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Wizards without Coats: Backpack
In-game ads for tabletop adventures? Someone will invent them. Surely, sadly! < PreviousWizards without Coats Next > We interrupt your cartoon for this brief special announcement – Now with the new “Space Saver Backpack”, you can store 500, 1000, 10000 gold coins! We interrupt your weekly episode of Wizards without Coats to bring […]
Call of Cthulhu takes the 7th edition to Kickstarter
[Back this Campaign] The video above isn’t the Kickstarter pitch video for the project. There’s no such video. There’s an image header instead which you can see below. The video was actually quite important though. It helped convince me that this wasn’t a fake Kickstarter project. There’s no mention of the pitch on Chaosium’s homepage […]
A look inside Sojourner’s Quest, is it an AD&D retro-clone?
Sojourner’s Quest is an RPG by Randall C Ellis. The 168-paged PDF, illustrated by Agnieszka Miroslaw-Kalinowska, is on sale at DriveThru RPG for $4.95. The game, along with the free to download character sheets, was the first upload to Sojourner Games’ home in the electronic retailer and has been followed by Module SQ1: Wynold Forest, […]
Dice Bag! A competition inspired by Zoidberg, Cthulhu and a Beholder
At the start of the month I stumbled across a beholder! Did it kill me? Nope! The collection of eye tyrant dice bags, inspired by the familiar D&D horror, won me over with their quirky charm and usefulness. I want to rummage around in the mouth of a beast before every dramatic dice roll. You […]
Mind’s Eye Theatre: Vampire the Masquerade LARP looks to return
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bynightstudios/minds-eye-theatre-vampire-the-masquerade/ [Back this Kickstarter] At the start of the year By Night Studios announced a deal with CCP that gave them a license deal to update the LARP system for Mind’s Eye Theatre. This would mean a revision of the Vampire: The Masquerade LARP rules and perhaps other World of Darkness properties. It’s a few […]
WizKids start the Dominion War in Star Trek: Attack Wing!
WizKids/NECA has kicked off the Dominion War with an organised play event to launch the forthcoming Star Trek: HeroClix game Star Trek: Attack Wing. The Dominion War is a big deal in the Star Trek universe and perhaps one of the most dramatic times in the Alpha Quadrant. The Breen Confederacy and the Jem’Hadar have […]
Wizards without Coats: Props
Hey, there’s no shame in improv props! < PreviousWizards without Coats Next > Gah! I hate it when he runs out of props for the game! Our weekly Wizards without Coats series from V Shane continues with this sombre story of the horrors PCs face when the GM runs out of props. Has this […]
Paizo and Dynamite launch Pathfinder goblins comic book series
Following on Jim Zub’s successful Pathfinder comic book series, now also being offered in a collection called Pathfinder: Dark Waters Rising, Paizo have launched a Pathfinder goblins series too. Erik Mona informed fans; “A goblin horde stormed the offices of Paizo, demanding we chronicle their adventures from a goblin point of view,” “With the threats […]
A lightshade for your gaming den: twisted woods
Dear gamers, you probably thought you had the lighting for your gaming den sorted. Perhaps you’ve got some custom lightshades with expertly placed fittings that ensure you’ve some atmosphere in the room while still being able to read the character sheets. Perhaps you’ve got candles by the table and you risk character sheets going up […]
