You can buy Reaper’s Large Earth Elemental from Amazon for under $10. It’s unpainted and suitable for 25mm heroic scale fantasy miniatures. D&D player and Tennessee based John Chadwick purchased one and set about transforming it with an incredible paint job and flocking. I’ll admit it is the moss that first caught my attention. It […]
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Bravery: D&D vs CoC
Roleplaying games are often about bravery. Characters charge into danger in order to rescue those weaker than themselves, to get to the loot first or just because it’s the right thing to do. But bravery comes in all different shapes and forms. In Dungeons & Dragons, your adventuring party equipped with magic weapons and divine […]
Cyberpunk’s 30th anniversary; R. Talsorian Games to restock Cyberpunk 2020
Have you been trying to grab a copy of Cyberpunk 2020 to see if it holds any clues to what’s in CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077? Cyberpunk 2020 is the tabletop RPG by Mike Pondsmith that the new computer game is based on. Yeah, loads of people have and without luck, as the book has […]
Dice coin Kickstarter spins up hundreds of backers
If you’re reading this before September 4th then you could get 1 or 2 free coins from this Kickstarter. It’s J.M. Ward’s 5th project, the 2nd for the year and he’s never missed a delivery target. No Kickstarter is risk-free, but this feels a safer bet than most. At the time of writing the campaign […]
A first look at Roll20’s sci-fi RPG Burn Bryte
Virtual Tabletops are very popular right now and with good reason. Companies like Roll20 have worked hard to offer value to the roleplaying community, to listen to feedback and evolve. At the same time, the rise of actual play videos on Twitch and YouTube has brought all new audiences to the hobby. You could even […]
This handmade DM’s Guide is hundreds of dollars perfect
Imgur user 1DM Magic shared their custom-made Dungen Master’s Guide. It is a book of beauty filled with rules (especially those which are easy to forget), tables, lists and maps. The idea came from 1DM’s wish to have an easy to access and organised lists of names, riddles, magical items that were small enough to […]
The One Ring RPG on Humble Bundle
The One Ring is many people’s favourite Lord of the Rings roleplaying games. We even had a guest review that was laden with praise. Now you can get the core manual, maps, campaigns and supplements worth $270 for peanuts. You can check out the collection at Humble Bundle. A $1 purchase gets you a 30% […]
The 7th Guest: Old skool horror CD-ROM game goes tabletop
The 7th Guest was published in 1993 and was one of the first games to be released only on CD-ROM. It was a hit at the time, selling millions and receiving press attention for its adult content, using pre-rendered 3D graphics (impressive at the time) and making live-action clips part of a tame. In its […]
What was the first RPG?
The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail. Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) […]
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica cover artist and two other D&D illustrators banned from entering America
Titus Lunter is an illustrator and concept artist who has worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: the Gathering and for companies like Riot and Valve. Anna Steinbauer is an illustrator who has also worked on Magic: the Gathering. Magali Villeneuve is an artist and fantasy author who’s worked on (no prizes for guessing) Magic: the […]
