Goodman Games released its third Battle Tiles set over the weekend, bringing the total of miniatures- and RPG-compatible scenery tiles to over thirty. The PDF tiles sets provide key areas of interest to spice up combats or adventure sessions, letting GMs concentrate on story and tactics rather than props. Each
Category: Roleplaying Games
The awesomest new-style RPG you can learn in 90 seconds
Crispin Glover Is Here To Kill Me. (There’s two games on the page, scroll down for this one.) Found via the author’s post at Story Games. Yeah, it’s basically a Baron Munchausen variant; I think we can stand to have a handful more of those given how many D&D variants
New-style roleplaying in 30 seconds
That’s 30 seconds from when you start explaining the rules, in full, to when you start playing. And probably not much longer than that until everyone playing is suffused with awesome. It’s also unlikely ever to be packaged in a hardcover, softcover, POD book, or (spits on ground) PDF. Its
Mutant Chronicles movie developments
As Fantasy Flight Games mentioned on its Rants page, October’s release of the Mutant Chronicles CMG will be complimented by a Hollywood movie. (Or vice versa. Whichever.) It seems John Malkovich has been attached to the film, which lends it some legitimacy, but I dunno… I have more confidence in
Dennis Mize passes at 49
Famed miniatures sculptor Dennis Mize, one of the first employed by a fledgling Ral Partha way back when, has died of a heart attack slightly more than a week ago. If you own fantasy miniatures, you probably own more than a few that were samples of Mize’s outstanding work (in
Call for True Dungeon volunteers
The folks at True Dungeon are gearing up for Gen Con 2006 already. While event specific information is promised in a couple weeks, the crew is looking for volunteers, who will get various levels of swag and other compensation (even a hotel room). Read the press release below if you’re
I’d like to Swap for my time back
In case you missed last night’s episode of Wife Swap (and I sincerely hope you did – the show is terrible), you missed out on seeing a wife and mother who needs to dial back the escapism considerably. It was like a train wreck I couldn’t look away from.
More scattered announcements from GTS
FFG will be doing a StarCraft board game in the fall, which is great news to these ears, and a CMG based, oddly enough, on Mutant Chronicles. It seems difficult to believe that FFG could make a wrong move, although if any other company announced the latter I would probably
Secrets of Kenya overview posted
As Tatters of the King pulls in glowing reviews, Chaosium continues to build – uh, corrupt, ancient steam, I guess. The next Call of Cthulhu release, Secrets of San Francisco, has been at the printer for a week now, and today a chapter-by-chapter overview of Secrets of Kenya went up
And now a classified ad
Since I don’t have the podcast up yet, this thing that would have been in it: Bay Area GMs are invited to come run any RPG in print at the April Fool’s Con at Endgame in Oakland on the 1st and 2nd. Pimp your favorite game and enjoy some fine
Paizo prepping Ptolus minis
Having displayed the ability to create high quality metal miniatures in its Gamemastery: Compleat Encounters sets, Paizo Publishing now has an agreement with Monte Cook and Malhavoc Press to publish miniatures for the Ptolus uber-campaign setting. A series of monthly minis releases will begin in May, leading up to and
Never mind the sudoku, here's Perplex City
So I’m all set up in Portland now, and I was thinking about posting my final what-to-do-in-D&D-4th post today. But I’m not going to, for two reasons. The first is that it boils down to a single sentence, “add no rules,” and the second is that, seriously, when games like
Godlike print copies go fan-funded
Arc Dream Publishing recently announced that it would be following the lead of its co-founder, Dennis Detwiller, by going to the masses for print-run funding. Starting with the Godlike GM Screen, Arc Dream will collect pledges toward making the product available in print form. Fans who pledge for each product
Special delivery at Goodman Games
Goodman Games has a new year’s gift for roleplayers, in the form of Just a Delivery, a free 16-page Etherscope adventure in PDF form. Those who want a print copy and can’t be bothered to put paper in their printers needn’t worry – a printed edition will be in stores
Designing for the party
(This is the first of what may be a series of highly speculative posts about the future of D&D.) If you don’t read Mike Mearls’ LiveJournal, you have lately been missing some fascinating debate on the future of D&D. Basically, the elephant in D&D’s living room – World of WarCraft