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Running a competition ad on /r/rpg. Is it worth it?
This week Geek Native is running a fantastic competition in which you can win a pretty awesome dice bag. The catch? You’ve got to be in the US or Canada and you need to use Twitter to enter. Why? Shipping and because the goal of the competition is to promote an etsy store who have […]
Newly formed Sasquatch to deliver Primeval Thule
Okay, you know you’re reading a RPG post when the title is “Newly formed Sasquatch to deliver Primeval Thule”. Let’s break it down! The Sasquatch in question is Sasquatch Game Studio. This is the studio that’s been formed by veterans Richard Baker, David Noonan and Stephen Schubert joining together for a “dream team”. Their first […]
Shortlist for 2013 Diana Jones announced
The Diana Jones Award for Excellence in gaming was established in 2001. This year the prize will be presented at the annual Diana Jones Party, held at the Cadillac Ranch, the night before Gen Con in Indianapolis this August. The shortlist includes five very different contenders; a RPG, a card game, a convention, a book […]
Nights at the Round Table trailer
RedShirt Film’s latest web series looks like it might interest gamers. I pressed play on this by chance. An idle second when I had nothing better to do – click. It had my attention straight away and it was the joke on the t-shirt that did it. Yes, seen it many times before, I’m a […]
Skeleton battle wedding cake
This isn’t a scene from D&D Next. This is a wedding cake. Created by Mike’s Amazing Cakes is geek grub that could only have been ordered by +5 geeks. I call roleplayers. I also tip my hat to an incredible wedding cake idea.
Wizards without Coats: Backpack
In-game ads for tabletop adventures? Someone will invent them. Surely, sadly! < PreviousWizards without Coats Next > We interrupt your cartoon for this brief special announcement – Now with the new “Space Saver Backpack”, you can store 500, 1000, 10000 gold coins! We interrupt your weekly episode of Wizards without Coats to bring […]
Call of Cthulhu takes the 7th edition to Kickstarter
[Back this Campaign] The video above isn’t the Kickstarter pitch video for the project. There’s no such video. There’s an image header instead which you can see below. The video was actually quite important though. It helped convince me that this wasn’t a fake Kickstarter project. There’s no mention of the pitch on Chaosium’s homepage […]
A look inside Sojourner’s Quest, is it an AD&D retro-clone?
Sojourner’s Quest is an RPG by Randall C Ellis. The 168-paged PDF, illustrated by Agnieszka Miroslaw-Kalinowska, is on sale at DriveThru RPG for $4.95. The game, along with the free to download character sheets, was the first upload to Sojourner Games’ home in the electronic retailer and has been followed by Module SQ1: Wynold Forest, […]
Dice Bag! A competition inspired by Zoidberg, Cthulhu and a Beholder
At the start of the month I stumbled across a beholder! Did it kill me? Nope! The collection of eye tyrant dice bags, inspired by the familiar D&D horror, won me over with their quirky charm and usefulness. I want to rummage around in the mouth of a beast before every dramatic dice roll. You […]
