There are rumours of forthcoming Doctor Who games from Cubicle 7 but the latest press release from the British publisher doesn’t confirm any of them. Instead, we’ve an update to the popular Doctor Who RPG that puts Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor on the cover. The new edition is a standalone game with a […]
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D&D’s Rage of Demon has a launch trailer
Rage of Demons is the new storyline for D&D which comes to life this winter. The demon lords have been dragged from the Abyss and so the Forgotten Realms’ players must join up with Drizzt Do’Urden to venture into the Underdark and take them on. The plot follows on from the Tyranny of Dragons and […]
This Empire Strikes Back gaming table will blow your mind
This collection of Star Wars models were part of the Battle of Hoth game played out at the UK gaming covention Salute 2015. Because they need to travel from Ireland to London with the board, they had to make it all modular. So, it’s basically a white mat with carved Styrofoam sections that sit on […]
Trapdoor Technologies back from the abyss with Pathfinder iOS app
You might well have written Trapdoor Technologies off. They’ve had plenty of bumps and scrapes – a cancelled contract with Wizards of the Coast and then a failed Kickstarter. They’re a brave bunch, though, and have been busy working on their promised product. iPhone users can download the Playbook (for RPD) for free from the […]
Rebuild or loot? Infected Zombie RPG
Infected! is the first RPG from Immersion Studios and Holocaust Survivor Stories: Georgina author Oliver Shead. Zombies are infected humans – fast, deadly and cunning. Mankind is winning, though, and civilisation is beginning to recover which gives the PCs options… this twist on the post-apocalyptic story is Kickstarter that’s doing well, needing just a nudge […]
ViewScream merges virtual tabletop with LARP
Rafael Chandler is a game writer and designer who’s worked on computer games like MAG, Rainbow Six: Lockdown and SOCOM 4. On the tabletop RPG front he has Lusus Naturae and No Salvation for Witches in his credits. ViewScream is different; mixing the growing popularity of Google Hangouts powered virtual tabletops, with LARP and with […]
RPG Humour… so you had a rare sword
I’ve done this in computer RPGs and tabletop games where a historic or once favourite weapon fell behind the curve.
DriveThruRPG/RPGNow admits credit card data theft
The world’s largest store for electronic RPGs has admitted today that it’s had a security breach. If you’ve made a purchase between July 10th and August 6th of this year then the site is recommending you contact your credit card issuing bank and ask for a replacement card. In a support Q&A posted by Jeff […]
Well Met in Lankhmar: A Review of Lankhmar City of Thieves
While it might seem a simple task to create a setting supplement for a game that shifts the focus to match a book, TV show or movie, it isn’t. I mean, I’m not saying there isn’t any effort involved, but you could just slam a major synopsis down, along with some episodic notes, and that […]
10,000 years of art inside the Kromore RPG
I was pleased when RAEX Games took Kromore back to Kickstarter. The game looked good and the revisions promised to take the game in the right direction. The game is now available via DriveThruRPG and, at the time of writing, has a 5/5 star average review. Kromore offers up a massive “open-genre universe”. This means […]
