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 […]
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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 […]
Carcassonne cupcakes and jelly meeple
For the grand opening of Edinburgh Games Hub, local gamer and Geek Native advisor, @theweird1ne wanted to bring along some home baking. The challenge was to bake something that would stand out among all the gamer goodness. The solution? Carcassonne cupcakes. The catch? The Games Hub logo is a meeple. Carcassonne also needs meeple. For […]
WizKids win Injunction against Tree House Kids Heroics
Zerboz are a range of 1″ tall, fully sculpted & painted figures in blind packaging designed for kids. There’s a Marvel range and a DC one. Previously, Tree House Kids used the word “Heroics” to describe the range. Now, Heroics is a general word from the dictionary but it’s also awfully close to HeroClix. HeroClix, […]
2 million dollars for rare trading cards find
A family will be looking to earn as much as 2 million dollars in a series of auctions after finding a complete set of rare baseball trading cards in their attic in Ohio. The money will be split between some 20 cousins. The home, in Defiance, Ohio, belonged to their grandfather who ran a market […]
LARP love story: Foam Fighters
Foam Fighters is a love story set around a LARP group. Mark gets dragged into his first ever LARP where he meets Gwen. The problem? Gwen’s with a rival faction. Foam Fighters have a blog for fans which lets us keep up to date with the production. This is pretty fun because they’re doing this […]
Free to Download: Nine Worlds
Right now, the RPG from Stories You Play, Nine Worlds is free to download. It’s usually around $19/£12.50. Here’s the descriptive chapter from the game; In this game, players take on the role of Archons, the human agents of the Demiurge who shape the universe according to their whim and will. Archons are mortal humans […]
Freaky: skull photographs to scare your players
These photos are real and not manipulated. They show something natural and normal – the exfoliation of teeth. This is something we all understand; children lose their teeth and the new tooth pushes up from beneath. However, what we don’t think about very much in the process of storing the new tooth underneath the old […]
Lovecraft horror RPG tremulus slaughters goals
[Pledge here] Tremulus (actually, I think the branding demands lower case t – tremulus) has a storytelling RPG Kickstarter project. We’ve seen some large projects in recent days but tremulus is at the other end of the evolutionary scale – asking for only $5,000. The result? At the time of posting, tremulus has slaughtered its […]
The Peturbed Dragon: EN World’s Morrus launches web series
Russell Morrissey, known to many as Morrus from EN World, has launched a web series. It’s called The Petrubed Dragon, we’re a few episodes in and so far we’ve commentary (with a twist) on some gamer sterotypes. The second episode features a “my GM wouldn’t…” visiting player. We all know those. The twist? In The […]
