Arkham Horror is a hugely popular game from Fantasy Flight Games (originally by Chaosium). It’s famous for good reasons; a great investment, a clever game and quite a challenge. It’s famous for less good reasons; not easy for new players and taking around 30 to 60 minutes to set up if you know what you’re […]
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Andrew Gaia launches board game Kickstater
Andrew Gaia is an illustrator who has worked with the likes of AEG and Fantasy Flight Games. He and his brothers have founded Gaia Games and put together a Kickstarter for Bio-logic a board game where you’re a virus trying to take over a body. You can read the full pitch on the campaign page. […]
Torg returns bringing a pan-dimensional war to Kickstarter
The Other Roleplaying Game (aka Torg) was first published back in 1990 by West End Games. Written by Greg Gorden and Bill Slavicsek the game casts players as Storm Knights, who to try and defend Earth from the pan-dimensional entities known as High Lords. The game is currently owned by Ulisses Spiele and has been […]
Checker buys the first ever Superhero RPG – Superhero 2044
Skip back in time to the year 1977, it is the start of the tabletop RPG industry as we know it today, Dungeons & Dragons is new and Superhero 2044 has just been published. The first version of the game had different types of superheroes, melee rules, ranged combat and a point based chargen system. […]
A free preview of Cthulhu Dark
Grab your free preview of Graham Walmsley’s Cthulhu Dark here. The two-page preview accompanies the Kickstarter for the lightweight and terrifying Cthulhu game. [Back the Campaign] Walmsley is known for his mystery and Cthulhu titles. His best-selling title over on DriveThruRPG is Stealing Cthulhu while his second is a book that describes how we can […]
Ruma: Dawn of Empire – an alternative Roman Empire
There’s a week (at the time of writing) to go for Ruma: Dawn of Empire on Kickstarter. Martin Greening has a success in his hands – with nearly twice his target raised in funds so far. To find out more about the project check out the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aryus/ruma-dawn-of-empire-rpg [Back this Campaign] A pledge of […]
Cubicle 7 team with Games Workshop for new Warhammer Fantasy RPG
There’s a new edition coming of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and it’ll be a partnership of Games Workshop and Cubicle 7 behind it. Cubicle 7 CEO Dominic McDowall told press, “Like so many gamers I grew up on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. It’s an iconic setting and I’m thrilled to be working on this new edition of […]
Exclusive peek: Gods and Goddesses will look at home in your 5e campaign
Gods and Goddesses is a 5th edition supplement that will let you use classic deities in your campaign. Geek Native has some exclusive art to share and a quirky fact too. Let’s take a look at the Kickstarter campaign first. [Back this Campaign] I really enjoyed reading deity books when I was younger. It was […]
Has Cubicle 7 just scored the Warhammer FRP license?
The expression ‘where there is smoke there is fire’ comes to mind. There’s lots of smoke here but and it all points to UK RPG publisher Cubicle 7 picking up a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay deal. Grim and Perilous first raised the rumours last month when Cubicle 7 refused to comment on the rumours that they’d […]
Due 2017: The Princess Bride RPG
Designed by Steffan O’Sullivan The Princess Bride RPG will be published by Toy Vault this year. The game will huge FUDGE. O’Sullivan designed the FUDGE roleplaying game system and worked on projects like GURPS Swashbucklers and GURPS Bunnies & Burrows. This is an area he knows well. Toy Vault has had a license for the […]
