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An introduction to Indie+
What is Indie+? It is an online convention and hangout for gamers. It’s made possible by Google+ Events and Google’s rather awesome Hangouts (also part of Google+). Hangouts, if you’re not familiar with them, are super easy to use video chats that support many people at once. They represent a virtual table as much as […]
The best selling RPGs of the summmer (2012)
Industry watchers ICv2 have released their count of the top five selling roleplaying games this summer. Tallies will always differ but ICv2 run interviews with manufacturers, distributors and retailers. The top five are; Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing) Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the Coast) Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch (Fantasy Flight Games) Dragon Age (Green Ronin Publishing) Dungeon […]
16 trick or treat Jack o’Lanterns: discounts and surprises
The team at DriveThruComics, DriveThruRPG, DriveThruFiction and WarGameVault are giving away free stuff to mark Halloween. All you have to do is explore the sites, find the Jack o’Lanterns, click and claim your reward. Caution! Not every Jack-o-Lantern contains a freebie. Some of them are tricks! Those sneaky people. Need a helping hand? The image […]
10 popular horror comics for roleplayers
It’s the run up to Halloween and we’re digging deep into unknowable horrors. Yesterday, with sales data from DriveThru RPG and RPGNow we asked are these the best horror RPGs of all time?. Today we look at comics. The slideshow above is composed of front covers from the most popular horror series (comics with a […]
The Ars Magica computer game could happen
[Support this Campaign] When I say “The Ars Magica computer game could happen” I bet your mind is already turning to Kickstarter. You’d be right. Black Chicken Studios, already responsible for the ages 9 and up Academagia and equally targeted Scheherazadegane 2D sim style roleplaying games, are looking for a tasty $290,000 to get going. […]
Rebuilding Settlers of Catan: An interview with Bill Trammel
A few days ago Geek Native covered the Kickstarter project to produce carefully designed Settlers of Catan gaming boards. In that time the project has raised many more thousands of dollars and hundreds of backers. At the time of writing Bill and Nate’s project is worth more than $150,000. We’re very pleased to say that […]
Are these the best horror RPGs of all time?
Halloween is sneaking ever closer and around the world gamers will be wondering what to do. Some gaming groups will have especially spooky encounters and others will play one off horror games. It’s little surprise that horror RPGs have a spike of sales around about now. Geek Native asked the kindly souls at OneBookShelf (RPGNow […]
Vampire: The Requiem Halloween Sale
White Wolf have kicked off the Halloween season with a sale at DriveThruRPG for Vampire: The Requiem. The sale includes Blood Sorcery by Benjamin Baugh, David Brookshadow, David A Hill Jr and Travis Stout. The book includes a flexible new system for blood sorcery, letting you build and enact your own rituals, Threnodies as sacrificial […]
Picture this… tormented tree faces
Are you a GM busy plotting a scary Halloween scenario for your players? Back in July Geek Native shared some haunted woods to terrify your players which this blogger thinks are pretty scary. More? What about apparently natural occurring faces in trees? The pictures below might just work as a player handout.
