There’s every possibility you’re one of the people who considers Colin Baker’s tenure as the nadir of classic Doctor Who. It might be hard to pin the problem down to one thing, but the foul temper, hideous outfit and general dislikability of the Sixth Doctor’s personality didn’t help. After just two short seasons, Colin Baker […]
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5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens
5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens Team EN World opened the voting booth for the 2014 ENnie Awards this week. Voting started with 5 winners being announced for the 2014 Judges’ Spotlight award. So, who won? Hobomancer Companion from Hex Games Deep Magic from Kobold Press Rocket Age RPG from Cubicle 7 […]
19,168 RPGs and accessories on sale for Christmas in July
It’s a bit of a weird tradition but Christmas in July is a DriveThruRPG tradition in which you can score up to 25% off titles. This year there’s nearly 20,000 titles in the range. The best deals that I’ve spotted? There are hundreds of dollars off Peregrine’s stock illustrations but here’s some RPG-centric titles. Whitewash […]
38 tips on how to play a character with a different gender to your own
Have you seen a roleplaying game go horribly wrong when someone tried to play a character of a different sex to their own? Was it a guy trying to play a woman? While some roleplayers prefer to play characters with a different gender to their own it is not always an easy thing to get […]
A sneak peak at Codename: Morningstar
Codename: Morningstar is the digital element of Dungeons & Dragons 5e. Beta sign ups for the system are openn and over 3,000 gamers joined the queue on Monday. Still to do it? You can register here. In blog post today the team shared a look at what the beta tool suite will look like. They […]
Paizo release Michael A. Stackpole’s Pathfinder Tales: The Crusader Road
New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole has written the first official tie-in novel for the Pathfinder Online Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. Pathfinder Tales: The Crusader Road is available from Paizo directly, from Amazon and as an ePub via Apple’s iBookstore. Stackpole’s penned titles like I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron, over 40 novels […]
WizKids announce Guardians of the Galaxy HeroClix
This shouldn’t come as a surprise but WizKids have announced a Guardians of the Galaxy expansion to their Marvel HeroClix range. The new release will have a five figure booster brick set, a Fast Forces pack, a gravity feed display and an Organised Play kit. It is expected that the figures will be out for […]
5 ways old d20 game books can live on
I caught this Kickstarter pitch for the tabletop RPG Timeline Fracture from Jesse Galena. It’s a time travel/world mashup of a roleplaying game that’s after $6,000. The pitch for the game includes the ability to maximise the value and enjoyment of your d20 books. It’s an interesting idea and after watching the video I reached […]
RPG ideas: 20 incredible concept skyscraper designs
Are you running a future or alternative world RPG? Looking for building designs that will help your world feel very different from the world of today? Good news. The design and architecture site Evolvo has ran a competition to design futuristic skycrapers every year since 2006. There are very many impressive entries. This blog post […]
Goblin Battle: First look at D&D 5e goblins?
Kieran Yanner, who is based in Seattle, has shared this piece to their online portfolio at Behance. It’s called “Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Goblin Battle” and so I theorise this is interior art for one of the soon to be released D&D 5e books. Any predictions as to which of the three first books […]
