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Archives for November 2014

Create your own monster mythos with Silent Legions

November 24, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Silent Legions is a sandbox RPG from Kevin Crawford that offers GMs with the toolkit they need to create their own Lovecraftian style alien gods. At the time of writing it is nearly 300% funded. You can check out more on Kickstarter. [Back this Campaign] Silent Legions will offer tools for creating black sorcery and […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kevin crawford, kickstarters, Stars without Number

The ultimate history of card games [infographic]

November 24, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This infographic suggests that card games can be traced back to China and between 618 AD to 907 AD. Baccarat appears around about the 1400s as an early gambling game and we don’t get Solitaire or Patience until about the 1700s in Europe. Rummy and Gin Rummy are American inventions as is the Joker card […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: card games, infographics

Bayonetta cosplay all the way from Russia

November 23, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bayonetta is a good character to cosplay as she looks unique, is pretty famous and has a number of iconic elements that all help recreate the style of the character. On the other hand; the costume is unforgiving and all the visual cues challenging to make. Oniksiya Sofinkikum does an excellent job here! Check out […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: bayonetta, cosplay

Blasted and torn: The sci-fi artof A.J. Trahan

November 23, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

A.J. Trahan is a professional artist who’s worked at Midway Games, Junction Point, Steamboat Studios and Kojima Studios. He has a range of styles and covers various topics but the sample gallery below has a focus on his sci-fi art and pieces in the aftermath of destruction. You can see more illustrations and find out […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: dune, sci-fi

The Bender woodstove

November 23, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This Bender is actually a wood burning stove. The man who made this has a blog with a single entry. Called Bender Bending Rodriguez the post details how one drunken idea turned into the stand up stove. If you want to build a Futurama inspired stove yourself; this post will tell you how. Blogged by […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: household

The puck is one grumpy looking forest goblin

November 23, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Puck is based off British fairy legends and is the creation of Uncanny Critters. The model is about 10cm tall and painted by hand. Pucks are forest Goblins, who are viewed as the most dim witted of the tree spirits, often thought by other fairy folks as being no smarter then a young dog. […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: models

The Dark Below prologue

November 22, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you sticking with Destiny? I’ve not made time for Destiny in a while but I still feel faithful to the game. Like everyone else; I need more content. I’m not in the PvP camp. The Dark Below looks pretty interesting. You can tell the plan straight away when the prologue mentions Croata’s dad. No […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: bungie, destiny, PlayStation 3, playstation 4, trailers, Xbox 360, xbox one

Parasyte live-action trailers hit creepy level 2

November 22, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Parasyte is an anime that’s being adapted into two live-action films. The anime is currently showing in Japan and streaming via Crunchyroll internationally. The anime is a horror. The alien creatures have a hunger for human flesh and need a human host to survive. High school student Shinichi Izumi knows their secret because his right hand […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: anime, Crunchyroll, horror, parasyte, sci-fi, trailers

Surviving a reality twisting apocalypse: Legacy – Life Among the Ruins

November 22, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this Campaign] Legacy is a post-apocalyptic RPG with a twist. The twist is that players take on the role of one character and one family. The game has built-in support for multi-generational play. Once you short out the dramas and dangers of the age, Legacy provides rules to see what happens next, how Families […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalypse engine, kickstarters, Legacy: Life Among the Ruins

6 tips for using free art in your RPGs

November 21, 2014 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

This guest post is from Chris Tregenza, the creator of the 6d6 RPG, and helps game designers get the most out of free art for their RPGs. Previously, Chris wrote 4 great places to get free art for RPGs which is a good companion piece to this post. The 6d6 Core 2nd edition is available […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 6d6 Fireball, Chris Tregenza

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