Gary M. Sarli’s Game Design: “e20 System Evolved” Roleplaying Game successfully closed with $14,605 (asking $10,000) in March 2010. One backer pledged $1,500 and 27 others pledged $200 each out of a total of 148 backers. Kickstarter has been vitally important to the RPG landscape in recently months and there have been many successes. However, […]
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Continuing the archive (Page 756). This section features historical reporting and reviews.
From the inkwell: The World through Roman eyes
From the inkwell is a series in which RPG authors get to talk directly about their own games, sharing their thoughts and discussing the creation process. In this article Brendan Davis, President of Bedrock Games, discusses Servants of Gaius. Bedrock Games products are available through Studio 2 Publishing (print) and Avalon Games (PDF); the latter […]
HackMaster Player’s Handbook hits DriveThru RPG
The HackMaster Player’s Handbook isn’t new. Kenzer & Co’s own shop lists it as being added to their catalog back in August 2011. More recently, in fact on the 30th December in 2012, HackMaster Player’s Handbook was added to the electronic shelves of DriveThru RPG. This means gamers can grab a copy of the resource […]
Vigilance Press announce Tianxia for Fate Core
In his new year post, Viliglance Press’ James Dawsey recaps the year, gives generous thanks to the writers, layout experts and artists who came on board to help with projects and announces a new Fate Core compatible setting supplement. Tianxia: Blood, Silk, and Jade will be written by Jack Norris, full colour and in the […]
5 fantasy snakes for 2013 the Year of the Snake
The Chinese New Year in 2013 will be the 10th of February. It will be the Year of the Snake. Are you a GM? There’s still time to plan a snake encounter for the 10th – it’ll be a Sunday. Here are five fantasy snake pictures for inspiration. Tree Snake By Jua Snake Princess By […]
Heavy Gear Blitz! Forged in Fire – Southern Field Guide
Dream Pod 9’s Forged in Fire – Southern Field Guide for Heavy Gear Blitz! was uploaded to DriveThru RPG on Christmas Eve. The supplement contains the complete army lists for the Southern Republic Army, MILICIA, the Humanist Alliance Protectorate Force, Mekong Peacekeepers and Eastern Sun Emirate Retines. The standard price is listed as $59.99 but […]
A week left to be a hero
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412864360/you-are-the-hero/ [Back this Campaign] You Are the Hero is a Kickstarter campaign by the author Jonathan Green. The goal is to raise £15,000 to fund a celebration of 30 years of Fighting Fantasy, a book with a forward from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone themselves, art and insight. At the time this post was written […]
End of the End of the World RPG Bundle: 3 games, 2 drafts, 6 wallpapers
Daniel Chan has created a pay-as-much-as-you-want bundle of RPG goodies. It includes 3 RPG books (God-king, The Legerdemain Betrayers, and Haunt Me), 2 playtest drafts, and 6 wallpapers. You can grab the bundle here and have until the 2nd of January to do so. Geek Native reached out to Chan with some questions; What sort […]
Brainstorming a Forgotten Realms adventure
A DM sits down to brainstorm his ideas for tomorrow’s campaign. It starts to go downhill from there. There’s a little bit of swearing too.
Mechanical Dragon for Pure Steam RPG
This mechanical dragon was shared by BomarrPunk on reddit. The illustration is by Alejandro Lee for the steampunk RPG Pure Steam. BomarrPunk was asked what the status of the game was. This was his response; We are in backers-only beta playtesting right now. Once our beta doc is cleaned up, we’re posting it on Paizo.com […]
