Here’s how you can tell when your GM is planning on being a Call of Cthulhu Keeper for the next scenario. This typewriter is a design from Courtney Brown which won first place at the California Sculpture SLAM. Okay, so it wasn’t really created for Evil GMs to write adventures of San Point loss and […]
Archives for November 2015
Suggestions for Safer Larps: Living Games’ Coordinator Offers Tips
This is a guest post by Sarah Lynne Bowman, Ph.D. is a role-playing studies scholar and adjunct professor in English, Communication, and Humanities. Historically, one of the most common worries about role-playing games has involved concerns about their psychological effects. In the past, alarmist parents and other non-gamers have complained that RPGs might negatively impact […]
Fallout Disney princesses are rad
Check out the awesome work of Canadian artist Peter Slavik. The Fallout fan has created a series of Disney princess and Fallout mashups. They’re perfect. Imagine what Alice would be like as a Jet junkie? What if Princess Jasmine became a raider or Ariel became a Brotherhood Scribe? You can buy his work via Deviant […]
Hardcore gamers are less nostalgic over games than anyone else
Geek Native gave away a copy of From Bedrooms to Billions. This great documentary looked at the rise of computer game design and the industry in the UK. The competition was used to ask two questions; Do you consider yourself to be a hardcore gamer? Do you think new computer games are better than old […]
Competition: Mirai Nikki: Future Diary – Complete Collection 1
One of our international contributors, L Meridian, gave us a glimpse at the first episode of Future Diary back in 2013. Here in the UK we’ve had to wait this month before we can get our hands on the Mirai Nikki: Future Diary – Complete Collection 1 set though. Here’s what Meridian told us; At […]
7th Sea returns; AEG sells rights back to John Wick
John Wick, now at John Wick Presents, part of AEG’s original development team for the “swashbuckling and sorcery” RPG, has secured the publishing rights from the game. The sellers, AEG, are clear these are publication rights and that they will still be publishing a number of products for the title over the next few years. […]
Phil Postma’s Star Wars: The Art of War
Phil Postma has been one of my favourite artists ever since these Samurai Thundercats. The super talented Canadian character designer has been at it again with a series of Star Wars bomber and fighter insignia’s inspired by the Disney one’s from World War II. Postma has a Redbubble store. A great way to support an […]
5 feet of Fallout 4 inspired Lego
It’s hard to get a sense of scale in the teaser pictures here but pop over to Pierre’s Flickr and you’ll get an idea. His cat can sit in just one half of this huge Fallout 4 Lego diorama. My favourite feature is the Fallout bobblehead you can see on the chest of draws on […]
Fantasy and sci-fi booze inspired t-shirt and tie designs
Last year Geek Native suggested “Dear Dungeon Master, wear this tie while crushing players” and it looks like gamers agreed, taking a fancy to these dice and dragon ties. Now Binary Winter press are back with a set of designs that imagine what the label on a bottle of spirits, of the alcoholic nature, would […]
Onyx Path holds course as the World of Darkness’ new owners review all licensing deals
Late last month the news broke that White Wolf publishing was being sold to Paradox Interactive. White Wolf, previously bought by EVE Online owners CCP, own the licenses to World of Darkness games like Vampire, Werewolf and Mage. While plans for a World of Darkness or Vampire: the Masquerade MMO began to run into trouble, progress […]
