Travellers in the Fourth Dimension, fighting against tyranny, ignorance and dark forces beyond imagination, The Doctor and his companions have voyaged through 800 episodes. Despite the multitude of stories, you’d think a commonality in villains and plots would mean after a while you’d just start repeating yourself. However, it doesn’t necessarily occur to you, unless […]
Between the Shadow and the Light: Review of The Darkening of Mirkwood
The Darkening of Mirkwood recounts an impressive and engaging tale of the Wilderland, encompassing all the many peoples, factions and powers of the region. The fate of Mirkwood itself lies within the richly illustrated pages of this volume, drawn from an incredibly brief source… Now, I hate to sound like some stereotypical teacher stood ramrod […]
Guess What’s Coming to Dinner: Reviewing The Esoterror Summoning Guide
The Membrane is a border between our reality and the Outer Dark, a dimension filled with terrors and darkness. The Esoterrorists, a scattered and ill-organised group of occultists and outright mad men, work tirelessly to tear down that barrier between worlds to loose the floodgates to ultimate power. Unfortunately, this very act will open our […]
Things That Go Fhtägn in the Night: A Review of Cultists Under The Bed, for The Laundry RPG
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was formed during World War II as a secret unit engaged in combating certain enemies and forces intent on activities esoteric and occult. With Hitler’s Abwehr-SS hell-bent on the use of malevolent and otherworldly weapons to change the course of the war, Britain needed a counter-force. It was vital the […]
Which new RPG does Cubicle 7’s reshuffle point to?
Cubicle 7 has announced the appointment of four new members of staff, including Andrew Kenrick who will be coming on board as the publisher’s new Managing Editor. I asked whether Kenrick’s appointment meant any changes to the role of Dominic McDowall as CEO. They do. With Andrew Kenrick, who has six years experience at Games […]
A Doctor Who: The First Doctor Sourcebook review
Doctor Who – The First Doctor Sourcebook is the first in a series of sourcebooks to support Cubicle 7’s Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space RPG and to celebrate the 50th anniversary year of Doctor Who. It all began on a November night in 1963. Two schoolteachers followed one of their students, a strange […]
Exclusive: Rip open the Primeval roleplaying game
The Primeval roleplaying game lets you live the adventures of the anomalies yourself. The tabletop RPG, written by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, is published by Cubicle 7 and only needs friends and a couple of six-sided dice to get going. Last week, as part of “New Year, New Game”, Gareth answered some questions about the game and […]
New Year, New Game: Primeval
DriveThru RPG kicked off one of their biggest sales of the year today. “New Year, New Game” can offer discounts up to 40% and you can score another 15% if you use Geek Native’s extra code of happynyng2013. One of the new core rulebooks in the sale is Cubicle 7’s Primeval RPG Core Rulebook. Tempted? […]
