Trove Zine

22/06/2022

Calling all our Nottingham Nerds! Trove Issue 2 is hot off the press and on its way to The Dice Cup!! Pick up your copy today!

If you're not local, you can still get your PDF copy at our online store - gumroad.com/trovezine

20/06/2022

ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Trove issue 2 is now available online at gumroad.com/trovezine!!!

For just £3 you get access to unique content, indie RPGs, amazinf art and editorial insights from:
Joe Hadley
Ben Macpherson
AJ Freyley
Jamie Drew
Philippa Mort
Ellen Schaffert and
Sam Marshall !!

We'd love for you to buy the zine, we're sure you'll love it as much as we do and it helps us to pay our wonderful contributors for their hard work!!

We combine all the best RPG articles and materials from Nottingham and beyond to make this fun community zine

20/06/2022

Trove Issue 2 comes out at 5PM TODAY on our Gumroad store,
But before that, here's another preview of what you can find inside!

From AJ Freyley (with yet more amazing art from Philippa Mort) comes Vega's Cove, an incredible collection of unique magical items found far beneath the waves!

( and on twitter)

19/06/2022

Time for today's sneak peek into Trove issue 2, available online TOMORROW!

DMs! Protect your forges and fortresses with the Kilnkeeper: a fiery foe from Sam Marshall - featuring a brand new approach to petrifying low-level characters!

19/06/2022

Happy Fathers' Day!!

To celebrate the day of dads, we're giving away Joe Hadley's excellent one-page RPG Dad BBQ for free TODAY ONLY!

When your partners' work BBQ is under threat, use your dad skills and interests to save the day and achieve your personal goals!

Head to https://trovezine.gumroad.com/l/bdygs to download your free copy now! And remember that issue 2 will be available there from 5pm TOMORROW!

18/06/2022

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Issue 2 of Trove Zine will be released digitally on Monday June 20th! gumroad.com/TroveZine

Thanks to the amazing Philippa Mort ( on Twitter) for the cover art! Keep an eye out as we continue to preview our contributors' awesome work!

18/06/2022

Time for another Issue 2 Sneak peek! For one of our editorial pieces, professional theatremaker Ben Macpherson shares his insights on what RPG players and GMs can learn from the world of improv!

17/06/2022

With issue 2 just around the corner, let's take our first look at what's inside...

THE BLYTHES AND THE BLADE
With an original city setting, co-editor Sam Marshall brings us a thrilling heist one-shot for Blades in the Dark (or adaptable to your favourite TTRPG)!

House Blythe are meddling in powers beyond the mortal realm, and Sheerharbour's criminal underworld is taking notice. Can your crew break their defences and steal one of their precious ethereal implements?!

16/06/2022

It's been a while. And we've missed you.

But what's this emerging from the depths..?



(Art credit: Philippa Mort - on twitter)

11/11/2021

If you were hoping for a physical copy of our zine's first edition, you'd better hurry! Only 13 copies remain at the good ship The Dice Cup !!

29/10/2021

If you are often heard saying "I have my digital devices, but I've left my favourite indie RPG zine at home" then boy do we have a collection of bits and bytes for you!

At https://trovezine.gumroad.com/ you can scan in some cash and get the zine in a form that means you'll never be without our Tipz n Trickz ever again!

We combine all the best RPG articles and materials from Nottingham and beyond to make this fun community zine

29/10/2021

It's finally real!! 🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉

The first issue of Trove has been printed and is on the way to The Dice Cup where it will be available for £5 as soon as This Afternoon!!!

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In this issue:

🐉 A fantastic cover image of the Fool's Gold Dragon by Lucy Marshall (lucykaet on insta), whose statistics can be found within

🥋 A Monk subclass inspired by Avatar's stealthy Earthbenders, the Dai Li

🎉 A fancy one-page RPG of living furniture by Philippa Mort - Be Our Guest

✨ A collection of magical items for practical and tactical jokes: It's Sam Marshall's Curionimosity!

🗺️ Joe Hadley's manifesto for campaign building on large and small scales at the same time

🎲 A fresh look at Yu-Gi-Oh spin-off Dungeon Dice Monsters from Jamie Drew

🔥 The hilariously mundane one-pager Dad BBQ

Spookily unrelated to Halloween! Terrifyingly varied in tone and content!

Huge thanks to all of our contributors and to The Dice Cup (Nottingham's Favourite Board Game Café) for hosting us. It's such a relief to finally have this finished and out there, I want all of you to promise not to seek out Sam on the roads and waylay him with any riddles.

I really hope you like it 🥳🧙❤️

27/10/2021

MORE EXCITING NEWS!

We are very proud to announce that Trove will be available in physical form, generously hosted by The Dice Cup, Nottingham's favourite board game café!

Issue 1 has just hit the press! For comparison, here's our long-suffering proof copy. We'll show you the far superior finished copies when they're done and delivered. We can't wait! 🥳

25/10/2021

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, friends of each gender, we're excited to show you the cover of our first issue!

Lucy Marshall (That's Lucykaet on insta) has drawn the fearsome and devious Fool's Gold Dragon, a beast whose statistics and abilities you can find within, detailed by our very own Sam Marshall.

When is that? Oh, the first issue will be available at gumroad.com/trovezine on the 29th of October, this very Friday! At 7pm. Be there, own this historic document, learn all about the Fool's Gold Dragon and all the other fantastical articles we have for you!

25/10/2021

Welcome, Traveller! 🧙‍♂️

This is Trove, an indie zine for all things relating to tabletop role-playing games, from Hideout Productions. Picture it as one of those Tipz n Trickz guides that came with video games magazines before they were outcompeted by Websites. But it's for your favourite TTRPG rather than The Simpsons: Hit & Run (2003).

It will feature homebrew player options, monsters and adventures, one-pager RPGs, opinion pieces and artwork!

We're hurrying to finish our first issue, which has been in the works since February. Subscribe/join/share so that you do not miss our announcements.

Any day now we'll tell you when you'll be able to go to gumroad.com/trovezine, type some money into the computer and get the combined sweat of all of our contributors: Lucy Marshall, Sam Marshall, Jamie Drew, Philippa Mort and Joe Hadley.

We're really proud of this! I can't wait to show you the cover art, it's so sick. 🥳