Not DnD

Happy New Year! Here's the games we will be looking at in January 2025:

Ion Heart

Bitter Chalice

Mum Chums

More information and links to the live streams can be found here: https://www.enworld.org/threads/new-year-plans-for-not-dnd.709468/

Not DnD is a weekly show discussing tabletop roleplaying games. Each week EN Publishing’s @tabletopjess interviews the creators behind different tabletop roleplaying games that aren’t D&D!

I knew BIND would be a good fit for Not D&D, as it is an acronym for BIND Is Not D&D! The game uses a 2D6 system at its core, and introduces new rules as needed for the module you are playing.

https://bindrpg.gitlab.io/ 

Deepspace RPG, the new card-based sci-fi RPG. The card based combat is inspired by deck building board games. 

The game is currently in development by Ethan from Flaming River Studios, and available to download for free.

Download the game: https://flamingriverstudios.itch.io/deepspace-rpg 

Link Tree:  https://linktr.ee/flamingriver 

Playtest: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1ALFM2sQo88I6hLQRbVCvBosbU6INbM/view 

Be Seeing You is a roleplaying game about independence, control, freedom and compliance. Influenced by fiction in the vein of The Prisoner, Stalker, and Utopia, and real struggles against mass surveillance, the Hostile Environment, and the alienating effects of capitalism.

Buy the game at https://floaker.itch.io/be-seeing-you 

Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition is built around the GUMSHOE system, which is perfect for a game of investigation and horror. You take on the roles of stalwart investigators - detectives, journalists, scientists, ordinary people - as they uncover clues and unravel cryptic mysteries that lead inexorably towards the terrifying cosmic horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos described in the works of writer H. P. Lovecraft and his disciples.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/pelgrane-press/trail-of-cthulhu-2nd-edition 

Not DnD is a weekly show discussing tabletop roleplaying games. Each week EN Publishing’s @tabletopjess interviews the creators behind different tabletop roleplaying games that aren’t D&D!

Here's the games we will be looking at in December 2024.

You can read more on EN World at https://www.enworld.org/threads/ttrpgs-that-are-not-dnd-for-december.708253/ 

PSYCHODUNGEON is a fantasy workplace action drama, played using No Dice and No Masters. It's a tabletop roleplaying game set in a world of mobile phones and magic spells, mass transit and malevolent demons, the supernatural intermingled with the everyday.

In Glyndain, when a persons trauma hits a breaking point, their troubles manifest physically as a psychodungeon full of monstrous nightmares. Plumbers are called in to clean out the dungeons and close them off. It’s difficult work. Dangerous. The kind that follows you home. Part adventurer, part handyman, part therapist. Still, it’s a living. You’ve got bills to pay and rent to make. It’s time to go down, down into the PSYCHODUNGEON.

Buy the Book: https://ratwave.square.site/

Buy the PDF: https://ratwavegamehouse.itch.io/psychodungeon

Aegean is a tabletop role-playing game about a group of mythic heroes building a new, free city on the shores of the Aegean Sea. There are neighbouring cities to trade or war with, monsters to kill, gods to appease, deceptions, negotiations and bloody skirmishes.

With a core resolution mechanic of a D10 dice pool, the game also balances Risk, Glory and Hubris as game mechanics which impact your character. The pantheon of gods are very present, as you would expect in this setting, and can grant favour and disfavour to impact dice rolls.

www.aegeanrpg.com 

Play the Fools, incite Calamity. Dive into a world of tarot & androids, of neon dreams & data divine. Will you deny these jealous gods?

A Fool’s Errand is a tarot-fueled science fantasy tabletop roleplaying game set in a vibrant post-calamity world of Androids, Humans, and those in between.

Kickstarter Link (now fully funded!): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strautmaskreplica/a-fools-errand

Website: https://www.planetarcana.com/a-fools-errand

Twitter: @strautmask, @marsollier_b

The Bludgeon TTRPG System is a crunchy, tactical RPG with flexible mechanics. The game is made by a team of Indian designers and artists and is currently in development and being play tested.

The games core design centres around power sources the characters have (whether Martial, Chakra, Primal, Arcane or Divine), and a scaling system where power and experience does not mean bigger numbers. Instead, it means that you're a more rounded character with more options via adaptations, class abilities, and passives skills.

Website: https://tacticsnchai.itch.io/bludgeon-the-ttrpg

Actual Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MtpX718L7U&list=PLtCtk4T5Gt15tG7JXYBMjijPQNGXAHGWS

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