Mongoose Publishing have made Signs and Portents available for download. As usual this electronic magazine is free to download (although it came to life as a paid for paper magazine). This month the cover and an early section puts the focus on Deus Vult. This is a new core rulebook from Mongoose, 176-pages in hardcover, […]
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F.A.T.A.L. (From Another Time, Another Land) Download
This post is here because I can see from Geek Native’s traffic logs that people want it. One of the user-submitted reviews to GameWyrd, the site that came before Geek Native, was of an infamous roleplaying game titled “From Another Time, Another Land” aka F.A.T.A.L. To this day the site gets traffic from people searching […]
Gaming scenery – Capital City – so clever it confuses
This is so clever I’m not even sure how it works. I think this PDF results in printed cut outs – perhaps stuck onto card? I do get the end goal, though. You wind up with a 3D set of gaming scenery. You can have no grid, 1×1 or hex grids; in other words this […]
Reign of Discordia preview
Mongoose do well in keeping their fans supplied with previews. They keep up this pace with their Traveller series and true to form we now have a preview of Reign of Discordia. Reign of Discordia is the core setting for the game series from Darrin Drader and Reality Deviant Publications. Here’s what you get in […]
An introduction to GUMSHOE
The GUMSHOE rules system was created by Robin D Laws – the creator of the Dying Earth RPG – and is designed to work best for investigation games. Since it’s launch GUMSHOE has picked up other big names; including Kenneth Hite who produced a new version of Call of Cthulhu called Trail of Cthulhu with […]
Spycraft 3rd Edition announced by Crafty Games
Award winning OGL action RPG Spycraft will get a third edition in 2010. Crafty Games have announced that they’ll use the Mastercraft system for the RPG and renew the game’s focus on espionage. The last releases for Spycraft 2.0 will come throughout the summer and wil include the last of the Saturday Morning Spycraft PDF […]
The Laundry Files RPG announced – the secret service versus alien gods
British based Cubicle 7 Entertainment has announced an RPG based on author Charles Stross’ The Laundry Files series. The Laundry Files started with The Atrocity Archives, continued with the The Jennifer Morgue and The Fuller Memorandum is expected out this year. In the series the Laundry, a branch of the British secret service, battle to […]
Deux Vult, RuneQuest II free preview
Mongoose Publishing have made a free preview of Deus Vult, the new setting for RuneQuest II, available for download. It features a secret order within the Catholic Church in the 12th century that battles for mankind against supernatural enemies. Here’s a snippet from the Beast of Gubbio and the full free download available as an […]
Have we forgotten that March 4th is GM’s Day?
March the 4th is GM’s Day. No, really. It is! Here’s a post that dates back to 2002 discussing it on Enworld. It used to be the fashion to mark GM’s day with discounts. A chance to buy stuff for your GM. This post was written on March the 2nd and scheduled to go live […]
Beware the hopscotch ooze
A game character would never fall for this – but a gamer would. If you want to slow your players down as they make their way bravely through an orc infested dungeon – draw some squiggles on the ground. PCs will stop and stare at ‘strange marketings’ for a while and they’d likely treat any […]
