![[Tabletop Thursday] Of Dice and Men, A.K.A. RNGEsus Saves.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1744285913026-02QDMO6NBE49NVZLC5BE/ve10syf230071.jpg)
[Tabletop Thursday] Of Dice and Men, A.K.A. RNGEsus Saves.
Come, my nerdy flock. Gather thyselves around, for I hath news. News regarding some future content for Dicey News in the future but, most importantly, a theological sermon. A treatise, an educational devotion to the god of chance, of mathematics, of triumph and despair. I’m talking, of course, about RNGesus. Happy Tabletop Thursday from us nerds at ISC!
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[Tabletop Thursday, 27.03.25] A Nearly-Full-Monty (Python RPG) Column.
This week, I finally opened the packaging my Sensible Middle Class Edition of Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme came shipped in. In an act of divine providence akin to counting to five (three, sir!), Exalted Funeral have now brought the beautiful menagerie of TTRPG, coconut dice-roller, cow-flinging board game and more to all of you! Peek within to find more details, links and info on another upcoming campaign in The Job.
![[Dicey News] The ‘Evolved Edition’ Kickstarter For ‘Alien: The Roleplaying Game’ Has Begun!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1742979888526-1SEMS9O9MQUCOQJAGW5S/alienevolved.jpg)
[Dicey News] The ‘Evolved Edition’ Kickstarter For ‘Alien: The Roleplaying Game’ Has Begun!
A HUGE day for Tabletop RPG’s - the long-awaited Evolved Edition Kickstarter for Alien: The Roleplaying Game has launched! Featuring new and modified rulesets, multiple core and supplemental boxes, physical minis, maps, a new solo mode and more. This is a jam-packed campaign, one of Free League Publishing’s biggest yet.
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[RIFFS/TABLETOP]: Dice Pool versus D20+Modifier: who will steal my heart?
Resident dice-roller Èlodie pines for polyhedrals… But which die will she choose? Indeed, the life of a tabletop gaming blogger is just like a trashy romance novel.
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[#TabletopThursday] ‘It’s Already Thursday AGAIN?!’ Edition, 20.03.25.
It’s been another incredibly busy week in the tabletop industry - we could'n’t hope to cover half of the latest goings-on, but consarnit have we tried! In today’ Tabletop Thursday: A wrap-up of multiple new releases, news items and more from the week in Dicey News; exploring the massive quadruple-release via Bundle of Holding; a crowdfunding campaign stacked with goodies for Edinburgh Indie Gamers and much more!
![[Podcast] Ep. 38: Interview with DAN MACHUCA, a.k.a. Dan The Game Master.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1742369671267-GLG5MEFTROAJRDBM1FI8/danpic.jpg)
[Podcast] Ep. 38: Interview with DAN MACHUCA, a.k.a. Dan The Game Master.
Local educator, TTRPG game master, game therapist and all-around good freaking bloke Dan Machuca (aka Dan The Game Master) has the distinct honour of being our first industry professional interviewed in video/audio format! In this episode, Dan and I discuss his efforts merging hobby passion with education via his rules-lite/accessible TTRPG, regular game sessions for at-risk youth in Melbourne, his teaching work, men’s mental health, favourite RPG systems, work-life balance, and more!
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[#TabletopThursdays] Doom-Metal Edition Feat: Isla Bell Charity Fund Drive, RPG News and Doom-Metal.
A very special, sonically heavy-as-hell edition of Tabletop Thursday this week! Sure, we take a stroll through numerous latest news items, latest ISC happenings in the TTRPG domain, I natter at you about listening to more doom-metal. But we have a special focus today, centred around a fantastic charitable campaign for the Isla Bell Charitable Fund, via The RPG Cooperative of Victoria. Want rare, cool books for cheap and social praxis at the same time? Get in here! Just bring earplugs. It’ll be loud.
![[Dicey News] ISC TTRPG Content Update + Catalyst Kickstarters, Adepticon & More!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1741673488606-LJ8OB67NR1AAF69MXMUN/kodiakmech.jpg)
[Dicey News] ISC TTRPG Content Update + Catalyst Kickstarters, Adepticon & More!
Featured Image: Catalyst Gaming Labs’ official blog. We’ve got a preamble before our Dicey News segment today, explaining some of the past and future directions where podcast-related TTRPG/gaming content is concerned. Then, we dive into a whole heap of CGL news - their upcoming launch of Battletech: Mercenaries & relevant Adepticon events, newly released Battletech and Shadowrun fiction, partnerships with 11bit Games and Quincy’s Tavern, plus heaps more! Engage those PPC eyes this way, mech-commander.
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[Archive - Review] of Mobile Hut's MÖRK BORG RPG Supplement, 'The Choir'.
Originally posted to our old website the day before it crashed and died (on NYE 2024 - RIP). As part of our ongoing Tabletop RPG coverage, resident artist and RPG design expert Elodie explores a 3rd-party supplement for the infamously metal-AF Mork Borg RPG - specifically, The Choir. Created by Evelyn Moreau on behalf of Mobile Hut Games, it’s yet another addition to a fantastic OSR titles’ community canon!
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[Tabletop Thursdays] 06.03.2025. AKA: A VERY Stacked Shelf of Goodies.
In today’s edition of Tabletop Thursday: CATS! Lots of cute cats, from the ISC Team and abroad (pictured, your host - Butters), plus Dicey News re: ISC staffer Elodie’s successful Kickstarter campaign conclusion for Brass RPG (CONGRATS!) + cool art; a bunch of info, links and tasty pics regarding the hardcover-preorder/digital launch of Modiphius’ Fallout: Factions Core Rulebook, plus plenty of upcoming ISC content!
