Untold is a RPG with a twist. It positions itself as a CBRPG rather than an RPG for a start. Care to take a guess to what the “CB” stands for? Untold is a Card Based RPG. The goal is to do a way with the endless pile of sourcebooks you need to collect, read […]
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Dragon Warriors RPG moving to Serpent King Games
One of the very first published RPGs I ever played was Dragon Warriors. I still have all six original books, somewhere, I think, I hope! In the recent past Dragon Warriors had a home in the Mongoose Publishing empire. It was looked after by Magnum Opus, who published it via Flaming Cobra, a Mongoose imprint. […]
Exalted comic volume 1 review
White Wolf have have just released a PDF of Exalted Volume 1 of the new Exalted comic. I thought I’d check it out. I was expecting to be pleased. The artwork in Exalted has always appealed to me. I was bang in White Wolf’s target market for the game – an anime fan, someone looking […]
6d6 Online Tools – sell other GMs ideas for money?
6d6 Firefall is a new discovery for me. It was their decision to release the core 6d6 mechanics under Creative Commons license (ie, for free and re-use) that caught my attention. Their first product for the system, Mince Pies and Murder, looked interesting so I blogged the story. At the time there was a mention […]
6d6 Fireball puts the 6d6 RPG under free Creative Commons license
Nottingham based RPG publisher 6d6 Fireball have announced their plans to release the 6d6 RPG system under Creative Commons license. This means other publishers will be able to use the system without cost. They can even publish rules variants along as they credit 6d6 Fireball as the original authors. There is a twist though. Chris […]
New Pathfinder RPG Hardcover coming August: Ultimate Combat
Paizo are aiming for August as a release date for their new hardcover supplement for Pathfinder. Ultimate Combat is, well, what you suspect it is. There are three new Pathfinder RPG classes; gunslinger, samurai and ninja. The samurai is an unstoppable warrior with a code of honour. The gunslinger makes use of the new grit […]
Battlefield Press’s Double Spiral War to use the 12°
Battlefield Press, the company responsible for the Open Anime RPG system and Gaslight, has struck a deal with Rouge Games to make use of 12° rule system. 12° was created by Richard Iorio II and James Maliszewski, aka Rouge Games, and is used in games like Colonial Gothic, Thousand Suns and Shadow, Sword & Spell. […]
Are Wizards of the Coast about to announce D&D 5e?
Update: A year after this post was written, Wizards of the Coast announced D&D 5e. It will be, in part, crowd sourced. There’s some speculation out there in interwebyland that Wizards of the Coast are working on the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. Speculation kicked off with Bill Slavicsek‘s Ampersand article called Icy […]
Advanced Fighting Fantasy and Out of the Pit re-released
Arion Games have teamed up with Cubicle 7 to bring us that old stalwart of introductory RPGs – Advanced Fighting Fantasy. Advanced Fighting Fantasy was the roleplaying game that evolved from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone‘s famous solo adventure Fighting Fantasy series of books. The new version of Advanced Fighting Fantasy is due out in […]
UK based Guild Companion Publications pick up HARP, Rolemaster and Spacemaster license
Back in 2001 Aurigas Aldebaron purchased Iron Crown Enterprises (aka ICE) and all its intellectual property. I remember ICE for their MERP license most of all but they lost that late in 1999. Aurigas Aldebaron is a company which manages the ownership of intellectual property – like gaming worlds and systems – and had (and […]
