I backed Spencer Campbell’s game on Kickstarter, as the designer is a breath of fresh air, the game looks excellent, and LUMEN is being adopted by game-makers at pace. Furthermore, Campbell is the talent behind LUMEN, and so this is RPG uses the system of his own design.
It’s a credit to Cubicle 7 that while I still feel intimidated by the Age of Sigmar, those concerns quickly fade as I read Soulbound products.
Let me share two theories as to why the Root RPG works so well and yet feels so different; the use of the map (which hails back to Root’s board game origins) and the mercenary mood.
So, to recap. Characters can tap an inner power, but doing so may leave them temporarily blind in a snowcapped world of buried undead.
Rebel Scum is an RPG from 9th Level Games that uses the polymorph engine. It came to us via ZineQuest and is an antifascist space opera.
The supernatural has crept back into England. There is political tension, religious tension, and Queen Elizabeth Tudor has inherited all sorts of problems from her family’s actions.
Middenheim: City of the White Wolf is a Warhammer 4e supplement for GMs looking to run adventures in, around or through Ulric’s city.
The One Ring 2nd edition is the Lord of the Rings RPG from Free League Publishing.
It is time to use up your annual leave, get together with your group, and play some truly terrifying D&D one-shots!
Safety Tools of the OSR Table, a new Pay What You Want to download, blows apart the myth that safety considerations in tabletop RPGs are new or unwelcome.
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