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Well, Linda Codega, the acclaimed newcomer journalist who gave us our in-depth look into Hasbro's OGL scandal, has been laid off together with 22 others at G/O Media. Gizmodo and The Onion were also affected, and longrunning women's news site Jezebel was shut down altogether. G/O has been...

Gosh, it's a LANCER computer game on Kickstarter! The developer has done two other games on KS before, and this new one will adapt part of the TTRPG's mech catalogue (because the full list is too huge) for a tactical computer RPG with cool pixel art. So far they've fully funded in a few hours...

Shortly after WotC gave in, an indie creator made this little solo RPG: https://zeshio.itch.io/headlines-from-hell

Recently, one of my favourite board game review channels, Shut Up & Sit Down, did a cracking review of SPIRE by Rowan, Rook and Decard. Now, reviewer Quinns pointed out that while SPIRE has a terrific campaign concept, the sheer amount of lore and setting that players are expected to know...

Not all games are easy to learn. In this short video, Mandy found that it was Hard To Boardgames. This has led to board game memes.

Kickstarter COO Sean Leow talks with a reporter from The Beat about Kickstarter's controversial blockchain strategy, which is alarming many creators, including game creators. The reporter asks some pretty technical questions about the efficiency and reversibility concerns around blockchain. And...

Well, Jay Dragon has broken away from earlier plans to use Kickstarter for crowdfunding the next Possum Creek Games project, a slice-of-life rpg revolving around a magical lodging-house called Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast. Details here...

CJ Leung of Cool History Bros has put out a new video covering the "Cultivation" trope that you often see in Wuxia/Xianxia fiction - you know, where the protagonist levels up through training, hard work and grit, even developing superhuman chi powers. CJ explains how Cultivation works via...

Previous thread! The Southeast Asian RPG scene isn't widely known to many people, despite the explosion of creativity in places like Malaysia and the Philippines since 2019, when many fresh faces (and a few older gamers like myself) began publishing on places like itch.io. There are a few...

I recently discovered a short taboo generation supplement called This Town of Ours by Paddy (The Salt Traders) Hutchinson, which uses d66 rolls to pick various People and Forbiddances in a newly encountered culture. It creates interesting rules like these: In this Town, none may handle...

I wanted to springboard a discussion off this really interesting point made in the "Limits of my Language" thread. I'm sure there's a way we can come up with a list of qualities that TTRPGs share, in a similar way to how the 2008 International Roguelike Development Conference in Berlin came up...

Oh, I am so hyped right now about the Southeast Asian team working on THE DAGGER ISLES, which has just been announced as an official supplement for Blades in the Dark. Pam Punzalan (Navathem's End, Public Utility Mechs, Across This Wasteland With You), Sin Posadas (Navathem's End, Lutong Banwa...

As per this video interview, Kevin Siembieda has been very pleased with his experience working with Sean Owen Roberson (Rifts for Savage Worlds Line Manager) and has brought him on as Palladium's new Creative Director, with an eye towards Roberson possibly taking over for Kevin someday. This is...

Prelude This is Lancer: Battlegroup! So I've been running some Lancer: Battlegroup games recently, for two players, via PbP. We used the playtest version 1.96 rules (the full game isn't out yet). Funded as part of the Role Kickstarter campaign last year, Lancer: Battlegroup is a...

Didn't see anyone mention this yet, but Evil Hat has announced two new RPGs, and my friend Jammi is writing one of them 🙂 Project: Perseus is a "spies vs the supernatural" RPG using the Powered by the Apocalypse framework, with asymmetrical roles for the Agents and their handlers. It's by Stras...

Indie video game and TTRPG creators on itch.io have put together a charity bundle of over 700 items for USD5 or more, which is a pretty astounding bundle if you think about it. Proceeds go to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund and itch has waived its usual cut. As I...

I've started an interview series on my blog covering local gamers who've adapted to roleplaying online during lockdown. This week, I spoke with professional GM and D&D Adventurers League organizer Ian Adly, who talked about the tools and platforms he uses, and the technical issues he...

So a while back I posted about Paul Czege's quote on indie RPGs on itch.io, back in this thread: https://www.enworld.org/threads/paul-czege-on-the-wild-energy-of-the-itch-io-ttrpg-scene-or-my-life-with-itch.667891/ The itch.io pen-and-paper scene is getting more attention these days - for...

Paul Czege, the designer of MY LIFE WITH MASTER has spent this year looking at the indie scene on itch.io, and the crazy wild energy on it. An important thread on Twitter. If I were his editor, I'd title it "My Life With Itch." This is the Physical Games section of itch.io today, BTW. Over...

It's called Doggos & Doggos and it's 20% off for today (full price $4.99) at the itch.io store: Doggos & Doggos by Kazumi Chin ...but is it about doggos? Seriously though, this is really cute, heartwarming stuff. Shelter pups! Feral pups! All kinds of backgrounds and races and doggo-themed...