The Fate Core system provides an incredibly flexible platform for running games of any genre. Indeed, this flexibility makes Fate more of a gaming tool-kit than a system, as you can shape it to meet your needs – narrowing for simplicity or expanding for crunchy complexity as you and your gaming group see fit. Fate […]
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I Can Haz Fate Core? A Review of The Secrets of Cats
Two of geek culture’s hottest trends today are the Fate Core roleplaying game, and cats doing just about anything. A merging of the two seems almost inevitable. Thankfully, The Secrets of Cats: A World of Adventure for Fate Core, by Richard Bellingham, does great justice to both subjects. The first thing that jumped out at […]
75% of Steve Jackson Games’ business is generated by Munchkin
Steve Jackson Games is impressively transparent with fans. They publish a report, even though Steve Jackson is the only stockholder, to reveal how well (or not) the company is doing. You can read the latest Report to the Stakeholders for 2013 on their website today. The company has been going since 1980 and now has […]
Must see cinematic trailer for the RPG Mutant: Year Zero
Modiphius and Free League Publishing are publishing a 30th anniversary edition of Mutant: Year Zero. The tabletop RPG will be a 256 page full colour hardcover (with PDF edition too). In Mutant: Year Zero you play one of the people of the Ark. You’re a mutant, powerful but fragile. None of the people are over […]
When a whole Spanish town becomes Zombie Survival LARP
Some two-thousand players turned the streets of Collado Villaba, a Spanish town near Madrid, into a zombie LARP. Players had to carry passports, an identifying handkerchief and fake cash to bribe other players. Meanwhile some 150 staff helped run the event and use make-up and professional actors to kick off the zombie infection. All you […]
Phoenix Outlaw find success with Smoke & Glass
This Kickstarter pitch has made its pledge target with still 24 days to go. At the time of writing over 160 gamers have backed this steampunk setting for Fate Core. [Back this Campaign] There’s an interesting option early on in the pledge levels. For just $3 you can get a retail shoutout on Phoenix Outlaw’s […]
Laniakea: Why your sci-fi RPG is too small
This video can be whatever you want it to be. Space porn? Yup. Education? Yup. Inspiration for your next sci-fi setting? Oh yes. The term to take away from this, I think, is supercluster. The plot device to borrow from the video may well be The Great Attractor. My evil GM mind is already a […]
Now I Suspect You of Weaselry: A Review of The Gaean Reach
I must admit to having only a fleeting exposure to the works of Jack Vance, though I’m currently seeking to correct that by reading more of his work. For many, Vance has a strong link various editions of Dungeons & Dragons, where the mechanisms for spell-casting owe a debt to his Dying Earth books. Pelgrane […]
Fantasy Flight Games begin The End of the World
Fantasy Flight Games have announced a new tabletop RPG series called “The End of the World”. There will be four books in the series and each one is about horror, survival and the last days of mankind. They are Zombie Apocalypse Wrath of the Gods Alien Invasion Revolt of the Machines Fantasy Flight Games suggest […]
Funky! Spirit of 77 Kickstarter rolls in the wonga
Spirit of 77 mixes in classic 70s sci-fi with action, glam music and even kung-fu. Sound ambitious? Not your cup of tea? I worried but when I read through the free to download Cruise Ship of the Damned I was won over. I’m not alone. At the time of writing the Spirit of 77 Kickstarter […]
