This morning, Green Ronin announced it has struck a deal with BL Publishing, a subsidiary of Games Workshop, to be the exclusive RPG developer of GW properties. The products will be published by BL Publishing, allowing Green Ronin to concentrate on the creative aspects. As one would expect, the planned
Reaper website hacked, customer info stolen
As someone who’s getting more and more into miniatures gaming, it scares me a bit to hear what just happened to Reaper Miniatures. A group of hackers has stolen Reaper’s customer information, including credit card numbers used on the site’s online store, and is demanding money to keep from making
Oh yeah, D&D turned 30
We in the Cave were too busy playing it to make much note. The BBC offers the best media coverage we’ve seen. ” ‘I thought we would sell about 50,000 copies,’ says Gary Gygax.” And back then, that was a low number.
Join the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
Well, it must be royal, ’cause it has Knight in its title: the Dark Riders expansion for Mage Knight streets today, featuring figures with riders, dark and otherwise, that can be removed from their mounts and placed on their own bases. Some figures I’ve seen might have benefitted from a
Savage Worlds brings you yet another license, plus pictures of tiny Victorians with guns
Pinnacle/Great White/Whatever has announced what isn’t really a license so much as a simple, standardized contract for people who might want to use the Savage Worlds system in their RPG or miniatures-gaming products. Basically, they get to approve your game and you pay a royalty and include a logo. They’ve
Loooonnnng lists for Origins Awards now available
From here, you can read the un-narrowed-down nominees for each category, and you can go to a form that will taunt you for not being an AAGAD member and not let you vote. Nonetheless, hours of fun.
I think I’m turning German, I really think so
With regard to that Settlers article last week, here’s some harder sociological evidence that folks like Uberplay and Days of Wonder might want to keep the complexity dialed down. Redoubtable geek-feed Boing Boing cites a Scientific American article by Swarthmore professor Barry Schwartz about the dynamics of choice in the
Lone Wolf howls with previews
The fellows at Mongoose have posted more teasers for the Lone Wolf RPG. This time, we get a look at the official character sheet, and a second rules preview which includes full rules for the Magician of Dessi, among other things. Now, should I pick Tracking as my next Discipline,
Another step down a slippery moon slope
If you have been to your local game store lately, as I have, then you have likely noticed that Fantasy Flight has scored another victory in their ongoing quest to make Reiner Knizia design a CCG without knowing it. Blue Moon is a two-player card game with no real collectibility
Canada sends troops to Catan – “Stop stealing our vowels!” says prime minister
Gamefest’s Gamewire cites this Toronto Star article about Settlers, proving once again that even our mildly complicated games come across as far too complicated for ordinary people. Once the article gets rolling, a decent picture of the game starts to come in, but on the whole, the conclusion comes back
Conan adventure available from Mongoose
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
Atlas announces intimate new Dungeoneer sets for couples
Well… a coupla gamers, anyway. The new two-player sets Dungeoneer: Haunted Woods of Malthorin and Dungeoneer: Den of the Wererats ship in July and each have just enough room for you and someone you love to beat on: three new character types apiece, plus wilderness Map cards and city Map
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
Pinnacle invites you to rip, mix and burn – IN HELL
Pinnacle has posted a PDF preview of their new skirmish minis game Rippers. The six-page preview is all story – what the minis gamers call “fluff” without any pejorative intent – but I’d lay odds that the rules are very similar to the Showdown! skirmish rules based on Savage Worlds.
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