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Archives for May 2023

Disco Elysium: Do we finally have answers as to what happened?

May 30, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

disco elysium legal battle

A new documentary by People Make Games has delved even further into the murky underside of popular game Disco Elysium, to unveil… even murkier details. We’re talking greed, toxic working culture, creators kicked out of their own brainchild, death threats, and a corrupt scheme to fraudulently take money from the company to… buy that company […]

Filed Under: Games

Rush! Forbidden Planet reveal their MCM London limited exclusives

May 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As you’d expect for such potentially valuable and certainly collectable comics, all three are bagged and boarded. Pre-orders are open now.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: batman, dc comics, dead by daylight, Forbidden Planet, jock virgin, london comic con, Marc Silvestri, Nadia Shammas, shopping, the joker, titan comics

Stone Punk: A rules-lite prehistory-inspired fantasy RPG

May 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s always the idea of using Kickstarter to support new and emerging talent, so let’s focus on Will Hillard, a student at UCSD, writing RPGs for fun and who has just smashed their funding goal on the platform. The tabletop RPG is called Stone Punk, designed to be easy to start playing and is set […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, stone punk, Will Hillard

Am I Actually the Strongest? Anime combines Dr Strange with Rugrats royal fantasy

May 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To be reincarnated into another world with the promise of a “cheat” power is one thing… but to be reborn as a baby, and then left for dead after your royal parents think you’re powerless??

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: Am I Actually the Strongest?, isekai, kodansha, trailers

New DCC Lankhmar on offer in the Bundle of Holding

May 29, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For more than 50 years, Fritz Leiber chronicled the adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. The two rogues gallivant across their fantastic realm of Nehwon from their home base in the City of Seven-Score Thousand Smokes, Lankhmar.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, dungeon crawl classics, Fritz Leiber, goodman games, Lankhmar

Controversial horror author Brian Evenson pens Mork Borg adventure setting for Severed Books

May 29, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Wikipedia entry on American academic and horror author Brian Evenson outlines the ‘BYU controversy in which his novel Altmann’s Tongue prompted complaints from the restrictive university.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Altmann's Tongue, Brian Evenson, horror, kickstarters, mork borg, severed books, The Dark Glinting with Metal

Cos4Hope: Cosplay charity secures Federal Nonprofit status

May 29, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the United States, Cos4Hope, which began with the #CosplayForACause rallying cry in local cosplay communities to encourage cosplaying volunteers to sign up for suicide prevention walks, has secured nonprofit status.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: charity, cos4hope, cosplay

Free to Download: 5e Spells from The Curse of Er’Mah’Gerd

May 29, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When Good Company ventured into the Funk a year ago to retrieve the fabled Staff of Er’Mah’Gerd, the heroes hoped to bring prosperity to a land long fraught with peril.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: David Michael Williams, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, one million words

Is life after the adventure wholesome? Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

May 29, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Madhouse, trailers

Convincing gamers: The Ultimate Game Master Screen crosses 1,500 Kickstarter backers

May 28, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An account created by Forged Gaming and RealmSmith called The Ultimate Game Master currently has over 1,600 backers and over a quarter of a million American Dollars pledged.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: forged gaming, gm screens, kickstarters, realmsmith

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