Get a free copy of KQ#10 until January 31
I think everyone already knows about the KQ store giving away the PDF version of Kobold Quarterly #10 for free until the end of the month. This post is just meant as a...
January 28, 2010
No D&D for you, if you are serving life (Update)
It seems Penny Arcade joined the discussion about a court’s ruling to take away a prisoners D&D books, too: One commenter also provided us with two links to websites with further information on...
January 28, 2010
News from the Dresden Files RPG
Yesterday’s post on the official The Dreden Files RPG website made my entire day: Evil Hat Productions Brings The World of Harry Dresden To Life With The Dresden Files Role Playing Game Silver...
January 27, 2010
Ask The Readers: What was your first game?
From what I’ve heard the majority of gamers started playing with a variation of D&D, may it be the original D&D from 1974, AD&D 2nd Edition or the more recent D&D 3rd Edition...
January 27, 2010
No D&D for you, if you are serving life
I just found this news at BoingBoing and thought I should share it with you: Singer, 33, has been a devoted player of the fantasy role-playing game since he was a child, according...
January 26, 2010
Review: Alpha Omega – The Encountered Volume 1
In my “Best & Worst in Gaming 2009” posts, I picked the Alpha Omega RPG game line for “Best Production Values”. If you want your non-gamer friends get interested in the hobby just...
January 25, 2010
Join us on #rpmn
Some time ago, a couple of members of the Roleplay Media Network got fed up with the network’s chat feature. The chat provided by Ning tends to hang regularly, swallows whole messages and...
January 25, 2010
[Blog Carnival]: “We travel light. Let’s hunt some Orc.”
When you are a player, you probably don’t need much material to be able to participate in a roleplaying game. You need a pen, some paper and a couple of dice and you’re...
January 22, 2010
[Blog Carnival]: How to make travel in your games more exciting
There’s the easy way to handle travel in your game and that’s just skipping it: “After four days of eventless travel you reach your destination.” Alas this is not very interesting. Don’t get...
January 21, 2010
Gamers Help Haiti Product Bundle @ DriveThruRPG
As you probably already know, One Book Shelf, the company behind RPGNow and DrivethruRPG is raising money to help the disaster relief efforts in Haiti. The fund raising effort has been a great...
January 20, 2010
Ask the Readers: What’s your favorite rock band?
As a lot of ideas these days, the idea to this post developed on Twitter. Zachary from RPG Blog 2 tweeted about being interested to find out more about gamers’ music tastes. The...
January 19, 2010
Unusual dice
I recently got word of an interesting eBay shop, where Abraham Neddermann sells a couple of unusual and hand-crafted dice. He currently offers several odd dice (like a d3, d5, d7 and d9)...
January 19, 2010
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Review: Tunnels & Trolls v7.5 Boxed Set
Tunnels & Trolls is almost as old as D&D (it was released in 1975 – that was the year I was born) and surprisingly enough the latest version is almost unchanged from the...
January 18, 2010
Open Game Table Vol. 2: Nominations!
On Saturday Jonathan Jacobs posted the list of nominations for Open Game Table Vol. 2 on his blog “The Core Mechanic” and it seems a few of my posts made the list, too....
January 18, 2010
D&D 4th Edition – is it D&D?
There are people who believe D&D 4th Edition is not really worthy of the name Dungeons & Dragons while others say that 4th Edition is more D&D than it ever was. We’ve seen...
January 18, 2010
Lazy Saturday Video post: “Everything I need to know I learned from D&D”
Yes, I know. It’s usually the Lazy Friday Video Post, but yesterday I was so busy, I didn’t manage to find the perfect subject for the video post. But today I found this...
January 16, 2010
Torso Murders
Warning! This post may contain some minor spoilers for the Trail of Cthulhu introductory adventure . The Trail of Cthulhu introductory adventure which you can find in the back of the book is...
January 14, 2010
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