Upturned Table

Free League is releasing the Colonial Marine Operations Manual. Featuring rules for Marines and guidelines for running a whole marine-centric campaign. Plus six missions to run written by Andrew E.C. Gaska and Paul Elliot. Also featuring the excellent artwork of Martin Grip from the core rulebook. The makers of Quest RPG are releasing actual play audio tutorials to help new players get a handle on the game and get up and running even without the physical rulebook. We also discuss the idea of the preciousness of player characters and how with all the investment now possible some players can’t stand to see their characters die.

#alienrpg #questrpg #colonialmarines #preciousness

The Same Page Tool:

https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/the-same-page-tool/

The Same Page Tool 2.0:

https://snafuy.github.io/samepage2/

Colonial Marines Pre-order:

https://www.alien-rpg.com/

The Well by Peter Schaefer is an original tabletop roleplaying game currently on Kickstarter. Our conspiracies align as rumors that Hasbro is prepping Wizards of the Coast for sale emerge. We also discuss alignment in TTPRGs and if it is useful and why is it still around. #thewellrpg #wotc #hasbro #alignment

The Well RPG on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shoelesspetegames/the-well-roleplaying-game

Online Alignment Test:

https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd%2Fdnd%2F20001222b

After twelve years of working together, Gale Force Nine is suing Wizards of the Coast for non-payment. WotC is stating dissatisfaction with the translation work done for TRPG Club for Korean translation and Black Book Editions for the French translation. ROLE is calling itself a dating app for roleplaying players and groups. They will open their early access to not only Kickstarter backers, but anyone interested in trying the platform. We also talk about failing forward in tabletop game systems like Powered by the Apocalypse, Year Zero Engine, 2d20 and Gumshoe.

#galeforcenine #rolevtt #failingforward #theweekly

 

Fantasy Flight miniatures games are handing over management to Atomic Mass Games also owned by Asmodee. They had success last year with Marvel Crisis Protocol. This will include their Star Wars games, X-Wing, Armada and Legion. Fans seem to be happy with the move. Many modern boardgames are having new branded editions using Disney IPs, including Star Wars, Marvel and Disney Parks. Is this a good move to get more people into the hobby? Does this mean these modern games are considered classics? Or will this ruin the experience and players will feel they have outgrown them? Also, Disney has stopped paying royalties to Alan Dean Foster for his novelization and sequel novels for Star Wars and also the Alien franchise. What does this mean for copyright and the future of creatives writing for established IPs? #DisneyMustPay #atomicmassgames #starwars #alien

Former Blizzard executives and World of Warcraft directors, Chris Metzen and Mike Gilmartin, are starting a tabletop company, based on their Orange County gaming club, called Warchief Gaming. Critical Role launches their own publishing company called Darrington Press. They have four titles scheduled for 2021 releases including RPG, boardgame, and card game titles. Should Wizards of the Coast be paying attention? Our topic for this week is Gatekeeping, its origins, and difficulties in tabletop games as well as other popular culture.

#criticalrole #blizzard #gatekeeping

Games Workshop licensing is now open to proposals for merchandise using the Warhammer IP. This includes crowdfunding those projects on Kickstarter. The authors of the Dragonlance novels, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, are suing Wizards of the Coast due to the breakdown of the revision process for the first draft of the first book of the, now in doubt, next trilogy of novels. Our topic this week is about using horror in your tabletop games. What are the considerations and how should you pace a one-shot or campaign?

#horror #dragonlance #gamesworkshop

The Trajectory of Fear – or How to Use

Horror Tropes Effectively in your Game by Ash Law

https://img.fireden.net/tg/image/1453/84/1453840962349.pdf

The theme song is “Chips” by Kokoro no Me used with permission

https://kokoronome.bandcamp.com/

Hasbro has revealed their plans to “reprint” Heroquest through their HasLab crowd-funding-like website. Honey & Hot Wax is an anthology of sex-positive roleplaying games. The collection of games varies from 2-player to games needing 6 to 12 players along with a facilitator or two. It is published by Pelgrane Press and was edited by Lucian Kahn and Sharang Biswas with a foreword by Naomi Clark of Consentacle. An open license for creating content for Mork Borg, the award-winning game published by Free League. The latest Adventurer’s League Guide contains new custom racial ability score rules. This gives us a preview of the new rules that Wizards of the Coast will be adding to 5E in the release of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything coming soon. We lament the failure of 2020 as the year of Dune, with only the boardgame reprint being released while the Denis Villeneuve feature film and Modiphius 2d20 system will not be released until next year.

