Mongoose Publishing have the license to the Judge Dredd RPG and the Judge Dredd Miniatures Game. The Judge Dredd Miniatures Game as been taking off, with a community buillding around it and additional model sets being produced. Today, Matthew Sprange, the owner of Mongoose, turned to Kickstarter to attempt to crowdfund the Block War supplement […]
The UK Games Expo 2012 Award Winners
The gaming convention UK Games Expo came again to Birmingham this year, running over the the weekend of the 25th to 27th of May. Hosted at the Clarendon the event covers miniature games, card games, board games and RPGs with news, a large trade fair, tournaments and championships. In addition it’s a chance to meet […]
Brutal Games leans on Lulu in Print on Demand gambit
Brutal Games, publisher of The Corporation RPG and of the charming Stickmen RPG announced some corporate wheeling and dealing of their own last week. From the start of this month Brutal Games’ books will be available via Lulu, one of the strongest print-on-demand players in the market, from this online shop. It’s expected that the […]
Free to Download: Dark Eon Assassin comic
Mongoose Publishing have a new game on the way. It’ll be a solo boardgame and called Dark Eon Assassin: Tyrant of Acheron. A solo boardgame is an interesting idea. Something to do while you’re waiting for gamers to arrive or when you can’t sleep at night. In the game you’re a genetically bred assassin – […]
The Design Mechanism is born so RuneQuest can live
The quick background to this post is that British heavyweight Mongoose Publishing split with Issaries who own the RuneQuest franchise. Parts of various projects live on under new names but what of RuneQuest itself? Lawrence Whitaker and Pete Nash; with plenty of Eternal Champion and RuneQuest titles to their name, have created a new company; […]
Mongoose renames the renamed RuneQuest II to Legend
In May Mongoose and Issaries announced a split. This would mean Mongoose parting ways with both the Glorantha RPG and RuneQuest. There was a wriggle though – the core rules to RuneQuest II belonged to Mongoose. Mongoose announced that they’d be releasing a RPG using the RuneQuest II rule set and would be calling it […]
Free to Download: A River Runs up it
A River Runs up it is a free adventure for Glorantha the Second Age. It can be downloaded from Mongoose Publishing or below. The adventure was written by Bruce L. Mason – who also produced the whole PDF. Many thanks Bruce! Author’s summary Caught up in an elf’s quest, can the player characters reach a […]
Mongoose split with Issaries; loose RuneQuest and Glorantha
UK based Mongoose Publishing, which powered into the limelight with an aggressive d20 based expansion and then pegged themselves in up high with some savvy business deals, have announced that they’re splitting from publishing partner Issaries. Isarries brought the RuneQuest and Glorantha RPG licenses with them to the Mongoose party. Those licenses leave along with […]
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 […]