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Today, Free League Publishing launched a pre-order for Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying. The official tabletop RPG, based on the groundbreaking comic book and animated tv series Invincible, and voted one of the most anticipated RPGs of 2026, will be officially launched on July 30 at Gen Con and in hobby stores everywhere. Pre-orders in the Free League webshop give immediate PDF access.

The launch includes no less than five items, all detailed below.

Also, fans going to Gen Con can sign up to play the brand new adventure Superhero Season. This intense 2-hour thrill ride throws the heroes into a deadly predicament as a massive bounty is placed on their heads. Tickets are going fast but there are still some slots left on Saturday. And even fans who don’t play can get printed booklets of Superhero Season at the Free League booth #2449.

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Circuit Breaker, this year’s multimedia Doctor Who adventure has begun, and DWM 631 has all the details

 

This month’s Doctor Who Magazine sets the stage for the biggest Who adventure of the year with Circuit Breaker. The new multimedia epic takes place across audios, novels, games, and comics this summer and DWM 631 has everything you need to know.

 

Enter the world of Circuit Breaker…

• Jo Martin – As she prepares to take on Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and Sontarans, the Fugitive Doctor herself talks to DWM about her return to Doctor Who in new audio adventures, comics, books, games and online content…
• Omari Douglas – the actor who plays Osgood’s assistant Andrew in Circuit Breaker tells us all about his character and his wider career, including a role in Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin.
• Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson and James Page – The creative masterminds behind Circuit Breaker on how the project came about and the epic story it will tell…
• James Sutton – The costume designer discusses working on the Fugitive Doctor’s new look.

 

Also this issue:

• Gareth David-Lloyd and Joe Lidster – The actor and writer talk about saying goodbye to the long-running range of Torchwood audio dramas…
• Richard Croft – A new exhibition celebrates the designer’s work, including his work on many Seventh Doctor episodes.
• Script to Screen – find out how the Nigerian city of Lagos was brought to life at Wolf Studios!
• Patrick Mulkern – the author talks about his new book celebrating Doctor Who’s connection with the LGBT community.
• Al Dewar – The second part of an interview about his work on the extraordinary Character Options action figure range.
• The making of a Big Finish audio –  Learn more about the covers and promotional videos for Rutans vs Sontarans
• The Fact of Fiction – What is the unsettling truth behind the second segment of Sixth Doctor saga The Trial of a Time Lord?
• Back to 1991… – Alan Barnes looks back at the exhibition staged at London’s Museum of the Moving Image…
• Corruption of the Daleks – The final part of the Fifteenth Doctor’s clash with the Daleks in the comic strip.
• Gallifrey Guardian – the monthly round-up of news.
• Reviews – including the latest audios and action figures.
• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
• Competitions – Prizes to be won include audio releases featuring the Seventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fifteenth Doctors.

 

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 The Pre-Cataclysmic age of King Kull is a brutal world of crumbling obsidian towers, ancient serpent cults, and blood-soaked bronze. For a Sword of Cepheus (2nd Edition) campaign, navigating the untamed wilderness of Atlantis or the decaying cities of Valusia requires a unique blend of weird science-fantasy and raw grit.d100 Prehistoric & Sword & Sorcery Monster EncountersThese Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

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By Fabricio Garcia
Kobold King
OSR
Level 3

Bugbears are attacking the dwarfs on their way up the mountain to make offerings to their god. A group of elf scholars came to the region to study the presence of bugbears in such remote region and they are stopping the dwarfs in their attacks against the bugbears. Furious with the lack of offerings and prayers. The dwarven god is eminent to turn away from the region and allowing monsters to roam free. The PC’s can seek the god absolution on the dwarfs instead or even make them leave the region and help the bugbears in taking the region and put their gods in power of Altuvia.

(This is a PDF but there is an Obsidian markup file. Again, I tried to install obsidian and get it going to view it the way it was meant to be viewed, got it installed, but again couldn’t figure out how to view/work with the markup file)

This sixty page adventure describes … I don’t really know what it describes. A political situation? A couple of dungeons surrounding a political situation? It’s all just general ideas, with few specifics, and almost certainly worth no time. And yet, I find the premise intriguing in a weirdly real-life cynical way.

