The famous Witchblade comic series from Top Cow is already available at OneBookShelf’s DriveThru Comics and so it perhaps makes sense that the spinoff series Angelus should also make an appearance. Angelus follows the one-time Witchblade wearer Danielle Baptiste after she has become the Angelus – that’s the human bearer of the prime force of […]
RuneQuest II’s Vikings RPG preview
Mongoose have published a complete setting and backgrond book for RuneQuest II called Vikings. The game looks at viking myths but also influenced by historical truths. Here’s a quote from the free preview. Hunting Another unusual aspect of Viking culture is their approach to hunting. Although respected as a valued skill, hunting is not entertainment […]
Free to Download: Signs & Portents 83
The Mongoose team have found time to upload and begin giving away the latest edition of the free to download magazine “Signs and Portents”. This is really a pre-GenCon edition in many ways but there’s enough here to ensure that most Mongoose gaming groups find something to their taste. Here’s the Mongoose supplied teaser. RuneQuest […]
Alien Swarm – Valve’s free game
On Monday you’ll be able to get Alien Swarm from Valve for free. Here’s the deal; Alien Swarm was a top-down, four-player co-op from 2004. Turns out that Valve hired the team behind the game in 2008, had them work on L4D, Portal 2 but also Alien Swarm. Interestingly, Valve’s also releasing an SDK on […]
Free to Download: Signs and Portents 82
The Mongoose Publishing team have released the latest edition of their free to download e-zine: Signs and Portents. This month is called “Sex, Dice and Gamer Chicks”. That’s because James Desborough and Jonny Nexus are just about to see their Sex, Dice and Gamer Chicks book hit the shelves. The Mongoose supplied summary is below […]
Free to Download: Signs and Portents 81
Mongoose have published their latest issue of Signs and Portents. This is a free to download ezine which highlights news from world Mongoose (from moon Mongoose?), reviews, insights and blurbs from new releases. The Google Viewer below contains the entire issue or you can download from their sites. After the viewer is a couple of […]
HELLAS: Princes of the Universe free preview and clever tactics
I want to see more of this sort of thing. Here’s the background. Hellas is an RPG from Khepera Publishing. Princes of the Universe is the second in book in the HELLAS series (five are planned) and Khepera Publishing and Jerry D. Grayson are asking you to pay towards the development of the book. Why? […]
Dr Who – Free Silurian mask
The BBC have published a colour PDF designed to be printed off, cut out and turned into your very own Silurian mask. It’s a good idea for a freebie even if it is rather simple. It was released to support the showing of the The Hungry Earth. Here’s a prediction. We’ll see lots of Silurian […]
Free to Download: Signs and Portents 80
Mongoose have published their free to download ezine Signs and Portents. We’re up to issue 80. I’ve taken two book excerpts out from the freebie as well as a chunk of text about The Sword Worlders in Mongoose’s Traveller (the latter follows the magazine embed). Enjoy! This first quote comes from the LBB1 Mercenary book […]
D&D for Kids: Cute monsters but disappointing reach?
This isn’t a full play test as I’ve not had a bunch of kids play through The Heroes of Hesiod for me. I can’t think of much worse than mixing the escapism of my roleplaying with the real world horrors of kids. Of course, loads of gamers have happy and busy families. It makes sense […]
