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Category: Roleplaying Games

OgreCave interview: Randy Angle on Gruesome Ghoulies

September 28, 2020 Allan Sugarbaker Crowdfunding, Interviews, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Today OgreCave was just minding its own business, and suddenly had a Random Encounter (interview) with Randy Angle of Hoppsbusch Games. Just in time for the Halloween season, Hoppsbusch is Kickstarting a silly and spooky RPG, Gruesome Ghoulies, wherein you

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Ptolus returning in new Kickstarter campaign

February 19, 2020 Allan Sugarbaker Crowdfunding, D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Sometimes, you spot an impressive gamebook on a friend’s shelf, and wish you could take it home with you because it’s out of print, and you’ll never get your buddy to part with it. Thankfully, Monte Cook Games is bringing

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Chaosium founder Greg Stafford passes away

October 12, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Game Design, Geek Culture, Industry, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Founder of Chaosium and longtime game industry trailblazer Greg Stafford passed away yesterday. Greg founded Chaosium to get his work on the fantasy world of Glorantha published, and from there went on to design Pendragon, co-design the roleplaying games of

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New details on Pathfinder Adventure Card Game redesign

September 10, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Card Games, Pathfinder, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

In his latest Design Diary blog post, Paizo’s Lead Adventure Card Game Designer Mike Selinker describes some of the adjustments gamers can expect in the revised edition of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. Fans of the game should keep in

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Gale Force 9 gets Dune license

August 15, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Industry, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Gale Force Nine has reached an agreement with the Herbert Estate to publish tabletop games based on the Dune property. This will include a roleplaying game in late 2019, as well as board and miniatures games timed to release just

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2018 Origins Award winners

June 17, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Industry, Miniatures Games, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

You’ve already read through the 2018 Origins Award nominees, right? And played all of them, as you were instructed? Okay, good – let’s proceed. As always, congratulations to all the nominees. Here’s the winners: 2018 Origins Award winners Best Board

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2018 Origins Award nominees announced

June 1, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Industry, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design has announced their 2018 Origins Award nominees. There will also be Fan Favorite categories, voted on by attendees of the Origins Game Fair (as usual). Let’s peruse the list, shall we? Then,

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Gen Con game convention wins 2017 Diana Jones Award

August 17, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Game Design, Geek Culture, Industry, LARP, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

At Gen Con 50, the winner of this year’s Diana Jones Award for excellence in gaming has been announced as… Gen Con itself! First organized in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin by Gary Gygax himself, Gen Con has grown to become an

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Gaming News Update – Anna Meade (Uprising: The Dystopian Universe RPG)

August 12, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Card Games, Conventions, Game Design, Geek Culture, Podcast, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

In this Gaming News Update interview, we throw new OgreCave contributor Lars Roberts to the wolves and have her interview Anna Meade, co-author of Uprising: The Dystopian Universe RPG from Evil Hat Productions. Due to hit Kickstarter for a 2018

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KublaCon 2017 photo gallery – complete!

June 7, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Okay, the flood of KublaCon photos has reached its peak, and all are now neatly contained in OgreCave’s KublaCon 2017 photo gallery (over at our Facebook page). Final attendee count was reportedly 3,321 – a good sized show! See if

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KublaCon 2017 photo gallery

June 2, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Those of you who follow OgreCave’s Facebook page have already heard, but in case you missed it, the first half of OgreCave’s KublaCon 2017 photo gallery is up and running. Have a look, comment, like, and see if you got

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MAID RPG, Tokyo Brain Pop, and why GTE couldn’t just fix their network

September 26, 2016 Mike Sugarbaker Geek Culture, Reviews, Roleplaying Games

First, a public apology. A few years ago, Andy Kitkowski, publisher of Tenra Bansho Zero and co-publisher of MAID RPG, sent us a review copy of MAID and was very flattering in a note he attached to it. We’ve felt

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Guest column: Dungeons & Dragons as Story

October 26, 2015 Allan Sugarbaker Columns, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Today, a friend of the Cave, Aaron Teixeira, offers up his thoughts on the ongoing Dungeons & Dragons discussion: can the original roleplaying game be used as an inspired, artful storytelling device? Or is it merely a game of “killing

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OgreCave video: KublaCon 2015, Goodman Games, Cheapass Games

October 16, 2015 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Geek Culture, Industry, Interviews, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Because we got some great footage at KublaCon 2015, we’re doing our best to ambush you with some of it (Flashback Friday, anyone?). We’ve included a general look at parts of the convention, but also managed to talk with Joseph

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OgreCave video: Luke Laurie, CelestiCon

September 5, 2015 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Game Design, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Around the Cave these past few months, Real Life (TM) has been busy, so gaming has suffered. But even hibernating ogres need to stretch, wake up, and hunt for good gaming now and then. To facilitate a good hunt for

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