Symbaroum is a gorgeous looking RPG. Back in 2014, Geek Native shared the stunning art and design. The RPG, though, was in Swedish. Now the team have turned to Indiegogo, on a flexible funding campaign, to raise funds for an English language edition. You can read about it on the campaign page. [Back this Campaign] […]
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Will you Beat the Dragon?
Arcasam: Beat the Dragon is a one-man Kickstarter project from Lukas Litvaj. He’s looking for $18,000 to bring his “RPG sandbox style” dragon fighting board game to life… and with more than 25 days left to run he’s already got $11,000 in the bank. You can check out the full pitch on Kickstarter.com. [Back this […]
True Quality: A Review of Ruins of the North
Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Ruins of the North, the latest supplement for Cubicle 7’s outstanding Lord of the Rings RPG The One Ring, has all the polish and grandeur of every other product in the line. If you’re a fan of this roleplaying game (and really, you should be), then picking up Ruins of the North should be […]
Fated by Serpentfall: A Review of The Day After Ragnarok
The Day After Ragnarok is a What-If scenario that probably didn’t come up in the early risk assessment sessions of the Second World War. When the Governments and Intelligence Services of the West knuckled down for some blue sky thinking on defeating the Nazi menace, they possibly discounted the possibility of mythical world-consuming serpents. For […]
The 5 best ways to fail on Kickstarter
Gregory Carslaw was born to a gaming couple and rolled his first die before speaking a word. He has a PhD in Psychology, studied Artificial Intelligence and joined 3DTotal games in 2013. His first game took six months to design … only for it to be shelved. It was going to be too expensive to […]
RPG Superstar 2015 Winner found: Monica Marlowe
Monica Marlowe has won Paizo’s RPG Superstar competition for 2015. Owen KC Stephens, Pathfinder Developer and Host of RPG Superstar 2015, said; At each stage, Monica came up with an interesting and unexpected idea, and left the voting public wanting to see more,” We’re very excited to begin working with her to develop her vision […]
Gen Con threatens to boycott Indianapolis
Gen Con is Indianapolis Convention Center’s largest customer and brings millions in cash to the city. Created by Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, the convention has grown and grown. It’s a powerhouse. Gen Con isn’t very happy with the Indianapolis Governor Mike Pence’s “religious freedom” bill. The bill, State Bill 101, apparently […]
Gross first-aid plasters – for larpers?
Yuck! These bandages are quite horrid to look at. Clearly I’m not the type to do well in a medical emergency. I wonder whether this horrible set would be something to take on a LARP, though? Keeps cuts and small scrapes in character and safe? Or just as a way to represent wounds. Since I […]
10 ways to alter your Purple Consciousness
This is a guest post from the author of The Islands of Purple-Haunted Putrescence. If you click on that link and are not signed into DriveThruRPG you’ll hit the adult content warning. Be warned. Venger Satanis here from Venger’s Old School Gaming Blog. Hi. Originally, this piece was going to be called Ten Tips for […]
Explore inside the Neon Sanctum
Grenade Punch Games have just launched their Kickstarteer for the card-based cyberpunk RPG Neon Sanctum. You can read more about the campaign here, watch the pitch video below and scroll down for an interview that explores inside the game. [Back the Campaign] Can you give us a quick description to Neon Sanctum? Neon Sanctum is […]
