If you met a real life High Elf Shadow Warrior she might look something like this. The photographer is Tulien Rico, cosplayer is Nikita Cosplay and the photgraph is from Cosplay Blog’s Warhammer Week.
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From the inkwell: Solar Echoes and Andy Mitchell
From the inkwell is chance for RPG authors and publishers to step up and talk about their game, setting and mechanics. The goal is to let gamers get inside knowledge straight from the source. This issue of Publisher Perch is written by Andy Mitchell of Corefun about the sci-fi RPG Solcar Echoes. We have now […]
10 new tabletop RPG communities on Google+ to join
Yesterday Google rolled out a new feature on Google+ – communities. Communities let people chat and share around common interests. As you can expect there’s already a wealth of RPG communities as gamers tend to be early adopters. Here’s Google’s video that explains the concept. It’s early days, so some communities might take off yet […]
Famous Last Words Friday: Stormtroopers can’t hit…
< Previous stripFamous Last WordsNext strip > Stormtroopers can’t hit wampa at this dist… Our Famous Last Words Friday series isn’t all fantasy – we’ve got some of the most famous and funny last words ever uttered in sci-fi roleplaying games too.
Warhammer cosplay: Druchii Assassin
In the Warhammer Fantasy universe the dark elves are known as the Druchii. They’re pale skinned and live above ground. The cosplayer is Cyberdream and the photographer is Kish Hobbit. This post comes from Cosplay blog’s Warhammer Week.
Mongoose Publishing report “miserable RPG market”; print never to recover
Mongoose Publishing is a British RPG publisher. They grew quickly and cleverly during the d20 and OGL era and has been wise with license deals since. I get the feeling unpleasant staffing decisions are taken bravely as and when they’re needed. Despite all this savvy, Matthew Sprange, the owner, has reported a pretty bleak picture […]
Magical and unusual RPG weapon art
A few days ago on reddit shrcat asked; I’m looking to do some practice/honing of my illustration skill — I was hoping to get a couple interesting ideas out there that someone would enjoy seeing my interpretation of – particularly items like weapons or magical items, etc. Anyone interested? And as a (former) pen & […]
Paizo Publishing launches RPG Superstar 2013
This will be the 6th RPG Superstar contest from Pathfinder publisher Paizo. The goal is to find fresh talent in game design and represents a chance for game designers to have their work scrutinised by industry leads. Sign up at paizo.com/rpgsuperstar if you’re interested. What challenges do you face? There will be five RPG Superstar […]
Evil Hat’s Fate Core Kickstarter blows away targets
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/fate-core/ [Pledge Support] “That looks good. I should blog about that tomorrow.” That’s what I thought when this Kickstarter launched late yesterday. A few hours later and here’s the blog post with one little twist. The project already has over 700 backers and has already beaten the campaign goal 7 times over. Evil Hat did […]
Warhammer 40K Cosplay: Sister of Battle
The cosplayer is SelenaDin, who you’ll find on deviant art, and the photographer is Anton Timofeev. Via Cosplay blog as part of their Warhammer Week.
