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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 […]
Bloodshadows returns as a full RPG
Originally published by West End Games as a worldbook for MasterBook and then updated as a D6 Adventure, the third edition of Bloodshadows will be a standalone RPG. Precis Intermedia have the rights for Bloodshadows, a game in which the supernatural lurks around the corner, and will relaunch the title using the genreDiversion 3E rules. […]
Lost & Found: A Review and Play report of Trail of Cthulhu
This past weekend, I got a group together to play Pelgrane Press’ Trail of Cthulhu. Though the game came out in 2008, I never got a chance to play it, until now. Designed by Kenneth Hite, Trail of Cthulhu is one of several games powered by the GUMSHOE System. The design philosophy behind the GUMSHOE system is that in an […]
Apocalypse 2.0: A Review of Legacy: Life Among the Ruins
The latest game powered by the Apocalypse, Legacy: Life Among the Ruins serves as an elegant re-exploration of the trail first blazed by Vincent Baker in his revolutionary RPG, Apocalypse World. Legacy is, essentially, a prettier, cleaner, and more-refined version of Baker’s game. Legacy is classic post-apocalypse adventure, complete with mutant monsters, weird and wild technology, and even a Maelstrom to […]
Steve Jackson Games gives ThinkGeek a Munchkin Hipsters head start
ThinkGeek will get to say; We sold Munchkin Hipsters before it the booster pack became all mainstream! They’ll get to say that because Steve Jackson Games have given the popular site first dibs at selling the the 30-card booster. Brian Engard, Marketing Director at Steve Jackson Games, said; We love ThinkGeek and we’re really excited […]
Targets of Acquisition: A review for a Laundry RPG supplement
Some classic Cthulhu adventures kicked off with attendance at auctions with Unspeakable Objet D’art. These days you see this sort of thing all the time in episodes of Storage Hunters. While the setup might be familiar, the principle remains a handy one. Want your investigators to get involved? Well, what better way than a face […]
TORG returns as TORG: Eternity
TORG by West End Games enjoyed plenty of praise from a very loyal fan core but vanished after the studio closed. The rights to the game were eventually picked up by TORG fan Markus Plotz. As Markus Plotz is the president of Ulisses Spiele, a leading German game manufacturer and distributor, it comes as no […]
