Mongoose Publishing has begun the electronic age of Hyborian adventure with the first PDF adventure for Conan the Roleplaying Game. For a mere $8, gamers can download The Black Stones of Kovag-Re, “a boisterous tale of kidnap and intrigue for a party of 1st-3rd level characters.” You can grab a
Category: Roleplaying Games
News flash: computers are bad GMs
Enjoy this excessively vitriolic, unclear and unsound article alleging that paper roleplaying rules systems are a poor foundation for computer RPGs. He might be right, but he reasons like a rabid Shar Pei with one leg staked to the ground. The thought of even beginning to take this essay apart
Gary Gygax suffers stroke, recovering
According to a post by Eric Noah on the forums over at ENWorld, Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, is not in the best of health. Sure, he’s been chain-smoking for years, but that’s not the main problem; the stroke he suffered on April 1st is the problem. Gary
Blackmoor revival finally underway
When I read the press release headline, I was hoping WotC had struck some kind of deal with that biker bar in the Mission District, but alas, no: D&D creator Dave Arneson’s new-ish company has announced a licensing agreement with WotC that will return Arneson’s Blackmoor campaign world to print,
Kubla Khan at Kubla Con
Troll Lord Games will be bringing a special limited edition d20 tournament module to KublaCon at the end of May. Called The Temple of Kubla Khan, the adventure is written by Casey Christofferson, author of several books for Necromancer Games. Here’s the description: An ancient ruined bastion and the forces
Now I can be a warlock anywhere
Got a PalmOS handheld? Got a gamebook fetish? Go wild.
Grog d’Or ’04: burninating the peasants
French roleplaying association GROG has announced the nominees for this year’s Grog d’Or award, which goes to what the membership decides was the best roleplaying product, line or setting of the last year… whether or not it was new. English-language nominees include Mongoose’s B5, Mutants & Masterminds, Orpheus, Savage Worlds,
Dwarven Reforged
The fine folks at Dwarven Forge have made several website improvements, adding a wish list to the shopping cart, and a message board. Next month, in addition to having the new Sci-Fi sets hit stores, the company will also put a “Tile Construction Kit” into place on the website. Finally,
I always suspected scholars were making it all up anyway
Introducing Lexicon: an RPG for n players, 26 letters, and a Wiki. (Two example games are online, one run by the Paranoia XP developers and one based on the NOBILIS game world. This looks like a great way to generate source material for more formalized RPGs.)
Amber turns to GOO
Erick Wujcik (creator of the Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game) and Mark MacKinnon (CEO of ) announced recently that they’ve signed a letter of intent to move the publication rights for the Amber RPG over to Guardians from Wujcik’s company Phage Press. It’s still just a letter of intent, but GOO
I’ll see that treason and raise you 10
Just a quick update r.e. the Paranoia XP dev blog: some of the bits posted thus far make the game sound like it’s heading in a somewhat rules-heavier direction than fans of the old game are used to. I think this is actually just an optical illusion; what it is,
Live at GTS 2004: Situation Normal at Human Head
Left out of the Green Ronin presentation this morning was Human Head‘s next roleplaying project, Normal, Texas. Scheduled for the end of 2004, the game will be about an everyday little town with ooze monsters, giant spiders, aliens, miniaturized humans, and other freakish goodies. According to Matt Forbeck, head of
GTS Day 2 press wrapup
would be intriguing if it weren’t for the fact that every catalog-like thing that I’ve ever seen Wizards release has contained something that was either misnamed or actually cancelled some time after said catalog went to press. As it is, it’s just funny. Maybe Chop Shop is the boys’ equivalent
Cardboard heroes, eh? How about cardboard <i>everything?</i>
No disrespect to the fine SJG line of folded paper, but, as in so many other genres, the Japanese have us sort of outclassed. This blog Boing Boing has been nuts for the folded paper over the last couple of days, including these Star Wars models that might be of
Fighting Fantasy on warpath at Myriador
Myriador Ltd. has announced their product schedule for most of this year. Of particular interest is the Fighting Fantasy Role Play Game due in June 2004. The game will use the d20 System, just as the other Fighting Fantasy derived Myriador releases, but remain a “fully contained game.” The company’s