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Saturday, March 8, 2025

Kickstarter - Renegade Realms: Blackthorn Loch (System Neutral Sandbox)



Renegade Realms: Blackthorn Loch hits a couple of sweet spots for me. It's system-neutral (yet certainly old-school in nature), it's a sandbox/hex crawl (always great for the GM's that like to improvise).

Now, Bart sent me a review copy of the PDF for the first in the series, and although I am not ready to do a review of it (yet), I'd have felt very comfortable having spent 3.25 for the PDF in question: Renegade Realms: Raven's Reach. It provides what I need as a GM, but my style is that of an improv GM, riffing off my players and trying to keep one step in front of them. Your mileage may vary.

Did I mention I REALLY like the maps? And the hexes aren't numbered - for me, that is a plus :)

I'll be following the Renegade Realms line of releases.

Renegade Realms are hand-drawn hex map tiles illustrating wild and lawless fantasy realms, rich with the promise of gold and glory, danger and death! Each map tile represents an area approximately 600 square miles (1600 sq. Km) in size and contains no fewer than six adventure sites fleshed out with area details and NPCs to provide GMs with the inspiration and flexibility to easily build their own unique adventuring realm and facilitate hexcrawl adventures in any system or setting.

Each individual Realm has been designed to connect seamlessly with any of its sister products, allowing GMs to create endless campaign worlds with minimal effort. In addition, Adventure Sites can be built or expanded using the Dungeon Domains line.

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Thursday, March 6, 2025

Bundle of Holding - Tiny Supers (Tiny D6)

I am not a fan of superhero RPGs. I was a huge comics fan. I enjoy the Marvel and DC movies & streaming series (for the most part). But as far back as Champions, Villains &Vigilantes, and Marvel Super Heroes, I didn't enjoy the supers genre in RPGs. The systems never seemed like a good fit for the genre.

I'm willing to try Tiny Supers, as I AM a fan of the Tiny D6 system, and I suspect that Supers will fit it well. We shall see...

Hero! This new Tiny Supers Bundle presents Tiny Supers, the Gallant Knight Games TinyD6 superhero tabletop roleplaying game based on Tiny Dungeon. With stripped-down, minimalist rules that are easy to understand and teach, Tiny Supers is great for all groups, ages, and experience levels who want fast and accessible superheroic action that plays fast and easy.

This new offer gives you the Tiny Supers rules, the Gallantverse Campaign Guide, and lots of adventures – everything you need for fast and simple Sentry City superness. For just US$12.95 you get all eleven titles in our Tiny Supers Collection (retail value $75) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete standalone Tiny Supers core rulebook, The H.O.M.E. Handbook, Fallen Justice, Gallantverse Campaign Guide, The Insecticate, The Ray of the Resizer, Teeming Shore Part I and Part II, and Tomorrow's Legacy. And we also add the debut issue of a Tiny Supers-based comic, Sentry Force Prime issue #0.

We presented the Tiny Supers core rulebook, Gallantverse Campaign Guide, and GM Screen in two previous TinyD6 offers in 2020 and 2023. A 2018 standalone version of Fallen Justice appeared in the February 2021 Old School Cool; this 2020 Tiny Supers version is new. The total retail value of the titles new in this offer is $43.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Kickstarter - Wrath of the Wyvern: Dark Fantasy Solo TTRPG


The Witcher meets Skyrim in Wrath of the Wyvern, a solo RPG like no other. Venture into the Highlands and face fierce wyverns!

I'm always intrigued by solo RPGs. They are always a temptation, even if I never play most of the ones I have.

Wrath of the Wyvern looks very tempting. I feel dark fantasy is a good fit for solo RPGs, and this looks to be a solid choice. I'm hoping the deck of cards is more intuitive than other RPGs I've played that used cards.

In the tempestuous Umbral Highlands, monstrous Wyverns rule the skies, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. In Wrath of the Wyvern, you are the last hope, a lone hunter tasked with reclaiming a dying world, one battle at a time. 

Inspired by Scottish Celtic mythology, this brutal solo TTRPG puts you in command of every decision, every battle, and every choice that will shape the future of the Highlands. Powered by the Fury Engine, Wrath of the Wyvern replaces dice with a Fate Card system, ensuring that every encounter is fast-paced, strategic, and cinematic. 

  • A tactical solo RPG that combines exploration, survival, and cinematic combat.
  • No dice—fate is determined by the draw of a card.
  • Replayable open-world hexcrawl with branching storylines & faction influence.

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Monday, March 3, 2025

Bundle of Holding - Mörk Borg Core



I have more supplements for Mörk Borg than I'd care to admit. It's a simple system, and I'm not sure how well it would work for a long-term campaign, but for 1-shots and convention play, it's a great fit.

Adventurer! This all-new Mörk Borg Core Bundle presents English-language .PDF rulebooks featuring Mörk Borg, the rules-light Old-School blackened artpunk doomsday tabletop roleplaying game from Swedish design teams Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell, published by Free League Publishing. A doom-metal album of a game, a spiked flail to the face, Mörk Borg is about miserable bastards and heretics enduring a bleak, dying world. Maybe you're a tomb-robber with silver glittering between cracked fingernails – a mystic who would bend the world's heart away from its inevitable end – a Sacrilegious Songbird singing sweetly, though your soul screams. Play Mörk Borg as-is, or pick it apart for your own Old School Revival homebrew. There's no more metal way to mark the world's demise.

This all-new offer gives you the English-language core rulebook, three supplements, play aids, and the rulebooks for the standalone companion games CY_BORG and Pirate Borg, all for a price even a Gutterborn Scum can afford. For just US$9.95 you get all four titles in our Mörk Collection (retail value $45) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Mörk Borg core rulebook, Cult: Feretory and Cult: Heretic, and the GM Screen.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.02, you'll level up and also get our entire Borg Collection with three more titles worth an additional $50, including the CY_BORG Core Rules, the Pirate Borg Core Book, and Free League's recent Mörk Borg magic-item supplement Ikhon.


 

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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Kickstarter - When Dusk Falls (A Shadowdark RPG Hexcrawl)


Rise beyond dusk in this mystical, ever-evolving forest.

Let's see? ShadowDark? Check!

Hexcrawl? Check!

A5 for convenient traveling?  Checkity check check!

At about 10 bucks in PDF and 16 in POD (plus cost and shipping) with PDF, I'm in for a physical copy of When Dusk Falls.

Explore a vast forest of wonder and intrigue in When Dusk Falls, a sandbox hexcrawl setting for Shadowdark RPG. A rotting cancer grows in the dreary depths of the forest. Its many factions and woodland denizens interact with this creeping dread as it continues to grow, trying to adapt or fight back. What place will your players find in this continuously evolving world?

  • Over 140 A5 pages featuring a sandbox hexcrawl setting using an incredibly easy to run spread-based layout.
  • 60 hexes filled with more than 100 wondrous points of interest.
  • 5 diverse factions with evolving weekly progress and goals that impact the dynamics of the Grenin.
  • Multiple exciting dungeons and adventure sites stuffed with treasure and dangers. Each comes with both GM and player-facing maps.
  • A brand new alchemy system powered by the unique reagents found in the Grenin. Make potions, elixirs, oils, and salves to aid on your quests.
  • New themed magic items for all levels of play.
  • 10 enigmatic NPCs and their quest lines.
  • A creeping rot mechanic that will corrupt your characters as they delve deeper into the dark.


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