Welcome to the second of my ‘occasional’ quick round up of things that caught my interest in the TTRPG world this week as well as other things that are going on in my gaming world.

Tiny Prep.

An email came through to me yesterday from Johnn Four from Roleplayingtips.com advising the launch of his new book ‘Tiny Prep’. Co-written by Che Webster of Roleplayrescue.com (blog and podcast), Johnn tells us that this book will transform your GMing with tiny tools that garner you big swings at the game table.

As I type this I have yet to read the book, its on my list of ones to get as soon as funds allow. Both Johhn Four and Che Webster are long time TTRPG players, I have several of Johhns other publications and always find them well written and really useful, even to a solo player like me, and Che Webster writes a brilliant blog and podcast so I have no doubt about the quality and usefulness of this publication. As soon as I have a copy I will review it on the blog, but in the meantime check it out yourself by popping over to Roleplayingtips.com

Other interesting publication new this week.

DrivethruRPG have some great PDF and Roll 20 bundle deals in their GMs day sales. My pick of the titles include

Dragonsbane RPG. There is a whopping 80% off this title making it a steal at $10.99
Kids on Bikes RPG. Another core rulebook that has my interest, reduced from $23.98 to just $7.19
Cyberpunk RED RPG. I do like my cyberpunk games and this is another RPG I really should pick up. Reduced from $69.99 to $13.99.

Why do these deals always seem to come around at a time when my hobby funds are at zero.
Be sure to check out those and many other great deals on DrivethruRPG.com before the sale ends.

Whats going on with my blog.

I have a lot of commission work just come in so the time available to me to play TTRPGs is much reduced. I plan this week to take a break from my Lowlife 2090 game and use what time I can steal from my busy painting scheduled to work on the next campaign. I am thinking either picking up my Beyond the Wall and other adventures campaign, set in the Bay of Spirits setting, or, and this appeals more to me, a Sci-Fi campaign possibly using Traveller RPG or Other Suns the old FGU game. I may even try to develop campaigns for both Beyond the Wall and a Sci-Fi game simultaneously. Whatever I do, blog posts will begin to appear towards the end of the week.

Unfortunately, that is all I have time for this week, thanks for reading.

2 responses to “Tuesday TTRPG Talk”

  1. One way that I’ve found to stretch my TRRPG dollar is to use PayPal Pay In 4 as a payment option. On DriveThruRPG, you spend $30+ in order to have it as an option, and conveniently the three items you mention are just enough if you add them to your shopping cart together!

    What then happens is PayPal Pay In 4 pays the full payment, and you just pay one quarter of that (example $7.50 if you had just paid thirty). Then every two weeks, you pay another $7.50 back, which can all be set up automatically. If you have a monthly budget (and I recommend that for everyone!), you can sometimes even time it so that your first payment at time of purchase is at the end of the first budget cycle, two payments are in the next, with the final one coming out at the beginning of the third! So rather than your Hobbies budget taking a $30 hit one cycle, it could be $7.50, $15, $7.50 over three.

    1. John, nothing in my life is ever simple. Because my Paypal account is used for my miniature painting and gaming accessories business it has to be a business account which means I cannot use Paypal Pay (I have tried). I would need to set up a separate bank account and open a personal paypal account which, for me, just isn’t worth the trouble.
      But I agree, its a great way to make those $ (or £’s in my case) go further.

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