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Five years later: The dark and mature Aquelarre RPG finally reaches retail

February 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Aquelarre has been described as the best RPG not available in English.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, Aquelarre, Nocturnal Media, Steve Wieck, Stewart Wieck

Rights to the King Arthur Pendragon RPG returned to Chaosium

December 11, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

King Author Pendragon was created by Chaosium founder Greg Stafford. The company notes that the return of the game has the blessing of his wife and children.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Greg Stafford, king arthur pendragon, Nocturnal Media, pendragon, Steve Wieck, Stewart Wieck, white wolf

The King Arthur Pendragon RPG moves forward thanks to Chaosium helping Nocturnal Media

August 14, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

King Arthur Pendragon RPG

The tabletop roleplaying games publishing industry can be brilliant at times. In this case, we have Chaosium deserving of a round of applause as they step up big time, put their money where their mouth was and help Nocturnal Media with the release and distribution of the King Arthur Pendragon RPG. Sadly, in 2017 Stewart […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Greg Stafford, king arthur pendragon, marketing, Nocturnal Media, pendragon, Stewart Wieck, white wolf

White Wolf’s co-founder buys West End Games

April 15, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you played the first ever Star Wars RPG? Paranoia or Torg? These games all came from West End Games (WEG). WEG was founded in 1974 and produced wargames originally but earned a reputation for leading RPG products including helping to pioneer portable gaming mechanics with their slick D6 system. After declaring bankruptcy in the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: d6 system, Nocturnal Media, paranoia, Stewart Wieck, west end games

6 famous RPG designers and the monsters they look like

December 1, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

You can search Google with images. All you need to do is drag and drop your image from your desktop or tab into the search box. As a security and privacy feature Google refuses to match faces for faces. If you search for a face you’ll exact matches and a wide range in the so-called […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, jonathan tweet, mark rein-hagen, Mike Mearls, monsters, Monte Cook, steve jackson, Stewart Wieck

New Year, New Game: King Arthur Pendragon 5.1e

January 7, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

It’s a new year so why not try a new roleplaying game? Over at DriveThruRPG there’s even more reason to try something new. In the New Year, New Game sale the RPG superstore is offering up to 50% off on more than 80 RPGs. The catch? The sale is only on for a few days. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, King Arthur, king arthur pendragon, Nocturnal Media, pendragon, sales, Stewart Wieck

Onyx Path partners with Nocturnal Media to buy Scarred Lands

October 15, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I rather enjoyed Sword and Sorcery Studio’s d20 setting “Scarred Lands“. It was a grim (ish) world in which gods and titans battled for control and envolved the mortal races they had made. Humans, elves, dwarves and the other “Divine Races” fought against the spawn of the titans. The setting picked up 150 years after […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: d20, Nocturnal Media, onyx path publishing, richard thomas, Scarred Lands, Stewart Wieck, Sword and Sorcery Studio, white wolf

White Wolf co-founder takes the Darkling Plain to Kickstarter

July 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stewart Wieck co-founded White Wolf and co-created the original World of Darkness. It was Wieck who was the editor-in-chief and co-founder of White Wolf with his brother Steve. It was in 1990 that the company merged with Lion Rampant, publisher of Ars Magica and he and Lion Rampant’s Mark Rein*Hagen became co-owners of the White […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Augmented reality, kickstarters, Nocturnal Media, Stewart Wieck, white wolf

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