The marketing blurb is essentially correct. Some dwarves were driven above ground by oozes attacking their mines. They have no ore. They are trying to get ore from their cousins but the elf lands are in the way and  “Now the dwarfs wait for the complicated and unhurried elf politics allows the ore transport.” Noice! And, now, some bugbears have moved in to the region. Their attacks are preventing the dwarves from getting to their temple to honor their goddess. This WILL eventually cause her to abandon them and then the bugbear god will move in to set up shop, which is the EXPLICIT plan of the bugbears. IE: preventing the dwarves from worshipping their goddess so she’ll abandon them and their dude can take up the mantle of the region. But, now, also, with the bugbears showing up, some elf researchers have shown up and have a manor home in the wilderness where they’ve set up base. They want to study the bugbear migrations, which they find unusual, and are preventing the dwarves from attacking the bugbears. If we think of the eves as having superior technology/gods/magic/armies, then the position of the dwarves becomes quite interesting. Piss off the local elves and maybe influence the larger political “ore from our cousins” thing? Are there local dwarves acting as guides to the elves, or, maybe, nearby halflings that trade with the dwarves but also sell their services to the elves? The analog of an asymmetric power relationship, and the consequences to all parties, it quite interesting. The elves WILL, through their good natured scholastic meddling, cause the dwarves to be wiped out and the bugbears to take over the region. Do they care? Will they be wiped out also? This is all fucking magnificent. The comparisons to real life are obvious.

And almost nothing of substance is in the adventure. Some of what I described is present in the adventure. Some of it is shit I inferred, like dwarf collaborators or halflings, or other linkages. But, also, beyond a simple overview, essentially matching in context and length what I described, there is nothing of any of this present in the adventure. The individuals, the timeline, everything else, none of it really is related to the overall situation described. Yes, the bugbears want to kill and maybe an elf , described, wants to study shit. But these kind of grand machinations, or even minor machinations, are just not present in the adventure. At best you’ll get an NPC description who has a quest like “I want some elven wine.”

For it being sixty pages there is remarkably little specific to point to. The dwarf mines have a map, but no key, just instructions to roll on random tables. But, even then, I’m not sure I can make heads or tails of the map. Are the rectangles rooms? Or are those just hallways that meet up? What are the grey lines? And then the map of a ruined manor is not keyed, with just things like “Bedroom 1 : The room to the left of the corridor” Creature amounts and mundane treasures, including potions and scrolls are just not present, explicitly so, fitting in to some “for use with any system” statement. I can’t fathom ever doing this in an adventure. 

This is SO open ended, SO non-specific that it amounts to just the overall situation description, some NPC descriptions that don’t tie in very well, and site descriptions that are almost as vague and non-specific as you can possibly have and still call it a site description. You’re going to have to wing, and add to and expand everything. I get it, we do some of that when running a game. But there is SO little direction here, so little that is specific, that this amounts to very little more than napkin notes and ideas of what could be going on in various places with various people. In sixty pages.  I think I’m done with Kobold King. 

This is $2 at DriveThru. There is no preview. 

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My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of Crisis. This week, I'm looking at the comics that were on stands in the week of July 4, 1985. 

Crisis on Infinite Earths #7: This double-sized issue was heavily advertised in the previous month. Given that the number of crossovers also pick up this point, it feels like at over halfway done, Crisis is really getting started in earnest. Most of the issue, though, is Lyla explaining the retconned history of Krona and the creation of the multiverse to a group of heroes assembled from each of the 4 Earths. Then, Pariah tells his part in inadvertently releasing the Anti-Monitor. Blue Beetle is amusingly cast in the roll of testy, brass-tacks guy, and keeps telling them to get to the point.
The point is that a selection of the most powerful heroes form the Earths are going to take the battle to the Anti-Monitor, using Alexander Luthor as a gateway There seems to be the pattern of selecting the real heavy hitters, but also people with matter transformation or light powers, so we get 2 Supermen and Supergirl, of course, but also Firestorm, the Ray, and Dr. Light. Most of the team is tied up with fighting rock monsters of some sort, but Dr. Light and Superman make it to the Anti-Monitor's central machine being used to merge and annihilate the worlds. I don't recall that has his plan before, anyway, Anti ambushes them and starts beating Superman to death, but Supergirl hearing his cries, rushes to the rescue. She pounds the Anti-Monitor into his machine and keeps pounding him, telling Dr. Light to get Superman away. Supergirl manages to destroy the Anti's armor, but she's distracted for a moment to yell at Dr. Light to get out, Anti strikes back and bathes her in anti-matter.
Supergirl dies, but the machinery is destroyed and the Anti-Monitor has to flee. Dr. Light is inspired by the heroics she saw and vows to be less selfish. Earth-One Superman is, of course, devastated. The issue ends with a memorial for Supergirl one Earth where Batgirl eulogizes her friend.
This was a well-done issue and sort of sets the style of how "big character deaths" will be handled in events in the years to come.

