Have you seen a roleplaying game go horribly wrong when someone tried to play a character of a different sex to their own? Was it a guy trying to play a woman? While some roleplayers prefer to play characters with a different gender to their own it is not always an easy thing to get […]
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A sneak peak at Codename: Morningstar
Codename: Morningstar is the digital element of Dungeons & Dragons 5e. Beta sign ups for the system are openn and over 3,000 gamers joined the queue on Monday. Still to do it? You can register here. In blog post today the team shared a look at what the beta tool suite will look like. They […]
Paizo release Michael A. Stackpole’s Pathfinder Tales: The Crusader Road
New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole has written the first official tie-in novel for the Pathfinder Online Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. Pathfinder Tales: The Crusader Road is available from Paizo directly, from Amazon and as an ePub via Apple’s iBookstore. Stackpole’s penned titles like I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron, over 40 novels […]
WizKids announce Guardians of the Galaxy HeroClix
This shouldn’t come as a surprise but WizKids have announced a Guardians of the Galaxy expansion to their Marvel HeroClix range. The new release will have a five figure booster brick set, a Fast Forces pack, a gravity feed display and an Organised Play kit. It is expected that the figures will be out for […]
5 ways old d20 game books can live on
I caught this Kickstarter pitch for the tabletop RPG Timeline Fracture from Jesse Galena. It’s a time travel/world mashup of a roleplaying game that’s after $6,000. The pitch for the game includes the ability to maximise the value and enjoyment of your d20 books. It’s an interesting idea and after watching the video I reached […]
RPG ideas: 20 incredible concept skyscraper designs
Are you running a future or alternative world RPG? Looking for building designs that will help your world feel very different from the world of today? Good news. The design and architecture site Evolvo has ran a competition to design futuristic skycrapers every year since 2006. There are very many impressive entries. This blog post […]
Goblin Battle: First look at D&D 5e goblins?
Kieran Yanner, who is based in Seattle, has shared this piece to their online portfolio at Behance. It’s called “Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Goblin Battle” and so I theorise this is interior art for one of the soon to be released D&D 5e books. Any predictions as to which of the three first books […]
Short film: Dragons and Demons – Thronelander
Dragons and Demons, aka Drakar och Demoner, is a Swedish roleplaying game that dates back to the 80s. The current owners are Riotminds who have published the seventh edition which is known as Drakar och Demoner Trudvang. This is a short film based on the RPG. It’s in Swedish. The production values are great. The […]
Necromancer Games Kickstarts D&D 5e range before agreeing license with WotC
Dungeons & Dragons 5e is barely out; you can download D&D Basic or buy the Starter Set. You would think that without the licensing rules for the game that third party publishers can’t yet write products either. Necromancer Games, though, is back from a torpor to produce D&D 5e books and have raised nearly all […]
Superhero Week: Create a Powerful Sojourner’s Moon Science Fiction RPG Character
Last year, during Superhero Week, Randall C Ellis wrote about What’s in a super hero character?. We’re pleased to have Randall back this year. The 2014 challenge – can you adapt a sci-fi game to suit super powers? Guardians of the Galaxy, for example, is that a sci-fi title or a superhero one? Both? Randall […]
