You read the title right. There is a Munchkin Axe Cop mashup coming. There is a trailer video for it. How’s this for a concept? There are monsters. Lots of them. Axe Cop has an axe. He cuts the heads off these monsters. I know. It’s a challenge to get your head around. It may […]
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The Design Mechanism is born so RuneQuest can live
The quick background to this post is that British heavyweight Mongoose Publishing split with Issaries who own the RuneQuest franchise. Parts of various projects live on under new names but what of RuneQuest itself? Lawrence Whitaker and Pete Nash; with plenty of Eternal Champion and RuneQuest titles to their name, have created a new company; […]
Impressive custom dice
I became aware of Dice Creator through Google+. All of a sudden, in my stream of Google+ shares, I started to see some really wicked looking dice. Sometimes these dice were clever – like the Inception dice; dice inside dice. Sometimes the dice were works of art – like the shadow dice. I reached out […]
First Pictures: The One Ring RPG
The One Ring is a new RPG for the Lord of the Rings series that’s coming our way via Sophisticated Games and Cubicle 7. Sophisticated Games will handle the board game side of things and the well-connected Cubicle 7 will be handling the RPG. The first pictures of the RPG, due out in August, are […]
Paris Gothique: eBook free with pre-order
Triple Ace Games are a RPG house based in the UK. They produce the All for One: Régime Diabolique setting – a cinematic style RPG, with a focus on storytelling set in France at the time of Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu. This France is a land of powerful magic, vile monsters as well as […]
20 gamers to follow on Google+
Do I mean “follow”? I think the Google+ term might be “circle”. Okay, try again; 20 gamers to circle on Google+. Google+ is Google’s attempt at a social network. It’s eary days yet but the signals are good. Not everyone is pleased but many people are. It’s been hard to get in but if you […]
The runners and riders of Ennies 2011
The 2011 Ennies have been announced. Who are the runners to pay attention too? There are 8 entries for Green Ronin, 11 for Cubicle 7, 10 for Paizo Publishing, 4 for Pelgrane Press, 8 for Wizards of the Coast, 6 for Posthuman Studios, 3 for Gaming Paper, 5 for Arc Dream Publishing, 6 for Catalyst […]
Jump into the D&D Encounters video
The D&D team have had a long form ad for Encounters up on YouTube for just under a week. It’s worth a watch just for the curiosity factor. This video is an interesting marketing angle. It’s too long to be an ad. It doesn’t deep dive into Encounters enough to be educational. I think it’s […]
Does your RPG suffer from female armour syndrome?
I nearly opened this blog post with “I wonder what the figures are…” that would have been a bad start. Let’s return to figure issues later. I wonder what the stats are; the percentage of male gamers who play female characters versus the percentage of female gamers who play male characters. Of the male gamers […]
Has Pottermore.com hurt the Kindle and helped RPG eBook publishers?
This blog took part in the Pottermore speculation. It was fun. When the news was finally announced it felt, at first blush, a bit of an anti-climax. JK would let Harry Potter eBooks be sold from the site. She had some extra Potter mythos to share with the world. We might be able to do […]
