[I want this!] Have you seen Texts from Kobold? A little joke on Geek Native proved surprisingly popular. All it took was for one bored kobold to get his hand on a smartphone, start to annoy-text his evil wizard boss and wave adventurers through and gamers started to notice. It’s half a year later and […]
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Let’s go LARPing! Treasure Trapped trailer
Cosmic Joke are already approaching half a million views for their LARP documentaries and have been feature on the likes of MTV, USA Today and TIME. Their latest feature – Treasure Trapped – looks likely to grow that audience. The documentary follows gamers as they escape the world of desk jobs, traffic james and morning […]
Denmark takes home the $250,000 World Magic Cup
A 4-player team from Denmark has won the 2014 World Magic Cup while Israel based Shahr Shenhar successfully defended his Magic World Championship. Shenhar wins $50,000, while team Denmark have £48,000 to divide between themselves. Wizards of the Coast had almost $250,000 in the prize fund for top national teams. The team from Denmark consisted […]
Unboxing Steve Jackson’s Knightmare Chess
Rhea Friesen of Steve Jackson Games takes us through an unboxing of their Knightmare Chess game. This game has 158 stunning cards that can be played to turn a standard game of chess into a nightmare battle. Tempted? Amazon.com currently has one copy of Knightmare Chess 2e up for sale at a mere $794.41. Just […]
What an ambush! A review of The Rise of Tiamat
The Rise of Tiamat is an adventure in Wizards of the Coast’s Tyranny of Dragons series. It follows on from the Hoard of the Dragon Queen and while, on the whole, it is a good book it packs one heck of an ambush! I enjoyed the Hoard of the Dragon Queen. Wolfgang Baur and Steve […]
Life without Wizards as Trapdoor take Codename: Morningstar to Kickstarter
This pitch for Codename: Morningstar talks about stories. It’s worth knowing the back story to Trapdoor Technologies before watching the video, I think. It began with Wizards of the Coast appointing Trapdoor to build the D&D 5e digital toolset. We don’t know what happened. There was a change of heart and the two companies stopped […]
From the Inkwell: Evolutionary gaming versus mortality in RPGs
Randall C Ellis is the writer and designer of titles like Sojourner’s Quest and Sojourner’s Moon. Established in 2012, the publisher Sojourner Games began with the idea; We believed that an exhilarating answer to the Old School Renaissance need for an adventure fantasy role playing game was possible. In this guest post Randall discusses his […]
Matt Forbeck and what’s next for Shotguns & Sorcery
Shotguns & Sorcery is a book series from Matt Forbeck in which a fantasy noir campaign city is surrounded by legions of zombies. Outland Entertainment is running a Kickstarter to use the series as the basis for an RPG. Right now there’s already $30,000+ in the campaign fund, nearly 550 backers and still 30 days […]
This Harry Potter LARP is magical
This video is footage from this year’s international and volunteer created LARP “College of Wizardry”. It might remind you of a certain magical school boy and so I’m going to call it a Harry Potter LARP. That’s just me, though. You can conjure up more information over at the official page at Rollespilsakademiet. At a […]
6 famous RPG designers and the monsters they look like
You can search Google with images. All you need to do is drag and drop your image from your desktop or tab into the search box. As a security and privacy feature Google refuses to match faces for faces. If you search for a face you’ll exact matches and a wide range in the so-called […]
