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Paizo hope their new Starfinder beginner Box will introduce more gamers to their sci-fi RPG
Paizo Publishing announced Starfinder in May 2016 and the sci-fi RPG has earned a pretty solid core of fans since then. One possible wriggle is the fact the game barely saw any birthdays before the company also announced Pathfinder 2nd edition and some fans worry that happened too soon. The Starfinder Beginner Box isn’t designed […]
White Wolf announces official Vampire makeup collection
Is this the first time a tabletop games publisher has had an official set of makeup? I can only imagine that some of the gamers who tend to be unwelcome and unrequested gatekeepers, unwilling to accept that women are equally likely as men to be into roleplaying, will be rolling their eyes at this news. […]
Onyx Path Publishing to publish Chicago by Night a Vampire 5e supplement
White Wolf is publishing World of Darkness products again and Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition launched at Gen Con this week. But what of the company that kept the franchise alive for the last few years? Onyx Path has established itself through a series of very successful Kickstarters and quality products that fans appreciated. There’s […]
One purchase away from happiness: Fight Club – The Home Game
The newly forged Mondo Games continues to tease and tempt up with good looking board games. The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 is a success and Jurassic Park: The Chaos Gene is coming. The growing publisher is also bringing us a Fight Club game that’s due September this year. Fight Club: The Home Game is […]
Discover the winners of the ENnies 2018 RPG Awards
Gen Con hosted the ENnies last night and there’s a host of winners to announce. EN World shared the news this morning, along with a hat tip to the hosts Andy Hopp, Stacy Dellorfano, BJ Hensley, Mark Morrison and Amanda Valentine. Congratulations to everyone who took home a prize. It’s worth popping back to Geek […]
Download The Witcher tabletop RPG today
Cody and Lisa Pondsmith are the listed authors of The Witcher RPG from R. Talsorian Games. It’s the official tabletop game of CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher computer game. It is one of the big-name releases from this year’s Gen Con. Set in the middle of the 3rd Nilfgaardian War the White Wolf, Geralt of […]
Amazon lets Paizo and Pathfinder 2 playtesters down
Many roleplayers who preordered their copy of Pathfinder Playtest from Paizo did not get their book on schedule. Gamers who pre-ordered directly from Amazon, according to some players, have also had problems. The Paizo Team explain in a blog post. When Paizo was planning this year’s Pathfinder Playtest, we expected to exceed our own ability […]
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition launches today
You can now buy Vampire: The Masquerade from select retailers. It’s Gen Con, and White Wolf has just released the 5th edition of the iconic game. If you need the game now you can visit World of Darkness.com or in physical form exclusively from Modiphius Entertainment. Modiphius is acting as the distributor, I don’t believe […]
Actually happening: Munchkin Warhammer 40,000
In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future … Kill the Monster, Steal the Treasure, and Stab Your Buddy! I wonder how Games Workshop is feeling. In some ways, they’ve had a rough week. They nearly doubled their profits and yet shares dropped 6%. Bloody investors. Why the drop? Investors may just be taking profit, […]
