At the start of the month Geek Native shared some stats from the virtual tabletop software Roll20. It showed that Dungeons & Dragons dominated the list of RPGs gamers wanted to play. The catch? To give D&D the lead you had to add up the share of all the slices of D&D. You had to […]
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Cosmic pizza battles: Solar Slice
This is a board game in which the controllers of Earth – pizza delivery companies – discover alien life and battle to control the franchise rights. [Back this Campaign] Pledges for Solar Slice go $1, $2 and then $45. The jump goes from expressing an interest, getting digital assets to re-create your own version of […]
War of the Worlds meets Achtung Cthulhu in this great video
This is a must see video. It’s called the “Great Martian War” but this gamer took one look and immediately saw War of Worlds meets Achtung Cthulhu. The footage here comes from World War 1 footage… with, yeah, aliens added. It gets better. If you pop over to History.co.uk you’ll find more of the same. […]
Elementary: a Review of Darkly Through the Labyrinth
Despite its immense popularity in other entertainment mediums, police procedurals are a relatively-untapped genre in role-playing games. Sure, there’s the old stalwart Call of Cthulhu, but hacking that horror RPG into a game that can emulate a TV show like True Detective, or a movie like Silence of the Lambs can feel a bit awkward. Enter […]
Free until the end of January: The Great Game
While in playtest The Great Game from Aetheric Dreams is free to download. ENnie and Origins nominated for Nights of the Crusades, Aetheric Dreams is an indie RPG publisher to watch. The Great Game takes a Lovecraftian steampunk spin to the historical Great Game. This was a time when the Russian and British empires fought […]
10 ways to keep your Commoner or low powered character alive in Pathfinder
by J.M. Perkins – author of The Ultimate Adequate Commoner – the everyman’s guide to surviving and thriving. 1. When in Doubt: Run Away! Normal adventurers don’t retreat often, assuming (usually) that any challenge they are likely to face is ‘balanced’ to their level. Commoners never have this luxury, and so you should run away […]
Roll20’s survey shows Dungeons & Dragons still dominates the RPG hobby
D&D or Pathfinder? That’s a question which has done the rounds. The market stats from ICv2 seem to have been telling a consistent story over recent years; Pathfinder rises and Dungeons & Dragons drops. The latest survey suggested D&D was in 4th place. There’s a catch though. It’s not just that few groups were buying […]
Do these winning natural 20s remind you of any GMs?
Shared to Imgur by Foxisaac with the question “Is there anything a natural 20 can’t do?”. Foxisaac may be the creator but the Imgur community has evolved primative concepts such as credit.
The Last Parsec and Eris Beta-V
The Last Parsec is a Savage Worlds sci-fi from Shane Hensley’s Pinnacle Entertainment. As this post goes live there’s still about three weeks to run and the Kickstarter is about %600 funded. That’s about $48,000 raised on an $8,000 ask. Since races, technology, ships, creatures and core elements like that are part of the required […]
A New Way for an Old System: A Review of Nova Praxis, Savage Worlds Edition
For those of you who just want to hear the bottom line, here it is: Nova Praxis: Savage Worlds Edition is more or less exactly what you would expect. If you like the freaky transhuman setting but don’t like the Fate system, then the Savage Worlds take on it may be more your cup of […]
