The Cthulhu at War bundle from Pelgrane Press available at RPGNow is a little different from other bundles. It putss together Cthulhu adventures from two companies; Pelgrane Press and from Modiphius. Pelgrane has their award winning Trail of Cthulhu while Modiphius have their Kickstarter superstar success Achtung! Cthulhu series. The bundle offers a cash saving […]
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Revenge of the Mad Cat Lady?: A Review of Cat’s Eye, for Doctor Who
With 50 years of stories, Doctor Who has a phenomenal bank of imagery. The Doctor and his companions have been across the universe and back. It occurred to me that it might be quite entertaining to take a few images from a bunch of stories and use them as the catalyst for new role playing […]
The monstrous GM’s chair design
Where do you sit when you GM? Do you sit on a sofa as you command hordes of orcs and control the thoughts of terrors from the void? Or do you sit on the same sort of chair as your players? What about an alternative? What about a suitable monstrous chair for a GM? This […]
6d6: The Kickstarter catch-up sale
Did you miss the 6d6 Kickstarter last year? It offered a wealth of products in return for pledges. It reached something like %330 of the funding goal. As is sometimes the case when a Kickstarter smashes targets it can also take a bit longer to put together. There’s all those pledges and stretches to […]
Things That Go Fhtägn in the Night: A Review of Cultists Under The Bed, for The Laundry RPG
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was formed during World War II as a secret unit engaged in combating certain enemies and forces intent on activities esoteric and occult. With Hitler’s Abwehr-SS hell-bent on the use of malevolent and otherworldly weapons to change the course of the war, Britain needed a counter-force. It was vital the […]
Free to Download: Cold & Dark at Christmas
It’s the holidays and the gift giving has started already. Publisher Wicked World Games have made a number of free downloads available for their sci-fi horror Cold & Dark. The free downloads include rules for a Medical Pod, a handy device in Cold & Dark. Apparently these rules were ready in time for the core […]
Gingerbread gaming dice
The clever Kim & Cam over at Our Nerd Home have baked up something special. We have a mighty d20 forged from gingerbread supported by a gingerbread d6 and an equally tasty d4. We’re warned that the d20 construction is not easy, and their blog post goes into the details. You must persuade the icing […]
3 card preview: Hobbit Tales
Hobbit Tales is a storytelling card game due out early 2014 from Sophisticated Games and Cubicle 7. The game has been designed by Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello, the creators of The One Ring RPG and the Tolkien-themed strategy game War of the Ring. In the game players take turns being Narrator and make-up a […]
Vampires of Sorrow: A Review of The Ravens of Despair, for Doctor Who
Do you remember in The Mind Terrors when the TARDIS landed in ancient Rome and The Doctor narrowly avoided a death in the gladiatorial area with the offer of a Jelly Baby? You know the one where The Doctor and Sarah Jane found Rome besieged and battered by fierce barbarians, because the spirit of city […]
Wizards without Coats: Furry
Not really an insult, though. < PreviousWizards without Coats[The End] Rakshasa or whatever, he’s still a furry. This is the last in the current series of Wizards without Coats. As it turns out, it could also be the first in a new series of Famous Last Words. The Rakshasa isn’t a demon lord one […]
