The 2014 Origins Winners were announced during the Origins Game Fair last week. This is the 40th annual Origins Awards and winners include AEG, who one twice, Monte Cook and Green Ronin. Categories included RPGs, various tabletop games, figures, accessories and even related media. Best Roleplaying Game Numenera by Monte Cook Games Best Roleplaying Supplement […]
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The roleplayers’ analysis of Microsoft’s E3 – so far
E3 is the big game expo. It’s Monday and Microsoft have been speaking. Let’s take a look at their announcements and have a go at sorting the games into roleplaying tiers. The theory is this; there are computer roleplaying games which do what they can to recreate the RPG experience with a console or computer, […]
Unlock the Eternal Siege of the Shard: A Review of The Timeless Fort
Long ago, three kingdoms were gifted with the fiery arrival of a skybourne crystal shard. Some say the artefact possessed the ability to enhance magical powers, but none of the kingdoms could tell for sure, for a righteous order of men and women stole it from beneath their noses. So started the Shard Wars. Like […]
The Party of the Doctor
Did you enjoy The Day of the Doctor? It shouldn’t be long before we start seeing War Doctor and 12th Doctor fan art popping up around the place. Here’s one from Tumblr. Except… this looks less like the Day of the Doctor and more like the Party of the Doctor. The War Doctor’s gone and […]
Onyx Path partners with Nocturnal Media to buy Scarred Lands
I rather enjoyed Sword and Sorcery Studio’s d20 setting “Scarred Lands“. It was a grim (ish) world in which gods and titans battled for control and envolved the mortal races they had made. Humans, elves, dwarves and the other “Divine Races” fought against the spawn of the titans. The setting picked up 150 years after […]
Super Mecha Awesome Go!: A Review of Apotheosis Drive X
Pacific Rim made a big splash this year with Giant Robots battling Mutant Monsters from Another Dimension. We have more monsters and robots to come, I’m certain. Hollywood has found their cool thing of the moment. Manga and anime series love this stuff – and I have enjoyed years of Giant Robots throughout childhood and […]
Irregular Reconnaissance: Comic Books #2
Living up to the name “Irregular” here is the second comic book edition of Irregular Reconnaissance. This is a chance to do quick catch-ups of the comic books and graphic novels that have found their way in front of my eyes in recent times. Each comic book listing has a micro summary and a recommendation. […]
Who’s leading the Ennies 2013 pack?
The nominations for the 2013 ENnies are out. These are a big set of awards in the roleplaying publishing world. Counting by hand, I reach 57 publishers nominated and that’s up from just shy of 40 from 2012. Paizo Publishing and Pelgrane Press lead the pack with 7 nominations each, with Cubicle 7 in third […]
Superhero Week: The webcomic rundown
We’ve already had a whole bunch of free to download superhero comics and superhero RPG material but what if that’s too much effort? What if you don’t want to download anything this Superhero Week? If that’s the case then this list of free to enjoy webcomics might do the trick! Grrl Power A comic about […]
An X-Wing Fighter is the largest LEGO ever built
The unveiling a life sized X-Wing Fighter in New York this week made the news and drew huge crowds. Joe Meno, editor-in-chief of BrickJournal was lucky enough to get a secret and personal tour ahead of the big day. His write up appears on Brothers Brick. The model uses more than 5 million bricks, was […]
