An oldie – but a goodie. In fact, this video deserves more than the 80,000 or so views it’s had since being uploaded in 2011. The visuals come from the classic and unfortunately never concluded Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. The voice track? Not so much. This is a perfectly timed actual game of D&D as […]
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Continuing the archive (Page 716). This section features historical reporting and reviews.
RPG Ideas: Noteboards are perfect for maps
You can see where I’m going wit this suggestion; I hope. Noteboards (US, CA | UK) would be perfect for any gamer group who likes to mock up maps for models to help visualise combat. The noteboards fold away to almost nothing so they will not take up space. Space is so often the reason […]
The Crios RPG
[Back this Campaign] Crios is a Kickstarter pitch from Battlefield Press. At the time of posting they’ve raised $1,500+, asking for $3,000 and have about a week to do it. The pitch is pretty good; a mashup of fantasy and World War I action using the Renaissance Deluxe roleplaying game. I suspect they may be […]
Wizards release The Adversary wallpaper
Written by Erin Evans, The Adversary is the third book of the Sundering series that started with R. A. Salvatore and Drizzt. In the book the tiefling Warlock Farideh faces personal turmoil thanks to that that deal she made with a devil years ago. To help promote the book Wizards of the Coast have released […]
Green Ronin hand out $10 coupons; change Emerald City format
Sometimes there are RPG projects that just smoothly slide through the system from conception, through to creation, production and sales. Green Ronin’s Emerald City sourcebook for Mutants & Masterminds is not such a book. It’s had problems. In a blog post that describes the supplement as “long-awaited” Green Ronin boss Chris Pramas offers up $10 […]
The die portraits of Lee Bretschneider
Dice with their own personality, RPG style and thanks to Lee Bretschneider they also have their own portraits. The illustrations come out of his Role Play series and are available on Redbubble as t-shirts.
A look inside: Cthulhu at War
The Cthulhu at War bundle from Pelgrane Press available at RPGNow is a little different from other bundles. It putss together Cthulhu adventures from two companies; Pelgrane Press and from Modiphius. Pelgrane has their award winning Trail of Cthulhu while Modiphius have their Kickstarter superstar success Achtung! Cthulhu series. The bundle offers a cash saving […]
Revenge of the Mad Cat Lady?: A Review of Cat’s Eye, for Doctor Who
With 50 years of stories, Doctor Who has a phenomenal bank of imagery. The Doctor and his companions have been across the universe and back. It occurred to me that it might be quite entertaining to take a few images from a bunch of stories and use them as the catalyst for new role playing […]
The monstrous GM’s chair design
Where do you sit when you GM? Do you sit on a sofa as you command hordes of orcs and control the thoughts of terrors from the void? Or do you sit on the same sort of chair as your players? What about an alternative? What about a suitable monstrous chair for a GM? This […]
6d6: The Kickstarter catch-up sale
Did you miss the 6d6 Kickstarter last year? It offered a wealth of products in return for pledges. It reached something like %330 of the funding goal. As is sometimes the case when a Kickstarter smashes targets it can also take a bit longer to put together. There’s all those pledges and stretches to […]
