Author Sarah Newton talks about what should really be at the heart of SF RPGs: the sense of wonder, and the conflict of great ideas. Sarah’s company, Mindjammer Press, is running a Kickstarter campaign, currently approaching x3 funding, for the next phase of the transhuman RPG. [Back this Campaign] A sense of wonder in SF […]
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Mind Flayer dice bag and game pouch
Always forgetting your dice? Perhaps some mind tentacles will help you remember. Ultra-Pro are selling this heavy duty, zippered, pouch. It doesn’t come with dice but they’ve called it the Dungeons & Dragons Mind Flayer Gamer Pouch. You can fill it with dice if you want or go with tokens and counters. The plush material […]
Optimised D&D 5e Index goes open source on GitHub
Have you struggled with the Dungeons & Dragons 5 Index? It’s easy to do as there’s simply so many different ways you might want to interrogate the data and the D&D 5e Index likes its cross references. EN World member Copperdogma took the battle into his own hands and has re-written the entire Index after […]
Christmas gift idea for an evil GM
Are you caught between having an evil GM while also needing to pick up a Christmas or holiday gift for them? What about this? “Ignore my browser history! I’m a Gamemaster not a murderer” Not a phrase you’ve heard before? I bet it’s been on the tip of a few GM’s lips over the last […]
Madness and storytelling with Cthulhu Tales
Following on from the Cubicle 7 and Sophisticated Games co-produced Hobbit Tales, award winning designers Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi have created a storytelling card game inspired by the Cthulhu mythos. The Kickstarter has raised thousands in just a few days. You can see the latest stats at the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461807648/cthulhu-tales-storytelling-card-game-of-the-cthulh [Back this Campaign] […]
Dungeons and Dragons gets virtual reality app
Following on from the news that the latest version of Google Hangouts won’t support apps – a blow for all Roll20 and virtual tabletop gamers – there’s better news from Wizards of the Coast and partners AltspaceVR. AltspaceVR provides virtual reality apps for devices like the Oculus, HTC Vive, Leap Motion and Microsoft Kinect. Their […]
Evil GM alert: A typewriter for the Cthulhu Keeper
Here’s how you can tell when your GM is planning on being a Call of Cthulhu Keeper for the next scenario. This typewriter is a design from Courtney Brown which won first place at the California Sculpture SLAM. Okay, so it wasn’t really created for Evil GMs to write adventures of San Point loss and […]
Suggestions for Safer Larps: Living Games’ Coordinator Offers Tips
This is a guest post by Sarah Lynne Bowman, Ph.D. is a role-playing studies scholar and adjunct professor in English, Communication, and Humanities. Historically, one of the most common worries about role-playing games has involved concerns about their psychological effects. In the past, alarmist parents and other non-gamers have complained that RPGs might negatively impact […]
7th Sea returns; AEG sells rights back to John Wick
John Wick, now at John Wick Presents, part of AEG’s original development team for the “swashbuckling and sorcery” RPG, has secured the publishing rights from the game. The sellers, AEG, are clear these are publication rights and that they will still be publishing a number of products for the title over the next few years. […]
Onyx Path holds course as the World of Darkness’ new owners review all licensing deals
Late last month the news broke that White Wolf publishing was being sold to Paradox Interactive. White Wolf, previously bought by EVE Online owners CCP, own the licenses to World of Darkness games like Vampire, Werewolf and Mage. While plans for a World of Darkness or Vampire: the Masquerade MMO began to run into trouble, progress […]
