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Archives for August 2022

It’s a thing: Turn your car’s gear shift into a samurai

August 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The sword handle gear knob is designed to enhance your car, perhaps not just style, but if you find it easier to shift gear with this design, then practically too.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: shopping

Free to Download: Rusty Dagger – Den of Rats

August 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rusty Dagger: Den of Rats is a free to download solo adventure. The Rusty Dagger rule set is 21-pages and $2.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: free to download, solo rpgs

Lo! Thy Dread Empire goes grimdark and anti-capitalist as a ZineQuest wargame

August 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

With the start of Gen Con, we’ve the rescheduled ZineQuest and the expected wave of fantastic light-weight RPGs. Tanya Floaker’s latest isn’t just a RPG; it’s a wargame too.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, tanya floaker, wargames, zinequest

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners with guns, hacking and street action

August 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Studio Trigger and Netflix’s 10-part Cyberpunk: Edgerunners series has a proper trailer.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: cyberpunk: edgerunners, netflix, studio trigger, trailers

Empty Cycle: School drama, teen angst and giant robots RPG

August 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Empty Cycle is inspired by anime like FLCL and Kill la Kill, which means school, emotional discovery and invading alien robots on your lunch break.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, rookie jet studio

DriveThruRPG kicks off the first PocketQuest to celebrate small publishers and rules-lite games

August 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is the first games jam of DriveThruRPG, and their community of publishers have been working on summer camp-themed and “pocket-sized” RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, pocketquest

Sci-fi tabletop RPG Stillfleet launches into success on Kickstarter

August 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can get the Stillfleet quickstart rules for however much money you want to pay. That’s not the usual capitalist way of doing things, but it’s not uncommon in indie RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, sci-fi

Catalyst Game Labs goes to BattleTech Total War with a Bundle

August 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Destiny is the 2020 edition of the MechWarrior RPG, which adapts the Cue System first seen in Shadowrun: Anarchy. The RPG, I’m told, integrates into the board game rules found in Total Warfare and its Operations handbooks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, bundle of holding, bundles, Catalyst Game Labs

Exclusive map reveal: Wicked Ones returns to Kickstarter for a high-quality print run

August 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bandit Camp’s Wicked Ones is famous for at least two reasons, if not more. It’s good at being bad, living up to its name to let you play as one of the wicked. It also went free to download, all 320+ pages of it. So, why pay? Hundreds of backers rushed to pay for an […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bandit camp, cartography, forged in the dark, kickstarters, wicked ones

Crunchyroll streams English subtitled Orient part 2 trailer

August 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

One day, as Musashi struggles with his choices, he witnesses humans being torn apart by oni. Forced to face the truth, Musashi rises up against the powerful oni to make his dream with Kojiro come true!

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: Crunchyroll, trailers

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