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What’s the Britpack up to Summer Edition

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Jon Hodgeson is posting art by Paul Bourne from the upcoming Hot War/Cold City ttrpgs release

Hot War art by Paul Bourne

More fantastic art, an update from Jon and game designer/historian Malcolm Craig in this Kickstarter update.

If you’ve not backed this one, you and me can’t be friends. Highly recommended. Late pledges still open!

Paul Baldowski of Cthulhu Hack/Dee Sanction fame is working on a MOrg Borg based game…

Guy Milner of Burnafterrunning.com also reviewed the new Warhammer Old World Players Handbook.

Jon Hodgson was also seen celebrating the release of the Forest Dragon on Bluesky, 11 years ago.

This is a great little game that was a great game for all the family, and kept my kids entertained when they were primary age.

Finally, from Ian from Fenris Games.

Back in March we inherited a whole bundle of models from the now retired Otherworld Miniatures range and I’m gradually releasing them as funds and time allow. Due to popular demand I’ve created a separate section for them in the shop so you can find your way straight to them with less searching!

What are the Brit Pack up to?

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Scattered across social media posts, mainly BlueSky these days, comes news of what members of what I call the Brit Pack, fellow UK TTRPG designers that I know personally mainly through the Sheffield series of Garricons.

Paul Baldowski’s Dee Sanction Monad Edition is on Kickstarter. A new expanded version of his TTRPG exploring the Elizabethan World of supernatural investigation. Streamlined rules, more setting information.

Glyn Seal of Monkey Blood Design and Midderlands fame is currently Kickstarting Ryecroft: A Dangerous Cemetery Crawl for OSE and B/X TTRPGs

Neil Gow is writing articles and mini-supplements for Paul Mitchener’s Liminal, a simple game of British supernatural and folklore.

  • A Kickstarter collecting the articles in zine format is coming soon.

John Ossoway, author of Cthulhu Rising and River of Heaven, has gone all Ronin and has written and illustrated a supplement for this Mork Borg based game,

Gaz Bowerbank, better known as Evil Gaz to us UK convention attendees, and one half of the Smart Party Podcast and Unconventional GMs, has collected his Piratical Savage World convention scenarios that have been previously run at UK Conventions such as Furnace/7 Hills, as the Golden Isle.

Talking of the Unconventional GMs, they continue to periodically release short no-nonsense two hour long actual play videos. Check out Gaz and co-host Guy Milner’s (of Burn After Running fame), output on YouTube.

Paul Mitchener has recently issued two supplements for his Out of the Ashes fantasy TTRPG of heroes rebuilding their community after the Evil Dark Lord has fallen.

These are my copies as a backer, but I’m sure both will be available soon via the usual outlets.

Various posts and reviews posted via BlueSky tell me that Black Armarda’s Lovecrafques Second edition is available in print now and getting into the wild.

Finally, Handiwork Games’ Cold City/Hot War Kickstarter may have ended last month, but late pledges are still open for this duo of monumentally influential Historical TTRPGs, whose first editions came out in the 2000s.

Bit Odd, Innit? A Kickstarter from Cakebread and Walton

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The return of British Table Top Roleplaying stalwarts Cakebread and Walton, with their Kickstarter for their new game Bit Odd, Innit?.

The lazy take on this one is “British Stranger Things”, but I know it will be a full take on British Weird Supernatural Urban Folklore, expertly crafted by Peter Cakebread and his new writing partner Chris Newton.

Welcome to Goreton 

This game is set in a peculiar English Village where strange things happen. You get to play as teen adventurers who have to navigate the everyday horrors of school, home, and eccentric village life – while keeping the creeping darkness at bay.

From age-old folk horrors to experiments gone wrong at the local research facility; from the eldritch powers of the standing stones to the mysteries of the weekly meat raffle; from the ghostly and other-worldly entities that dwell within the village to the Lovecraftian creatures and gods wanting to break through from their own dimensions to invade ours; from enforced community participation weeks to school geography trips to the local Tor; Goreton is a place of thrilling adventures, fun and heartbreak, where true horror awaits! 

The book is standalone and does not require any other of the OneDice books to run, and will include all the rules along with plenty of details about Goreton village and its inhabitants.

Welcome to Goreton – Bit Odd, Innit?

New upcoming Kickstarters from the Brit-Pack

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It looks like September is a hot month* for Kickstarters from a bunch of creative friends of mine.

Opening later today is Paul Baldowski’s Sanction RPG. Taking the system from his wonderfully concise and focused Elizabethan game The Dee Sanction, Paul opens it up to any setting where a quick, no-nonsense challenge-based system is needed. It also has a sequel to the Dee Sanction, set in the reign of Henry VIII, where the characters explore the ruins of the Abbeys after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Next up is the next supplement for the mighty Beowulf RPG by Haniwork Games. This supplement brings a kingship phase to the game with all that entails.

Also, they’ve put together a four-page preview available now.

If you like a bit of Duck in your game, Gloranthan or otherwise, fellow Duck Fanatic Ian of Fenris Games is bringing a small, perfectly formed range of minis to the gaming table, and I believe some adventures for Dragonbane.

Finally I’d be remiss not to mention Beyond Dread Portals, which although its being published by myself, is by my good friend and colloaborator Paul Mitchener (Liminal, Age of Arthur). Opens in a couple weeks.

Notes * September at the moment is the hottest on record, as we swelter through a heatwave. Due to end next week, when normal rainy service resumes!