Achtung! Cthulhu for 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu
A few days ago I was surprised to find emails from DriveThruRPG in my inbox with links to free copies of three new products. As it turned out Mödiphiüs had just released an...
March 12, 2019
Other Systems
Hell froze over: Bethesda granted Modiphius Fallout RPG license!
If you told me yesterday that Bethesda would eventually allow someone to design a Fallout pen & paper roleplaying game, I wouldn’t have believed it. For a very long time they weren’t willing...
March 6, 2019
From my blogroll: “expensive toys” by Brad J. Murray
Today I stumbled upon an excellent article written by Brad J. Murray about luxury games (like Monte Cook’s Invisible Sun) and the struggles of indie game designers. It’s definitely well worth your time....
March 6, 2019
Some thoughts on Invisible Sun
A couple of days ago Monte Cook Games finally released their roleplaying game Invisible Sun in digital form. Until then the PDF version of the game was one of the exclusive Kickstarter backer...
March 4, 2019
ZWEIHÄNDER
I have spent the past seven weeks reading the Zweihänder core rules cover to cover.At nearly 700 pages this was not a small task. The reason for this was purely for review purposes....
February 25, 2019
Freebies: Skyfarer–A Sunless Skies RPG
If you are an avid fan of PC gaming, you have probably heard of Sunless Seas and its successor Sunless Skies. Both games have a strong focus on story and exploration. In Sunless...
February 25, 2019
Huge Pathfinder Bundle for $18
A friend of mine just pointed a pretty good deal out to me. In order to celebrate Pathfinder 10th anniversary, Humble Bundle is selling $505 worth of Pathfinder stuff for mere $18. The...
February 21, 2019
Zweihänder Collaboration
If you had ever wanted to get into writing RPG supplements but don’t think you could write an entire book then there is an interesting project going on in the Zweihänder community. I...
February 8, 2019
Games I’m excited about: Android – Shadow of the Beanstalk
Android: Shadow of the Beanstalk is a new and upcoming setting for FFG’s Genesys Roleplaying Game. Like Realms of Terrinoth it’s based on one of FFG’s preexisting IPs. While RoT was based on...
February 4, 2019
Kickstarter: Secretum Mundi – The book of the Secret World
As I’ve mentioned before, I love the stuff Greg Saunders creates. Last year, I helped fund Esoterica, his occult-themed roleplaying game using the OpenD6 System. Today, I want to point you towards his...
January 29, 2019
Humble RPG Book Bundle: Numenera
If you always wanted to check out Monte Cook’s Numenera, but shunned the investment, now’s your chance. Monte Cook Games and Humble Bundle have teamed up to bring you a bundle containing $260...
January 24, 2019
Super-Powered Bundles of Holding
Recently two new Bundles of Holding started featuring products from 1997’s Trinity roleplaying game and 1999’s prequel Aberrant respectively. In both games you play super-powered individuals in a 22nd century setting. In Aberrant...
January 16, 2019
CYOA – My Plans and My Dead Ends
So I said in my post back on December 22nrd (Terrible Habits) that I wanted to write a Fighting Fantasy style book. In truth I wanted to write multiple fighting fantasy style books...
December 29, 2018
Classic Traveller “Starter Traveller” now available for free
In 1983 GDW released a boxed set for Traveller (now called Classic Traveller) which contained everything you needed to get started with Traveller. The rules had been streamlined from the original. Especially the...
December 6, 2018
Raising Azazel (a FUDGE game)
So you may remember that I wrote at the start of November that I was going to do the NaGaDeMon challenge this year. I managed to write and publish my game, going by...
December 3, 2018
A Message From White Wolf
Three days ago the interim manager at White Wolf Publishing posted the following on their official website: Hello everyone, My name is Shams Jorjani, VP of Business Development at Paradox Interactive and interim...
November 19, 2018
Realms of Terrinoth: Play Report
On Friday I finally had the chance to play in a Genesys game. My friend Sebastian ran an adventure set into the Realms of Terrinoth for us. Since it was meant as an...
November 19, 2018