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While there are already many minions who toil in the dungeons of the Overlord, he would also invite all and sundry to become Honorary Minions. This prestigious position actually comes with a few benefits, and no dungeon time unless you manage to present yourself to the Overlord in person, in which case any danger is on your own head.

The first benefit is to receive our infrequent newsletter. It is primarily announcements, with occasional requests for feedback (though feedback is welcome any time, of course) and sometimes a tidbit not yet available to the public. We have rarely sent out newsletters as much as twice a month. (Sometimes we haven’t managed twice a year. Ouch!) Increasing newsletter frequency is one of our goals for our 20th anniversary year, but we promise we will not spam your inbox in any case.

The other main benefit of being an Honorary Minion is to get access to the Honorary Minions’ Secret Page. This is a receptacle of free items (which may eventually be released to the public, but not necessarily) and some of those tidbits mentioned above, such as early notice of upcoming sales, or sneak peeks at possible products.

Just go to the Honorary Minions page and fill out the very easy, very short form to be added to our mailing list and gain access  to all the splendor… (ahem; got carried away) gain access to a few freebies and occasional news about Tabletop Adventures.

We appreciate all of our friends and fans over the years and hope you will allow us to stay in touch.

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Celebrating our 20th Anniversary!

Today, July 15th, 2024, is the 20th anniversary of the founding of Tabletop Adventures. We’ll be celebrating in several ways (more blog posts, a sale, bragging about it around the internet), and we’re not going to confine it to just one day. After all, for the next year a LOT of things will be having their 20th anniversary. (First publications, etc.) We’re just thrilled to have made it this far on this journey, and so appreciative of all of you who have traveled it with us.

 

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Moms Are Gamers, Too!

Happy Mother’s Day to those who celebrate! When we started this business twenty years ago, we felt like there weren’t as many women that played roleplaying games, especially ones who were moms. It seemed that moms had extra responsibilities that cut back on their gaming opportunities for quite a while. Since half our company was moms who played roleplaying games, we wanted to emphasize our support for that demographic! We started calling it out with our “Moms Are Gamers, Too” sale.

In addition to just having a sale, over the years we have offered special coupons to people who would tell us a story about a gamer mom. We’ve heard from a lot of husbands, several friends, and quite a number of gamer moms themselves. It’s obvious that there are a lot more moms involved in gaming than we ever knew before we became publishers, and we have been so glad to hear it!

We are indeed having our “Moms Are Gamers, Too” sale again this year, for the twentieth time – get 20% off any of our electronic products on DriveThruRPG through May 16th. On top of that, if you are a mom who is a gamer, have a mom who is a gamer, or know a mom who is a gamer, let us know her story! Sent in an account of the gamer mom you know (or are) to customerservice@tabletopadventures.com and we will send you a coupon for 40% off any one Tabletop Adventures product of your choice on DriveThruRPG.

Read a few of our previous gamer mom stories at the Moms Are Gamers, Too webpage.

Take advantage of these special offers to share something with any gamer mom you may have your life, and join us in celebrating gamer moms everywhere!

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Final Days for RAD Bundle

Cover image: "Owen Stephens is RAD" bundle on DriveThruRPGThere are just a few days left to get the Owen Stephens is RAD! bundle of electronic products on DriveThruRPG. Owen is a game designer and publisher who has worked on four editions of Dungeons and Dragons, two editions of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, helped write the Star Wars Saga Edition rpg, and many more. He has been undergoing continuing treatment for cancer and a number of fellow publishers have come together to offer him support.

This bundle on DriveThruRPG includes over $1100 worth of RPG products for a mere $29.95, and all proceeds (after minimal costs at DriveThru) go directly to Owen. If you haven’t already seen it, check it out now as this particular bundle will only be available through May 14.

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May the Fourth Be With You!

Happy Star Wars Day! In honor of this event, we present a fun little article we ran across recently about the music of Star Wars. It’s made to help parents introduce their kids to some musical concepts, but more importantly it’s a curated set of thematic YouTube videos which the minions don’t have the patience to find themselves. See the Music Lesson on Star Wars.

