D&D or Pathfinder? That’s a question which has done the rounds. The market stats from ICv2 seem to have been telling a consistent story over recent years; Pathfinder rises and Dungeons & Dragons drops. The latest survey suggested D&D was in 4th place. There’s a catch though. It’s not just that few groups were buying […]
Dazzling fantasy, sci-fi and game art from Josh Corpuz
Josh Corpuz is an illustrator and character artist who may well have worked on some of your favourite games. He’s worked for Paizo Publishing (Blood of the Night and the NPC Codex), MKUltra Studios, Super Appli and Forged Chaos in just the last few years. You can check out more of his work over on […]
Good news for roleplayers as Gen Con breaks records
The RPG hobby scored a hit this week as Gen Con broke attendance records. A successful convention, whether you love it or loathe it, helps prove to companies that the industry is busy and worth paying attention too. This year Gen Con expanded by 14% which makes it the fourth consecutive year which the convention […]
The ENnie 2014 Awards: who are the winners?
It’s GenCon and that means one of the year’s biggest and most popular set of gaming awards: The ENNies. As usual competition was fierce. For almost all of the 20+ categories there were two prizes to fight for; gold and silver. Geek Native has the full list of winners below. Did anyone publisher thrash the […]
6 mighty mechs: The art of Daryl Mandryk
Daryl Mandryk is a Canadian artist who works with computer games. His website lists cients like Dark Horse, Hasvro, Radical Comics, Privateer PRess, Paizo Publishing as well as EA, Lucasfilm, Blizzard and Warner Bros. If you’re a fan of his style then you can see pleny more at his wordpress blog or at inprint.
5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens
5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens Team EN World opened the voting booth for the 2014 ENnie Awards this week. Voting started with 5 winners being announced for the 2014 Judges’ Spotlight award. So, who won? Hobomancer Companion from Hex Games Deep Magic from Kobold Press Rocket Age RPG from Cubicle 7 […]
Fantasy art gallery from Julie Dillon
Julie Dillon is a freelance illustrator operating out of California and working for games like Fantasy Flight Games, Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Tor Books and Penguin Books. She’s been a nominee for the likes of Best Professional Art in the Hugo Awards and Best Artist in the World Fantasy Awards. You can check […]
Winning tips for running Paizo’s The Daughters of Fury
Every year Paizo hold a great big competition in which GMs compete with ideas for monsters, adventures and a host of other RPG situations. This year the RPG Superstar competition was won by Victoria Jaczko. Victoria’s entry, The Daughters of Fury, is expected to be released as an adventure module by Paizo in November of […]
Tears at Bitter Manor: Insights from RPG Superstar winner Steven Helt
Tears at Bitter Manor is a brand new adventure from Paizo for Pathfinder. The 64-paged book includes a two-sided, full-colour poster map and suits a group of 5th-level characters. The adventure module is written by Paizo’s in-house team and Steven Helt. Helt won Paizo’s RPG Superstar winner of 2013 and this means that this adventure […]
Top selling RPGs this winter: D&D slips even lower
Industry watchers ICv2 have released their research on which RPGs sold best in the Winter of 2013. This data is based on interviews with retailers, distributors and manufacturers. It’ll be US-centric too. The result? These charts aren’t bulletproof but still a pretty good indicator. You can see the chart for Summer 2013 here which had […]
