Leeds Student TV published a video on LARPing yesterday. Wait. It didn’t poke fun at the hobby. It certainly focused on the look and feel of the game, digging deep into the world of costumes and lingering on interviews with the professional gear companies but it was fair and balanced over all. Don’t get me […]
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For the evil GM: Zombie hand bookmarks
Over at the handmade craft superstore Etsy you’ll be able to find Anna Sternik selling made to order zombie hand art bookmarks. These are pretty cool. I can imagine them being used to mark pages in hefty RPG tomes. Imagine the players reactions when the GM reaches towards the book that’s been sitting there since […]
When is GM’s day? 4th of March specials
GM’s Day is the 4th of March. We’ve had GM’s Day Specials before but this week Drivethru RPG and RPGNow are doing us proud. From now – right now – until the 7th of March there is 25% off thousands of RPG products. Here are a few call outs; EN World Advertising If you’ve a […]
Doctor Who refresh: Time and Space goes Eleventh Doctor
British RPG publisher Cubicle 7 hold the license for the Doctor Who RPG. It’s Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space and dates back to David Tennant as the tenth Doctor. As a result it looks like the tenth Doctor. There’s a “refresh” of the game coming – one with a new Matt Smith as […]
Lord of the Rings latex LARP swords
The ever popular Sideshow Collectables have expanded their range of geek accessories even further this month by branching out and towards roleplayers. In particular, the company which makes replicas based on and inspired by movie, TV and comic franchises has started to produce latex replicas of Lord of the Rings weapons. These latex weapons should […]
Chronicles of Skin: A doodle game of sympathy and hatred
Cobweb Games, an indie RPG and board game studio based in London, have a new product to tempt us with. It’s called Chronicles of Skin and uses doodles as a mechanism, explores cultures at war and is about tragedy, sympathy and hatred. The game takes about three hours to play and is suitable for 3 […]
Street Fighter… Monopoly
USApoly has some pretty cool Monopoly franchises on their books. They have Futurama Monopoly, Star Trek Klingon Monopoly and Risk Monopoly. That monopoly range is expanding. Capcom have confirmed that Street Fighter monopoly is on the way. Interested? There’s a problem. There are too many Street Fighter characters for the game designers to work with. […]
Roleplaying movie alert: Unicorn City trailer
Unicorn City is coming to the cinema screen – well, some of them. Hopefully it makes it out of America. It might as it’s won best feature at the Chicago Comedy Film Festival (oh, at GenCon – which suggests gamers like it). Forget Wizards of the Coast – action begins at Warlocks of the Beach […]
Help build an Elder God
Here’s an interesting use for Kickstarter – help build an Elder God. Imagine the scenario. You’re out of your mind and want to summon an Elder God. What do you do? You turn to your friends for help! Of course. Here’s the catch. What if your friends then betray you and push on ahead to […]
Skull dice thrower
Have you ever had a gaming session where the dice just hated you? If you believe that dice are anything other than random – and so many gamers do – then try switching to a die tower. In fact, don’t switch to any ordinary dice tower to throw the bones. Use a skull dice tower. […]
