This Geek Native post has a look at some of the Gravity Assist cards from the Kickstarting Xtronaut. Xtronaut is designed by Dante Lauretta who actually led NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return. You can find out more about the Kickstarter here. [Back this Campaign] The campaign asked for $15,000 and has over $28,000 in the […]
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Pictures from the giant Lord of the Rings LARP at Bitva o Fort
Bitva o Fort is home to a very large LARP that’s loosely based on LoRT and has a special interest in large scale, realistic action, around Minas Morgul. A huge number of LARPs made the event in the Czech Republic and you can read the details and access more pictures over at LARPing.org. Alternatively, skip […]
Multiplying Bizarre by Impossible: a review of anomaly 1
I have always been a sucker for those art books that never seem to surface anymore. Possibly, I’m looking in the wrong place. Amongst my more treasured books and annuals, I have several examples of this phenomenon from the 70s and 80s. Huge, hardback and glossy books packed with pictures of spacecraft or bizarre landscapes. […]
Legends Begin Here: a review of Lone Wolf Adventure Game
Cubicle 7’s Lone Wolf Adventure Game boxed set enters Joe Dever’s world of Magnamund and allows you to take on the role of Kai Initiates. In the face of creeping darkness and scattered pockets of injustice, you have the means to bring light and hope. Packed into an impressively solid and weighty box, LWAG (as […]
Magpie Games takes Masks: A New Generation to Kickstarter
Set in a city which has had a few generations of superheroes and powered by the Apocalypse rules, Magpie Games offer up an RPG where you’re a young super finding your way in life. The game has had a strong start on Kickstarter, already near $7,000 and only asking $4,000. You can check out more […]
Why D&D characters never go to Valhalla
Valhalla is the afterlife of Viking warriors. It is a great hall where the feast and celebrations carry on until the end of the world. This is your reward for a battle death! Except if you’re a D&D character and you’d rather level up! (Via Rock Paper Cynic)
Fed up with boring dice towers?
The Empirical Innovation team have created a dice tower that looks a lot like a fairground slide. And why not? Who says dice shouldn’t have run on their way down to roll a critical failure that results in your favourite character falling off a mountain? (Via Nerd Approved)
Of Onionskins and Seven Dogs: A review of Aletheia
Role-playing can become an expensive hobby if you go down certain routes. Game companies have cottoned on to the concept of core rulebooks that provide just enough material to get you going. Once you’re in, they flash supplemental material and adventures in your direction, in the hope that you’ll bite. Sometimes, the material on offer […]
Are these the most luxurious dice in the world?
What do you buy a gamer who has all the games they want? How about some Artisan Dice The store sells dice which can be described as “luxurious” because of their unique combination of exotic and decedant materials. Want a d20 carved out of actual mammoth ivory? No problem. Examples of other exotic materials include […]
80 fantasy plants that might appear in your next RPG [infographic]
Do you run a fantasy RPG which has a world strangely filled with entirely mundane fauna and flora. How would that even happen? This infographic from AvasFlowers takes to the works of fiction to compile 80 of the best alternative plants into a single, handy, list. The result? An infographic loaded with inspiration and enough […]
