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Valhalla is the afterlife of Viking warriors. It is a great hall where the feast and celebrations carry on until the end of the world. This is your reward for a battle death! Except if you’re a D&D character and you’d rather level up! (Via Rock Paper Cynic)
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Fed up with boring dice towers?
The Empirical Innovation team have created a dice tower that looks a lot like a fairground slide. And why not? Who says dice shouldn’t have run on their way down to roll a critical failure that results in your favourite character falling off a mountain? (Via Nerd Approved)
Of Onionskins and Seven Dogs: A review of Aletheia
Role-playing can become an expensive hobby if you go down certain routes. Game companies have cottoned on to the concept of core rulebooks that provide just enough material to get you going. Once you’re in, they flash supplemental material and adventures in your direction, in the hope that you’ll bite. Sometimes, the material on offer […]
Are these the most luxurious dice in the world?
What do you buy a gamer who has all the games they want? How about some Artisan Dice The store sells dice which can be described as “luxurious” because of their unique combination of exotic and decedant materials. Want a d20 carved out of actual mammoth ivory? No problem. Examples of other exotic materials include […]
80 fantasy plants that might appear in your next RPG [infographic]
Do you run a fantasy RPG which has a world strangely filled with entirely mundane fauna and flora. How would that even happen? This infographic from AvasFlowers takes to the works of fiction to compile 80 of the best alternative plants into a single, handy, list. The result? An infographic loaded with inspiration and enough […]
Carolina Game Tables find their legs on Kickstarter
I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen a successful pitch for a specialised game table on Kickstarter until Carolina Game Tables came along. This one is a winner; asking for $15,000 and beating $20,000. At the time of writing there’s more than a day to go and a tally of $25,000 isn’t impossible. You […]
Braille dice, d20 style
This week we’ve looked at a 3D-printed d20 that spoke to you. The idea was it’ll be great for those with visual challenges but some gamers doubted any dice with magnets inside. Braille dice aren’t that rare. You can get Tactile Dice on Amazon. What about d20s, though? This rather impressive looking d20 – for […]
70 pounds of magic artifacts not enough to secure job at Wizards of the Coast
Reddit user and game designer MrDeepImmersion sent a 70 pound resume, a magic stone tablet, to Wizards of the Coast. Sadly, it wasn’t enough to land him a job but WoTC CEO Greg Leeds has recommended him to other games publishers. In an Imgur post MrDeepImmersion describes how he wanted his resume to stand out […]
Free rules for Warmachine and Hordes – now $400 bonus prize
There are some games you pay for and then there are those freebies that actually give you the chance to win more loot. Privateer Press have moved firmly into the latter camp. Right now (and up to September 3, at least) both Warmachine and Hordes are free to download from Privateer’s site. You can grab […]
Cubicle 7 confirm Doctor Who RPG update, not new Dr Who games
There are rumours of forthcoming Doctor Who games from Cubicle 7 but the latest press release from the British publisher doesn’t confirm any of them. Instead, we’ve an update to the popular Doctor Who RPG that puts Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor on the cover. The new edition is a standalone game with a […]
