Spanish publisher Burning Games caught attention with the Kickstarter for their sci-fi Faith. Now fans have even more reason to be watching the radar. There are three games due out in 2017. Faith: Core Book This Kickstarter with fire up a new Core Book and expand the mythos of the Faith RPG. We’ll get the […]
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PETA complains about Games Workshop characters ‘wearing’ fur
PETA is an animal rights activist charity with a penchant for PR stunts. Today, they’ve written to the UK’s Games Workshop to ask them to ban ‘fur’ from gaming miniatures. Not real fur. The depiction of fur on the models. You can read a copy of the letter on PETAuk [PDF] but here’s a sample; […]
Glorantha’s Khan of Khans conquers Kickstarter
The nature of the beast means there’s no such thing as a ‘safe Kickstarter’ but Khan of Khans is complete, just waiting for the Kickstarter campaign to finish before going to the printers, it has more than 300% of target in funds and is being managed by Chaosium. Check out the campaign page here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/khan-of-khans-family-game […]
Trying to use the loo at a LARP
Meanwhile at a LARP convention This clip was posted by Imgur user Chrisini. It seems to come from a larger video but the origin wasn’t shared. Do you know? If you’ve been to a large LARP before, the sort of thing that results in a bunch of gamers being locked away in a field, with […]
The Digital Games Studio from Wizards
Wizards of the Coast have been shuffling their deck. Chris Cocks, President of the company since last year, talked about some of these changes on the Magic: The Gathering community site. There are three main points he pulls out; The Digital Games Studio will focus on re-imagining digital version of WoTC games and includes the […]
Which 2017 UK RPG or board games convention is best?
Is it hard keeping up to date with the convention scene? I find it a challenge. There are some giant gaming conventions in the States and then Wizard World runs a host of comic cons. In the UK there are still some dominant conventions but I find the landscape is much more fragmented. Luckily, gamer […]
Mega-Cool: A Review of Savage Rifts: The Tomorrow Legion Players Guide
It doesn’t take much more than flipping through the first few pages of the Savage Rifts: Tomorrow Legion Players Guide to know that writer Sean Patrick Fannon has a deep love of the gonzo sci-fi setting first introduced to the world by Palladium Books in 1990. Fannon’s take on the material is significantly more than a straight […]
Corrupt next year: War in Christmas Village
War in Christmas Village is a successful Kickstarter with, at the time of writing, 16 days left go. Pick up a set of unpainted 28mm twisted holiday miniatures with a Christmas theme. Check out the campaign page here. [Back this Campaign] It takes a $25 pledge to get into the miniature range but that first […]
Call of Cthulhu’s Sandy Petersen sues PayPal
Petersen Entertainment LP has taken PayPal to court for withholding $57,000 in funds. The money due apparently relates to a Kickstarter for one of the 12 games the company has successfully funded. The complaint [PDF link] stats that Petersen has been fulfilling gamers’ orders despite PayPal withholding funds. This is good news for gamers as […]
TimeWatch RPG preview
TimeWatch is an RPG from Kevin Kulp. It’s born from a Kickstarter Campaign that made over $100,000. The game is from Pelgrane Press and uses the Gumshoe system, familiar to players of Night’s Back Agents and Trail of Cthulhu, with some modifications. The time travelling adventure is rules light and can be played in various […]
