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[Gallery of Brewicide XXIII]: Conquest Gaming Convention, 03-05.4.26 (Melb, AU).
[Gallery of Brewicide XXIII] is a bit different from our musical fare - resident ISC contributor, artiste and RPG designer Elodie Orlando (Into the Weird Blue Yonder) featured at Conquest Gaming Con 2026 as a game-master for two ItWBY TTRPG titles and came back with tales of the event and some great photography! Check out both within, as well as links for numerous creative attendees.
![[Riff]: Getting ‘The Itch’ Back.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1775727919178-ZWWYCIXOLHTGV5Z0XCWK/unsplash-image-Jsh4l4KpCw4.jpg)
[Riff]: Getting ‘The Itch’ Back.
[Riff]: Getting The Itch Back’. ISC staffer and professional-level-DM Dean Underhill (I’m a player in his 7-year campaign, I can say that!) gives a number of poignant and important reflections on what makes a sustainable, enjoyable and immersive tabletop-roleplaying campaign. Most of all, it’s about knowing limitations, rest and a whole heap of dedication and self-awareness.
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[#Tabletopthursdays’nt, 06.03.26] Kickstarter News + ISC Staff Explore An ITCH.IO Bundle.
[Tabletop]: Well, might be a day out but better late than never, eh? In this weeks’ Tabletop Thursday(‘snt, seeing as its’ Friday here), we bring Dicey News tidings regarding recently-Kickstarted campaign for Meow Wolf/Exalted Funeral’s Tavers RPG. Meanwhile, Elodie and Brady scope out a few choice indie-RPG treats from a very stacked itch.io bundle!
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[Riff] Stop The Slop in 2026 - With Tabletop.
[Riff] For Tabletop Thursday here at ISC, something a little different from our usual run of RPG news. Instead, I’d like to put forth something of a thesis/action-statement about the utility of the hobby in this, The Overly AI-Slop-Infested Year Of Our Tabletop Lord 2026.
![[Dicey News]: RIFFS & REALMS - Nuclear Blast Records Launches A New Actual Play Tabletop RPG Series.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1769055637359-9YZRK2AUQA1IK6BODKYP/morkborgnuclearblast.jpg)
[Dicey News]: RIFFS & REALMS - Nuclear Blast Records Launches A New Actual Play Tabletop RPG Series.
[Dicey News] goes Heavy News for Tabletop Thursdays here at ISC! The brutally grimdark TTRPG MÖRK BORG has always garnered a lot of very-metal 3rd-party supplements given the vibe and setting - now, three Nuclear Blast signees join MB creator Johan Nor in the ultimate marriage of death, metal and tabletop via a new actual-play series!
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[Guest Riff]: JASON GRUBB of GETTING TABLED Discusses Game-Design Process For ‘ENTROPY CITY’.
Our first guest-written article comes to you via none other than Melburnian local and RPG/skirmish game-designer Jason ‘The Bruce’ Grubb of international tabletop/wargaming podcast Getting Tabled. Check out the link to explore the process behind his upcoming Road Rash meets Mad Max product, titled Entropy City.
![[Riff] Welcome to Gehennmoor, aka RNG-Town (Tome Of Adventure Design).](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1763636923343-NMIKYW34W2OSDUB7EWIH/guard.jpg)
[Riff] Welcome to Gehennmoor, aka RNG-Town (Tome Of Adventure Design).
[Tabletop Thursdays/ Lore]: Taking a bit of a different tack to the usual news-updates posts for TT Thursday - Brady explores an emergent city coined Gehennmoor, via the method of pure RNG. With thanks to Mythmere Games and Matt Finch for The Tome Of Adventure Design (Revised) as the guide!
![[Design Diary] Taking the ‘Initiative’ in RPG Design](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1762844623977-KGEK5NTVLC91LKWO7LSS/Yugioh-Poster-Resized.png)
[Design Diary] Taking the ‘Initiative’ in RPG Design
Élodie talks about the design journey behind one very specific subsystem in her RPG, Echoes of Yesterday: Initiative. She also weighs up pros and cons within the various games that inspired it.
