Gen Con hosted the ENnies last night and there’s a host of winners to announce. EN World shared the news this morning, along with a hat tip to the hosts Andy Hopp, Stacy Dellorfano, BJ Hensley, Mark Morrison and Amanda Valentine. Congratulations to everyone who took home a prize. It’s worth popping back to Geek […]
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Download The Witcher tabletop RPG today
Cody and Lisa Pondsmith are the listed authors of The Witcher RPG from R. Talsorian Games. It’s the official tabletop game of CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher computer game. It is one of the big-name releases from this year’s Gen Con. Set in the middle of the 3rd Nilfgaardian War the White Wolf, Geralt of […]
Amazon lets Paizo and Pathfinder 2 playtesters down
Many roleplayers who preordered their copy of Pathfinder Playtest from Paizo did not get their book on schedule. Gamers who pre-ordered directly from Amazon, according to some players, have also had problems. The Paizo Team explain in a blog post. When Paizo was planning this year’s Pathfinder Playtest, we expected to exceed our own ability […]
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition launches today
You can now buy Vampire: The Masquerade from select retailers. It’s Gen Con, and White Wolf has just released the 5th edition of the iconic game. If you need the game now you can visit World of Darkness.com or in physical form exclusively from Modiphius Entertainment. Modiphius is acting as the distributor, I don’t believe […]
Actually happening: Munchkin Warhammer 40,000
In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future … Kill the Monster, Steal the Treasure, and Stab Your Buddy! I wonder how Games Workshop is feeling. In some ways, they’ve had a rough week. They nearly doubled their profits and yet shares dropped 6%. Bloody investors. Why the drop? Investors may just be taking profit, […]
KeyForge is a new game from Magic: The Gathering’s inventor and Fantasy Flight Games
KeyForge doesn’t seem to take itself very seriously (watch the trailer video, and you’ll see what I mean), but it does tackle one of the problems which seriously put people off collectable card games. There was a time when I played Magic: the Gathering when each rare card was a discovery worth celebrating. It was […]
Wizards of the Coast pull a welcome U-turn on Eberron and D&D’s Adventurers League
Wizards of the Coast, the publishers of Dungeons & Dragons seem to have changed their minds on Eberron. The Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron was announced 23rd of July and in the very introduction to the book, page 4, was the news that Eberron would not be part of the Adventurers League. You can read it […]
Milled metal die… solid enough to be dangerous!
The second thing you notice in this Kickstarter is the name of the company; ‘Flying Horseduck’. Good one. Of course, the first thing you’re likely to notice is how their golf ball sized 60-sided die could probably be used as a thrown weapon! They’re asking for US$10,000 to mill and laser all these die and […]
Christian T. Petersen steps down from Fantasy Flight and Asmodee
Christian T. Petersen is perhaps best well known as the founder of Fantasy Flight Games. He wrote the Nocturnum set of adventures of Call of Cthulhu with Darrell Hardy, co-designed the Game of Thrones wargame and worked on Doom: The Boardgame. In 2014 Petersen became the CEO of Asmodee North America. Asmodee is a well […]
The uncommonly adult RPG: Kult – Divinity Lost
This is a review of the Kickstarter version of the fourth edition of the Kult RPG. The Swedish publisher Helmgast AB ran the Kickstarter, produced the book and Modiphius are in the mix as distributors. How ‘adult’ is Kult – Divinity Lost? Kult is the only RPG in my collection that discusses safe words and […]
