Trail of Cthulhu has been effectively and efficiently stepping on Call of Cthulhu‘s coattails for a short while now, offering a take on Lovecraft’s unfathomable and otherworldly horror that offers a fresh approach. While Call of Cthulhu‘s percentile system had a tendency to make or break situations where you could kill a trail stone cold […]
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Icy Winds and Mighty Thews: A Review of Citadel Beyond the North Wind
Heroic fantasy encapsulates that slice of fantasy that embraces excitement, sword play and a measure of high camp, in my opinion. The genre never seeks to mirror reality, venturing instead into impossible and impractical matters of magic and the supernatural. Here swords glisten with the gore of a hundred minions, and villains, often otherworldly in […]
Kawaii dragons and beasties to keep your dice safe
The Dragons and Beasties Etsy shop warns that it usually empty because creations sell out very quickly. As I write this blog post there’s nothing for sale. The good news is that Becca Golins’ archives her fantastic work at her Deviant Art page. This blogger has subscribed to the Etsy RSS. Never bought from Etsy […]
They Might Be…: A Review of AGE Bestiary – Giants
Giants have been an frequent and diverse threat in movies and TV over the last few years – whether the engineers of Prometheus, the Frost Giants of Thor, the trolls from Lord of the Rings, or Hodor from A Game of Thrones (okay, Hodor might not be a threat to most, but you still don’t […]
A look inside: Batman – Arkham City Escape board game
Is it too early to be thinking of Christmas gifts? Perhaps we should concentrate on the matter at hand – escaping Arkham City prison. The board game Batman: Arkham City Escape is a two player game, with the playing board a large area of a walled-off section of the Arkham City prison. One player acts as […]
Wizards without Coats: No Shoes
Discrimination! < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Sign: No shoes, No shirt, No service. A sad day for hobbits at the Dancing Lich In… This week in Wizards without Coats, we tackle the serious issue of Halfling cultural neglect. When you issue a set of rules and guidelines, do you think about the Halflings? […]
Grimterra – a TGC that transforms your imagination
I can’t draw. I struggle to draw a stickman. It’s true. Perhaps that’s why I’d very much love for someone who could draw to transform my ideas, my doodles, by child-like sketching into awesome gamer art. Grimterra does exactly that. This is a new trading card game that takes your art and transforms it. Don’t […]
Out of Their Box: A Review of Evil Wizards in a Cave
The worlds in which our role-playing characters live vary wildly in their flexibility. At one end of the spectrum you have the fundamentally inflexible railroad where characters influence the progress of plot only in terms of whether they live or die. The world exists in a sort of stasis in the absence of the characters, […]
13th Age out performs Numenera as hottest RPG
Russell Morrissey, owner of the hugely popular RPG community, EN World, posted an interesting chart of popular RPGs to his Google+ account. It shows that more gamers are talking about Pelgrane Press’s 13th Age than they are about Monte Cook’s Numenera. The data is pretty compelling too. It looks back over the last 90 days […]
Which new RPG does Cubicle 7’s reshuffle point to?
Cubicle 7 has announced the appointment of four new members of staff, including Andrew Kenrick who will be coming on board as the publisher’s new Managing Editor. I asked whether Kenrick’s appointment meant any changes to the role of Dominic McDowall as CEO. They do. With Andrew Kenrick, who has six years experience at Games […]
