Some of the largest and most established RPGs have had publisher organised play. These may involve an official archive of character sheets, adventures and convention support. Pelgrane Press are edging closer to the release of their highly anticipated 13th Age and have announced plans for organised play to support it. Details are scarce. We know […]
Twitter accounts to follow this International #TableTopDay
It’s International TableTop Day! You may well have noticed by now as the web is all a flutter about it. How is Geek Native taking part? This blog is covering the virtual side of the event. You might risk a peek at 5 RPG Kickstarters or even join one of 10 Google+ RPG communities and […]
New Year, New Game: Trail of Cthulhu
DriveThru RPG are running a big sale, up to 40% off core rules with the offer “New Year, New Game” promotion. Want to save more money? Use the coupon happynyng2013 to bag a further 15% off. The question is? Which RPG should you dabble in? What about something dark, something a little dangerous, something that […]
Robin D. Law’s Hillfolk and the DramaSystem
Robin D. Law’s is a well known games designer who brought us the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system. He tends to work closely with Pelgrane Press, who have a number of GUMSHOE products, and is actually the Creative Director at Stone Skin Press which is Pelgrane’s fiction imprint. His latest project, foreshadowed by his book Hamlet’s […]
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: […]
It’s Christmas in July! Geek shopping frenzy!
The OneBookShelf team – known for DriveThru RPG, DriveThru Comics and DriveThru Fiction are having a Christmas sale. Yes. It’s July. Yes. It’s a Christmas sale. It’s a huge sale with hundreds of publishers in. Here are just a few random highlights! RPG: Chaosium and Beyond the Mountains of Madness Beyond the Mountains of […]
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 […]
Superhero Week: 10 superhero RPGs battle it out
We’re halfway through superhero week for 2012 and it’s about time we dug out the roleplaying games. RPGs have given superhero genre plenty of attention over the years. We’ve had some fantastic games. Which is your all time favourite superhero RPG? Check out the list below. Is your favourite game included? Leave a note in […]
Pelgrane Press’s 20% GUMSHOE sale
Pelgrane Press have a 20% sale going on all five of their GUMSHOE core books. That’s 20% off Trail of Cthulhu, Ashen Stars, Mutant City Blues, Fear Itself and The Esoterrorists. The sale is over at RPGNow.com Trail of Cthulhu, is an ENNie winning, is a clever blend of investigation and Cthulhu horror. I’ve played […]
Three Trail of Cthulhu wallpapers to inspire you this Halloween
Pelgrane Press’s The Apocalypse Machine is about the end of the world. It happened on November 2nd, 1936 and humanity perished in as millions of men and women died. The Apocalypse Machine has two different methods of play; Wasteland and Aftershock. In Aftershock mode players are in the thick of it, the earthquake has just […]
