There’s a Black Lotus with a black border up for sale on ebay right now. The current bid is US$1,000, but it is likely to sell for much more. How much more? Another black bordered Black Lotus has just closed for over $87,000. Not every Black Lotus is equal. The condition of the card, for […]
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Wizards of the Coast using Eberron as test case for future D&D 5e settings
Today Founders and Legends is streaming on Dungeons & Dragon’s Twitch channel. The show features Luke Gygax, son of D&D’s famous co-creator Gary Gygax as he plays in three games and talks to host Satine Phoenix about the origins. In the first hour of the stream, now available as a video archive, Satine and Luke […]
Enjoy these four video guides to Ravnica
Wizards of the Coast’s latest campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons is Ravnica. The publisher is calling this a crossover setting because Ravnica is already well established as a Magic: The Gathering setting. These four trailers are for Magic: The Gathering and some of them are quite old. Each Ravnica is only a few minutes […]
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay goes on digital pre-order
You can now pre-order your PDF copy of Cubicle 7’s Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th edition from DrivethruRPG. That’s right. This is a pre-order for a digital book. Once you complete the process, you will not be able to download the PDF immediately. Instead, you’ll get an automated email as soon as the system detects the […]
Zombicide: The Role-Playing Game is the next project by the Lord of the Rings RPG design partnership
Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello are known for games like The One Ring and Cthulhu Tales have teamed up with CMON for a zombie bashing RPG. Zombicide: The Role-Playing Game is described as a combination of the classic zombie action board game with the exciting character creation, development and immersion of a role-playing game. Players begin […]
Hangout with elder gods and sentient cats: The Oddity High Kickstarter
We’ve seen a load of strong Kickstarters this week. Amazing video pitches. Huge licenses and remakes of popular classics. Given that we’re between San Diego Comic Con and Gen Con this isn’t a surprise. I wanted to find a promising Kickstarter on the other end of the budget scale and found Oddity High. There’s no […]
Exclusive: Slices of the Warhammer 40K RPG Wrath and Glory
Ulisses North America are just back from San Diego Comic Con and have come out swinging for their big new RPG; Wrath & Glory. Wrath & Glory is the dark roleplaying game set in the far future of the Warhammer world. The Human Empire battles to survive the rise of Chaos. To date, Ulisses has […]
Free to Download: The Expanse Roleplaying Game quickstart
You can now download The Expanse RPG quickstart for free. The timing is spot on as publisher Green Ronin are only a few days into their The Expanse Roleplaying Game Kickstarter, and it is going great guns. It funded in just one hour, smashing the US$30, 000 goal. At the time of writing, there are […]
Are fans wrong? Hasbro CEO didn’t say Dungeons & Dragons is esports
It’s been a busy week for Hasbro. Their results are out and it has been a good year. Both Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons are hero products helping to drive revenue up to levels that please investors. The company’s share value rose more than 10% yesterday. They’ve also announced two new D&D campaign […]
Steve Jackson Games attempt to bring back his first ever RPG
If you played tabletop games a lot in the 1970s then you may have played Melee or Wizard. This tabletop game later evolved into a more traditional game to take on Dungeons & Dragons. Yeah, well, that went well… but now you can get involved with Kickstarter campaign. [Back this Campaign] Steve Jackson Games seem […]
