Gen Con has secured sponsorship for the next three years, ending with Gen Con Indy 2015 in a deal with Pazio Publishing. The Pathfinder publisher will boost their Gen Con presence by about 30% this year. This means growing from Booth #203 to supporting events hosted in the Sagamore Ballroom of the Indiana Covention Center. […]
Paizo announce Mystery Monsters Revisited for Pathfinder
Mystery Monsters Revisited (~$19.99) is a campaign setting for Pathfinder. The book looks at the myths behind legendary creatures featuring beasts like the chupacabra, sasquatch and the mountain-dwelling yeti, mothman and Sandpoint Devil. Each monster comes with a summary of its own misdeeds, evidence the creature tends to leave behind and a stat block for […]
Paizo Publishing launches RPG Superstar 2013
This will be the 6th RPG Superstar contest from Pathfinder publisher Paizo. The goal is to find fresh talent in game design and represents a chance for game designers to have their work scrutinised by industry leads. Sign up at paizo.com/rpgsuperstar if you’re interested. What challenges do you face? There will be five RPG Superstar […]
Updates from Free RPG Day
Saturday, June the 15th, 2013 is the next Free RPG Day. That may feel like a long way off but Impressions the games distribution service company who promote it are busy trying to woo sponsors. Publisher? Sign up via this PDF form link. There are already big names onboard; Paizo Publishing, Fantasy Flight Games, Troll […]
Paizo to run huge open playtest for Mythic Adventures
Paizo Publishing had more than 55,000 gamers help playtest the preliminary rules for Pathfinder back in 2008. That’s a success they’re looking to recreate. Starting on the 14th, players will be able to download a free copy of the preliminary design document for Mythic Adventures from Paizo.com. The results of the playtest; suggestions, comments, corrections […]
The best selling RPGs of the summmer (2012)
Industry watchers ICv2 have released their count of the top five selling roleplaying games this summer. Tallies will always differ but ICv2 run interviews with manufacturers, distributors and retailers. The top five are; Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing) Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the Coast) Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch (Fantasy Flight Games) Dragon Age (Green Ronin Publishing) Dungeon […]
The 2012 ENnnies winners
Friday night at GenCon means ENnies. The ENnies are easily one of the most prestigious awards in the roleplaying industry and combine public vote and the role of judges. Best Adventure Dead Rock Seven (Pelgrane Press) Invasive Procedures (Pelgrane Press) The Rending Box (Pelgrane Press) Silver: Madness at Gardmore Abbey (Wizards of the Coast) Gold: […]
Who’s leading the Ennies 2012 pack?
The nominees for the 2012 Ennies have be announced ahead of Gen-Con. There’s just shy of 40 different publishers, excluding blogs, who have a nomination this year which proves what a diverse and well balanced industry RPG publishing is. Looking at the publishers with the most nominations we discover that the top five all have […]
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising spawns a Pathfinder Kickstarter
The Gamers is a basement budget film, a friendly spoof, on gaming from Matt Vancil and Dead Gentlemen Productions. The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is a sequel, set in the same gaming world, but focuses on a different playing group. So, what’s Gamers: Dorkness Rising like? Wikipedia notes, in the style section, that Gary plays a […]
Interview with Jim Zub, lead writer for the Pathfinder comics
Jim Zub is a writer and artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has worked for Capcom, Hasbro, Namco-Bandai and others. Jim’s the lead writer on the new Pathfinder comics and has agreed to do a Q&A interview with Geek Native. Geek Native quoted Jim along with the first art teasers from the series. He said; […]
