Chaosium to give away free adventures to honour Greg Stafford
There will be free scenarios released for Rune Quest, Call of Cthulhu, King Arthur, Pendragon, HeroQuest and the new family member the 7th Sea.
Chaosium buys the 7th Sea RPG
All of the 7th Sea product and merch will now be moved to Chaosium's warehouses and shippers who will take over fulfilment.
GM’s Day starts early at DrivethruRPG: 80% off some bundles
There are nearly 50,000 titles in the discount list and at the time of writing Shadowrun, Changeling: the Lost (second edition) and Fate Space Toolkit Prototype Edition, Wrath and Glory and Warhammer Fantasy 4e are in the top five positions.
Genre Police: Literary Genie-Us
The original One Thousand And One Nights shows a great number of literary tropes that we use and understand as part of today's literary structures and you can see at least parallels in some pillars of western literature, like The Canterbury Tales.
The best selling pulp RPGs of 2018
To make this list an RPG has to be in the top ten sellers (Jan 1st to Dec 11th) of all the games the publishers have added the 'pulp' genre tag too. This means we've games that are solidly in the pulp genre, systems which could but don't have to be used for pulp RPGs and even games you might not consider pulp at all.
Genre Police: The Only Good Pirate Is A Fake Pirate
Hoist the mainsail! Stow the booty! Set Sail For Outer shores! And while we’re at it, make sure we paint over anything that might make a bunch of bandits at sea look like criminals!…
7th Sea: Second Edition Kickstarts already
It was just a few months ago, in Novemeber, when we reported on John Wick buying 7th Sea back from AEG. He’s got the Kickstarter up already and it’s a smash hit.…
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.…
Useful and funny 7th Sea combat summary
7th Sea is a RPG from Alderac Entertainment Group. It’s a game of pirates, musketeers and high adventure on the seas. Expect political skulduggery, secret societies, cultures and ship-to-ship combat.
The game is available at DriveThru RPG (and in the GM’s Day sale; if you’re quick).…
An exclusive look inside A Gallery of Rogues
A Gallery of Rogues is a project from artist Eric Lofgren and the game designer Jim Pinto. Pinto created the World’s Largest Dungeon which sells on eBay for well over $100, King for a Day as well 7th Sea material and Legend of the Five Rings material.…
