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Daniel Kwan (Asians Represent Podcast, Candlekeep Mysteries, Motherlands RPG, Candela Obscura) joins Jessica this week on Not DnD to talk about Wandering Blades. Wandering Blades is a rules light, low fantasy tabletop role playing game inspired by Chinese wuxia and xuanhuan media, and old-school renaissance (OSR) games. Violent melodrama in an old school tabletop RPG package! Wandering Blades is c...

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H.O.N.K. is a rules-lite, chaos-heavy system that will be very comfortable for those familiar with D&D Fifth Edition, or with 2d6 systems such as Monster of the Week and Apocalypse World. This game is perfectly suited to the brand of chaos that only a true goose can invoke. Find out more on from creator Jack Dixon on this week's episode of Not DnD. ----- Pre-order the game: https://thepocketwo...

The Contract is a tabletop roleplaying game about ambitious people who go on deadly missions to earn fantastic powers. Jessica Hancock speaks to Spencer Stecko on this week's episode of Not DnD to learn more. The Contract is 100% free-to-play via the website. This website's online guidebook and extensive integrated tools can be found at https://www.thecontractrpg.com/ The game is designed so that...

This week Jessica interviews Alex White from Plane Sailing Games about The Long Road Home. The Long Road Home is a role-playing story game about friends returning from an epic fantasy quest, hoping they will find their loved ones safe back home. The game was inspired the idea of the Hobbits travelling home after the events of their great quest. Reminiscing together about the friends they made and...

A preview of what's coming later this month from Not DnD ----- Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing

This week Jessica interviews momatoes, and Chiara Locatelli about The Magus The Magus is a solo RPG about “pathos, calamity, and the infinite loneliness of power”. The game promises crunchy narrative mechanics that inspire players to write the journey of a magus aspiring for ultimate power, while being forced to sacrifice who they love. Written by the award-winning Philippine designer momatoes (AR...

Against the Darkmaster is a tabletop Epic Fantasy roleplaying game of high adventure, heroic action, and heavy metal combat. The game has a simple resolution mechanic using d100s and a flexible magic system. The passion & drive system encourages players to roleplay their characters' motivations and goals. Join Jessica and the team from Open Ended Games to learn more about this classic fantasy ...

A preview of what's coming later this month from Not DnD ----- Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing

Join Jessica and the producers of the game, Riccardo "Rico" Sirignano & Simone Formicola of Two Little Mice, as we hear about Memento Mori. Memento Mori is a role-playing game in which Players take the role of Drifters, people sick with the plague who, despite their condition and the terrible reality of Medieval Europe, are determined to fulfill their Dream.   Memento Mori is written and desig...

The world as you know it, early 21st century, Earth is nothing but a lie. In truth, it is a simulation called The Terminal, a lie to keep humanity under the control of the Robot Authority. This week's episode of Not DnD features a Digital Pirate Action TTRPG, built on a focused system to tell exciting and epic stories of grave consequence. Join Jessica Hancock as she interviews Kayla Dice about Te...

Designers Aled Lawlor and Panayiotis Lines from Leyline Press are here to talk about Salvage Union. Learn more about this post-apocalyptic mech tabletop roleplaying game powered by the Quest RPG. ----- Buy the Game: https://leyline.press/products/salvage-union-core-book Website: www.leyline.press Twitter: www.twitter.com/salvageunion EN World Article: https://www.enworld.org/threads/scrap-together...

When The Wolf Comes is a game of storytelling, heroism, and epic struggle set during a reimagined Norse End of Days - and powered by Robert J. Schwalb’s Shadow of the Demon Lord system. Join us for the live interview with creator Ian Sharpe. ----- When the Wolf Comes on DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/443491/When-the-Wolf-Comes Space Vikings on DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/produ...

Happy New Year from Not DnD! Find out what to look forward to in January as Not DnD returns next week.

A quick message from Jessica during the holiday season. Not DnD will come back on January 8, 2024!

Brindlewood Bay is a murder mystery tabletop role-playing game about elderly women amateur detectives, inspired by Murder, She Wrote and H. P. Lovecraft. ----- Brindlewood Bay official website https://www.brindlewoodbay.com/brindlewood-bay.html Brindelwood Bay on DriveThruRPG https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/410316/brindlewood-bay-kickstarter-edition?affiliate_id=36142 ----- This episod...

In December, as we come to the end of the year, we'll be interviewing creators who deal with endings on Not DnD. Brindlewood Bay lets you play as elderly women, who become amateur detectives. Death Throes is set at the end of the world, the early stages of a zombie outbreak.

High fantasy in the Age of Industry. Steel & Scale is a complete and comprehensive Tabletop Role-Playing Game, based on a d20 system, designed to be simple for new players to pick up, with enough complexity to provide variety and tactical depth for experienced TTRPG players. With no fixed classes, and vast options for customisation, no two characters will be the same! ----- Website: steelandsc...

The Electrum Archive is a science-fantasy TTRPG zine series inspired by the worlds of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Dark Sun and Ultraviolet Grasslands. ----- Electrum Archive website www.electrumarchive.com Emiel Boven on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/emielboven Emiel Boven on Substack https://emielboven.substack.com/ Emiel Boven on Itch.io https://emielboven.itch.io/ ----- This episode was...

Oribtal Blues is roleplaying love-letter to off-beat sci-fi, vintage music, and cooperative old-school styled roleplay, Orbital Blues allows you to play out rules-light tabletop adventures in the style of space westerns such as Cowboy Bebop, Firefly and The Mandalorian. Afterburn is series of new books, adventures and merchandise for Orbital Blues, an RPG about sad space cowboys. ----- Kickstarter...

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A young bride is wed to an ugly, but powerful man with a blue beard. He invites her to explore the house… but one room is forbidden. Eventually, the young bride falls prey to her curiosity and opens it, discovering a gruesome display of prior brides’ corpses… Bluebeard's Bride is a gothic horror tabletop role-playing game based on the Bluebeard folktale. Join us as we speak to Marissa Kelly who cr...

Gloom Tarot and Terror is a minimalist horror tabletop role playing game about a terrifying threat out to devour a small town, the group of young people responsible for stopping it, and the utterly oblivious adults in their lives. In Gloom Tarot and Terror, players weave compelling stories full of suspense and tension, with or without a game master. Narrative and actions are driven by cards drawn...

A unique legacy solo horror experience that has players live out their own found footage horror movie. With a twisted multiplayer options that allows you to curse other players to continue your story. The game goes beyond the tabletop as players get hands on creating artifacts, exploring the outside world, and scaring the €@&# out of themselves. ----- Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/p...

The Walking Dead has always been about characters facing impossible life and death choices. In The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, you can face these choices head on, putting yourself in the world of The Walking Dead – at any time in the timeline, encountering familiar faces and places and brand-new ones and, making the biggest choice: Who are you going to be? We have seen many stories in...