Game studios and developers Perfect World and Cryptic Studios have released two video trailers to showcase more of Faerûn. The first video looks the city-state of Neverwinter, the jewel of the north, from Silverymoon, to the docks of Luskan and the streets of Waterdeep. This is a realm that many gamers will know well as […]
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Sanity watch: Cthulhu cosplay
This is a Cthulhu suit and that’s a phrase I didn’t think would ever be used. Designed by Mark Cordory this costume is made from a thousand soles of broken hearted cosplayers. Actually, Mark is a LARPer, he’s the man behind Mythlore and now does designer for TV, Theatre, Exhibition as well as keeping his […]
Games Workshop and Slitherine partner for new Warhammer 40K game
We’ve seen the news that Games Workshop is working with Zattikka for a Warhammer 40K Titans game and that words like “social” and “free to play” are being used to describe it. Now we learn that Games Workshop has another partnership with another games maker to do another Warhammer 40K game. This time around the […]
Wizards without Coats: Donkeys
The enemy are a strange and bizarre people.
An apology for The Complete Book of Elves?
The Kickstarter for Torment: Tides of Numenera is still pulling in the funds. They made a promise that designer Colin McComb would apologise for The Complete Book of Elves if they crossed the $2.5 million stretch goal. I think this is a harsh thing to ask any author or game designer to do. However, some […]
Savage Worlds RPG setting, campaign or novel? What is the Twilight Continuum?
Mystical Throne Entertainment produce the Savage Worlds magazine Savage Insider and are a platinum publishers at RPGNow. They know their Savage Worlds games and this month Geek Native is giving away their Mercenary Breed setting. In this interview, however, we’re neither talking about Mercenary Breed nor Savage Insider but the Kickstarter project Twilight Continuum. It […]
Games Workshop signs with Zattikka for free to play Warhammer 40K Titan game
Zattikka, the company behind games like Fantasy Kingdoms’ Cloud Village (app) and Fantsay Kingdoms (Facebook) and Syfy Monster Island (Facebook), has signed a license deal with Games Workshop to create a free to play, 3D isometric, game based on the Warhammer 40K Titans. The game will have single, multi-player and social gaming modes, support single […]
Kobolds Ate My Baby … the musical
Did you think someone would take Kobolds At My Baby and turn it into a musical? Into a loud, cheese rock, style musical? Well, for better or for worse, it has happened. The fact that there’s a Kickstarter, by 9th Level Games, for Kobolds Ate My Baby in Colour might have something to do with […]
Ammonite fossil skull
This skull, some 9.6 inches long, is carved from an Ammonite fossil. In India the skulls are associated with the God Vishnu and are used in various ceremonies. The name Ammonite actually comes from teh Greek ram-horned God called Ammon. I think these skulls are wonderful inspiration for GMs. There are plenty of fantasty creatures […]
Assault on the Mountains of Madness
The Achtung! Cthulhu – The WW2 Keeper’s & Investigator’s Guides is stomring it. It made its target in just 26 hours and has gone on to smash stretch goal after stretch goal. In response the British publisher Modiphius has announced a whole new campaign. If it’s full funded via the stretch goals then it’ll be […]
