I’m pleased to say that this blogger’s gaming groups have always talked through any change of game mechanics or change of game before the gamers turn up. In this video, I think that’s Jon’s biggest mistake. Shouldn’t ambush the players like this. This video has been out for a few days. Thankfully, in that time […]
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Mistborn’s Brandon Sanderson is Author Guest of Honour at Gen Con 2012
There’s lots of Mistborn RPG news this week. Mistborn is a fantasy series written by Brandon Sanderson. Crafty Games have the license for the tabletop Misborn Adventure Game where players learn to master allomancy, feruchemy and hemalurgy while they battle aginst Lord Ruler’s Inquisitors. This week Little Orbit announced that not only would they produce […]
Free to Download: Argyle & Crew – Adventure in the Land of Skcos
Over at DriveThru RPG, Troll in the Corner’s Argyle & Crew – Adventure in the Land of Skcos is currently available for free. This is a limited time offer and valid up until the end of the weekend. If it’s the after the 1st of April 2012 when you’re reading this then, sorry, you’ve missed […]
Cubicle 7 adds Tales from Wilderland to the One Ring RPG collection
Cubicle 7 have announced that the last of the paperwork around Tales from Wilderland have been completed. The adventure anthology / playable campaign for the One Ring RPG is now available for pre-order and is expected in May or June. Tales from Wilderland includes 7 scenarios which can be played individually or linked together. The […]
Achtung! Cthulhu – mythos set in World War 2
Modiphius, a new imprint from Chris Birch, have announced Achtung! Cthulhu. The game takes the Cthulhu mythos and brings it into the horror of the second world war. Imagine fiendish Nazi scientists chasing occult lore, war machines, spies and tentacled horrors from beyond time. The first release is due out in April as a PDF. […]
Green Ronin release preview for Game of Thrones edition RPG
Green Ronin has the license for the A Song of Ice and Fire. This is roleplaying in the Seven Kingdoms, the world created by George R. R. Martin and which has recently made it to TV as the Game of Thrones. There’s a new RPG coming from Green Ronin called “A Song of Ice and […]
Chaosium’s Mythic Iceland opens for pre-orders
Call of Cthulhu publisher Chaosium have a 276 paged sourcebook for Basic Roleplaying. Mythic Iceland looks at the Nordic and Celtic people who settled Iceland in the 9th century while diving deep into folklore and the supernatural. The book comes with with a fold out map, in colour, and promises legend and adventure in the […]
Dugger’s Firehawk enters Chronicle City
Tim Dugger is the original creator of High Adventure Role Playing (HARP). He created Firehawk Games in December 2010 after working for more than 7 years at Mjolnir Games. Most people know Mjolnir has Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) the publisher behind MERP. Firehawk Games are active in traditional roleplaying games, virtual RPGs, board games, and […]
Ascendancy – Rogue Marshal heralds new RPG system
Ascendancy – Rogue Marshal from Broken Tower is a 288-paged RPG with 5 unique races, 200 magical weaves, 40 unique vocations and which uses the FateStorm RPG system. FateStorm sounds grandiose. Broken Tower use the phrase “virtual reality system” to describe it. It’s taken some 5 years, we’re told, to pull FateStorm together and it’s […]
How to play Lords of Waterdeep
Lords of Waterdeep is an official, Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons game. Waterdeep is from the Forgotten Realms setting – sometimes called the City of Splendors and is known for political intrigue and lords wrestling for power. The game is for 2 to 5 players. It looks like a fairly complex game with […]
