Grab your free preview of Graham Walmsley’s Cthulhu Dark here. The two-page preview accompanies the Kickstarter for the lightweight and terrifying Cthulhu game. [Back the Campaign] Walmsley is known for his mystery and Cthulhu titles. His best-selling title over on DriveThruRPG is Stealing Cthulhu while his second is a book that describes how we can […]
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Ruma: Dawn of Empire – an alternative Roman Empire
There’s a week (at the time of writing) to go for Ruma: Dawn of Empire on Kickstarter. Martin Greening has a success in his hands – with nearly twice his target raised in funds so far. To find out more about the project check out the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aryus/ruma-dawn-of-empire-rpg [Back this Campaign] A pledge of […]
Cubicle 7 team with Games Workshop for new Warhammer Fantasy RPG
There’s a new edition coming of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and it’ll be a partnership of Games Workshop and Cubicle 7 behind it. Cubicle 7 CEO Dominic McDowall told press, “Like so many gamers I grew up on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. It’s an iconic setting and I’m thrilled to be working on this new edition of […]
Exclusive peek: Gods and Goddesses will look at home in your 5e campaign
Gods and Goddesses is a 5th edition supplement that will let you use classic deities in your campaign. Geek Native has some exclusive art to share and a quirky fact too. Let’s take a look at the Kickstarter campaign first. [Back this Campaign] I really enjoyed reading deity books when I was younger. It was […]
Has Cubicle 7 just scored the Warhammer FRP license?
The expression ‘where there is smoke there is fire’ comes to mind. There’s lots of smoke here but and it all points to UK RPG publisher Cubicle 7 picking up a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay deal. Grim and Perilous first raised the rumours last month when Cubicle 7 refused to comment on the rumours that they’d […]
Due 2017: The Princess Bride RPG
Designed by Steffan O’Sullivan The Princess Bride RPG will be published by Toy Vault this year. The game will huge FUDGE. O’Sullivan designed the FUDGE roleplaying game system and worked on projects like GURPS Swashbucklers and GURPS Bunnies & Burrows. This is an area he knows well. Toy Vault has had a license for the […]
Burning Games tease their 3-strong line up
Spanish publisher Burning Games caught attention with the Kickstarter for their sci-fi Faith. Now fans have even more reason to be watching the radar. There are three games due out in 2017. Faith: Core Book This Kickstarter with fire up a new Core Book and expand the mythos of the Faith RPG. We’ll get the […]
PETA complains about Games Workshop characters ‘wearing’ fur
PETA is an animal rights activist charity with a penchant for PR stunts. Today, they’ve written to the UK’s Games Workshop to ask them to ban ‘fur’ from gaming miniatures. Not real fur. The depiction of fur on the models. You can read a copy of the letter on PETAuk [PDF] but here’s a sample; […]
Glorantha’s Khan of Khans conquers Kickstarter
The nature of the beast means there’s no such thing as a ‘safe Kickstarter’ but Khan of Khans is complete, just waiting for the Kickstarter campaign to finish before going to the printers, it has more than 300% of target in funds and is being managed by Chaosium. Check out the campaign page here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/khan-of-khans-family-game […]
Trying to use the loo at a LARP
Meanwhile at a LARP convention This clip was posted by Imgur user Chrisini. It seems to come from a larger video but the origin wasn’t shared. Do you know? If you’ve been to a large LARP before, the sort of thing that results in a bunch of gamers being locked away in a field, with […]