DC Comics Presents #86: This is a Crisis crossover issue, Kupperberg and Hoberg/Hunt bring back a villain from Kupperberg's Supergirl run and give us a view of Supergirl's time just before Crisis #7. In fact, her emotionally supporting her friend Batgirl in Crisis #4 is portrayed again in this story. With the weird storms in the skies as a portend of doom, Supergirl and Superman are distracted by the unusual appearance of twin black holes in a certain sector of space. When they investigate, the Supergirl foe Blackstarr emerges from one of the holes. At first, they think she's the cause of the cosmic upheaval. Supergirl is quicker to be convinced otherwise than her cousin. Blackstarr for her part, views Superman as the culprit due to a misreading of the spacetime. Kara has to keep the piece until the other two see their errors, and they are all able to join forces, buying the universe a little extra time against the anti-matter wave pushing on it. Blackstarr disappears and Superman and Supergirl precede to the next, uh--Crisis.

Fury of Firestorm #40: Conway and Clark/Akin/Garvey bring Ronnie to graduation day. While Firestorm makes an appearance there isn't a super-villain and very little in the way of superheroics. Instead, Ronnie first has to deal with accusations of cheating (his grades have gotten better, but its due to absorbing knowledge from Stein when they were in gestalt) which he overcomes by taking an oral exam, and the bullying of Cliff Carmichael, which he conquers by not being so reactive. His newfound maturity helps to patch out a disagreement with Doreen. The two plan to go to Vandemeer College--but so is Carmichael. Firestorm also gets served notice Felicity Smoak is suing him, and Ronnie and Stein meet Ronnie's Dad's new girlfriend--Smoak!

Hex #2: I picked up this issue as a kid, but it was the last one I would get for a while. I think the place I usually bought comics didn't carry the title, because most of the covers I never remember seeing. Fleisher and Texeria/Janke pick up where the 1st issue left off, and they keep a breakneck pace up pretty much the whole issue. We rewind to the skies above Vietnam to meet the troops in the helicopter that almost crashes into Hex. He helps the survivors out of the wreck, and while they are on the run from Borsten's soldiers, the information Hex has allows them to piece together a bit of what is going on. One of the soldiers, Harris, is black, and is a bit hostile toward Hex due to his Southernness, understandable given the events of the era he came from, and Hex's Confederate uniform. They still manage to work together to stay alive though. When, Stiletta reappears and offers them help breaking into Borsten's complex to get them home, they all jump at the chance.
It's all a setup. Two of the soldiers are killed by a trap, and Harris susses out Stiletta is a robot leading them into an ambush. Hex and Harris have to fight their way out, but Harris is caught behind an energy fence. Hex can't get to him, so the other soldier tells him to get out, which Hex does. Again, he's on the run on a stolen motorcycle in the desert.

Justice League of America #243: Conway and Tuska/Machlan continue the story from last issue. Aquaman and Mera return to the base to find the team gone to Canada. Meanwhile, Vixen frees the group put in a hole under a boulder by Amazo, and Martian Manhunter and Gunn explore the mystery of how Amazo got out the Fortress of Solitude and what he's up too. They learn of prospector Jake MacGregor's grudges and obsessions, now assumed by Amazo. Ultimately, J'onzz confuses Amazo by appearing as MacGregor, giving Aquaman the opening he needs to defeat the android.
In the aftermath, Aquaman announces he's leaving the team to save his marriage. He seems an abrupt exit, but I think Conway realized that the King of the Seas was a poor fit for the idea of a more street level team based in Detroit. 

Tales of the Teen Titans #58: Wolfman and Patton/Tanghal finish up the new Fearsome Five story. Most of the issue is the fight between the Titans and the Five, accentuating the theme of the Titan's teamwork allowing them to hold their own against their more powerful foes. In the end though, it's Jericho that really saves the day for them, and so at the end of the issue they officially make him a member. 
The Fearsome Five is also likely hampered by Psimon disappearing. He's whisked away by the Monitor to appear in Crisis on Infinite Earths #1. 
Victor undergoes surgery to make him Cyborg again due to his injuries, and the team rallies around him to show their support.
The editorial tells us this is the last original issue of Tales. Reprints will begin with the next issue, starting with a reprint of the new Teen Titans first appearance.