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[Archive - Riffs]: #BehindScreenandSpeaker2024 - A Primer/Explainer For A Whole Bunch-a C O N T E N T. [27.12.24]
Originally posted to our prior and, as of NYE 2024, now suddenly/sadly defunct old site (RIP). This is a primer/introduction to a year-in-review/sporadic round-up series dubbed Behind Screen and Speaker. This series aims to corral a number of our Riffs (articles) into retrospective and prospective thoughts alike into an omnibus style series. Music, hobbies, riffs, art, gaming, TV, shows, it’ll all be here!
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[ARCHIVE - Riffs] #TabletopThursdays 19.12.24 - Feature Article: 'A Love Letter to The GMPC'
Originally posted on our sadly as-of-NYE-2024-now-defunct old website (RIP), we’re lucky enough to have access to the old site back-end and thus can repost another Elodie-derived Tabletop Thursdays classic in ‘A Love Letter to The GMPC’. Check out our resident RPG-design whiz’s thoughts on NPC’s walking alongside dungeonmasters right here!
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[Review] Homeward, a Zinequest solo RPG
This week, resident dork Élodie finally tries the dorkiest hobby of all, solo roleplaying. Read on to find out how her chosen game, Homeward by Robert Jamison, holds up. Peep the link for the review, as well as links to Jamison’s Kickstarter!
![[Tabletop Thursdays] 13.02.24, Part 1: Elodie’s First Kickstarter in ‘BRASS RPG’ for Steve Dee’s ‘The World WEll’.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1739454234333-EIATQ5WOJTPLJAUNVKCK/zenturion1.png)
[Tabletop Thursdays] 13.02.24, Part 1: Elodie’s First Kickstarter in ‘BRASS RPG’ for Steve Dee’s ‘The World WEll’.
What an incredible team I have, eh? You may recall that a few weeks back, resident RPG-design and visual-arts expert, Elodie, announced an upcoming Kickstarter campaign launch alongside the accredited and prolific Sydney-based games designer Steve Dee. Her contribution being, the very rad mecha-RPG BRASS, alongside Steve’s ‘The World Well’, and an additional title in Un-leashed. Beta playtest article with feedback from me, your host Brady, also coming soon! So yes, I can confirm in advance - it DOES rock. Support the indie RPG scene!
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[Fantasy Friday] Free League’s Dragonbane Two-For-One Kickstarter.
Featured/Blog Post Image Credits: Free League Publishing and associated artists (see within for details). Not content to just burp up an also-ran GPT-slop copy-paste of promo releases, I’ve added in some thoughts and commentary (plus contributor/creator links to separate projects) alongside this belated Tabletop Thursday/Dicey News re: new Dragonbane RPG double-hitter Kickstarter in Secrets of Luvataan/ Hardships of The Wilderness! Play this RPG to Conan.
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[Interview]: with Tabletop Designer, Steve Dee
Steve Dee is one of Australia’s most prolific tabletop designers. I probed him about his upcoming Kickstarter project, The Worldwell, and his philosophies on design.
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[Dicey News] EXALTED FUNERAL Brings Thee: Godhusk from Plastiboo! Cave Evil Art Book! Ungodz!
If you erroneously believe there’s no overlap between indie tabletop-roleplaying, extreme metal brutality and sick grimdark art, I’ve got news for you son. More specifically, darlings of the TTRPG OSR-focused underworld Exalted Funeral do. I just added commentary and SICK art. ITT: metal-as-hell RPG books in The Glumdark, Dirtbagz, Ungodz, Arkos , a compendium of nasties in Manifester Monsters, plus a shooty-shooty sci-fi RPG Kickstarter Dirtbagz. A few Kickstarters actually!
![[Dicey News] ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition Bursts onto Kickstarter on March 25.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737618714717-PQSHWLZBFVRTKZ0QPQC9/aliencrb.jpg)
[Dicey News] ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition Bursts onto Kickstarter on March 25.
DUDE. New Alien RPG: Evolved Edition launch their Kickstarter campaign on March 25th! Check the link for details - there’s so much good stuff coming! New starter set! New corebook! Minis! A solo mode made in collaboration with solo GOAT Shawn Tomkin! New tools, rules, weapons, characters, everything! Courtesy of Sweden’s greatest RPG heroes in Free League Publishing.
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[Archive] ISC Podcast, Ep. 30: AUDIO LOG - Clinical Examination Of Specimen XX-121, AKA ‘Xenomorph’(Part 2).
Exhumed from the chest-bursted corpse of our old website (RIP old site 31.12.24, sniff), here’s Part 2 of our Dissecting The Perfect Organism series. Check link for both audiodrama podcast links and written narrative, diagrams, lore and information relating to sci-fi’s perfect villain, told from a scientist-doctor perspective. The current episode details, among other things, the ‘Black Goo’, engineers, The Deacon, proto-xenomorphs and potential origins of our favourite eyeless-space killer!
![[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 31: Luna's Cult of Dark Souls - A DM Interview With... A DM.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737374953745-KOOUP7BVQPNHKY8IRE43/image-51.png)
[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 31: Luna's Cult of Dark Souls - A DM Interview With... A DM.
My first interview focussed on exploring someone else's expertise and thoughts around a franchise/hobby/series and the community surrounding it, and first interview with a community member around the design of their own RPG! Read on for a fantastic discussion with Luna, a friend of mine from Discord, who goes all-out on Dark Souls lore and discusses her TTRPG adaptation. Which she also provides for free, by the way, in the link!