To get in on the fun this weekend, Tabletop Adventures has our great sci-fi product Into the Future: Derelict Starships on sale at 20% off through Monday. Also our Destinations Bundle has all five Destinations products (with cantinas, spaceports and more) at a discount of 20%.

Better yet, if you already own any of the Destinations, the DriveThruRPG system will credit you for those purchases and you will get the Bundle at a reduced price! (Two of our Destinations are part of the Owen Stephens is RAD bundle, and we know many people have recently picked them up that way.)

In the meantime, the minions have put up our Star Wars Day decorations and are drinking our blue milk as we celebrate one of our favorite galaxies far, far away. May the Force be with you!

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Terrain Descriptions for Arbor Day

Earth Day graphicThis week has been a big week, terrain-wise. Monday was Earth Day – which encompasses all sorts of terrain – and today is Arbor Day, which of course emphasizes trees. (Well, it’s Arbor Day in Nebraska, the home of the originator of the event in the U.S. Different parts of the world celebrate it at different times of year.)

We thought it would be fun to celebrate all this terrain by sharing some products by other publishers that help GMs diversify their games and keep things interesting for the players. In honor of Arbor Day we’ll be emphasizing forests, but many of these publishers have supplements available for a wide variety of terrain types. (All product links are to DriveThruRPG.)

If we wanted to use forest descriptions and for some reason weren’t using TTA’s own Bits of the Wilderness: Into the Wildwood (hey, it’s possible), our go-to source for descriptions would probably be Wilderness Dressing: Woodlands by Raging Swan Press. There’s also Campaign Backdrops: Forest and Woodlands, a compilation of description and encounter products, including a few forest villages to drop in. For wilderness dressing of many kinds, check out GM’s Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing, which is designed to “enliven your PCs’ travel both overland and by sea.”

Other forest products that caught our eye recently include 100 Things to Find, See and Hear in a Forest and 100 Curiosities to Bamboozle Players to Find Outdoors, both by Azukail Games. (Bamboozling players is one of our favorite things!) Another one we’d like to try out is The Forest Generator Handbook: Crafting Immersive Forests for RPGs by Happicat Creations. It’s easy to let every forest end up the same, and this book seems like it would help keep away from that.

Another product we ran across introduced us to a term we hadn’t heard before.
Forest Fantasy: A Foragers Guild Worldbuilding Guide is by Lightspress Media. Fantasy forest, sure. (Shrug.) Wrong! Forest Fantasy is a different style of play. From the product description:

“Forest fantasy centers around the natural world, particularly lush and mystical forests, as a core element of the narrative. It’s a genre where the magic and wonder of the woodland take center stage, and where the line between the mundane and the fantastical blurs beneath the canopy of ancient trees.”

Being in a company run by an evil overlord tends to skew one’s point of view, so Tabletop Adventures products tend to end up a bit… darker than the sundappled forest in that product description. However, it’s a mind-broadening concept, and one that would be interesting to explore more.

Remember that multiple varieties of wilderness descriptions are available right now (through April 28) for a special price in the Earth Day Bundle from Tabletop Adventures. Happy Arbor Day, and be sure to get your adventurers out into those forests!

 

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Special Earth Day Bundle

Earth Day Bundle coverTabletop Adventures celebrates Earth Day with a special bundle of our descriptions of five types of natural terrain features: forest, swamp, plains, mountains, and caverns. (Of course, some features may only be ‘natural’ in a fantasy setting!) All the Bits of the Wilderness products are here (Into the Wildwood, Into the Swamp, Into the Open, and Into the Mountains), plus Bits of Darkness: Caverns. (For completeness, we’re also including the free mini-product Uncharted Isles, which provides some descriptions of tropical islands.)

Take this opportunity to send your adventurers outdoors! This Earth Day Bundle puts all these together at a discount of 25% and is available on DriveThruRPG through April 28th.

