Jaws of the Barracado is a free (at the time of posting) to download adventure for Bulldogs! It’s from Galileo Games and uses the Fate rule system. This is a delivery adventure and your goal is the leader of the Barracado pirates himself. This means taking the package, with its mysterious seal intact, deep into […]
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Gen Con Indy breaks records
This year’s Gen Con Indy has smashed previous attendance records. Compared to last year visitor numbers where up by 20%. Some 120,000 people went through the turnstile and nearly 37,000 were their for the “best four days in gaming”. Gameplay was up too. Organisers report that ticketed game sales were up 26% to over 250,000 […]
Margaret Weis Productions secures Marvel RPG license; 16 books coming
At GenCon Margaret Weis Productions announced they had secured the license to create the Marvel Heroes roleplaying game. There will be 16 books, the first launching in February with a strategy designed to map along with Marvel’s large crossover events. Cam Banks, creative director at MWP, said; “After the initial February release, we will have […]
Pathfinder outsells Dungeons and Dragons
You may have noticed that Paizo’s Pathfinder line went toe to toe with Wizards of the Coast in the ENnies. Paizo’s Bestiary 2 beat WotC’s Monster Vault in the Best Monster/Adversary group, Pathfinder: Inner Sea World Guide beat WotC’s Dark Sun Campaign Setting in Best Setting and in fan’s choice for best publisher; Paizo Publishing […]
D&D song: Tonight
This is a rather fetching song. It has charisma. It’s cute. It’s about D&D. Our singer songwriter is an actual D&D player who writes that she’s used the game to detach herself from aspects of real life. I think escapism is a healthy reason to roll the die. I also think this song needs a […]
Fantasty Flight Games buys Star Wars games license
RPG powerhouse Fantasy Flight Games has today announced that they’ve secured the license for Star Wars. The deal with Lucasfilm gives them the worldwide rights for card games, miniature games and RPGs for the entire Star Wars universe. There’s no specific mention of the internet. Whereas it’s not expected that Fantasy Flight will be making […]
Spotlight challenge: Stickmen RPG
Brutal Games has a new RPG out in the market. It’s called Stickmen RPG. This blogger isn’t going to tell you much more about it – a review is coming later. Right now we’ve James Norbury of Brutal Games under the spotlight. The brave Mr Norbury has agreed to the spotlight challenge. Here’s how it […]
Munchkin Axe Cop trailer video
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 […]
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 […]
