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Solomon Kane leaves Pinnacle and reverts to Cabinet Entertainment’s control

July 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pinnacle and Savage Worlds have looked after the Robert E Howard property for nearly a decade.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Robert E. Howard, savage worlds, Solomon Kane

The ‘other’ best selling RPGs of 2018

December 31, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If your RPG doesn’t fit nicely into any of the provided genres or it can also be used in extra genres then DriveThruRPG provides the ‘Other’ tag as a place to put your game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, flatland games, genesys, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, Monte Cook Games, Numenera, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Ryuutama, savage worlds, torg: eternity

The best selling pulp RPGs of 2018

December 28, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To make this list an RPG has to be in the top ten sellers (Jan 1st to Dec 11th) of all the games the publishers have added the ‘pulp’ genre tag too. This means we’ve games that are solidly in the pulp genre, systems which could but don’t have to be used for pulp RPGs and even games you might not consider pulp at all.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, exalted, fantasy flight games, genesys, greg gillespie, John Wick Presents, Modiphius Entertainment, North Wind Adventures, onyx path publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Stygian Fox Publishing

Bureau 13: Savage Worlds Black scores new RPGs before the Kickstarter is launched

September 7, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pinnacle Entertainment Group will take Savage Worlds back to Kickstarter this year. October 16th will see Shane Lacy Hensley’s RPG system, the winner of the 2003 Origin Gamers’ Choice Award, go back to the community to raise funds. The game had the internal codename ‘Savage Worlds Black’ and somehow that leaked, fans started to refer […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds, Shane Lacy Hensley

Chaosium leads the 2017 ENnie nominees. Can you pick a winner?

July 4, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this post you’ll get a list of all the nominees for the 2017 ENnies. We’ve added up all the nominations each publisher has picked up. Our math puts Chaosium up in front but the chasing pack is strong. Who do you think will be there? First of all you’ve a chance to vote for […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, Atlas Games, burning games, Chaosium, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, Evil Hat, Free League Publishing, green ronin, Imaginary Empire, jarnringen, John Wick Presents, kobold press, lamentations of the flame princess, magpie games, Metal Weave Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Mystical Throne Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Son of Oak Game Studio, Stygian Fox Publishing, third eye games, Ulisses North America, wizards of the coast, wizkids

Rifts opening a path to Savage Worlds

April 27, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I played a lot of Rifts back at University. There was just so much world, so many dimensions, to play with. Ooph, though, did that system begin to struggle! I can see why fans are pleased the Shane Hensley and co finally have permission to take a Savage Worlds conversion to Kickstater. You can follow […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, monsters, Palladium Books, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rifts, sci-fi

The Weird War I is coming

February 18, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Weird War I is the last of Pinnacle Entertainment Group’s Weird War series. They’ve already covered Rome, Vietnam and World War II.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds

Victorian Horror: Rippers Resurrected comes to life on Kickstarter

October 19, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pinnacle Entertainment Group have another Kickstarter success on their hands. At the time of writing, there are just three days left on the Savage Worlds: Rippers Resurrected RPG campaign. PEG asked for $5,000 and have over $65,000 in the bank. You can check out the full details on Kickstarter. [Back this Campaign] People are thinking […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kickstarters, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds, steampunk, vampires, werewolves

TORG returns as TORG: Eternity

July 21, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

TORG by West End Games enjoyed plenty of praise from a very loyal fan core but vanished after the studio closed. The rights to the game were eventually picked up by TORG fan Markus Plotz. As Markus Plotz is the president of Ulisses Spiele, a leading German game manufacturer and distributor, it comes as no […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Shane Lacy Hensley, Torg, torg: eternity, Ulisses Spiele, west end games

Disqualifications strike the 2015 ENnies

July 1, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The list of official 2015 ENnie nominations can be found below or at EN World. The list is a little different today as one nomination from the Best Electronic Book, Best Free Product and Product of the Year has been removed. The game in question is the unofficial Mass Effect RPG written by Don Mappin […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, cubicle 7, eden studios, en world, ENnies, Evil Hat Productions, Genesis of Legend Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, Gun Metal Games, Imaginary Empire, Inkwell Ideas, lamentations of the flame princess, Margaret Weis Productions, mass effect, Modiphius, Monte Cook Games, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Privateer Press, q-workshop, roll20, Syrinscape, third eye games, wizards of the coast, wizkids

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