This range of fantastic models comes from the Monte San Savino Show 2013. This is a miniature painting event. It’s not a corporate one. Not one with sales folk. Monte San Savino is a town in Italy, somewhere between Rome, Sienna and Florence. Why research flights to Rome and hotels in Italy just for this […]
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TradeCraft Bonus: 4 dice tower vendors to consider
Got a problem with players spinning their dice off the table? Endless debates as to whether the roll counts if it falls on the floor or bounces off a book? Or are you a GM with limited room behind your screen? The solution may be a tower – a dice tower that ensures random, safe […]
GM Inspiration: An illustrated guide of contemporary monsters
Looking for a modern day monster you can terrorise players with? Want to avoid classics like werewolves and vampires but want to draw on contemporary myth and legend? The work Vladmir Stankovic put into the Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Cryptozoology might appeal then. These are all monsters that people still whisper about today, at least in […]
Go green with your luck: Upcycled machined dice
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2055437273/upcycled-machined-dice-d6-d20-fudge-artillery-and/ [Back this Campaign] Yup, that was probably the shortest pitch video you’ve seen for a Kickstarter in a long time. It’s a simple concept though; it is good to recycle stuff so why not use that make dice. This Kickstarter pitch includes d6, d20, Fudge and scatter dice. The latter being the type to […]
Camelot meets Cyberpunk: Inside the Corporia RPG
Corporia is a RPG in the Kickstarter funding stage from author Mark Plemmons. He has worked on projects like HackMaster, Kingdoms of Kalamar, Dungeons & Dragons and Knights of the Dinner Table. In this post we enjoy an exclusive look at a Corporia sorcerer and a brief but insightful with Mark. Why did you dump […]
Wizards without Coats: Recycle
There are warning signs and then warning signs < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Please Recycle after encounters. It’s important to be green. This is especially true if you’re an orc or a goblin. The rest of us will just have to recycle the best we can. Why not drop your useless and no […]
Teach your Kids to Game Week: Kids and Gaming
Geek Native’s third expert guest post for DriveThru RPG’s Teach Your Kids to Game Week comes from MJ Alishah of Aetheric Dreams. MJ Alishah is the author Nights of the Crusades an RPG which blends history with modern and ancient horror. The pictures in this post come from Aetheric Dream’s The City of 10 Rings. […]
Alien vs Predator The Miniatures Game is winning the Kickstarter battle
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/513277403/alien-vs-predator-the-miniatures-game/ [Back this Campaign] When I first heard there was an Alien vs Predator board game on Kickstarter my very first thought was; “How did they get permission?” I asked about the pitch video and was answered with a shrug and a comment about there not really being a pitch video of note. I had […]
Gaming with my Father: A story of how something that didn’t happen changed my life
It is Teach your Kids to Game Week at DriveThruRPG and James Dawsey has kindly contributed to the cause by writing up his own experience. James runs Vigilance Press and is in the final week of a successful Kickstarter for the Wuxia RPG Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade. I was asked by my friend Andrew […]
Monsters In the Classroom
Today is the start of Teach your Kids to Game week at DriveThru RPG. There’s a sale of family RPG material all week and you can keep up with the events via their Facebook and Twitter profiles. Worth keeping an eye on if you’ve little minions of your own. Eden Jones-Hinds, formerly of Oak Mountain Intermediate […]
