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Post-apocalyptic wheeling and dealing: Raid and Trade turns to Kickstarter
MAGE Company have another Kickstarter project live that’s gaining traction. Raid and Trade is a board game in which characters have to negotiate, explore, fight and make tough decisions to make it from the ruins and into the Golden City. [Back this Campaign] The Kickstarter launched today, that’s November 3rd, and already looks healthy. It’s […]
Exclusive sneak peak! Inkwell Ideas launch new DungeonMorph campaign
The original DungeonMorph Dice Kickstarter from Inkwell Ideas raised over $20,000 from 379 backers. It funded back in 2011. Years ago. Now the clever RPG design company is back with a campaign that includes cards, PDF and font to support a city and town theme. You can back it here. The premise is simple but […]
Intelligent and farsighted: A review of the 6d6 RPG 2nd Edition
I got my copy of the second edition of the 6d6 RPG by backing a Kickstarter. The campaign came in 330% funded and that’s a feat that even some of the biggest names in the industry would be pleased with. Gamers who missed the Kickstarter will soon get a chance to buy the books at […]
D&D 5e suffers digital set back as Wizards of the Coast and Trapdoor breakup
Trapdoor Technologies is an independent digital book and platform expert that had landed the contract to build the digital toolset to support Dungeons & Dragons 5e. The decision by Wizards of the Coast to outsource this development made sense. They had struggled with their own tools for D&D 4. The problem seemed to be WotC […]
A Strange End of Days: Review of Eschatology Code
With the still relatively recent release of The Strange, the new iteration of Monte Cook’s Cypher system first used in Numenera, Eschatology Code provides a quick and straight-forward adventure to get you started. Designed for running at conventions, and actually used by the Monte Cook Games team at Gen Con 2014 this summer, it offers […]
The Road Goes Ever On and On: Review of Into the Violet Vale
Into the Violet Vale is a straightforward adventure supplement for Numenera, written to play at a convention or as a basic introduction to the game. The adventure was run in official GenCon 2014 Numenera events and you can now purchase and download it in PDF format. Form Into the Violet Vale is a 25-page adventure […]
12 spooky transformations: Google helps Halloweenify D&D’s Monster Manual
Plenty of tabletop gamers use Google+. There’s the Roleplaying Games community and others as well as site pages like +Geek Native too. One of my favourite features of Google+ is Auto Awesome. Recent reviews of graphic novels or art books make use of Auto Awesome’s ability to turn photographs into videos. You can see an […]
ODAM: Of Dreams and Magic suffers no doubt
ODAM: Of Dreams and Magic is a Kickstarter for a new tabletop RPG that supports any setting. PCs are “Anima” – those with the ability to turn dreams into reality. [Back this Campaign] The mythic villian in the game is a force known as the Doubt. That feels appropriate for a Kickstarter campaign where the […]
The open playtest of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures
Pazio has kicked off a month long open playtest of Occult Adventures. The book is due out in July 2015 but this playtest will be live over this Halloween and that feels appropriate for the spooky supplement. Occult Adventures will have six new classes for Pathfinder and a new system to support psychic magic. Other […]
