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Archives for August 2019

Resist & Remember: Weimar is an RPG that remembers the importance of punching Nazis in the face

August 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If this Kickstarter is successful, there will be games when people fought the fascists such as Resist & Remember: Stonewall or Resist & Remember: Nat Turner.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Full Carnival Row trailer

August 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The show stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevinge, but you’ll see plenty of other great actors in the trailer.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: amazon, Guillermo del Toro, Orlando Bloom, prime video, trailers

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #8

August 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the first weekly round-up of RPG news and discoveries since Gen Con happened.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Deborah Ann Woll, Eberron, ENnies, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, geek & sundry, gen con, genesys, green ronin, Keith Baker, lord of the rings, Marisha Ray, Newt Newport, Nightfall Games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, raging swan press, red scar publishing, routinely itemised, SLA Industries, the adventure zone, the lord of the rings, The One Ring, titansgrave, Wil Wheaton, wizards of the coast

Telegram channels for geeks and gamers

August 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Telegram is a free to use, ad-free and privately funded secure instant messaging and voice over IP service.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: geek native, ingress, pokemon go

Bryan Cogman’s Magic: The Gathering film scrapped by Disney

August 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bryan Cogman is a writer-director who is perhaps best known for his work on Game of Thrones.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: disney, magic the gathering

What is the Matt Mercer effect?

August 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Matt Mercer

It has become such a commonly used phrase that “Mercer Effect” entered the Urban Dictionary this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, matt mercer

Cubicle 7 reveal The One Ring: The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game Collector’s Edition

August 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Collector’s Edition is leather-bound and emblazoned with the One RIng script picked out in silver foil-stamped Tengwar.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, lord of the rings, The One Ring

Free to Download: Devil’s Run RPG Quickstart

August 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Devil’s Run the roleplaying RPG is set 20 years after a nuclear and biological exchange between the East and the West.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2d20, apocalyptic, Modiphius Entertainment, red scar publishing, savage worlds

RPG Idea: Send bad dice to jail

August 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s an easy idea to add a little light heartened drama to your gaming table. Use a dice jail.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice

The Brexit trap for British publishers going to the Essen Game Fair

August 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 2019 Essen Game Fair runs from 24th October to the 27th October, which is a Sunday. As it stands now, on 31st October the UK is on course to crash out of the European Union. The British Government’s advice is that by 11 pm on the 31st goods moving from the EU (Germany) to […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: essen game fair, legal

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