The Jericho River: A Novel About the History of Western Civilization is a novel from David W. Tollen that’s won a whole bunch of awards (London Book Festival, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, et al) and which should appeal to RPG fans. The novel sets about presenting history as an adventure story. The Jericho River […]
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Holographic Halo 5 and Netflix
Hololens is Microsoft’s augmented reality solution. I imagine it’s easy to say “so what” to tech like that but this little video makes some of the use cases pretty clear. Imagine watching Netflix without having a TV or even a screen handy. Why stop at just watching TV? Why not play a whole computer game […]
Loyal droid or junk? A review of the R2-D2 desktop vacuum
Here’s a safe bet – Star Wars toys will be all the rage this Christmas. I was pondering Star Wars gifts for my godson and his brother but wasn’t sure if they’d seen the films. After all; The Phantom Menace came out in 1999. That’s 16 years ago and neither boy is 16. As it happens […]
Competition: The Relic Guild
Last year we posted a fee audio clip from Edward Cox’s The Relic Guild and now you’ve a chance to win a copy of the book. Cox’s debut novel follows Clara as she tries to stay alive, keeping her magical abilities hidden, in a dangerous city where the use of magic is punishable by death. […]
Mind Flayer dice bag and game pouch
Always forgetting your dice? Perhaps some mind tentacles will help you remember. Ultra-Pro are selling this heavy duty, zippered, pouch. It doesn’t come with dice but they’ve called it the Dungeons & Dragons Mind Flayer Gamer Pouch. You can fill it with dice if you want or go with tokens and counters. The plush material […]
Pre-order Treasure Trapped via Kickstarter
The LARP documentary Treasure Trapped did really well. Watch it at the cinema? No? Now there’s a chance to get it on DVD & Blu-ray and they’re using a Kickstarter campaign to fund the pre-orders. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicjoke/treasure-trapped-on-dvd-and-bluray [Back this Campaign] Cosmic Joke only asked for £200 for the campaign and, at the time of writing, have […]
Not something you see every day – The Orc Dance
Have you ever accused someone of not being a “proper geek”? If so; you may not like what you’re about to see in The Orc Dance below. Or did you love it? You can download the song from iTunes. The recap is pretty surreal. There’s an orc pack chasing some rangers through the woods. One […]
Optimised D&D 5e Index goes open source on GitHub
Have you struggled with the Dungeons & Dragons 5 Index? It’s easy to do as there’s simply so many different ways you might want to interrogate the data and the D&D 5e Index likes its cross references. EN World member Copperdogma took the battle into his own hands and has re-written the entire Index after […]
Short film: The Brink
The Brink sounds great. This is one of those YouTube short films that recommends the use of headphones for the best sound and I’d agree. In fact, JuVee Productions are using something called AstoundSound and give it a mention in the video’s title, and I wonder whether one of the goals of the film is […]
Christmas gift idea for an evil GM
Are you caught between having an evil GM while also needing to pick up a Christmas or holiday gift for them? What about this? “Ignore my browser history! I’m a Gamemaster not a murderer” Not a phrase you’ve heard before? I bet it’s been on the tip of a few GM’s lips over the last […]
