Vast Grimm is a dying universe RPG that offers players a chance to explore. Creator Brian Colin has relaunched the game as a Kickstarter, “Vast Grimm – Escaping Stasis,” which expands the universe and refines the rules. Colin has taken full control of the game, allowing him to directly print and mail books to fans. The new campaign offers modular rules, breaking the core book into a Player and Game Master’s guide, and includes an “Upgrade Toolkit” for all supporters. Colin also discusses his decision to handle printing in-house to combat market instability and maintain control over his projects. He sees a bright future for the MORK BORG family, with a supportive community and continued expansion into card and miniatures games.

Archon Studios has begun revealing models for its upcoming Starcraft tabletop miniatures game with initial photographs showing hydralisks, zerglings, and Terran marines. The miniatures are faithful translations of the iconic Blizzard designs, with details like winged raptor strain zerglings and burrowing markers. While details remain tentative, the game is expected to release in early 2026, featuring battles on a standard dinner table-sized board with model counts similar to Warhammer 40k. Playtest sessions have been conducted at Blizzard studios, and there’s speculation about starter set contents being cast in colored plastic. The article also touches on the historical connection between Starcraft and Warhammer 40k.

Starfinder: Afterlight is a single-player, party-based cRPG set in Paizo’s sci-fi/fantasy universe, described as “Divinity: Original Sin meets Guardians of the Galaxy.” The game, developed by Epictellers, features a branching narrative where choices have lasting consequences. Players assemble a crew of unique companions, master tactical turn-based combat, and explore key Starfinder locales. The game is privately funded, with Kickstarter goals focused on enhancing content and features. Early Access for PC is planned for Q2 2026, with a full release estimated for 2027. 

The Welcome to Troika Bundle by Melsonia Arts Council offers a core rulebook and five adventure/setting books, providing a months-long campaign for players to explore the city of Troika and various adventures. The bundle uses the Advanced Fighting Fantasy system and includes scenarios like exploring a wizard’s warehouse, being hired by a plant king, and escaping a demi-god.

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Roll20 and OneBookShelf have announced a joint venture that will involve some management shuffling and give you access to all PDFs in the Roll20 VTT… eventually. Not as earth-chattering as some people are making it out to be. It feels more like an excuse to bully smaller publishers that want access to customers and tart yourself up for your eventual buyout by Wizards of the Coast. Good luck with that. This adds convenience but at what cost to the employees, designers and customers of these games. Oh, and did I mention it will also kill the now redundant Astral VTT? It’s just the beginning of a much bigger mess. Roll20 took 10 years to add basic quality of life features to their platform and OBS has the worst backend of any online sales platform. A match made in heaven.

The latest official adventure for Troika! is now on Kickstarter. The Big Squirm is a hard-boiled mystery about speculative worm trading. Players are private detectives and in an open sandbox adventure with a series of clues to uncover by any means necessary. Written by Luke Gearing, previously of Acid Death Fantasy, it will be a 100-page hardcover book with over 40 pieces of art by Andrew Walter and of course published by the Melsonion Arts Council.

Miss White Boy Summer? Well now we have the Summer of 2d20. Modiphius is promoting the release of their 2d20 SRD with a sale of all of their published 2d20 systems in both physical and digital form. The sale is 20% off and includes games like Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Star Trek Adventures, Fallout the Roleplaying Game, Dishonored, Infinity, Conan, John Carter of Mars, Mutant Chronicles, and Achtung! It runs for 48 hours starting July 20th which they have officially named 2d20 Day. In addition to all that, there will a collaboration with Mōdiphiüs xStartplaying.Games, the group finding platform for VTTs All participating Gamemasters who run a 2d20 game with at least two verified players during this period will be entered into a random draw to win one prize of $1,000 USD to spend on the Modiphius webstore, and three players can win one of three $100 USD Did you notice the theme with the number twenty in all that? Marketing!

And finally, proof that Stockholm Kartell’s hit TTPRG isn’t just and art project that escaped to your tabletop. Mork Borg: Barebones Edition is now available for FREE. It is all the text of the original yellow book with the art and much of the graphic design removed. The PDF is available on Johan Nohr’s Itch.io page as Pay what you want. Hopefully, he had the task of dismantling his beautiful doom metal art masterpiece himself so that it maintained some of the wonderful feel of the full volume edition.
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