KeyForge doesn’t seem to take itself very seriously (watch the trailer video, and you’ll see what I mean), but it does tackle one of the problems which seriously put people off collectable card games. There was a time when I played Magic: the Gathering when each rare card was a discovery worth celebrating. It was […]
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Wizards of the Coast pull a welcome U-turn on Eberron and D&D’s Adventurers League
Wizards of the Coast, the publishers of Dungeons & Dragons seem to have changed their minds on Eberron. The Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron was announced 23rd of July and in the very introduction to the book, page 4, was the news that Eberron would not be part of the Adventurers League. You can read it […]
Milled metal die… solid enough to be dangerous!
The second thing you notice in this Kickstarter is the name of the company; ‘Flying Horseduck’. Good one. Of course, the first thing you’re likely to notice is how their golf ball sized 60-sided die could probably be used as a thrown weapon! They’re asking for US$10,000 to mill and laser all these die and […]
Christian T. Petersen steps down from Fantasy Flight and Asmodee
Christian T. Petersen is perhaps best well known as the founder of Fantasy Flight Games. He wrote the Nocturnum set of adventures of Call of Cthulhu with Darrell Hardy, co-designed the Game of Thrones wargame and worked on Doom: The Boardgame. In 2014 Petersen became the CEO of Asmodee North America. Asmodee is a well […]
The uncommonly adult RPG: Kult – Divinity Lost
This is a review of the Kickstarter version of the fourth edition of the Kult RPG. The Swedish publisher Helmgast AB ran the Kickstarter, produced the book and Modiphius are in the mix as distributors. How ‘adult’ is Kult – Divinity Lost? Kult is the only RPG in my collection that discusses safe words and […]
Genre Police: You Call it Wuxia, I call it Wushu
From a western perspective, Wuxia and the Samurai genre can be very easy to blend together. In reality, though, Wuxia is a different beast. It has a history of rebellion, heroes disinterested in serving a local lord and finding their own destiny. Sound familiar? It’s probably the content of most weekly gaming sessions. Let’s take […]
This d20 is forged from a meteorite
Gil Ramirez is a blacksmith known as the Vlogsmith on YouTube and he likes to make interesting dice. His most recent project took a meteorite and made a d20. The dice was electro-etched to carve in the numbers on each face. Then the space d20 was acid etched to bring out the Widmanstatten lines. The […]
CMON planning a Trudvang Legends board game
We’ve already seen CMON take the board game Zombicide and morph it into a RPG. They’re also bringing the Trudvang Legends RPG and adapting it into a board game. CMON are taking the Kickstarter route. The original RPG, based on Nordic and Celtic myths, was a Kickstarter success and so there’s every reason to believe […]
WizKids to support D&D’s Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica with 44 characters
WizKid’s D&D Icons of the Realm set of pre-painted miniatures is giving us an early look inside the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica. The 44 figure set is called “D&D Icons of the Realms: Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica” and will include the likes of Deathpact Angel, the Gruul Anarch, the Boros Reckoner, and the Nightveil Specter, […]
First Black Lotus sells for $87,000, and there’s bidding on a second
There’s a Black Lotus with a black border up for sale on ebay right now. The current bid is US$1,000, but it is likely to sell for much more. How much more? Another black bordered Black Lotus has just closed for over $87,000. Not every Black Lotus is equal. The condition of the card, for […]
