Rafael Chandler is a game writer and designer who’s worked on computer games like MAG, Rainbow Six: Lockdown and SOCOM 4. On the tabletop RPG front he has Lusus Naturae and No Salvation for Witches in his credits. ViewScream is different; mixing the growing popularity of Google Hangouts powered virtual tabletops, with LARP and with […]
Archives for August 2015
Short film: Looters
Looters is a short film inspired by Skyrim. I suspect many tabletop gamers will recognise the chaotic evil that sometimes take a hold of dice when it comes to random loot tables, though. The VFX here are the work of Daniel Vink, one of the Fury Fingers team who work along side the director/writer Andrew […]
The Infinity Train may mess with your head
James Risner calls this a fast, bi-directional, continuous spiral with ho scale. I call it the infinity train and I think there’s the potential for some sort of graphic novel chiller in the style of Snow Piercer or The Archeologists of Shadows wherein the heroes are trying to reach the end of the train…
RPG Humour… so you had a rare sword
I’ve done this in computer RPGs and tabletop games where a historic or once favourite weapon fell behind the curve.
Mashup: Madventure Time – Max Max meets Adventure Time
What a day, what a lovely day! Egor Zhgun’s Madventure Time is just about perfect as a mashup. We’ve the Fury Road voice over and a quality animation that brings Adventure Time to life entirely in the dreadful world of Mad Max.
Competition: Soldiers of the Damned giveaway
Are you 18 or older? Do you want to see what happens when a group of war-weary German soldiers are ordered to retrieve an ancient relic from a strange forest behind enemy lines? Yes? You’re exactly the type of horror fan who might be interested in this competition to win one of 5 copies of Soldiers […]
One Piece 11: The art gallery
One Piece continues to be a hugely popular anime. Here in the UK the 11th collection – that’s Episodes 253-275 are now out on DVD. There’s an incredible amount of history to this series and the die hard fans are just as loyal as ever before. To mark the release of One Piece Collection 11 […]
How’s this for some freaky good cosplay?
gai君のG第二形態のコスプレは目も動くよ！ pic.twitter.com/nTEfkQg7oL — 蘭鋳@夏1日目ヌ08b (@rantyu_xx) August 6, 2015 The zombie giving you the eye surfaced on Twitter as a video at the start of the month. You can tell that countless hours have gone into this and that a certain cosplayer is going to have a very happy Halloween!
DriveThruRPG/RPGNow admits credit card data theft
The world’s largest store for electronic RPGs has admitted today that it’s had a security breach. If you’ve made a purchase between July 10th and August 6th of this year then the site is recommending you contact your credit card issuing bank and ask for a replacement card. In a support Q&A posted by Jeff […]
Well Met in Lankhmar: A Review of Lankhmar City of Thieves
While it might seem a simple task to create a setting supplement for a game that shifts the focus to match a book, TV show or movie, it isn’t. I mean, I’m not saying there isn’t any effort involved, but you could just slam a major synopsis down, along with some episodic notes, and that […]
