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Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine
Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine (Eos Press) is an enchanting and heartfelt RPG from Jenna Moran, creator of Nobilis. If your favorite parts of any RPG are the down times between missions; if you could easily spend an entire game session just talking
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The Fate RPG Sails into Freeport
Freeport, the City of Adventure, is one of the world’s greatest trade hubs — and one of the seediest. But for savvy sellswords looking to make quick coin, there’s always a job, if you don’t mind running afoul of the
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Tianxia – Kung Fu Fate Roleplaying on Overdrive
Did you love Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or are Bruce Lee movies more your speed? Either way, Jack Norris’s Tianxia will win you over. Until November 27th, Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade is a bonus title in the Bundle of Holding’s
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Welcome to Death Frost Doom, Now Turn Around and Go Away
Deathfrost Mountain is not a place you want to go. This might seem like common sense until you remember that fantasy characters and the heroes of RPGs go waltzing into terrible places all the time. They ride their horses up
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Scarlet Heroes Brings Old School Adventuring Into 1P
Old school games are great, but also brutal. Going into one with a party at less than full size can be so difficult, it takes the fun out of the game. So if you want to play an OSR with
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Hamlet’s Hit Points: Masterful Narration for Every GM
It’s not easy being GM. Besides adjudicating the rules and playing all monsters NPCs, you’ve been put in charge of something called a “story.” Problem is, you have almost no control over what the characters in that story decide to
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Become a Campaign Management Genius with Odyssey
Odyssey: The Guide to Campaign Management, written by Walt Ciechanowski and Phil Vecchione and published by Engine Publishing, was featured at the Bundle of Holding as a bonus title in the Worldbuilder’s Toolkit +2. Though you’ll find many blog posts
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tremulus: Indie horror keeps it weird
tremulus, featured as a bonus title in October 2014’s Bundle of Tentacles +2, is classic Lovecraftian horror with a modern rules twist. Written by Sean Preston (Reality Blurs), tremulus hit like an onrushing byakhee in October 2012 with a smashingly successful
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