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.
