[Back this Campaign] Onyx Path have been hugely successful in running Kickstarters to revamp and luxe up many of the old White Wolf titles. The latest effort, Demon: The Descent Prestige edition, closes on Kickstarter in about a day (at the time of posting), has raised nearly $140,000 and asked for $40,000. Geek Native spoke […]
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One Hit Die’s Crushmas Special
Published today on YouTube is episode 1 of One Hit Die’s Crushmas. One Hit Die is a fantasy comedy. They describe it as a mashup of Lord of the Rings and The Office. We’ll recognise all the RPG jokes. In the Christmas special we discover an alternative to the traditional holiday; Crushmas wherein local barbarians […]
Paizo opens the gates to RPG Superstar 2014
This is the largest ever open-call for amateur game designers and the 7th year of Paizo’s annual RPG Superstar competition. The competition gives unknown game designers the chance to have the work critiqued by industry veterans and (yikes!) the fan community. This year’s host is Paizo Designer Sean K. Reynolds and the panel includes other […]
Peoples and Places: The Sertorius preview
Next year Bedrock Games will be releasing the Sertorius RPG. We’ve already had a look inside Sertorius and in this post we get a peak at the world itself. The map (which is still in beta) is by Rob Conley gives you a good idea of the shape and geography of the world. The text […]
T-Shirt: I cast magic missile!
Need a t-shirt to wear while you GM? need a t-shirt to wear to wind up your GM? It may well be worth summoning up a magic missile, then. After all; these crazy bolts of magic do a handy 1d4+1 damage and when you’re a low level wizard that’s not to be sniffed at. […]
5 reasons to support ConTessa: the Free Online Tabletop RPG Convention by Women
[Back this Campaign] If you don’t need any more insight into why backing ConTessa is a good idea you can pop over to the website to enjoy more of the art or read up on the impressive publishing background of founder Stacy Dellorfano. #1 Online conventions are a good idea Online conventions don’t compete with […]
5 favourite monster templates from the famous Advanced Bestiary
Geek Native checked in with Chris Pramas, the President of Green Ronin, to talk about their Kickstarter for Advanced Bestiary for the Pathfinder RPG. Here’s the pitch. [Back the Campaign] This will fund. There are 4 days left on the clock, when this post went live, and 700+ backers have taken the fund total to […]
Wizards without Coats: Graffiti
Graffiti artists would have a harder time in a fantasy world. < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Next time you want to leave graffiti on a wall, make sure its not from the Wizards book. The pen is mightier than the sword. That’s not always true in RPGs, especially when looking at damage bonuses. However, […]
Pirate World readies for sail
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2041872302/pirate-world-the-explosive-dungeon-world-fate-sour/ [Back this Campaign] I discovered this Kickstarter at 1am last night. At the time this blog post goes up Pirate World still has 14 hours left of funding to run – so hop on if you can. This will be a successful campaign having beaten the £1,300 ask with over £7,000 so far. Pirate […]
RPG Ideas: Weird fashion helmets
This is a real helmet. It’s part of a display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Arms and Armory Collection. A 16th century knight in what is now Germany wore this once. Here’s what the museum site has to say; This helmet is remarkable for the three-dimensional figure of a rooster’s head in the center […]
