From the land of Geek
The GUMSHOE rules system was created by Robin D Laws – the creator of the Dying Earth RPG – and is designed to work best for investigation games.
Since it’s launch GUMSHOE has picked up other big names; including Kenneth Hite who produced a new version of Call of Cthulhu called Trail of Cthulhu with it.
This [...]
Award winning OGL action RPG Spycraft will get a third edition in 2010. Crafty Games have announced that they’ll use the Mastercraft system for the RPG and renew the game’s focus on espionage.
The last releases for Spycraft 2.0 will come throughout the summer and wil include the last of the Saturday Morning Spycraft PDF series [...]
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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