I’m not sure you’d ever roll them for fear of smashing them into a pile of glass caltrops but it would be cool to have a pair of stained-glass d20. They’d look great on the coffee table. You know; beside the black skull, the Predator gun and ghost trap. As it turns out you can […]
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D101 Games publish Crypts & Things
Here’s a nice way to launch a new RPG. British publisher D101 Games have put together an eight minute video for Crypts & Things. It’s a good way for gamers to get to look inside the book before they buy it. The game is available in a number of formats. There’s a PDF from DriveThru […]
Steve Jackson Games release five classic GURPS Conan titles in PDF
The original GURPS Conan titles were published for GURPS Third Edition and have not been available for nearly 20 years. Today, Steve Jackson Games re-release GURPS Classic: Conan Beyond Thunder River, GURPS Classic: Conan – Moon of Blood, GURPS Classic: Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast, GURPS Classic: Conan the Wyrmslayer and GURPS […]
Free to Download: Words of the Wise
Cubicle 7 are giving away the adventure Words of the Wise. This is a The One Ring adventure that they ran during GenCon 2011. In the game the heroes will have to deliver a message to King Thranduil for Radagast the Brown. Sound simple? Maybe but the adventurers will have make they way through the […]
The Angus Abranson interview: A look inside Chronicle City
Angus Abranson is very well known within RPG circles and is associated with games like The One Ring, Doctor Who and The Laundry Files. Along with Dave Allsop he co-founded Cubicle 7 in 2003, secured backing from Rebellion in 2009 and took it fulltime. The surprise came in November 2011 when Angus announced he was […]
Unholy Wine
The pictures below are from a conceptual design project from Daniel Brokstad. This is Poessession – The Unholy Wine Collection. There are three bottles in the set; Evil Demon – Bloody Shiraz, Haunting Host – Spoory Cabernet and Old Witch – Cursed Pinot Noir. I recommend checking out Daniel’s site for the full experience. The […]
Privateer Press introduces the Iron Kingdoms RPG
Privateer Press is well known for Warmachine and Hordes. These are both fantasy war games. They also have the Iron Kingdom RPG. Iron Kingdom is not new. In fact, it won the 2004 Weird GameWyrd Game Awards as a wyrd winner for The Most Atmospheric RPG or Supplement. However, this video from Privateer Press was […]
5 RPGs to celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on the 7th of February in 1812. He remains hugely successful, his books living on beyond his death on the 9th of June in 1870. Today marks his 200th birthday. His works include (but are certainly not limited to) Great Expectations, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, The […]
Superheroes on the D&D alignment chart
I think this superhero and villain alignment chart is particularly good. It takes the old school Dungeons and Dragons alignment scale and uses heroes and villains to populate it. The rest is that old D&D geeks get a kick out of the retro chic and the newer native geeks get an easy way to see […]
The Magic: The Gathering comic hits the shelves today
The 1st of February is the publication date for the comic book with the UPC of 82771400302400111. That’s Magic The Gathering #1 By Matt Forbeck, Aleksi Briclot and Martin Coccolo, the series follows the adventures of Dack Fayden, the greatest thief in the Multiverse, has he tracks down people who destroyed his town. Yes. I […]
