Beloved French RPG Gets New Edition Through Crowdfunding For Gamers By Gamers
 
LYON, FRANCE (June 26, 2017) – Game On Tabletop, the innovative new crowdfunding platform dedicated to tabletop games, and Black Book Editions, publishers of Polaris RPG and the Mythic Battles:Pantheon RPG, announce today the return of Raoul, le jeu de role qui sent sous les bras (The RPG whose armpits stink). First released in 1994 by Patrice Larcenet and illustrated by Manu Larcenet, the Raoul RPG brings simple rules and a humoristic view of French life together in a fun new edition.
 
Authored by Cedric Ferrand and powered by his own hack of the Apocalypse World game system, Raoul 2nd edition puts players on summer vacation in France, living the good life with noisy barbeques, Pastis competitions, loud leisurewear and doing their best to annoy the locals at favorite camping spots.
 
Raoul will power-through a limited, one-week campaign on Game On Tabletop to launch the Raoul 2nd Edition rulebook, along with an additional scenario, a limited edition “Naturalist Edition” rulebook, GM screen, PC power cards, plus Raoul-branded bath towel and tote bag for immersive summer holiday fun. All first-day backers will also receive a free ocean-scented car air freshener.
 
“We are excited about having Raoul be the very first French project under the new Game On brand,” says Damien Coltice, Black Book Editions spokesperson. “This is certainly the most emblematic French RPG out there and we are thrilled to bring this second edition back in a whole new glory.”
 
After four years of hosting highly successful tabletop crowdfunding campaigns in France under the name Casus Belli, Game On Tabletop is a community-driven platform for gamers, by gamers.
 
To back the campaign or for more information, visit http://bit.ly/2rUfXL3.
 
About Black Book Editions
Located in Lyon and founded by David Burckle in 2004, BBE is a gaming company specializing in tabletop RPGs and related products. BBE is the French language publisher of several prestigious licenses, including Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Deadlands, Savage Worlds, Eclipse Phase and more, and Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition in France. BBE is also the creative studio behind Casus-Belli, the French RPG magazine, and publisher of France’s best-selling RPGs Chroniques Oubliées and Polaris. BBE has also been running the Casus-Beli crowdfunding platform in 2013, which launched globally as Game On Tabletop June 2017.
 
About Game On Tabletop
Game On Tabletop is located in Lyon, France and was created by the team behind Black Book Editions, France’s premier RPG publisher and promoter. With more than 20 years of experience in the hobby gaming industry and four years successfully running the Casus Belli crowdfunding platform, Game On Tabletop takes that platform and launches it on the global scale to create an engaging crowdfunding community for gamers, by gamers. For more information, visit www.gameontabletop.com.
 
 
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Free RPG Day Stores Will Give Away Bonus Cthulhu SoundPack
 
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (June 14, 2017) – Syrinscape, creator of the award-winning apps that bring tabletop games to life with movie-like sound, is thrilled to announce it received the award for “Best RPG Supplement” at this year’s UK Games Expo. This marks the second award Syrinscape has received from the UK Games Expo community, having won “Best Game Accessory” at the 2015 show.
 
The Cthulhu Rises Doompack contains six spine-tinglingly immersive locations and encounters inspired by the Cthulhu mythos. Along with the mighty Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, the Mi-Go, Great Old Ones and Outer Gods alike, this six-pack of sonic doom and horror includes subliminal skitterings, mind-bending energy fields, psychic horror, huge bestial roars, storms, demonic voices and more to have players of any Lovecraftian tabletop game on the edge of insanity. The Cthulhu Rises DoomPack is now available on Syrinscape.com for $19.99, and is already unlocked for all SuperSyrin and Sci-Fi subscribers.
 
Syrinscape creator Benjamin Loomes was on hand to accept the award, presented by game industry legend John Kovalic (Dork Tower, Munchkin). Said Kovalic, "Handing Syrinscape the award was one of my great pleasures at UK Games Expo. I've been a Syrinscape fan and subscriber since I began GM'ing again. Syrinscape audio adds so much to my gaming sessions, and I know my players love the rich aural soundscapes it creates. At least right up to the point their characters die horribly."
 
The “Best RPG Supplement” award caps-off a fantastic return to UKGE for Syrinscape, where hundreds of attendees contributed their voices via the new Syrinscape Sound Cave to be crafted into Lovecraft’s Shoggoth on a forthcoming SoundSet, and attendees were entertained by an all-star cast in the UKGE debut of Live RPG Plus.
 
Further, Syrinscape returns to Free RPG Day this year as a Platinum-level sponsor, providing 10,500 free Cthulhu Bonus – Steam Train to Salem SoundPacks to participating friendly local game shops. Steam Train to Salem is an add-on to the Cthulhu Rises DoomPack that will have players rolling down the tracks to insanity with the ambient hustle and bustle of Coach to Cabin Class, hungry riders in the dining car enjoying music from an upright piano, brain-sucking alien power, an incessant harmonica player, haunted luggage carriage and more. Free RPG Day takes place Saturday, June 17 at participating friendly local game shops.
 
The award-winning Syrinscape apps bring fantastic, realistic sound to tabletop gaming and are compatible with nearly any mobile device or computer. Syrinscape’s Fantasy Player, Sci-Fi Player and Board Game Player apps are free to download and the official sounds of Pathfinder, Mutants & Masterminds, Catan and hundreds of other sound creations for nearly any tabletop game are available for sale individually or as part of the Supersyrin Subscription for $10/month.
 
Syrinscape can also be completely unlocked for free for 30 days at Syrinscape.com/freetrial and includes two free SoundSets to keep after the trial.
 