![[Riff] The Cover Design process for my RPG, BRASS](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1753768591161-7Z5CQOGB1YZVSGUA3MAL/IMG_4237.png)
[Riff] The Cover Design process for my RPG, BRASS
Élodie goes through the inspirations and iterations for the cover of her latest RPG, a sci-fi game inspired by action movies and childhood wonder!
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[Tabletop Thursday] Dicey News + ISC Updates, 21.08.2025.
It’s been a while between Tabletop Thursdays articles, so we’ve got quite a few newly-released and upcoming hobby treats for you all! See within for details on what we’ve been up to (including fellow staffer Elodie Orlando’s launch of her on BRASS RPG: Redux) as a team, plus several sick new titles from Exalted Funeral, Nordic Weasel Games and Free League Publishing! Get your nerd on - we certainly do!
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[#TabletopThursdays] A FREE LEAGUE PUBLISHING/EXALTED FUNERAL Art Showcase.
Art’s an integral part of consolidating the sensory experience in many hobbies - music and tabletop roleplaying games particularly! Check the link for a feature on some evocative and talented works from a number of artists involved with Alien: The Roleplaying Game, Forbidden Lands and Mork Borg, via Free League Publishing and Exalted Funeral.
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[RPG Play Report] Echoes of Yesterday Mission Log (Part 1 of… ?)
Read the tale of a campaign set in the world of Élodie’s work-in-progress RPG inspired by the Great War and her own nightmares! Part one includes dramatic recaps of the first two sessions and some behind-the-curtain notes.
![[Dicey News] From The Twilight Zone (Apparently).](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1749218177995-BAEXN1F7I0DZ18CKYKH6/5Ca9Y5.jpg)
[Dicey News] From The Twilight Zone (Apparently).
Well then! This was meant to be a Tabletop Thursdays update, however my body clock saw it fit to sleep until late evening. Thus, on that note, today’s Dicey News update is a nocturnal-friendly affair. We explore titles from the itch.io Bundle For Ukranian Hospitals, and provide a number of great new/upcoming tabletop/hobby releases. Don’t sleep on these like I slept yesterday!
![[#Tabletop Thursday, 22.05.25]: Unboxing Some Battletech: Mercenaries Kickstarter Gear!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1747924623608-KAKSYQDWNTIUZBJKM21P/I-Fits-I-Sits-via-user-Bombast.jpg)
[#Tabletop Thursday, 22.05.25]: Unboxing Some Battletech: Mercenaries Kickstarter Gear!
This week’s feature article for Tabletop Thursdays here at ISC isn’t just an article, but an unboxing video! In addition to my hamfisted attempt to walk you through the many goodies received from my pledge in the Catalyst Gaming Labs’ Battletech: Mercenaries Kickstarter campaign (IT’S FINALLY HERE AAAA). Plus, I also provide a bunch of cool free resources for getting into the whacky (really, it’s whacky) world of Battletech lore. Enjoy!
![[Tabletop Thursday/Interview] with Solo RPG/Wargame Designer IVAN SORENSEN of NORDIC WEASEL GAMES.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1746101555738-1NDRGTM7J33APN0B7SEJ/5leaguesart1.png)
[Tabletop Thursday/Interview] with Solo RPG/Wargame Designer IVAN SORENSEN of NORDIC WEASEL GAMES.
A massive, massive honour, to interview one of my favourite independent solo/co-op RPG/wargame designers in the industry. Ivan Sorensen of Nordic Weasel Games is a tireless, prolific, creative and engaged publisher, with too many fantastic titles under the belt to name in an excerpt. Check out the link for our discussion on game design, music, mechanics, community and more!
![[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!
![[Tabletop Thursday, 27.03.25] A Nearly-Full-Monty (Python RPG) Column.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1743080689973-V20ZF8SMRF7F6UDGO3HZ/1589126540145.png)
[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.
![[#TabletopThursday] ‘It’s Already Thursday AGAIN?!’ Edition, 20.03.25.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1742477199143-FDFI680EV6IV9931R814/e0f9fd24028435b6911a11a2da02597558b1957d7bad2e587a7cc7b076af883d.png)
[#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!