#dune #morkborg #heroquest #modiphius

Honey & Hot Wax Anthology:

https://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/honey-hot-wax-an-anthology-of-erotic-art-games/

Create content for Mork Borg:

https://morkborg.com/license/

Adventurer’s Guild Rules Update:

https://dnd.wizards.com/ddal_players

The DriveThru RPG website is previewing its long-overdue redesign. Free League released a new adventure module for their Alien RPG called Destroyer of Worlds. It is a boxed set and features the colonial space marines prominently. Stay frosty. They also released a starter box that is a collection of the game accessories they previously released along with custom dice and a condensed rulebook. Dark World Studios will be running a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter for their Acheron RPG. Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden is the newest campaign module for 5E of the World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game. Buy us a copy and force Chris to review it! Ultraviolet Grasslands by Luka Rejec has a free player’s guide available and the physical game is available at the Exalted Funeral webstore.

#acheronrpg #ultravioletgrasslands # alienrpg #icewinddale

Send us a copy of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden and force Chris to review it!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1VTJO6HG3PLV6?ref_=wl_share

Download the BETA rules for the Dark Studios’ Acheron RPG:

https://www.darkworldstudios.net/

Ultraviolet Grasslands:

https://wizardthieffighter.itch.io/ultraviolet-grasslands-and-the-black-city-uvg

Free Player’s Guide:

https://wizardthieffighter.itch.io/uvg-free-player-guide

UVG Physical copies:

https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/collections/luka-rejec/products/the-ultra-violet-grasslands-and-the-black-city

Alien RPG Destroyer of Worlds digital version:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/320111/ALIEN-RPG-Destroyer-of-Worlds?affiliate_id=2081746

Alien RPG bundle physical bundle:

https://frialigan.se/en/store/?product_id=4927322128521

 

Morning Coffee for a New Lover is an RPG by Nathan Black printed on an actual coffee mug. The Dead Milkmen have written a D&D 5E module called Lost Tomb of the Bitchin’ Chimera named for their track Bitchin’ Camaro on Kickstarter. The Wretched RPG by Chris Bissette is also on Kickstarter for its second printing and other stretch goals. Humble Bundle and Frog God Games collaborate to bring you a big sampling of OSR (Old School Revival/Renassaince) starting at only one dollar. Featuring Swords & Wizardry, Castles & Crusades and Borderland Provinces.

#wretchedrpg #deadmilkmen #froggodgames #osr

Morning Coffee for a New Lover:

https://www.sassys86.com/product/morning-coffee-for-a-new-lover

OSR Humble Bundle:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/old-school-revival-dragons-dungeons-mazes

Wretched Second Printing on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loottheroom/the-wretched-second-printing

Tomb of the Bitchin’ Chimera on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/justinsirois/lost-tomb-of-the-bitchin-chimera-dead-milkmen-rpg-module

Free League is developing a new version of Twilight 2000 that was funded on Kickstarter. It will be a boxed set and was developed in collaboration with Game Designer’s Workshop. The Chronicle system that powered Green Ronin’s A Song of Ice and Fire RPG will now be available as a setting neutral ruleset called Sword Chronicle. There were some minor to armor and intrigue, but it will play very similar to the first incarnation. Thousand Suns RPG by Grognardia Games and designed by James Maliszewski is worth a look if you are looking for a scfi system that was inspired by the “imperial” science fiction of the 1950s and 60s. It uses a 2d12 system called the 12 Degree system. Chris will play in a session of Visigoths vs. Mall Goths by Lucius Kahn @oh_theogony. Plus a quick explanation of what the medals awarded to DriveThru RPG sellers mean.

#indiegames #greenronin #twilight2000

Twilight 2000 on Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/twilight-2000-roleplaying-in-the-wwiii-that-never-was

Visigoths vs. Mall Goths

https://necromancy.itch.io/goths

Sword Chronicle by Green Ronin

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/324609/Sword-Chronicle–Feudal-Fantasy-Roleplaying?affiliate_id=2081746

Secrets of Blackmoor

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Blackmoor-History-Dungeons-Dragons/dp/B087QMYZ4R

https://www.secretsofblackmoor.com/