From the land of Geek
British based Cubicle 7 Entertainment has announced an RPG based on author Charles Stross’ The Laundry Files series. The Laundry Files started with The Atrocity Archives, continued with the The Jennifer Morgue and The Fuller Memorandum is expected out this year.
In the series the Laundry, a branch of the British secret service, battle to [...]
March the 4th is GM’s Day. No, really. It is! Here’s a post that dates back to 2002 discussing it on Enworld.
It used to be the fashion to mark GM’s day with discounts. A chance to buy stuff for your GM.
This post was written on March the 2nd and scheduled to go live at 00:10 [...]
They’re tagging the game as the “Espionage RPG” and I can see why – it looks like Splinter Cell.
Splinter Cell wasn’t an RPG though and although this trailer looks pretty fantastic – it looks pretty linear too. Seems to me that the choices you make might not influence the plot all that much.
Or am [...]
This index was submitted to GameWyrd by the writer Jason Tondro (aka 7th son). The original had a very flaky JavaScript search function written by yours truly. To search the index today; I recommend Ctrl+F.
Name: Last name is given first, even in the case of cultures which list a family name first and given name [...]
This joke was always bad… and it’s even worse out of context. The whole point is that the Ranger class in one addition of D&D lacked focus – at least, some would argue it did. There’s no point in bringing this over from GameWyrd except to prove that I tried to save as much as [...]
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In response to the Book of Erotic Fantasy Wizards of the Coast updated the rules and regulations around the use of the d20 logo.
Needless to say; GameWyrd set out to break them!
“At Sapphire College sexy elf maidens frequently engage in wanton bathroom activity! They do so twice a day!”
Apriale Raytho’lor: female elf; CR ½; [...]
This is list from GameWyrd’s Lost Archives. It’s a user generated list of cool/not cool pairs from the world of gaming.
Cool: Sparkling dice.
Not Cool: Exploding dice.
Cool: Describing the spray of blood when your party’s fighter kills an orc.
Not Cool: Throwing a balloon filled with pigs blood at the player whose fighter just killed your favourite orc.
Cool: A well-drawn picture [...]
I wrote this back in 2001. Back then, nearly 10 years ago, I think it was helpful. The article really did serve as an introduction to PDFs and RPG ebooks for many Wyrdlings. It looks a little out of date now – for example, it suggests many gamers are using Internet Explorer. Heh! No. Not [...]
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This tosh was written for GameWyrd waaay back in 2001. There was some crud reason why the site needed something that looked like an academic essay on RPGs or something which explains the rush job in putting it live – nevertheless; I still maintain you can put all sorts of wonderful mythology/world goodies into a [...]
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This was written right at the start of 2001. Some of it was useful. Some of it was a shameless ploy to direct readers into a choice that would only benefit me! Me! ME! Muahaha!
Nevertheless; despite the mercenary tactics I still find it interesting that GameWyrd was set up to be geeky and [...]
