$150 RPG Ptolus raises over $250,000 on its first day on Kickstarter
Ptolus is a campaign setting full of mysteries, betrayal and the supernatural.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #31
A weekly catch-up of RPG news. Follow the events of the D&D leak, the future of Fantasy Flight Games' RPGs and just how much money Games Workshop is making.
Monte Cook to re-release Ptolus: City by the Spire for D&D and Cypher
Ptolus: City by the Spire was a massive 672-page, premium and expensive book from D&D 3.0 designer Monte Cook.
GM’s Day starts early at DrivethruRPG: 80% off some bundles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.…
