These miniatures were sculpted by a special encounter in a Pathfinder RPG. The GM’s wife was the creative talent, using Super Sculpey over a wire and aluminum foil armature to build the bodies from scratch. Via Reddit.
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Is the $50K Dwimmermount RPG Megadungeon doomed?
Kickstarter projects for RPGs and gamers are still going strong. They’re still a great way to bring products to the market and to fans that would have never been able to make it otherwise. However, as time ticks on we’re now looking for some of the older projects to start to deliver and it’s a […]
Rebuild EN World (Kickstarter makes an exception)
Popular gaming forum EN World has had a tough 2012. The site towers above many others in the RPG fan space and represents an aspirational success for Geek Native – but it was also an aspiration for hackers. In December last year the site was infected by malware. Kickstarter doesn’t deal with web build projects […]
Exclusive: Rip open the Primeval roleplaying game
The Primeval roleplaying game lets you live the adventures of the anomalies yourself. The tabletop RPG, written by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, is published by Cubicle 7 and only needs friends and a couple of six-sided dice to get going. Last week, as part of “New Year, New Game”, Gareth answered some questions about the game and […]
Dicing with Design
This guest post is written by Joe Prince, owner of Prince of Darkness Games and author of Eternal Contenders, due out in print this year via Chronicle City. Eternal Contenders is a GM-free game, that puts the characters in the role of gladiators and was a nominee in the UK Games Expo. Joe is known […]
The art of New Horizon, a sci-fi RPG
New Horizon is a sci-fi RPG that uses the Volt system. There is a free download for the New Horizon’s starter guide (PDF link) for anyone already curious. The game has a website up at New Horizons RPG.com which introduces the world, the races like Medeans, Warfans and monsters that eat both organic and non-organic […]
Making the jump to paper minis, tips from Arion Games
Arion Games is offering a 2013 Paper Mini Subscription on Drivethru RPG. This raises some interesting questions like what are paper minis and should you buy them on subscription? Thankfully, Graham Bottley of Arion Games has kindly agreed to help us understand what’s going on and help roleplayers get started with paper miniatures. Can you […]
Warlord Games expands to America, teams up with Warhammer 40K creator
Warlord Games, founded by gamers made redundant from Games Workshop, have entered into a partnership with Rick Priestley and are expanded to Arizona in the USA. Based in the Lenton Business Centre, just a mile from their old employees, Warlord Games is run and was founded by John Stallard and Paul Sawyer. The company does […]
A stunning first look at Cyberpunk 2077
It seems like a long time since we heard the news that the Cyberpunk RPG would become a computer game. The developers were the Polish outfit CD Projekt who had brought us the stunning cRPG The Witcher. Now we have a first teaser for the forthcoming computer game. What do you think? Have they captured […]
Is it funny when they die? Roleplayers’ famous last words
“What a useless scroll. It just says HASTUR HASTUR HASTUR over and over again…” “Hey you! Bitch queen of the spiders!” These comic strips are from Geek Native’s 10 week long famous last words Friday. These quotes come from the famous last words archive from GameWyrd which dates back to 2003 and a user generated […]
