A sign of a good and healthy community is not just its diversity but that people are willing to step forward and identify themselves. On Twitter, the very respected game designer Kenneth Hite recognised that he couldn’t name any female freelancers comfortable with tackling 5e mechanical design. All he did was ask people to tag […]
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Your health is a campaign: RPG roles in the body
Owlturd Comix hit the nail on the head with this strip. It looks at different parts of the body and the role they perform. The heart heals, aww. The brain is a sneaky rogue, always coming up with cunning plans. The stomach deals DPS, which is as fast as I can my burritos. The liver? […]
Yoda bookends force your books to the light side of the shelf
[Show me the way] Don’t ever suffer the horror of watching your comic book collection flop to the side and then slide down the shelf into a puddle of superheroic pages. With these Yoda book ends you’ll be able to keep your big hardback roleplaying game tomes together in some sort of alphabetical order rather […]
Warhammer 40K Dreadnaught cosplay
This is cosplay! Really! Shared on Instagram by Warzone Studio with the hashtag Warhammer and Dreadnaught. Dreadnaughts are cybernetic walkers used by various chapters of the Adeptus Astartes as heavy infantry. These aren’t tanks, in the Warhammer 40,000 universe those are much bigger! These guys are infantry. I’m no Warhammer 40,000 expert but from the […]
Wow, this duvet skull is not Netflix and chill
[Too bad. I need this] I wonder what sort of statement this duvet cover makes? If you’re living with flatmates, they don’t get roleplaying, and you suspect they sneak into your room to check out your weird and nerdy purchases then this screaming rip-through skull could undoubtedly send a message. If things are going well […]
Which authors influenced H. P. Lovecraft?
H. P. Lovecraft is one of that select band of authors who lived in virtual obscurity in their own time, but whose influence and popularity have grown hugely since their death. Many of his contemporaries, once considered significant talents by the reading public, are now unknown. Whereas H. P. Lovecraft’s fictional world strikes a chord […]
Map maker: Generating a fantasy world atlas
Let’s say you don’t want to spend a penny, don’t want to download any software, that you are in a hurry and you need to generate a fantasy map for your RPG campaign. In this post, we’ll look at a map maker that’s capable of generating an entire fantasy world. There are a few software […]
Your DM is better than any dating service
This strip is the work of Light Roast Comics. The site is less than a year, only founded in February. We’re reminded that ‘send me a DM’ clearly hasn’t changed its meaning since Gary Gygax coined the phrase Dungeon Master. What else could people be thinking? If you like the style pop over to teespring […]
T-shirt: Mouthfuls of Madness Ramen
In the Mouth of Madness is a John Carpenter film inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. This t-shirt design by MONSTERYOUniverse takes the concept one stage further. It’s actual Great Old One mouthfuls of madness. [I neeeed this] This is a tagless cotton t-shirt that ships to most places from the United States. […]
Is he loyal? Cosplay of a Warhammer 40K Black Templar Chaplain
This frightfully good (and frightening) Warhammer 40K cosplay was shared by Reddit user TacticalBaconX. The character is a Chaplain from the Space Marine chapter the Black Templars. They’re not an ordinary chapter. The Black Templars are an offshoot from the original Imperial Fists and the Primarch Rogal Dorn. The Imperial Fists were one of the […]
