Genre Police: Getting Steamy
Now, calm down. It’s not as bad as you think. Last time, we took a look at the Cyberpunk genre. Since its inception, it has spawned a massive selection of often odd sub genres (stonepunk, anyone?).…
Breaking: Cubicle 7 leaves Rebellion Group
Gamers may never notice the change but today’s management buy-out of Cubicle 7 is big news. The British RPG publisher has left 2000 AD owners Rebellion.
Dominic McDowall, who led the successful management buy-out, said;
I’m excited to be taking Cubicle 7 into its next phase of development,”
“Rebellion’s investment and mentoring has given us a great start, and now we’re ready to go it alone.…
Cubicle 7 publishes Victoriana 3rd edition and free adventure
Victoriana was one of the first steampunk RPGs I enjoyed. It’s a world of high adventure but also politics and intrigue with steam and sorcery.
My 2003 GameWyrd era review of Victoriana gave it 9/10 and the game, published by Heresy Gaming then, scored an average of 7/10 in the WyrdRanks.…
Author Iain Lowson on the release of Resistance for Dark Harvest
Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein – Resistance is the first RPG supplement for Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein. The supplement contains new (and clarified) rules and mechanics, a six page comic, new NPCs, organisations and Augmentations as well as maps of military installations and whole new scenario along with campaign ideas.…
5 RPGs to celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on the 7th of February in 1812. He remains hugely successful, his books living on beyond his death on the 9th of June in 1870.…
Airship Pirates: The RPG based on music
Cubicle 7 have a host of great licenses and partnerships. Titles include Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who and gamer favourites like SLA Industries and Victoriana. With partners Cakebread & Walton they’re putting together an RPG called Airship Pirates.…
Iain Lowson interview
Iain Lowson is a Scottish based freelance writer who’s worked for such big names as Ubisoft, Relentless Software, the Official Star Wars magazine, Polyhedron and the Official Babylon 5 Magazine.
This year Iain published the RPG Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein that makes use of the Heresey Engine for tabletop RPGs and was brought out under the auspices of Cubicle 7.…
Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein review
I’ll admit to something of a rollercoaster of expectations for Dark Harvest. Here’s how it goes; firstly the Twitter account EmbraAgain follows both Geek Native and my personal account, I’m in a train speeding towards London at the time, so my curiosity is restricted by the dodgy mobile internet access I have.…
RPG Previews: Dragon in the Smoke | Echoes #14
Roleplay Previews
Dragon in the Smoke
Macho Women With Guns
House of Vega
Out for Blood
Monsters of the Boundless Blue
Last Rites of the Black Guard
Aten – City of Life
Mecha SRD Extreme Dragon in the Smoke
Dragon in the Smoke is a pre-written Victoriana adventure.…
RPG Previews: Victoriana: Wescot’s Folly | Echoes #12
Roleplaying Previews
Shades of Earth: History
Shades of Earth: Classes
Victoriana: Science & Steam Power
Victoriana: Wescot’s Folly
Star Ace
Brimstone and Treason Victoriana: Wescot’s Folly
An 3-paged Victoriana: Wescot’s Folly preview can be downloaded at the end of this page.…
