The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design (AAGAD) have announced the 2015 Origins Award Winners. The goal of Origins is to reward excellence in game design and takes the top 5 products in various categories into a head-to-head voted on by Academy members. Winners were announced at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio. […]
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The Sixth Gun RPG Kickstarter and free The One-Hand Gang adventure
This post introduces the Kickstarter from Pinnacle Entertainment Group, the creators of the weird west RPG Deadlands, and Oni Press the publishers of the weird west comic The Sixth Gun. There’s a free adventure from The Sixth Gun RPG author Scott Woodard available at the end and you can check more details on the campaign […]
Will Beserk Games’ Tabletop Simulator open up RPGs to even more players
In recent years we’ve seen a growth of online tabletop RPG software. In particular Roll20 has been very successful, merging with Tabletop Forge, and picking up thousands of players. Now indie developer Berserk Games has created a generic tabletop simulator, suitable for many games, and is well aware of the RPG potential. The RPG section […]
Last chance: Get your weapon PolyHero Dice
Fancy a set of gaming dice that look like weapons? A d20 shield? A d12 helmet and a d4 that looks like a dagger? There are just a few days left in this funded Kickstarter campaign. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polyherodice/polyhero-dice-warrior-set [Back this Campaign] Are these dice balanced? The short answer seems to be: “good enough for your gaming […]
New Zombie RPG from World of Darkness’ Mark Rein-Hagen
Following on from a Kickstater campaign launched in June 2013 Mark Rein-Hagen’s new RPG “I am Zombie” is due in stores. The game will have a I Am Zombie Field Manual which will cos about $40 and a I Am Zombie Playkit which includes two decks of ID cards, 8 “Brainz” dice, bump chips and […]
Dungeon Master built in LEGO
This incredible build is the work of Chris van Vliet. The Autodidact Artist from The Netherlands has a love for fantasy and sci-fi and we can see this here as Dungeon Master is pretty much brought to life with LEGO bricks. Check out the original Flickr to see some more photographs of Dungeon Master and […]
Founding fathers return to rescue Call of Cthulhu
Greg Stafford and Sandy Petersen have returned to Chaosium. Petersen is the original designer of Call of Cthulhu the RPG Chaosium made famous and Stafford founded the publisher back in 1975 with a war game called White Bear and Red Moon (later renamed Dragon Pass). In June of 2013 Chaosium raised over half a million […]
Serious Disruption: Review of Luther Arkwright: Roleplaying Across the Parallels
The multiverse holds infinite possibility and diversity. Unfortunately, some individuals don’t appreciate that chaotic state of affairs and seek to impose an oppressive and entropic order. The Disruptors want to return the multiverse to a collapsed state, as was the case in the youthful eons of existence, and to that end seek the union of […]
GM Tips: Why your campaign needs a boat
Pierce Fraser is the creator of the HC SVNT DRACONES tabletop roleplaying game and the 8-10-12 dice system that powers it. He’s a long time player and narrator of a variety of systems and settings, and his game is noteworthy for making players decide how to approach problems, instead of waiting for the DM to […]
Super-light: A review of Worlds in Peril
The bar-raising, mind-blowing Apocalypse World has taken the hobby by storm, quickly moving from its post-apocalypse roots to old-school swords-and-sorcery with Dungeon World, urban fantasy with Monster of the Week, teen romance with Monsterhearts, even professional wrestling with World Wide Wrestling. Now, Kyle Simmons has brought the apocalypse to the realm of superheroes with Worlds in Peril. For those not in the know, the Apocalypse Engine, as […]