Vigilante #23: Kupperberg and Smith/Mitchell continue the story from last issue, but slow things down to deal with Marcia's and Adrian's relationship. There's a strange storm in the sky (the Crisis most likely) as Marcia demands answers from Adrian about what's going on. And honestly, it's overdue. It is difficult to sympathize with him because he's been behaving so erratically, so Marcia has every reason to think he's mentally ill. And she might be right! At first, he's able to convince her to give him more time, but when she catches him with a gun preparing to look for the killer Vigilante, he's only option to keep her from walking out is starting to tell her the whole story.

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Last month, Gen Con fans chose the name. Now we’re excited to reveal the beer behind it. Introducing Rage Quit, the Official Beer of Gen Con 2026. Rage Quit is a light and crisp cherry and lemon-lime ale created by Sun King Brewery.Along with the official can art reveal, Rage Quit is shaping up to be the perfect companion for summer gaming, convention adventures, and long days spent exploring the Best Four Days in Gaming.Attendees will be able to enjoy Rage Quit throughout Gen Con weekend, including at the Gen Con Block Party beginning with Wednesday’s Kickoff and continuing through Sunday.Check out the official Sun King x Gen Con page for more information leading up to Gen Con, including Sun King Block Party updates, brewery happenings and more.

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yt4The Downloaded Author: Robert J. Sawyer Published: 2024 by Shadowpaw Press When you pick up a book by Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer, expectations are naturally high. His impressive body…

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Veteran World of Darkness publisher and former White Wolf business development lead joins Renegade to help steward its rapidly expanding RPG portfolio ?Renegade Game Studios is an award-winning publisher of tabletop games and roleplaying games, known for brands including Heroscape, Axis & Allies, Vampire: The Masquerade, G.I. JOE, Transformers, and Power Rangers. Most recently, Renegade launched the Dungeon Crawler Carl Roleplaying Game, which became the most-funded game in BackerKit history.De Vir brings more than fifteen years of experience in roleplaying game publishing, licensing, and business development, with deep roots in the hobby.Early in her career, De Vir founded Biblioteca Oscura, the Spanish-language licensed publisher for various World of Darkness lines. Under her leadership, the company published more than 35 titles and ran a V20 crowdfunding campaign that became the fifth most-funded crowdfunding project in Spain across all categories. She also distributed the Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Deluxe books across Europe after founding the V20 Europe initiative, and produced a 1,200-person Vampire: The Masquerade event in Madrid.Recently, De Vir has held business development and partnerships management roles at Paradox Interactive and White Wolf where she led the international expansion of World of Darkness roleplaying games across languages, territories, and licensing partners. She also co-created and spearheaded the Storytellers Vault, a community content platform that opened new ways for fans to create, share, and publish material for World of Darkness. She is also an advocate for the ethical use of AI through the AI Ethics Alliance, which she founded in Brussels. Through this alliance, she works to shape responsible AI practices by connecting education, governance, and cross-sector collaboration, with a focus on helping organizations and communities understand and adopt AI in ways that are ethical, inclusive, and socially beneficial.“Dhaunae has spent her career building real, lasting communities and partnerships.” said Scott Gaeta, President & Publisher at Renegade Game Studios. “Our RPG business has rapidly expanded, and Dhaunae is exactly the kind of leader we need to help steward that growth while strengthening the relationships that make these games thrive.”“I am thrilled to join Renegade as Director, RPG Brand,” said De Vir. “I have spent much of my career working with roleplaying communities, licensed worlds, and passionate fanbases, so this role feels like a natural next step. Renegade has shown real care for the brands it publishes, and I am excited to help grow these lines while honoring what makes them meaningful to players.”De Vir’s arrival comes as Renegade continues to grow its RPG division. With upcoming 2nd Editions of its Hasbro RPG line just announced, the EXODUS RPG in partnership with Wizards of the Coast and based on the upcoming video game from Archetype Entertainment, and as it prepares to release the Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG based on Matt Dinniman’s smash hit LitRPG series of the same name.Fans should also look for an announcement very soon about a new franchise joining the Renegade RPG line-up.

 Welcome back to the steaming, perpetual overcast of Cytherea! Adapting this setting for the Cepheus Engine (and classic 2D6 sci-fi systems) means swapping generic fantasy descriptions for explicit mechanical hazards: Endurance (END) checks, Survival skill throws, vacuum/hazard suit tracking, and raw UWP-style planet side dangers.The untamed, hostile wild of Pulp Venus — where planetary Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

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