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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.
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[#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!
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[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!
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[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.
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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!
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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.
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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] #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!
[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!
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[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] 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.

#TabletopThursday, 16.01.25 - Of Orcs, Burnouts, Space Bar-Fights and Bedtime Monsters.
#TabletopThursday for16th Jan features: Rallyman Dirt, two elongated greentexts adventures about two orcs - one, a total d-bag, one based as hell. And some words on Starforged, collaborator Elodie’s latest happenings, some lore, and other stuff. It’s 2am, time to sign off after another great week of nerding out.
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[Riffs] Design Diary: My Experience With Experience
Countless games have impressed me with their systems for gaining EXP. What follows is a series of moments that influenced me as a GM and designer. I’ll end by sharing a system of my own that synthesises these experiences.

First #TabletopThursday post for 2025 - Tabletop Goals, ISC Content, etc.
Our first new post for the year, and our first #TabletopThursdays segment at that! In today’s edition, Elodie and myself explore out game-master goals for 2025. Additionally, we provide a bit of scoop on several acclaimed wishlist to-play titles in Knave, Mothership, Old School Essentials, Starforged, Five Leagues From The Borderlands and more!