Freelancer Adam Daigle is being pulled in by Paizo to work full time on Pathfinder. Daigle has written for the popular game before – starting with Bestiary #19 back in 2009 as well as features like “In the Fiend’s Grasp” and “Uringen”. Daigle will be working with Creative Director James Jacbons and developer Rob McCreary. […]
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The future of tabletop RPG? The Galaxy Beam
Traditional tabletop roleplaying isn’t ignoring technology and is not simply surrendering to the MMORPGs. For example, Pathfinder is being developed for the online world by Goblinworks and they’re not using the traditional MMORPG model (a hybrid, in fact) for this, D&D have a new virtual tabletop and mobile sites like iPlay4e have shown some gamers […]
Buy the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Basic Game
It was back in August of 2011 that we covered news of Margaret Weis Productions landing the Marvel RPG license. At the time we were told there would be some 16 books in total, the first coming out in February as the basic game. It’s now February and Margaret Weis Productions are as good as […]
Exclusive Warhammer 40K birthday merchandise
Rick Priestley created Warhammer 40,000 back in 1987. The war game’s 25th birthday party is tomorrow, February the 25th, and Games Workshop are marking the occassion by shipping exclusive swag to their local stores. The company is predicting this will be the last chance for fans to get their hands on a limited edition Crimson […]
WizKids’ The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Journey to the Lonely Mountain board game
WizKids Games announced this month that they would expand their Lord of the Rings range. The HeroClix publisher already has Lord of the Rings: Nazgul as an offering. The new board game, expected out in the States in October, is designed by Eric Lang and will echo the first Peter Jackson Hobbit film. The deluxe […]
Laser cut your very own stained-glass d20
I’m not sure you’d ever roll them for fear of smashing them into a pile of glass caltrops but it would be cool to have a pair of stained-glass d20. They’d look great on the coffee table. You know; beside the black skull, the Predator gun and ghost trap. As it turns out you can […]
D101 Games publish Crypts & Things
Here’s a nice way to launch a new RPG. British publisher D101 Games have put together an eight minute video for Crypts & Things. It’s a good way for gamers to get to look inside the book before they buy it. The game is available in a number of formats. There’s a PDF from DriveThru […]
Steve Jackson Games release five classic GURPS Conan titles in PDF
The original GURPS Conan titles were published for GURPS Third Edition and have not been available for nearly 20 years. Today, Steve Jackson Games re-release GURPS Classic: Conan Beyond Thunder River, GURPS Classic: Conan – Moon of Blood, GURPS Classic: Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast, GURPS Classic: Conan the Wyrmslayer and GURPS […]
Free to Download: Words of the Wise
Cubicle 7 are giving away the adventure Words of the Wise. This is a The One Ring adventure that they ran during GenCon 2011. In the game the heroes will have to deliver a message to King Thranduil for Radagast the Brown. Sound simple? Maybe but the adventurers will have make they way through the […]
The Angus Abranson interview: A look inside Chronicle City
Angus Abranson is very well known within RPG circles and is associated with games like The One Ring, Doctor Who and The Laundry Files. Along with Dave Allsop he co-founded Cubicle 7 in 2003, secured backing from Rebellion in 2009 and took it fulltime. The surprise came in November 2011 when Angus announced he was […]
