supplement is all about playing a face


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Dave shares his views about the point and goal of all tabletop RPGs, perhaps controversially concluding they are still, first and foremost, about narrative.

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Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, TTRPGs, Tabletop Role Playing Games

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