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(KS) Sanity Bending Call of Cthulhu Metal Dice from Q-Workshop!

Q-Workshop and Chaosium have teamed up together to create an official set of Metal Dice for Call of Cthulhu. What self-respecting Investigator, or Cultist, could resist making their Credit Check roll and grabbing a set, starting at $59!

(KS) Want a Cook Book? Want a Roleplaying Game? Have both with Cooking with Dice!

Cooking with Dice is like a traditional tabletop role playing game, but it comes with a delicious twist. You take on the role of a chef-adventurer, and cook your way out of trouble... in real life... in your own kitchen.
A Few More Tidbits About D&D Beyond From The Developer
Adam Bradford, the senior product manager of upcoming D&D digital toolset D&D Beyond has answered a few questions about the product over at the Tribality website. You can read the full interview at the link below, but here are the highlights. Nothing major, but a few bits like filtering content, roadmap features like initiative trackers, color-coded tabs, etc.
Top 5 RPGS Of Fall 2016 As Hobby Games Grow 10%
A few days ago, ICv2 released its latest set of quarterly figures for for hobby channel sales of tabletop roleplaying games. As always, these figures are based on interviews with retailers, distributors, and manufacturers. The latest figures are for Fall 2016. No big surprises - the top four didn't change, while #5 switched from Green Ronin's Fantasy/Dragon Age to Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition. The hobby game market as a whole grew yet again in 2016, by about 10%, with the hobby being regarded as "now-mainstream" (that's hobby games as a whole - board, card, miniature, dice, and roleplaying games).
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News Digest: GAMA Going Strong! Announcements for D&D, Pathfinder, Starfinder, Shadowrun, Green Roni
Hello everyone, this week we have holy crap con season started and ALL the news is happening save me please! GAMA is going on this week and one of the largest gaming trade shows means a lot of big product announcements. Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Starfinder, Shadowrun, and more announcements. Cool Mini or Not is poising to make a major move on the market. Fall 2016 sales reports are in from ICv2 to let you know the bestselling games on the market today. And more!

(KS) Pathfinder Goes Dark… with Bloodlines & Black Magic Modern Supernatural Setting from Storm Bunn

Storm Bunny Studios have just launched their Bloodlines & Black Magic Pathfinder compatible supernatural modern campaign setting on Kickstarter. Bloodlines & Black Magic pits rich political elites, desperate cultists, supernatural horrors, celestial powers, secret magical orders, Göetic spirits, and ancient bloodlines in a deadly war against one another over a reality which nearly all of humanity can neither see, nor comprehend.

Take A Peek At The Sunless Citadel From Tales of the Yawning Portal

Oh. It's on the main product page. http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/tales-yawning-portal
STARFINDER Miniature Starships Peek
Remember I mentioned a line of Starfinder prepainted plastic miniatures from Ninja Division? Well, here's a quick peak at them, straight from GAMA. These are not final. Ninja Division will also be producing minis for Starfinder characters, as well as starships.
Check out These STARFINDER Standees From GAMA
The GAMA trade show is going on right now. Paizo is there, and has four awesome standees showing off their upcoming Starfinder game. These standees show a human, an android, a Ksatha, and a Vesk (a newly revealed lizard alien - like a Gorn!)

Kickstarter (KS) Castles & Crusades Players Handbook Heads for 7th Printing on Kickstarter!

Troll Lord Games recently announced that stock of the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook had sold out. To fund an impressive 7th print run of the book they’ve turned to Kickstarter and are offering the book to backers at 50% of the final cover price!
"Dust" and "Midway" - Codenames for Upcoming D&D Hardcovers
Tales from the Yawning Portal was codenamed Labyrinth. Curse of Strahd was Cloak, and Storm King's Thunder was Dagger (or vice versa). Now two new codenames have emerged, spotted by EN World member kettite. Dust is dated 19 Sep 2017, hardcover, $49.95, and Midway is dated 21 Nov 2017, hardcover, $49.95. These have both appeared over on edelweiss' catalog. They do not match the four unnamed RPG Accessories on Amazon. Engage speculation mode - two new hardcovers later this year!

Kickstarter (KS) World Engine : Web Based Map-Making System now on Kickstarter!

World Engine is an easy-to-use, web-based, map-making tool that will let you create jaw-dropping maps quickly and easily. It’s by Mesa Mundi Inc (the makers of D20PRO) and is now live on Kickstarter until Thursday 13th April.

Become A Crack Goblin Commando in The Filthy Dozen!

Matt Machell & Realms Publishing have released The Filthy Dozen on PDF. A roleplaying game for 3 to 6 players featuring goblin mayhem, satire and grotesquery.

(KS) Drive Your Friends Insane with these Cthulhu Mythos Book Badges!!!

It’s not always as obvious to spot a fellow cultists as just keeping an eye out to see the deformities hidden away under woollen cloaks, or the dribbling, or listening to the mad spontaneous ramblings and shrieks of Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn! Some cultists, and indeed investigators of such affairs, can almost pass as undetected and as normal as anyone else. That’s where these badges come in handy…

RPG Convention Season Is GO!

Convention season is upon us again. Even as we speak the GAMA Trade Show is going on in Las Vegas as the unofficial start to the year's gaming convention season. Over the next few months we have a number of gaming stretching from the Old School conventions of Gary Con and the North Texas RPG Con, to the larger conventions of Origins and, of course, Gen Con. The next few months are going to be a swirl of activity and work, as companies big and small ready their releases and presentations for the upcoming year.
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Here's Wayne Reynolds' Cover of Paizo's BESTIARY 6!
Paizo today revealed the cover of it's latest Bestiary, the sixth of that name! The cover art is by Wayne Reynolds. The book itself is due out next month (April) and contains 200 new monsters, new player races, foes from myth and legend (including Krampus!) and a whole bunch more. You can preorder it over at the Paizo webstore.

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More D&D 2024 Tidbits: Aasimar, Goliaths, Town-Eating Gelatinous Cubes
Here are a few more tidbits from Game Informer's magazine coverage of the new edition's rulebooks.
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The D&D Cartoon Heroes In The 2024 PHB
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How Does Greyhawk Fit In To The New Edition?
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New D&D Edition's Player’s Handbook Cover Reveal
Game Informer has revealed the cover to the 2024 Player’s Handbook.
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More Adventurer Corpses But Not Their Loot
Possibly the most ecologically-friendly Intriguing Organization yet.

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D&D-powered cartoon fun from Cryptozoic Entertainment.
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Developer tool released under Open RPG Creator (ORC) License.
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2024 D&D Core Rules Will Be Added To SRD In 2025
SRD 5.2 will be released under Creative Commons next year.
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Field Guide to Floral Dragons Joins Million Dollar Kickstarter Club
One of only two TTRPG creators with four separate million dollar Kickstarters!
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