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The aftermath of DCC Day: Dying Earth, Glowing Dice and deals

June 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Goodman Games has wrapped DCC Day for the year, but the legacy of the Dungeon Crawl Classics event will live on.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dcc day, dice, dungeon crawl classics, goodman games, Jack Vance, kickstarters, the dying earth

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #94

April 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this week’s RPG news round-up, we have pre-orders on a giant dragon “mini”, the Fallout 2d20 RPG, a Scion RPG TV series and Free League Publishing converting Symbaroum to D&D’s 5e.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a hole in the ground terrain & games, against the darkmaster, Andi Ewington, andy hand, balancing the scales, bestiary, biscuit fund games, Campaigns & Companions, candlekeep mysteries, Chaosium, Chthonstone Games, coyote & crow, cubicle 7, dark sun, death on the reik, devin rue, dirty vortex, dungeon age: acid metal howl, dungeon crawl classics, dungeons & delvers, Dungeons & Dragons, Dying Earth, Dyskami, fallout, field guide to memory, Fire Ruby Designs, foundry, gama, gaming honors, goodman games, Interface Zero 2.0, Jack Vance, journey, king virr design, lokdown, loot the room, Luke Crane, macguffin & Co, Modiphius Entertainment, mythic table, neverending, Nightfall Games, nor cal mythos, onyx path publishing, pathfinder lost omens ancestry guide, routinely itemised, sailing aboard the widow, satanic panic miniatures, scion, shadows in the mist, shadows over vathak, sinister cities studios, Symbaroum, talisman sabre terrain, terminator, the cobbler barrel, the deck of many quests, the evergreen burrow, the vast in the dark, the wretched, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, they came from outer space!, through sunken lands and other adventures, troika, ufo press, voidheart symphony, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, warlock, wizards of the coast, wizkids, Zadmar Games

The entire Dying Earth RPG series is in the Bundle of Holding

July 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The sun is almost out of power, the moon is gone, and magic is dominant.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dying Earth, Jack Vance, Pelgrane Press, sales

The Design Mechanism shows off the Jack Vance RPG Lyonesse

April 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mythras publisher The Design Mechanism has been working on a Lyonesse RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Jack Vance, lyonesse, mythras, The Design Mechanism

Competition: SF Masterworks collection

October 1, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 26 Comments

The SF Masterworks series is so important it has its own Wikipedia page. Back in 1999 Millennium started to pick the very best of sci-fi from the 1950s for reprint. It’s now run by Victor Gollancz and continues on its mission. The original list was described as amazing by Ian M Banks. In this competition […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: arkady strugatsky, boris strugatsky, competitions, Gollancz, Jack Vance, lucius shepard, robert silverberg, Ursula Le Guin

Now I Suspect You of Weaselry: A Review of The Gaean Reach

September 5, 2014 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

I must admit to having only a fleeting exposure to the works of Jack Vance, though I’m currently seeking to correct that by reading more of his work. For many, Vance has a strong link various editions of Dungeons & Dragons, where the mechanisms for spell-casting owe a debt to his Dying Earth books. Pelgrane […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Jack Vance, Pelgrane Press, reviews, robin d laws, rpgs, The Gaean Reach

Five fantastic novels worthy of any Bibliomaniacs library

October 22, 2013 by lmeridian Leave a Comment

In this post L. Meridian taps in to the beating heart of the book buzz and shares five great books that’ll interest native geeks around the web. From High Fantasy, to slap stick Science Fiction and morbid Comedic Horror, there is something here for everyone. The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart Author: Jesse Bullington […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Elizabeth Haydon, Jack Vance, Jesse Bullington, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, Jonathan L. Howard, Michael Rubens, Planet of Adventure, Rhapsody, The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, The Sheriff of Yrnameer

RPG Previews: Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros | Echoes #13

December 23, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Roleplay Previews Morningstar Signs & Portents #3 Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros The Hamlet of Thumble Pits of Despair Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros Two previews for Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros can be downloaded at the end of this page. The following text and illustrations are only a small example. The Dream What does the world of […]

Filed Under: Echoes from the Wyrd Tagged With: Dying Earth, echoes from the wyrd, Jack Vance, Malcontent Games, rpg

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