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Catching up with the Princess Bride games

April 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Games Salute announced plans to do a series of tabletop games. CEO Dan Yarrington said;

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, the princess bride

BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia opens for pre-order

April 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Based on BioShock Infinite the board game BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia from Plaid Hat Games will set you back a cool $84.95. If you pre-order now the board game slides in at a mere $59.95 and that’s a $25 saving. Make no mistake; this is a big game! 1 Game Board 1 Rulebook […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bioshock infinite, board game

Incredible Warhammer LARP costume transcends to cosplay perfection

April 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These incredible costumes were made for a Warhammer LARP but are more than a match for any top tier cosplayer. The artist is Bugbubbastuff from Russia. The photographers are DragoNika and Anna Klishina.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cosplay, larp, monsters, orcs, warhammer

Birthday present idea for the GM who already has all the books

April 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this Campaign] Hopefully I’m not alone in that I tend to view Kickstarter projects with an eye for whether I’d like the final product or not. When I back a game I do so because I think I might want to play it. I just backed these Fudge dice because I needed some. When […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, food

Top 5 lessons I learned as a webseries producer in the nerd world

April 6, 2013 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Joanna Gaskell is originally from Victoria, Canada. She is the producer and the writer of Standard Action, and plays Edda the Elf Barbarian. You can see her in the board game review series Starlit Citadel Reviews, catch her in the upcoming Gamers: Hands of Fate movie, hear her voice in new animated TV show Animism, […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Online Shows, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: standard action

The campaign for Fudge Dice and questions around gamer support

April 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Is the roleplaying industry actually an industry at all? Or is it just a commercialised hobby? Do fan made products keep prices down and so low that professionals struggle to earn their keep? Do players pirate more content than they pay for? These are old questions but they circled my thoughts as I watched this […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Dresden Files, fate core, FUDGE, kickstarters

Origins names nominees for the best tabletop games of 2013

April 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Origins Games Fair is a big one. It runs from June 12th to 16th this year in the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, USA. It showcases board games, tabletop roleplaying games, CCGs, miniatures, LARPs and has an electronic games room this year. The Origins Awards is run by The Academy of Adventure […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aeg, Aetheric Dreams, Atlas Games, awards, Catalyst Game Labs, Cryptozoic, cubicle 7, Engine Publishing, gama, green ronin, mantic games, Margaret Weis Productions, Mayfair Games, Paizo Publishing, posthuman studios, Privateer Press, q-workshop, warlord games, wizards of the coast, wizkids

Delta14’s summer releases and the RPGs connections

April 4, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Delta14 is the sister company to Chronicle City. Chronicle City strikes deals with RPG publishers in order to make print runs and savvy trans-Atlantic distribution. Here’s how the RPG connections map to Delta14’s schedule. Starting with Gunnar Roxen and the follow on books from The Wyld Hunt gives us the Broken Shield RPG. Gobion Rowlands […]

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Angus Abranson, broken shield, Cakebread & Walton, Chronicle City, Cold & Dark, delta14, Gobion Rowlands, Gunnar Roxen, Wicked World Games

RPG villains offer friendly advice

April 4, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This helpful collection of advice from the bad guys at the end of your adventure is worth printing out, framing and putting on your wall. Where did it come from? Reddit – and, as a result, it came without a citation. However, a bit of research traces this back to Tom Gauld and a piece […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour

Wizards without Coats: Fumble

April 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once you’re done with this Wizard without Coats encounter, there’s plenty more to experience on the site.   < PreviousWizards without Coats Next >  Waisting that last wish on the giant fumbling…. not a good idea! Er, Jack! That wish was not a good idea!

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, v shane, wizards without coats

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