The OneDice Universal Revised from Cakebread & Walton is designed to be quick and fun. The premise of the books are for those times when you have a cool idea for a roleplaying session but not very much prep time. It’s also a good way to get players more confident in GMing a little. There’s […]
Cakebread & Walton score Winter of the World RPG
British publishers Cakebread & Walton are known for games like Clockwork & Chivalry, Abney Park’s Airship Pirates, Pirates & Dragons and the OneDice series. They’ve just scored the license to take Michael Scott Rohan’s ebook series and create a two core gamebook RPG. Rohan’s 6-part fantasy series is published by Gollancz’s SF Gateway imprint and […]
7 RPG publishers form the Game Publishers’ Guild
The Game Publishers’ Guild launched yesterday in a strategic alliance to create industry awareness for members and determine a level of product quality for participating games companies. The founding members are; Arcanum Syndicate, publishers of Chaos 6010 A.D. and Pray for Dawn Cakebread and Walton, publishers of Abney Park’s Airship Pirates and OneDice Universal DramaScape, […]
A Look Inside: Airship Pirates
This week we are celebrating International GM’s Day and we’re not alone. DriveThru RPG run their biggest sale of the year this week. Here’s an idea. If you wanted to find a brand new RPG, not a sourcebook, supplement or set of art in the sale and you wanted to take advantage of the discounts […]
The Crios RPG
[Back this Campaign] Crios is a Kickstarter pitch from Battlefield Press. At the time of posting they’ve raised $1,500+, asking for $3,000 and have about a week to do it. The pitch is pretty good; a mashup of fantasy and World War I action using the Renaissance Deluxe roleplaying game. I suspect they may be […]
Will you surrender your booty to the Pirates & Dragons RPG?
Cakebread & Walton are asking £12,000 for this RPG. They’ve 39 days to go and nearly £500 in the bank. That’s to say the campaign has just launched and its too early to see if there’s widespread interest.
Competition: The Great Indie RPG Giveaway
This competition is not being run by Geek Native. The great team at Roleplayers Chronicle have an absolute host of Indie RPG goodness to give away. There are five different packages to win. Just as WizKids are doing for their Pacific Rim HeroClix competition the Indie RPG Giveaway is using Rafflecopter. In this case; there’s […]
Free to Download: Renaissance D100 SRD, adventure and character sheets
Cakebread & Walton currently have their Renaissance Deluxe d100 system under a big discount at DriveThru RPG. The game is set in the age of sail and piracy, of black powder weapons and religious wars. It’ll serve as a flintlock and steel system for either a historical game, a fantasy game or alternative history setting. […]
Delta14’s summer releases and the RPGs connections
Delta14 is the sister company to Chronicle City. Chronicle City strikes deals with RPG publishers in order to make print runs and savvy trans-Atlantic distribution. Here’s how the RPG connections map to Delta14’s schedule. Starting with Gunnar Roxen and the follow on books from The Wyld Hunt gives us the Broken Shield RPG. Gobion Rowlands […]
The Kickstarter launch: UK publishers and authors respond
Kickstarter is the most widely recognised crowdfunding site in the world and, this week, it announced UK launch dates. Publishers can create projects already but cannot begin funding campaigns until Halloween. It’s worth, just briefly, considering why this is so important for gamers. Kickstarter makes possible roleplaying games, books and miniatures that would otherwise have […]
