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GM’s Day starts early at DrivethruRPG: 80% off some bundles

February 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are nearly 50,000 titles in the discount list and at the time of writing Shadowrun, Changeling: the Lost (second edition) and Fate Space Toolkit Prototype Edition, Wrath and Glory and Warhammer Fantasy 4e are in the top five positions.

Arcana of the Ancients takes Monte Cook back to D&D

February 24, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monte Cook was a part of the team who worked on the third edition of D&D. He was even involved with D&D Next, the project that became D&D 5e, and was announced as lead designer in January 2012.…

Monte Cook’s “Your Best Game Ever” gets Kickstarter better

August 10, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game designer behind Numenera, Dungeons & Dragons core rules and loads others, Monte Cook, has a Kickstarter that is (at the time of writing) funded by 430%. They’ve just added more pledges.…

Monte Cook announces Numenera 2

August 17, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

At Gen Con 50 Monte Cook Games announced Numenera 2. According to a tweet from Total Party Thrill’s Shane there are two books. The first is Numenera 2 Discovery which is designed to replace the original Numenera core book but not the whole line.…

6 famous RPG designers and the monsters they look like

December 1, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

You can search Google with images. All you need to do is drag and drop your image from your desktop or tab into the search box. As a security and privacy feature Google refuses to match faces for faces.…

The Road Goes Ever On and On: Review of Into the Violet Vale

October 30, 2014 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

Into the Violet Vale is a straightforward adventure supplement for Numenera, written to play at a convention or as a basic introduction to the game. The adventure was run in official GenCon 2014 Numenera events and you can now purchase and download it in PDF format.…

Future fantasy: A first look at Tides of Numenera

September 20, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The unofficial sequel to Planescape: Torment and official computer RPG for Monte Cooke’s Numenera is Torment: Tides of Numenera. You can watch 3 minutes of “pre-alpha footage” here. That’s awfully early in the cycle but it still looks good.…

Mashing Up The Strange: A Review of When Worlds Collide

August 29, 2014 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

The strange and incredible come in many guises and sometimes you need a helping hand making sense of it all. With the release, from Monte Cook Games, of The Strange, the Cypher System has expanded with more than 400 pages of content.…

19,168 RPGs and accessories on sale for Christmas in July

July 21, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a bit of a weird tradition but Christmas in July is a DriveThruRPG tradition in which you can score up to 25% off titles. This year there’s nearly 20,000 titles in the range.…

Curious and Terrible Things: A Review of The Ninth World Bestiary

April 3, 2014 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

The adversaries, beasts, constructs and monsters of the Ninth World poses a formidable and often unfathomable threat to life. Characters setting out on a voyage of discovery through the weird landscape of ruins, drit and numenera can expect to not expect much of what they encounter.…

GM’s Day starts early at DrivethruRPG: 80% off some bundles

Arcana of the Ancients takes Monte Cook back to D&D

Monte Cook’s “Your Best Game Ever” gets Kickstarter better

Monte Cook announces Numenera 2

6 famous RPG designers and the monsters they look like

The Road Goes Ever On and On: Review of Into the Violet Vale

Future fantasy: A first look at Tides of Numenera

Mashing Up The Strange: A Review of When Worlds Collide

19,168 RPGs and accessories on sale for Christmas in July

Curious and Terrible Things: A Review of The Ninth World Bestiary

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