What is it with pop culture and zombies? In the introductory chapter of its new roleplaying game, End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse, Fantasy Flight Games breaks it down for you, plain and simple: Zombies are the perfect manifestation of the end of the world. Inexorable, unstoppable, contagious, and beyond understanding—whatever scares you, whatever you think could destroy the […]
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The Wedding Party
This week’s Paeregrine strip is worth a chuckle. Well worth adding the site to your usual web comic visit list too.
D&D’s latest storyline: Elemental Evil
Yesterday, Wizards of the Coast announced the next storyline for D&D. Elemental Evil will be a transdigital campaign with a new downloadable module for the free-to-play Dungeons & Dragon’s MMORPG from Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment. Neverwinter: Elemental Evil offers up a new playable class – the Paladin – and increases the level cap […]
32 finalists in Paizo’s RPG Superstar competition
Paizo announced the 32 geeks who’ve made it through to the next round of their annual, worldwide and open-call game design competition. The winner will get to publish an official Pathfinder RPG module. The first round of RPG Superstar was announced in December. Gamers had to design an original magic item from one of the […]
Humble kickstarter: Sleeper RPG shows promise
Death Spiral Games are asking for only £2,000 in their Kickstarter for sci-fi action RPG Sleeper: Orphans of the Cold War. They’ve a full 27 days on the clock, at the time of writing, over £500 in bank already and more than 20 backers. It’s looking good. You can check the latest details on their […]
An Eye Tyrant’s day planner
An Eye Tyrant is a fierce magical monster. Any given Eye Tyrant is hugely intelligent, intolerant of any other Eye Tyrant and a master of magic. Eye Tyrants are so powerful that strange magical effects are sometimes detected in the countryside around their lairs. Brave adventurers are sometimes tempted to raid these lairs and search […]
Why skeletons attack!
A comic from Dorkly that explains why skeleton warriors are always so keen to attack adventurers. They’re not trying to do harm; they’re trying to rescue the skeleton trapped inside the meaty flesh puppet. Clearly!
Broken Ruler Games attaches to Mystical Throne Entertainment
At the end of 2014 the future didn’t look so rosy for The Warden’s Broken Ruler Games. He wrote on the company’s Facebook page; The End of This Chapter All stories must be able to move forward and doing so requires them to reach their inevitable conclusion. Sad to say that the story of Broken […]
Exclusive: A sneak peek at WITCH
WITCH is a new RPG coming from Liz Chaipraditkul and Floor Coert at Angry Hamster Publishing. There’s a Kickstarter for WITCH RPG expected in March. I’m looking forward to it. We’ve been granted a sneak peek into the mind of a Djinn in WITCH as they wrestle with their need to grand wishes. The Djinn […]
4 reasons why Critical Failures are a bad game mechanic; 4 why they work
Roleplayers are familiar with the Critical Success or Critical Hit rule. The player rolls a natural 20 or similar maximum value and as a result successfully strikes an otherwise impossible target or hits their enemy with such force that extra damage is done. Critical Miss rules are not as common in core rules but they […]
