Doraleous and Associates is an animated YouTube series spoofing the adventures of a band of heroes. In many ways this is a gaming group that you’ll already be familiar with. The first episode is careful with its animation but I think the cleverness of the plot comes through. The series continues, watch it here and […]
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Alluria’s Pathfinder bundle: 65% off a sea-themed collection
Alluria Publishing have a “Super Pathfinder Holiday Mega-Bundle” on sale at DriveThru RPG. The usual value of the gaming books is just over $88 but with the bundle discount in place the actual total is $30. That’s a 65% discount. The catch? Alluria’s not said when the holiday mega-bundle deal comes to a close. The […]
Did Flying Mice lead to a Better Mousetrap: An interview with Clash Bowley
Clash Bowley is the lead author and artist of the sci-fi RPG StarCluster, a host of supplements, the Blood Games Occult Horror RPG, Book of Jalan RPG and plenty others. These are games that I assocaite with Flying Mice Games but now see attributed to Better Mousetrap Games. Clash has kindly agreed to an interview […]
The Role-Playing Color Wheel
This is a tool for Gamemasters. It lets GMs add incidental colour to descriptions of the gaming world. At the start of each session, rotate the rings randomly to create new slices so that when you need to reference some colour you can pick a slice and use it for inspiration. The colour wheel was […]
Evil Hat offer art preview of Fate Core
The Kickstarter project for the core rules to Evil Hat Products’ system, Fate Core, is a huge success. At the time posting there are 46 days on the $3,000 campaign left to run. How much have they raised $145,845. It’s gone up twice while I was writing this post. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/fate-core/ Today, Fred Hicks updated the […]
The Enemy Within returns for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Over on the Roleplaying Games community in Google+, Johnn Four asked; “Which is the best published adventure you’ve come across”. What a great question. For some people the old Warhammer FRP adventure “The Enemy Within” may have come to mind. As it happens, Fantasy Flight Games has just released a re-imagined version. The original dates […]
Coastal King Productions’ Game Glass
Coastal King Productions is an indie game house working on the tabletop RPG Book of the Fallen – although there may be a name change later. Patrick White, owner of the company, took to YouTube to reveal another project Coastal King had been working on: Game Glass. It’s quite a long video and something of […]
RPG Ideas… Giant Ent hand
I draw on the internet often for RPG ideas and inspiration. These picture are art, from a work called Cycles of Decay by Christopher David White. It may look like wood and bricks but it’s all ceramic. Very clever stuff. So many possible ideas – my first thought was “Ents”; Tolkien’s famous tree-people. Then I […]
Space Hulk trailer
Games Workshop’s famous Space Hulk game of Space Marine Terminators versus Genestealers is coming back. It’ll be a mobile game and a computer game. It’ll suport single player and multiplayer at a cross-platform level. If that’s right that means you can play the game on your iPad against a friend on their PC. The new […]
Warhammer 40K cosplay: Saint Celestine
Saint Celestine was a Sister Repentia at the Order of Our Martyred Lady. It is said that she fell during a battle in the planet Eurytion after slaying over a hundred heretics. Her body was retrieved by her sisters and they found some signs of life in her. By the morning she was well again […]
