You know when you know! < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Oh, let me guess, random encounter? Hey, GM! Are you a fan of random encounter tables? How do you handle them? Do you have a random encounter table for each type of location? Do you apply situational modifiers? Coincidence checks? Are your random encounter […]
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Tea versus evil: A review of the Discworld board game The Witches
The Witches is the second of Martin Wallace’s Discworld board games. It follows Ankh Morpork. In Ankh Morpork I found myself dropping friends in heaps of trouble for fun and to win the game. In The Witches I found that you were often better off helping each other out – particularly when it came […]
Wizards without Coats: Flames
If it works for Orks… < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Ah, the Black Knight, you got your armor redone, Flames, huh? No harm in adding a bit of decoration to your armour, right? You could add a design that makes you seem more fierce and scary – a good battle tactic. You could have […]
Total Party Overkill: a review of The Long Hard Mile
The Long Hard Mile is a PDF adventure suitable for use with any version of Metamorphosis Alpha, the original science fiction role-playing game, published by TSR in 1976. Since then, the game has been released in four different editions and several revisions, most recently with a print on demand version of the corrected and expanded […]
Fantastic models from the Monte San Savino Show 2013
This range of fantastic models comes from the Monte San Savino Show 2013. This is a miniature painting event. It’s not a corporate one. Not one with sales folk. Monte San Savino is a town in Italy, somewhere between Rome, Sienna and Florence. Why research flights to Rome and hotels in Italy just for this […]
TradeCraft Bonus: 4 dice tower vendors to consider
Got a problem with players spinning their dice off the table? Endless debates as to whether the roll counts if it falls on the floor or bounces off a book? Or are you a GM with limited room behind your screen? The solution may be a tower – a dice tower that ensures random, safe […]
GM Inspiration: An illustrated guide of contemporary monsters
Looking for a modern day monster you can terrorise players with? Want to avoid classics like werewolves and vampires but want to draw on contemporary myth and legend? The work Vladmir Stankovic put into the Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Cryptozoology might appeal then. These are all monsters that people still whisper about today, at least in […]
Go green with your luck: Upcycled machined dice
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2055437273/upcycled-machined-dice-d6-d20-fudge-artillery-and/ [Back this Campaign] Yup, that was probably the shortest pitch video you’ve seen for a Kickstarter in a long time. It’s a simple concept though; it is good to recycle stuff so why not use that make dice. This Kickstarter pitch includes d6, d20, Fudge and scatter dice. The latter being the type to […]
Camelot meets Cyberpunk: Inside the Corporia RPG
Corporia is a RPG in the Kickstarter funding stage from author Mark Plemmons. He has worked on projects like HackMaster, Kingdoms of Kalamar, Dungeons & Dragons and Knights of the Dinner Table. In this post we enjoy an exclusive look at a Corporia sorcerer and a brief but insightful with Mark. Why did you dump […]
Wizards without Coats: Recycle
There are warning signs and then warning signs < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Please Recycle after encounters. It’s important to be green. This is especially true if you’re an orc or a goblin. The rest of us will just have to recycle the best we can. Why not drop your useless and no […]
