Day of Fudge
As you probably know I have a soft spot for the Fudge system. Alas I never had the opportunity to actually run a game with it, but from time to time I leaf...
April 13, 2011
News & Reviews
Review: Dragon Warriors
Dragon Warriors is a classic British fantasy roleplaying game that has originally been released in the mid-eighties by Corgi Books. In 2008 Magnum Opus Press released Dragon Warriors in a new edition which...
April 12, 2011
Get 20% off of selected titles at DriveThruRPG this month
Like in the months before I can provide you with the coupon code for a 20% discount for selected titles at DriveThruRPG. This month’s code is DTRPGAprilPodBlog2011 and it’s valid for the following...
April 11, 2011
D&D4e / Fluff/Inspiration / Just my two cents / Legacy D&D / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
Inner Sea World Guide: First impressions …
This past Saturday I went down to my FLGS and got my hands on the new Pathfinder RPG campaign setting, the Inner Sea World Guide. Any casual reader of my posts will know...
April 4, 2011
Exciting Alternity news!
We’ve been sitting on this for a couple of weeks, dying to share it with our readers, but we couldn’t until all the details were worked out. Now that all that is taken...
April 1, 2011
Review: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Player’s Guide
I haven’t been aware of the WHFRP Player’s Guide until I got a coupon code for a review copy in my email inbox. But I have to admit it was a pleasant surprise....
March 29, 2011
Open Design’s 5th Anniversary Sale
Yesterday Wolfgang Baur’s Open Design celebrated it’s 5th anniversary. To celebrate this there’s a special sale that ends on Thursday March 24th. During this time you get a 50% discount on the following...
March 21, 2011
Japan Disaster Relief at DriveThruRPG
I am pretty sure most of you are aware what has happened in Japan recently. An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit the ocean near the eastern coast of Japan on March 11 and caused...
March 21, 2011
Wizards of the Coast, please reconsider your PDF policy!
In April 2009 Wizards of the Coast stopped all sales of PDFs. The reasons are still not 100% clear but there was always some talk about piracy. Almost two years later there are...
March 17, 2011
Just my two cents / Mutants & Masterminds / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG / True20
Stars Without Number POD Unboxing!
When I first discovered RPG e-books they changed my life! Well that may be a bit of hyperbole, but they definitely changed my gaming experience. Gaming supplements on PDF opened the door to...
March 16, 2011
Mutants & Masterminds 3rd edition Unboxing
Today was a pretty cool day. I swung by the postoffice after work to pick up the mail and found a box waiting for me. It was my copy of Mutants & Masterminds...
March 9, 2011
[Dungeonslayers] Caera map created with CC3
It’s always amazing what talented people can do with tools like Campaign Cartographer 3. And undoubtedly ProFantasy’s Ralf Schemmann is no amateur when it comes to map making. He recently created this beautiful...
March 9, 2011
Review: Alternity
Alternity, by Bill Slavicsek and Richard Baker, is a science-fiction role-playing game released in 1998 by TSR (now Wizards of the Coast). It bills itself as “a framework for all kinds of contemporary...
March 8, 2011
Dying Earth is back with a vengeance!
Some time ago Pelgrane Press lost the license to produce the Dying Earth RPG based on Jack Vance’s classic novels. Recently they reacquired the license and to celebrate this, the Complete Dying Earth...
March 4, 2011
Life and times of a RPG industry freelancer
The week I spent at Gen Con 2010 was one of the most exciting weeks in my life. These few days were much like a roller coaster ride for me. It was my...
February 28, 2011
A helping hand for Christchurch!
As many of you probably know a terrible earthquake in New Zealand has caused great devastation in Christchurch. Like they did after the earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan RPGNow and...
February 25, 2011
Classy move…
It’s always sad, often frustrating, to see the things we love increase in price. In the current economic environment increases in price seem inevitable, from foodstuffs and other necessities, to the leisure items...
February 24, 2011