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Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)

April 3, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?

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New Judge Dredd RPG confirmed as Dread: Dredd is on the way

March 25, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Dread: Dredd is based on Epidiah Ravachol’s award-winning Dread RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dread, judge dredd, rebellion unplugged

Supernatural 20s: 8 innovative horror RPGs you can play on Halloween

October 28, 2019 by Guest Writer 2 Comments

With Halloween fast approaching, you may be looking for a way to get your spooky on and simultaneously enjoy the awesome, imagination-fueled hobby of roleplaying games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dread, horror, kids on bikes, Lovecraftesque, mothership, tales from the loop, thousand year old vampire

Genre Police: Oh The Horror!

March 11, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Over the next few columns we are going to be diving into Horror. While we’ve looked at topics that have bordered the genre before, we haven’t dived right into its black heart. The problem with horror is that it very quickly divides into a massive set of sub-genre specifics. Poe, Lovecraft, King, Bright, Barker are […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chill, dread, Eclipse Phase, genre police, horror, lovecraft

What happens when you replace RPG dice with a Jenga tower?

February 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dread is a game where people die. Why not add to the atmosphere by using a Jenga tower as a replacement to dice? This is a new video but not an new idea. Dread, published by The Impossible Dream, is designed to use Jenga rather than dice and won the 2006 ENnie for Innovation and […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dread, Jenga

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