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Showing posts with label role playing game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label role playing game. Show all posts

Monday, May 30, 2022

Household RPG Designers Interview, 2LM Press/CMON



Household is a Roleplaying Game about Littlings, little folks living grand-tiny adventures in a big abandoned House. Set in a regency-like era, 100 years after the disappearance of the Master, Household features an immersive lore that takes players into a unique setting.

Winner of the Roleplaying Game of the Year in 2019 in Italy, Household is the latest game by the ENNIE Awards nominated authors of Broken Compass, Riccardo Sirignano and Simone Formicola, and is beautifully illustrated by Daniela Giubellini. Join us for a live Q&A with Household's designers Riccardo Sirignano and Simone Formicola from 2LM Press, the RPG publishing division of CMON. You can view our interview HERE. Household is on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2lm/household 2LM Press website: https://twolittlemice.net

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Salvage Union RPG Interview with Aled Lawlor and Panayiotis Lines, Leyline Press

Salvage Union (@salvageunion) is a post-apocalyptic mech tabletop roleplaying game powered by the Quest RPG and published by Leyline Press


You play as a rag-tag group of Mech Pilots who make ends meet by salvaging scrap within a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Your pilots, as well as their entire ecosystem and community, live on a huge ship-like mech known as a Union Crawler. You range out of this crawler on your scrap-built mechs to tackle the denizens of the wasteland in a constant hunt for salvage to upgrade and survive.

Click HERE for an interview with the creators of Salvage Union - Aled Lawlor and Panayiotis Lines from Leyline Press.
You can learn more about Salvage Union on the Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leyline-press/salvage-union/ You can download the Salvage Union Quickstart and try it for yourself from Leyline Press' website here: https://leyline.press/products/salvage-union-beta-quickstart-digital-edition-pdf

Monday, December 6, 2021

KOSMOSAURS RPG ACTUAL PLAY



Kosmosaurs is an RPG where you play as cosmic dino rangers protecting the galaxy from all sorts of evil beings and we got an early look at it! If you loved the Dinosaucers or Dino Riders cartoons in the 80s then this is going to be a very familiar setting!

This rules-lite D6 system is perfect for gamers looking to pick up a quick and easy RPG with an 80s cartoon feel.

Kosmosaurs is coming to Kickstarter soon! Written and created by Diogo Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing and will be published by Gallant Knight Games!

Check out our RPG actual play of Kosmosaurs HERE!

Friday, November 19, 2021

DEATH IN SPACE RPG Actual Play "Search and Salvage"



DEATH IN SPACE is a sci-fi tabletop roleplaying game that takes you to the grimy blue-collar future of a universe filled with risk, but also opportunity. DEATH IN SPACE presents a vision of space where technology is broken and dirty, and society is harsh and desperate. The player characters make up a crew with their own spacecraft or station, and take on the jobs they can find, in order to earn some well-needed bucks and get ahead in the power struggles of the stellar system.

Join us for an RPG Actual Play HERE of "Search and Salvage"! Learn more about DEATH IN SPACE at https://deathinspace.com

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Mecha and Monsters:Revised Coming Soon to Kickstarter!

 Mecha and Monsters from Gallant Knight Games is getting a new edition!

Mechas and Monsters:Evolved is coming to Kickstarter soon! To get notified when it launches click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gallantknightgames/mecha-and-monsters-evolved-a-tinyd6-rpg We talk with designer, Alan Bahr, about the upcoming campaign and why Tiny Frontiers:Mecha & Monsters needed a new edition.

Click HERE for the interview.


Thursday, March 11, 2021

The Terminator RPG Interview with Andrew E.C. Gaska, author - Nightfall Games

'The Terminator RPG' is not just a role-playing game from Nightfall Games—it's a sourcebook for the first Terminator film and its expanded universe. Settings writer Andrew E.C. Gaska is known for his development work on the expanded universes of ALIEN, Predator, and Planet of the Apes. Like those projects, 'The Terminator RPG' extrapolates from hardcore existing canon to create a living and breathing world with a multitude of possible and probable timelines. Any Terminator fan will want this gorgeous book on their shelf, whether they intend to play or not.

Check out our interview with Andrew


HERE.

It is currently on Kickstarter from Nightfall Games here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nightfall/the-terminator-rpg You can download the Terminator RPG Quickstart here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/341238/The-Terminator-RPG-Quick-Start

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Farsight RPG Actual Play - Lightfish Games

 FARSIGHT is a pen & paper role-playing game designed to bring science fiction to your table, allowing you to explore pristine worlds, roam the cosmos, and confront with unknown species, alien civilizations and prodigious technologies. Well, provided you can survive the dangers lurking just beyond the edge of the known!

Its game system, evolved from the 5th edition of the most popular rpg of all time, is simple and easy to learn, but capable of giving you all the depth and details that science fiction demands. Farsight author and designer, Dario Pense, joins our party as we play through a session on Victory Condition Gaming GM'ed by Max Castellani.
Click HERE for our Farsight Actual Play.


Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Renegade Game Studios and Hasbro expand their partnership! Transformers, G.I. Joe & MLP RPGs on the way!

 

Today Renegade Game Studios and Hasbro announced an expansion on their partnership to include popular 80s franchises G.I. Joe. Transformers and My Little Pony. The product lines will include deck building and role-playing games based off those franchises and will be hitting retailers in 2021.
Also announced was a Mighty Morphing Power Rangers deck building game that will be available to virtually demo during Renegade Con October 9-11.
Details for the upcoming roleplaying games were limited but it was announced that they would be using the fifth edition of the OGL from the world's most popular roleplaying game.
If anyone would like to more details as they get announced you can sign up for the Renegade Game Studios' new letter HERE.


Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Kult: Divinity Lost "Seven Sisters" RPG Actual Play



Kult: Divinity Lost "Seven Sisters" RPG actual play GM'ed by Mitchell Wallace of Helmgast.

You can watch the session HERE. Helmgast is currently Kickstarting more Kult content here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/helmgast/kult-divinity-lost-horror-guide-and-scenario-collection

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Free League Publishing Announces Alien RPG Starter Set & Destroyer of Worlds Cinematic Scenario Module

Free League Publishing recently announced a new product to get folks started playing Alien The Role Playing Game with a Starter Set coming in August of 2020.

In addition to the Starter Set they also announced a new Cinematic Scenario Module "The Destroyer of Worlds" written by corebook and Chariot of the Gods Cinematic Scenario Module author, Andre E.C. Gaska.

Both items are available for pre-order through Free League Publishing's website alien-rpg.com.

If you would like to learn more about these products watch our brief video detailing the contents and the price points HERE.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Brancalonia Actual Play with Max Castellani, Acheron Books

Max Castellani returned to the show to do an actual play of Brancalonia from Acheron Books!
You can check out our session he titled "The Brancalonian Hangover" HERE.

Thank you, Max, for coming on the show again and running a such a fun session! Thank you to Amanda, Ben and Andrea for being such excellent players along with me.

You can check out the Kickstarter for Brancalonia HERE.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Brancalonia chat with Max Castellani

Brancalonia is a spaghetti fantasy setting roleplaying game from Acheron Books currently on Kickstarter HERE.
Acheron Books is an Italian publisher most notably known for publishing novels and gamebooks. They've teamed up with Epic Party Games to create this unique roleplaying game using the fifth edition of the world's most popular system!
I got to sit and chat with Max Castellani and discuss what Brancalonia is all about. Check out that discussion HERE.
As you'll see, there is some incredible art and collaboration to make Brancalonia an EPIC success.