Fearsome Journeys is a new anthology of fantasy adventure from Solaris. The collection has stories from authors like Trudi Canavan, Saladin Ahmed, Glen Cook, Daniel Abraham, Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch and is edited by Jonathan Strahan. Strahan, who lives in Australia, is the reviews editor at Locus. Jonathan kindly agreed to a “From the [...]
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The top 5 things I learned about gamers working on Standard Action
Tara Pratt is originally from Edmonton, Canada, and plays Wendy the Sorceress in Standard Action. You can often catch her on stage performing in Vancouver, and on screen in some of our local productions, most recently the hit show Fringe, and Emily Owens, M.D. Her favourite colour is purple, she’s a huge Star Trek: The [...]
Top 5 lessons I learned as a webseries producer in the nerd world
Joanna Gaskell is originally from Victoria, Canada. She is the producer and the writer of Standard Action, and plays Edda the Elf Barbarian. You can see her in the board game review series Starlit Citadel Reviews, catch her in the upcoming Gamers: Hands of Fate movie, hear her voice in new animated TV show Animism, [...]
Top 7 Most Realistic Cities in Minecraft
John runs MinePick.com. MinePick is a listing service for Minecraft, a site lets players find servers, see which is busy, the status of any given server (online or offline) and the type of game. The site makes use of a plugin called Votifier which allows server owners to reward players who help promote the game [...]
From the Inkwell: Why we run Pinterest boards for the Nights of the Crusades RPG
Nights of the Crusades is an RPG set in a world that blends One Thousand and One Nights, the history of the Crusades, modern and ancient terror. The roleplaying game is free to download from DriveThruRPG. MJ Alishah is the author and artist for Nights of the Crusades and runs a themed collection of Pinterest [...]
Dicing with Design
This guest post is written by Joe Prince, owner of Prince of Darkness Games and author of Eternal Contenders, due out in print this year via Chronicle City. Eternal Contenders is a GM-free game, that puts the characters in the role of gladiators and was a nominee in the UK Games Expo. Joe is known [...]
From the inkwell: The World through Roman eyes
From the inkwell is a series in which RPG authors get to talk directly about their own games, sharing their thoughts and discussing the creation process. In this article Brendan Davis, President of Bedrock Games, discusses Servants of Gaius. Bedrock Games products are available through Studio 2 Publishing (print) and Avalon Games (PDF); the latter [...]
From the inkwell: Solar Echoes and Andy Mitchell
From the inkwell is chance for RPG authors and publishers to step up and talk about their game, setting and mechanics. The goal is to let gamers get inside knowledge straight from the source. This issue of Publisher Perch is written by Andy Mitchell of Corefun about the sci-fi RPG Solcar Echoes. We have now [...]
Eldritch Skies Design essay
Eldritch Skies is a Lovecraftian sci-fi RPG from Battlefield Press. The game is written by John Snead and is set in 2030. The post below is a design essay from the game’s creator. The seed for this project originated in a discussion on RPG.net back in 2006. Science fiction is my favorite genre in which [...]
Is the Era of the GM over?
This guest post is written by Joe Prince, author and designer of the GM-less gladiator RPG Eternal Contenders. Eternal Contenders has been picked up by Chronicle City and a print+PDF bundle is currently available for pre-order at their shop. The shadowy figure of the Game Master (GM) hunched behind a screen clutching the precious books [...]
