Baptism of Fire is a World War II RPG. The book, available from Amazon, weighs in at 354 pages and makes use of the d20 system. If you’re a fan of military RPGs then it’s certainly worth looking at and I’ll risk the prediction that you’ll end up buying it. The advantage of the d20 […]
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings CRPG videos
The Witcher was a computer RPG that I missed out on but friends still rave about. That’s why interested in publisher CD Projekt‘s The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings CRPG due out in the third week of May. Rather nicely, Distributor Namco Bandai and CD Projekt are keeping up up to date with some video […]
Risen 2: Dark Waters
Risen 2 is a single-player fantasy RPG. It’s the sequel to Risen produced by Piranha Bytes over in Germany. Dark Waters is set several years after Risen, the titans have been causing chaos and pushing mankind to the brink of existence. We have monsters rising from the depth of the ocean (see what they did […]
Self-loading LEGO dice tower defeats RPG cheats
This is so cool. This Christmas I was given a plastic tower for dice rolling – not because I’m a cheat, but because one of my gamer groups think my dice rolling is bad luck and provided the tower as an alternative. Gamers and superstition, huh? In this case I suspect the tower was built […]
Swimsuit competitions in Rune Factory Oceans jRPG
The next offering in the Rune Factory series will have swimsuit competitions that happen across the fantasy land whenever summer swings around. In Rune Factory Oceans – which will be available for both the Wii and the PlayStation 3 – players will control a male character, Azel, and a female character, Sonia, as they explore […]
The Depiction of Women in Gaming
While the following flow chart is doing the rounds – making people laugh because it’s true, making people think because it’s true – I thought it hightime that Geek Native pointed out the fantastic post by Anna Kreider over at Pelgrane Press’ See Page XX on The Depiction of Women in Gaming. Kreider brings science […]
Protodimension Magazine open for submissions
Want to get noticed? Do you have RPG writing skills that you think are good enough for professional attention? The fanzine for horror roleplaying, Protodimension is open for submissions. This is a great chance to get your work noticed. Protodimension tend to go for horror and conspiracy gaming and so collect all sorts of RPG […]
The Open Game Table review
Open Game Table starts with a self-confirming statement; The face of RPG blogging has changed quickly over the last several years, and it’s a delight to discuss it. That’s a self-confirming statement because I very much doubt the publishers of the year 2001 would expect a healthy community of fan sites let alone a sponsored […]
Support the RPG industry
Google’s new Priority Inbox is digging up age old starred emails. It’s surfaced a campaign I tried to start in 2005 at GameWyrd. This was an anti-pirate campaign. A pro-RPG industry campaign. Back in 2005 – and today as well – I was upset at the number of authors who’d write a fantastic product for […]
Brushfire review
Brushfire is a miniature war game from On the Lamb games. I had my copy sent to work – a digital marketing agency – and handed it to a colleague sitting near me and explained I’d be writing a review of it. Captain Caveman, as we affectionately call his colleague, isn’t a gamer but he’s […]