Cthulhu Rises DoomPack demo video featuring Syrinscape creator and Dicestormers host Benjamin Loomes:
 
https://syrinscape.com/store/products/205-cthulhu-rises-doompack/
 
About Syrinscape
Using a powerful audio engine and complex algorithms to produce ever-changing soundscapes and rich encounter-specific music, Syrinscape conjures every aural landscape imaginable, from ethereal forests and stony shorelines, to dank, vermin-filled dungeons, to the spooky depths of the underdark. Designed by accomplished composer and tabletop gamer Benjamin Loomes, along with the developers at the Interaction Consortium, Syrinscape builds on more than 8 years of prototyping and community feedback. Syrinscape is based in Australia. Syrinscape is available for a wide range of devices, including PCs, Macs, Android Tablets and phones, iPhones and iPads, and the players can be downloaded via syrinscape for free.
 
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REDMOND, WA (June 13, 2017): Paizo Inc., publisher of the award-winning Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, is proud to return to Free RPG Day as a Platinum-level sponsor with Starfinder: First Contact, an exclusive first look at more than a dozen creatures from the highly anticipated forthcoming science fantasy RPG Starfinder. More than 10,500 Starfinder: First Contact manuals have been provided to friendly local game stores participating in Free RPG Day and will be available June 17, while supplies last.
 
The Starfinder Roleplaying Game releases in August 2017, but the first aliens will land on Free RPG Day in Starfinder: First Contact, a 16-page manual previewing otherworldly foes, from the asteroid-dwelling sarcesians who ride solar winds on wings of light, to technomagical undead horrors capable of ruling forever as the sinister Bone Sages of Eox. Starfinder: First Contact includes:

• A dozen alien creatures from throughout Golarion’s solar system.
• Player-race information to let players be the alien, from the atrophied psychic creatures called contemplatives to the bug-like haan who float across gas giants on balloons of spun webbing.
• Instructions for easily converting Starfinder creatures into Pathfinder.
• Sneak previews of some of the new abilities and rules systems featured in Starfinder.

 
For more information about Starfinder, visit paizo.com/starfinder.
 
About Paizo Inc.
Paizo Inc. is publisher of the award-winning Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Tales novels, as well as board games and accessories. The Pathfinder world, in which players take on the role of brave adventurers fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil, is currently translated into eight languages, and has been licensed for comic book series, graphic novels, toys, and apparel. Paizo.com is also a leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world.
 
 
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Gaming Community Has Dedicated New Crowdfunding Home
 
LYON, FRANCE (June 6, 2017) – Game On Tabletop, the innovative new crowdfunding platform dedicated to tabletop games, and Pinnacle Entertainment, the award-winning publishers of Savage Worlds and Deadlands, announce the debut combined campaign of The Goon™ RPG and Fear Agent™ RPG is now live for backing at GameOnTabletop.com.
 
The Game On combined campaign for The Goon™ RPG and Fear Agent™ RPG picks up where their recent Kickstarter campaigns left off, having already raised more than $66,000 and unlocked stretch goals for archetype characters, creature cards, and more. The campaign offers for each game a core rulebook, GM screen with adventure, Bennies, dice, and miniatures sculpted by Bronze Age Miniatures. New backers may join the Game On Tabletop campaign with rewards priced individually beginning at $29.99 for a softcover + PDF copy of one book.
 
“Pinnacle Entertainment is excited to be Game On Tabletop’s launch partner with The Goon™ RPG and Fear Agent™ RPG,” says Pinnacle COO Jodi Black. “The site’s functionality makes managing our campaign a breeze and I love that the tabletop community is going to have a dedicated home for finding and supporting new games.”
 
After four years of hosting highly successful tabletop crowdfunding campaigns in France under the name Casus Belli, Game On Tabletop now makes its global debut with a community-driven platform for gamers, by gamers. For hobby game enthusiasts, Game On Tabletop is their new home for discovering the newest tabletop games from up and coming as well as established designers and publishers. For publishers, Game On Tabletop means fully customizable product pages, a real-time pledge manager, auto-updating Level Ups, Add-On management, and easy accounting with exportable invoices. Game On Tabletop also offers publisher assistance with fulfillment, production, and marketing as a la carte services.
 
The Goon™ RPG and Fear Agent™ RPG for Savage Worlds combined campaign is now live. To back the project or for more information, visit GameOnTabletop.com.
 
About Pinnacle Entertainment Group
The award-winning Deadlands and Savage Worlds tabletop RPGs were created by Shane Lacy Hensley, owner of Pinnacle Entertainment Group. For more information, visit www.peginc.com or contact Jodi Black, COO and Managing Editor for Pinnacle, at [email protected].
 
The Goon™ is created by Eric Powell and published by Dark Horse Comics™: darkhorse.com.
 
Fear Agent™ is created by Rick Remender (Black Science, Seven to Eternity, Captain America), Tony Moore (The Walking Dead, Deadpool, Exterminators), and Jerome Opeña (The Avengers, Moon Knight, Uncanny X-Force), and published by Dark Horse Comics™: darkhorse.com.
 
About Game On Tabletop
Game On Tabletop is located in Lyon, France and was created by the team behind Black Book Editions, France’s premier RPG publisher and promoter. With more than 20 years of experience in the hobby gaming industry and four years successfully running the Casus Belli crowdfunding platform, Game On Tabletop takes that platform and launches it on the global scale to create an engaging crowdfunding community for gamers, by gamers. For more information, visit www.gameontabletop.com.
 
 
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