Humble Bundle - Fallout RPG and 3d Miniatures Bundle

The Fallout Bundle over at Humble Bundle is certainly trying to build off the popularity of Amazon Prime's new Fallout Series (which is pretty damn good, if I must say so myself - just force your way through the first episode - it gets MUCH better).

Now, they bill this bundle as an RPG and miniatures bundle, but I believe that it's more Fallout Tactical Wargame, with an optional Fallout RPG built off such. Still, it looks nice, and I suspect for Fallout fans it will be full of Fallout lore.

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Kickstarter - Swords & Wizardry: Expansions, Monsters, and More!

Optional supplemental rules for S&W (and other OSR games), a book of new monsters, an adventure, and much more!

I'm a HUGE fan of Swords & Wizardry. Of all of the early sets of OSR rules, Swords & Wizardry Complete felt like AD&D 1e without the baggage.

Swords & Wizardry: Expansions, Monsters, and More! is the latest Kickstarter from Mythmere Games.

Swords & Wizardry: The Book of Options

The Book of Options gives you 11 new optional character classes, new spells, new magic items, and much more. Now you can play a wily demon-hunter, a bard, a troubadour, an illusionist, and many others. Gnomes and Stygians are now playable ancestries in Swords & Wizardry for the first time in 16 years!

Fiends & Foes - A Monster Compendium

Fiends and Foes offers more than 300 monsters (and doesn't repeat the ones from the Complete Revised Rulebook). Encounter the bizarre plant-animal Ultharians on their plane-shifting flamingoes, the giant, foul-mouthed fey cats known as Bulgrimalkins, along with many old favorites from Monstrosities such as the Artificers of Yothri. All are updated with morale numbers and revisions to the Swords & Wizardry Complete Revised rules.

Domain of Heryngard & Tomb of the Iron God

Plus, there's adventuring, of course! The Domain of Heryngard is a hex-crawl campaign with a section of the Uldra Cthon megadungeon and room to explore. It's also the site of the Tomb of the Iron God, a fan-favorite low-level adventure from 2008.

 

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So It Is Written, So It Is Done - LaNasa v. Tenkar - Case Dismissed With Prejudice

What can I say other than to thank everyone for their support and kind words over the last year and a half. No more shackles ;)

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Humble Bundle - Pathfinder 1e Kobold & Frog God Bundle

I am very much NOT a Pathfinder fan, regardless of edition. That being said, I own a surprising amount of Pathfinder 1e material, mostly setting-related, as I find I can convert such to the OSR system of my choice with minimal effort. YMMV.

The latest RPG-related bundle on Humble Bundle is a Pathfinder 1e Kobold & Frog God Bundle. 69 books for 25 bucks. Seriously, go big or go home :)

The Lost City of Barakus, Rappan Athuk, and Stoneheart Valley are worth the price of admission on their own.

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Bundle of Holding - Ars Magica 5

I really loved the concept of Ars Magica. I have some of the first-edition releases. The whole idea of having a stable of characters to choose from, sometimes you're the mage, sometimes you're the grunt, fits my style of play just fine. It simply never fit with the rest of my gaming group. Ah well.

The Ars Magica 5 Bundle over at Bundle of Holding is for the Fifth Edition of the Ars Magica rules. 

Magus! We've cast Creo Corpus to resurrect (for a sixth time!) our August 2014 Ars Magica 5E Bundle featuring the Fifth Edition of the Atlas Games tabletop fantasy roleplaying game of medieval myth and magic, Ars Magica. This bargain-priced offer, with .PDF ebooks of the core rulebook and key supplements and scenarios, gives you everything you need to start your own saga of wizardly Covenants in Mythic Europe.

This revival helps promote the forthcoming Atlas Games crowdfunding campaign on Backerkit for Ars Magica Fifth Edition Definitive. All the books in this offer are compatible with the upcoming release. And there's more ArM5 magic ahead!

[Note: This is the fifth version (2004) of the venerable Ars Magica rules first published in 1987. It's not related to Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition.]

For just US$14.95 you get all five titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $55) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Ars Magica Fifth Edition core rulebook plus the supplements Covenants, Houses of Hermes: True Lineages, and Apprentices.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.91, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with five more supplements and scenarios worth an additional $70, including two more Houses of Hermes sourcebooks – Mystery Cults and Societates – plus the introductory saga The Broken Covenant of Calebais, the Normandy Tribunal location book The Lion and the Lily, and the scenario collection Tales of Mythic Europe.

 

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NTRPG 2024 (a bit of a PSA)

This week we've passed into the NTRPG-60 day mark, which is significant for planning purposes. Now I'm not running anything this year, but if I wanted to....I'm too late. The deadline for submitting events was yesterday. The con has had a record number of submissions at 368 games, which for a con capped at 500 attendees, IIRC they have 503 currently sold, which I'm thinking includes some vendors, special guests, and staff, so a bump over the cap is to be expected.

The 60 day mark is significant because if you're flying down your best ticket prices are before that mark, and you can expect price bumps at 30 days, 14 days, and a sharp upturn to the day before. It's also important for generalized planning purposes. 

From an organizer (not con staff, more like you're running an event) perspective now is the time you're checking to make sure that your adventures are written, hopefully you have staff lined up, etc. Things that aren't where they need to be can still be addressed, and hopefully fixed.

I'm running an event that isn't on the schedule, as it's invite only (and I don't do the invites) and I've got my "adventure" prepped, actually had that part ready for over a year now. I've got some freebies for attendees that are halfway done. The initial prep work is done, I just figured out what I think is a better way to do something, more like a better way to make something....nicer, so I'm taking the opportunity to do so, otherwise I'd be 110% done already.

One of the things I love about small conventions is that there is a lot less separation between the attendees and the organizers. I didn't come by the information about 368 games and 503 attendees by any sort of real legwork....I just made sure to follow the NTRPG Facebook page.

Early event registration (as in table seats for events) has already came and went, but the con only releases half of the seats at that time and between that and the new events....there's a lot of seats still available....

...and they will become available tomorrow, April 15th at 1800 (6pm CDT). 

So if you got yourself tickets to NTRPG 2024, you have time to get event tickets tomorrow and hopefully get your travel squared away.