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Magic of inventoring is a punchy storytelling game for 3 to 6 players, designed to be played in a few hours with polyhedral dice, no GM and ZERO preparation. This game sparks joy in everyone. This includes seasoned dungeon crawlers and absolute roleplay beginners, as well as board gamer sho are after a fun evening. Find out more on their Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rolis...

Mythomachus: The Role-Playing Game is a full game and campaign setting made to be compatible with Fifth Edition, based on the renowned Greek graphic novel Mythomachus, published by Nedula Creative Lab. In short, it could be described as The Witcher meets Highlander during the 1800s. You can back the kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edge-of-mythos/mythomachus-rpg *************...

Interview with Black Lantern Studios Dimokritos Saloustros about Pact, a modern, occult, personal-horror role-playing game, set in a world almost identical to ours, only darker, more corrupted, and slowly collapsing. As humanity crumbles under despair, loss, and ambition, Demons find their opportunity. Unable to influence the world on their own, they whisper to humans in a moment of weakness, offe...

Over the last few weeks a number of people have been stupid enough to open their mouths and reveal themselves to be... erm... despicable. Ryan Dancey, formerly from Alderac Entertainment Group, decided to openly admit that he would happily replace humans with AI to design games. Needless to say, he is not just mistaken as AI can't design as a human can, but also it is a pretty shitty stance to tak...

In 1985, Drakborgen, a board game adventure created by Jakob Bonds and Dan Glimne, was released and quickly became a classic. In 2022, Drakborgen was brought back to life through a spectacular Kickstarter by Fandrake, where one of the rewards was a role-playing adventure for Forbidden Lands. Now, this adventure has been updated and adapted for Dragonbane — and you are invited to explore its danger...

Zephyr: An Anarchist Game of Fleeting Identities is a roleplaying game set in the wandering, sentient continent of Ophoi. This entity travels on a relentless march across an endless salt flat, its four lungs bursting with sentimental energy - the alien emotions of the Zephyr, which comes in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Like most substances, the emotions of the Zephyr coalesce into mountains ma...

What would happen if you were created as a human-animal hybrid and you were sent to space to fight for the people who created you without your say so? Untamed Worlds puts you, as a player, in that situation. The latest game published by Osprey Games and written by Jack Norris. I got together with Jack to ask him a ton of questions about this game and how it handles some very tough topics. With a s...

Justin Achilli has been a legend of the world of TTRPGs for decades. With a more-than-stellar career both inside and outside this industry, he is one of the people behind Studio Hermitage and their star product Our Brilliant Ruin. After a successful Kickstarter to release the core rulebook, they are heading to create another campaign to release a Starter Set with minimal prep time and a very tight...

The NewTSR odyssey has ended at last. After years of controversy and bigotry, years of lying about products that were never meant to be in the first place, they are gone. And the world of RPGs is better for it. And Chris has a review of Autobahn... he is not very impressed. ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, p...

Asmodee has bought Zombicide from C'Mon... does this signal the end of C'mon? With the number of purchases Asmodee is doing at the moment, seems they are doing like some videogames firms buying firms and then dismissing them once they get what they want. ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi...

Managed another interview with Jack Caesar, from Caesar Ink and I am SO glad I did! Cæsar Ink is an award-winning team who have helped develop many original and IP-based projects. Our body of work includes Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Adventure Game, Jim Henson's Dark Crystal: The Adventure Game, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Board Game and many others. We live to create adventures, roll dice, and e...

Sandy Petersen, the creator of the TTRPG Call of Cthulhu, has decided to attend as a guest of honor a convention that boasts being anti-woke. Terrible optics! And what about games that use gimmicks? We have a few of those! ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► ⁠https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazin...

In this episode Chris came up with a ton of news and events. One of the main ones, though, was Goodman Games taking over City State of the Invincible Overlord and the controversy about the current IP holder. https://goodman-games.com/a-statement-about-city-state-of-the-invincible-overlord/ ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you...

Interview with Leland Andercheck about Changedstars and their many other games that are currently blessing a lot of tables. Very, very interesting indeed! Find out more about Leland and Changed stars here: https://dieselshot.itch.io/changedstars And get the PDF in DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/472535/changedstars?affiliate_id=318686   ChangedStars is a tabletop role-playing...

The impact of USA politics in the world of board games is becoming obvious and rather damaging. Let's talk about that. And what happens to D&D now that Crawdford and Perkins have left WOTC? ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In this episode I had the gigantic pleasure of chatting with Mark Diaz Truman about a game that had to wait a long time to see the light of day. But it has ben SO worth it! The city hungers. Will you feed it? The streets bleed shadows as the supernatural politics of the city threaten to swallow you whole. Will you suffer as the savior for those who don't have enough, or take advantage of the weakn...

In this episode Chris and I just talked about a few random thoughts we had in mind after the two weeks break we had to take because of computer problems. ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ About us: Paco and Martin are a couple...

SIGIL was (is?) the VTT project that Wizards of the Coast (WOTC) hoped would bring D&D to a different and new level. With gorgeous looks and even more demanding equipment requirements, it felt like they were really going for it,but… 90% of the staff has been laid off. And what is the future of rpg firms given the rise in price for printing? ********************************************** Please hel...

Ernie Gygax, ons of Gary Gygax' son, recently passed away after a fight with illness. Since, a plethora of people have commented on a thread of EN World where some truly horrible things have been said. Was Ernie such a bad egg? And on my part (Paco) I have a big announcement to make: I am publishing my own RPG! ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing a...

Infinity Fiction is an AI powered platform capable of inmersing players in a ever changing world. The company claims it uses AI reponsibily. I asked the CEO a few hard questions. Find out more on their website: https://infinityfiction.ai/ ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠h...

Andrew C. E. Gaska has been the mind behind an enormous chunk of the Free League's RPG Alien and also Planet of the Apes from Magnetic Press. We talk at length about both in what's our longest interview to date! Free league Alien: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/alien/ Magnetic Press Planet of the Apes: https://www.magnetic-press.com/official-planet-of-the-apes-rpg-preregistration/ ********...

In this episode Chris and I talk about the lack of funding for a lot of very popular podcasters and YouTubers and how Google is renewing the creator-verse. And after having read it, I do a review of The Electric State from Free League. What an amazing game! Among other things! ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work...

Over the last year, Evil Genius Games has managed to alienate a ton of people with their incursion in the world of crypto and accepting investment from crypto-currency firms. Now they are trying to clean their act by talking to people like me and sending cease and desist letters to people who don't take down articles about them... It does not bode well, does it? ***********************************...

Critical Role's episodes have been used to feed an AI model and the results used to feed another AI model... things are getting murky! Find out more here: https://www.polygon.com/critical-role/510326/critical-role-transcripts-ai-dnd-dungeon-master And Chris comes with a review of Freedom Five: A Sentinel Comics Board Game from Greater than Games. ********************************************** Plea...

I had the enormous pleasure of interviewing Garry and talk about his mega cute game FÄNGELSEHÅLA. Find out more on his website: https://diekugames.com/fang/ And don't miss his video podcast: https://diekugames.com/category/blog/ FÄNGELSEHÅLA is the Swedish word for “dungeon.”  We are inviting you to play an epic adventure with the elegance of the instructions from everybody’s favorite furniture st...