These products and more are available on the Tabletop Adventures page at DriveThruRPG. Augment your imagination with terrain descriptions from Tabletop Adventures!

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Celebrating GM’s Day

Happy GM’s Day! For the twentieth year in a row, Tabletop Adventures celebrates game masters on their special day.

As a company, there are only so many ways we can do something to make GMs’ lives easier. One is to publish material to make it easier for them to plan and play games, which we do. When we started this company, we could see that our own lives were getting busier and our work as GMs was getting harder, so we published products we would have wanted. We call this “Help for the Harried Game Master,” and we hope we have made some people’s lives a little less harried over the years.

Another way to make GMs’ lives easier is to make our materials available for less money, on special occasions – like GM’s Day! Right now, all our electronic products are on sale at 40% off the regular price, at DriveThruRPG. Check out our fantasy terrain descriptions, classic historical fantasy, sci-fi products, modern horror, and more!

GM's Day Sale adTabletop Adventures is not the only company with discounts available – hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of products are on sale through March 10th. (Note: Due to display glitches, sale prices do not always appear in lists of products. If in doubt, check the product page itself.) Some that have GM aids we like are:

Raging Swan Press, with everything from dungeon dressing to adventures for multiple systems

Fat Dragon Games, with plans for paper or 3D-printable terrain of all types

Kobold Press and especially their excellent “Kobold Guides” series

Mythmere Games, publishers of the great ‘old school’ Swords & Wizardry game system, but also of the incredible, system-neutral, revised and expanded “Tome of Adventure Design

And last but not least, our friends at
Frog God Games, with their “Adventures Worth Winning,” and
Necromancer Games, where no matter the system, they still make things with that “First Edition Feel.”

All of these products are worthwhile at the regular price; being able to get them at a discount is just a special bonus.

Let your GM know you appreciate him or her this week! We wish you – and your gamemaster – good gaming.

The good people of Tabletop Adventures

and the Overlord

 

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Introducing Classic Historical Fantasy

Let us introduce to you: the “Plain Brown Wrapper” line of Classic Historical Fantasy products!

Tabletop Adventures has acquired a line of historical fantasy material previously published by Avalanche Press, Ltd. and we are excited to be re-issuing this classic series of sourcebooks from 20 years ago. While the game mechanics offered are those of the 3rd Edition of “the world’s best-known roleplaying game,” the excellent historical material and its fantasy applications could be useful with any system.

Aside from the ‘packaging’ and certain legal bits, the text is identical to that found in the original books published by Avalanche Press in the early 2000s. The writing and the conventions (including, for example, the designation of Open Game Content) represent the styles of the early years of 3rd Edition and should be approached from that perspective.

Many of the original covers had artwork that was suggestive (or even provocative), so each book of the series is being reissued in a ‘plain brown wrapper.’

See the products currently available (with more still to be added) on Tabletop Adventures’ page at DriveThruRPG.

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March 4th – Happy GM’s Day!

Once again that uniquely roleplaying holiday is upon us – GM’s Day! We use it to celebrate the people who bring worlds to life so the rest of us can play. As a commercial establishment, Tabletop Adventures would like to suggest that you celebrate it by buying your GM a token of your gratitude, preferably one of our products! However, the key is to let your GM know that you recognize and appreciate how important he or she is to the game.

This year, Tabletop Adventures is participating in two GM’s Day Sales. One is the rare holiday sale at Steve Jackson Games’ Warehouse 23 through March 6th, where our products are 30% off. (Sale prices are visible when you put an item into your cart.) Steve Jackson Games also has products on sale as well as dice and other accessories.

The other is the annual big sale at DriveThruRPG. (Our products are 30% off there also; you can use whichever site is more convenient for you.) You could also check out the rest of the sale; DriveThruRPG has over 72,000 products on sale through March 14th.

We hope you are able to take advantage of these great sales, and we wish you – and your GM – good gaming!

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