Dragon Warriors was the first ever RPG I bought. I’d been playing my own homebrew until then. The current home of Dragon Warriors is Serpent King Games – who might actually be better known by the founding trio’s names; Gareth Hanrahan, Jon Hodgson and Ian Sturrock. There’s a version of the new Dragon Warriors RPG […]
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Please, please, please… all NPCs do this!
This image will reach out and speak to all CRPG players. You know the dread plot twist; one your NPCs have to leave the group. Okay, we can cope with that, the group might be a little light on magic/healing/defense/offense but we’ll be able to adjust. What’s the real kicker? That blasted NPCs just gone […]
Airship Pirates: The RPG based on music
Cubicle 7 have a host of great licenses and partnerships. Titles include Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who and gamer favourites like SLA Industries and Victoriana. With partners Cakebread & Walton they’re putting together an RPG called Airship Pirates. Airship Pirates is based on the work by Abney Park. Now, normally when you here a […]
Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale launches today – new trailer
Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale is available from today. At least; it’s available today if you’ve got access to Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360. If you’re a PC or PlayStation user then you’ll need to wait for the summer release schedule. Xboxers need to turf up 1,200 Microsoft Points for the purchase. Atari describe […]
Paizo and WizKids partner for Pathfinder pre-painted minis
The news from Redmond today is that Paizo Publishing and WizKids have teamed up. WizKids will be producing a special set of pre-painted plastic minis for use with Paizo’s forthcoming Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Beginner Box. The Beginner Box is slated for release in October 2011. Lax Chandra, President of WizKids, waxed lyrical in a press […]
Mongoose split with Issaries; loose RuneQuest and Glorantha
UK based Mongoose Publishing, which powered into the limelight with an aggressive d20 based expansion and then pegged themselves in up high with some savvy business deals, have announced that they’re splitting from publishing partner Issaries. Isarries brought the RuneQuest and Glorantha RPG licenses with them to the Mongoose party. Those licenses leave along with […]
Baptism of Fire review
Baptism of Fire is a World War II RPG. The book, available from Amazon, weighs in at 354 pages and makes use of the d20 system. If you’re a fan of military RPGs then it’s certainly worth looking at and I’ll risk the prediction that you’ll end up buying it. The advantage of the d20 […]
Adamant Entertainment merges with Empty Room Studios
Adamant Entertainment, the RPG publisher behind pulp title Thrilling Tales, the Mars Savage World setting and a bunch of Pathfinder books, is emerging with the art provider Empty Room Studios. There is interesting language used in the press release; Adamant is described as a “digital media company” and Empty Room Studios as an “art service […]
Dragon Age RPG: Set 2 opens for pre-order
The tabletop version of Dragon Age has expanded to a second set and publishers, Green Ronin, are now taking pre-orders. The first set as been well recieved by gamers and primarily deals with characters between experience levels 1 and 5. In other words; those Dragon Age heroes who are just starting out. The second set […]
Free to Download: Dresden Files RPG: Night Fears
Night Fears from Evil Hat Productions – the company lucky enough to have the Dresden Files RPG license – is a free to download casefile. It’s a pre-written adventure designed for 3 to 7 characters at the “Feet in the Water” power level. The Dresden Files RPG uses the FATE rule system and so the […]
