Black Friday and Cyber Monday are American shopping traditions that the whole world can benefit from. Here’s a good example; White Wolf. This weekend and through Cyber Monday, there are significant discounts on all Exalted eBooks over at DriveThruRPG. Included in the Exalted sale are Exalted 2nd Edition eBooks and Exalted 1st Edition eBooks. OneBookShelf […]
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The Pathfinder MMO
Paizo has licensed the rights to a MMORPG based on Pathfinder. Pathfinder, which out sold Dungeons & Dragons this year according to some analysts, will be developed by Goblinworks as a massively multi-player online RPG. Goblinworks is an independent, Seattle based, company and brings Mark Kalmes (Microsoft, Cryptic Studios and CCP) to the table. Kalmes […]
Blood on the Game Dice
How functional is your gaming group? Wait. Don’t be harsh. I don’t think that’s an oxymoron – there’s too many words, for a start. The truth is that some gaming groups get along well, some are chaotic but generally line up but then there are some that are so fractional it’s amazing any gaming goes […]
The NINJA competition: Win the complete Wu Xing gameline
Third Eye Games have released the third book in Wu Xing RPG series. Wu Xing is a ninja RPG that blends flavours of suspicion and rebellion with ninja action and powers. The new book, The Land of Seed and Blossom, includes an adventure, introduces new clans from the Land of Seed and Blossom and looks […]
Brutal Games leans on Lulu in Print on Demand gambit
Brutal Games, publisher of The Corporation RPG and of the charming Stickmen RPG announced some corporate wheeling and dealing of their own last week. From the start of this month Brutal Games’ books will be available via Lulu, one of the strongest print-on-demand players in the market, from this online shop. It’s expected that the […]
The Quantum RPG is coming
Just a few days ago this blog covered the attempt to crowdfund a new RPG called Quantum. The project spearheaded by Joshua Frost, needed money, but was being run by a guy who had both game design and marketing skills. A few days into the attempt to raise the full $13,000 and the total has […]
Join the Nights of the Crusades playtest
Nights of the Crusades is a fully fledged RPG and you can download the beta version right now if you’re kind enough to get involved in some playtesting or crowd sourced wisdom. Feedback can go to a number of places; Nights of the Crusades’ forums, their Facebook page and I’ll let the team know about […]
Paizo will host PaizoCon2012 to celebrate 10 years
Next year, Paizo will have been going for 10 years and their Pathfinder RPG will celebrate its 5th anniversary. PaizoCon, held at the Marriot Redmond Town Center in Redmond, will run from July 6th to July 8th in 2012. PaizoCon 2012 will have three days of workshops, games, panels and special guests. Registration is open […]
Pathfinder tops summer RPG sales
ICv2’s quarterly chart of the best selling RPGs is out and, as expected, Pathfinder tops the chart. There’s a different publisher on each of the top five positions with old favourites and newer entries like Green Ronin’s Dragon Age making the cut. IVc2 reports that games had a great summer – with CCGs and especially […]
Futurama alignment chart: D&D style
Remember the old D&D alignment chart? Of course you do. In fact, this blogger is willing to bet some gamers who have never played old school Dungeons and Dragons with the old school alignment rules are still very familiar with the concept. Remember Futurama? Ha. I’m glad it made it back for a second attack […]
