Pathfinder publisher Paizo have released details of a range of 2013 & 2014 products. A front runner, expected August 2103, is the 256-page, 10-year retrospective of the work of fantasy artist Wayne Reynolds. Visions of War: The Art of Wayne Reynolds ($29.99) has full colour covers, interior art and cart art from the artist who’s […]
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White Wolf co-founder takes the Darkling Plain to Kickstarter
Stewart Wieck co-founded White Wolf and co-created the original World of Darkness. It was Wieck who was the editor-in-chief and co-founder of White Wolf with his brother Steve. It was in 1990 that the company merged with Lion Rampant, publisher of Ars Magica and he and Lion Rampant’s Mark Rein*Hagen became co-owners of the White […]
Cthulhu Wars Kicktarter races past $1,000,000 with hours to go
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/cthulhu-wars [Back this Campaign] The creator of Call of Cthulhu has seen his Kickstarter race through the one million dollar mark. With less than a day on the clock the pledge fund is at $1,224,958 and rising. Backers are supporting efforts to create a combination of a strategy board game with the Cthulhu mythos from […]
A review of Fantasy Flight’s a Game of Thrones card game
The first thing that Fantasy Flight does which makes sense and is yet disappointing is that it keeps the focus on Houses Stark and Lannister. This is only disappointing because the lands of George R. R. Martin’s world are fantastic and I relish every chance to explore them. Sanity check. This is a two player […]
A tabletop gaming comedy: Nights at the Round Table
This is the first episode of a new RPG comedy from Redshirt Films. Start with Max. He’s the supermarket worker, a total gamer and secretly in love with Milly. Then there’s Milly the protocol loving librarian/GM who has a special dislike for Sam. Sam would rather be tweeting from the pub but like everyone else […]
Superhero Week: An exclusive look inside Emerald City slipcase
Green Ronin’s Mutants & Masterminds is a popular RPG and the perfect subject for some Superhero Week attention. As luck would have it Jon Leitheusser, the M&M Line Developer, very kindly agreed to give us a look at some of the art from inside the forthcoming Emerald City slipcase and talk about the setting with […]
Superhero Week: A whole bunch of freebies!
LakeSide Games is a Florida based roleplaying games company who will publish the Prowlers & Paragons supperheroes RPG. The main Prowlers & Paragons RPG isn’t yet out but you can already grab nearly a dozen freebies for it. These freebies contain heroes that can be used to play Monkey Business, the story included in the […]
Wizards without Coats: Favourite Colour
Is his name Joseph? < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Why on Earth did you push the Gate Keeper off the bridge? He freaked me out when he asked me my favorite color. Bards! Always doing the unexpected. Has anything like this ever happened to your gaming group? Was it really the bard’s fault? […]
Superhero Week: What’s in a super hero character?
Randall C Ellis is the author of the fantasy RPG Sojourner’s Quest. As a games designer and world creator he has tackled the issue of game and character balance at a professional level. For Superhero Week he’s been kind enough to offer a quick opinion piece on how to think about game balance in a […]
Is D&D Next bringing back Planescape and Spelljammer?
Yesterday Mike Mearls posted some information on how D&D Next, that’s Dungeons & Dragons 5, will cope with its Many Worlds. The designers wanted to maintain as much “story compatibility” as possible so you can convert an existing campaign over to D&D Next. For example, they’ve divided elemental planes into three rings so you can […]
