Sean Patrick Fannon has been at the helm of the community management around DriveThruRPG and RPGNow for a long while now and has done a stirling job. He’s moved on, though, to concentrate on his skills as a freelancer. In an interesting move he’s created a service called Your Savage Expert. In essence, Fannon draws […]
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Did Kickstarter cut roleplayers out of their gamer thank you?
It’s good of Kickstarter to recognise the roll of gaming in that too. Here’s how important gaming is to them; these stats come from Kickstarter, noting how games leap from 8th to 1st. 1. Games — $50 million 2. Film — $42 million 3. Design — $40 million 4. Music — $25 million 5. Technology […]
Mongoose Publishing crowdfund Judge Dredd: Block War
Mongoose Publishing have the license to the Judge Dredd RPG and the Judge Dredd Miniatures Game. The Judge Dredd Miniatures Game as been taking off, with a community buillding around it and additional model sets being produced. Today, Matthew Sprange, the owner of Mongoose, turned to Kickstarter to attempt to crowdfund the Block War supplement […]
Assassin’s Creed 3 foam tomahawk
This foam tomahawk is a recreation of the weapon used by Connor in Assassin’s Creed 3. It’s 500mm by 225mm, nearly, and made from PU Latex with a fiberglass insert. Is this good enough for LARPing? It’ll depend on your marshalls and local rules but the axe head is a loop and looks rather fragile […]
Mercury: the computer game written by the gameplay
James Lantz’ Mercury is an impressive game. It started out simple; one character class and one monster. It has grown. Every few days, whoever has the top score, gets to add a little bit to the game. Now the game has 20 or so monsters and about 15 different character classes. In the graphic above […]
Armour your dog
In a world were we can turn horses into dragons it is important that we can also armour our trusty hounds. Or, from a roleplaying mechanics point of view; does your system cope with non-humanoid armour? Game systems with abstract armour rules tend to cope better than those which require hit locations and tables. Sure […]
An Eternal Contenders RPG teaser
Eternal Contenders is the anticipated evolution of the acclaimed Contenders tabletop role-playing game. The game was a nominee in the UK Games Expo 2012. It’ll be one of the first RPGs published with the assistance of Chronicle City and the print/PDF bundle can be pre-ordered from their store with the PDF copy arriving shortly after […]
Transform your horse into a dragon
There’s no reason why human LARPers should have all the fun. Horses can join in to. What? No horses in your LARP due to price and health and safety rules? Hmm. That’s a bit of a bother because I doubt SCA and other groups would consider this mask to be historically correct. Oh well. Via […]
Are RPG dice good enough quality to be truly random?
The video above is of Colonel Louis Zocchi, the founder of GameScience, explaining why he believes GameScience will roll more true than others. The summary is that the traditional RPG dice are polished in a way that rounds off corners and painted in a way that gives them an inconsistent shape. The inconsistent shape results […]
Games Worshop deny leaked miniature production list
Games Workshop have contacted The One Ring to refute the accuracy of a leaked list of planned miniatures. The One Ring was interested in the list because it included a significant number of models based on The Hobbit – and warned their readers about spoilers. The research was based on a Pastebin document that looks […]
