Innistrad Set 2: Dark Ascension Arrives! (Good news for 4E DMs!)

Today, Wizards of the Coast released their second set of the Magic the Gathering: Innistrad series, featuring thematic Gothic horror elements such as undead armies, vampires, werewolves, and ghostly spirits.  This secon[...]
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The Elves of Alfheim: RPG Items I Like

WHAT IS IT?Sourcebook for Elves in the classic D&D setting of Mystara. INTO THE WOODSThe Gazetteer series now makes a significant turn- moving from nations and adventure settings to a deep treatment of particular M[...]
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A canticle for leibowitz

And what makes you think the Memorabilia is completely free of pap? Even the gifted and Venerable Boedullus once remarked scornfully that about half of it should be called the Inscrutabilia. Treasured fragments of a dead[...]
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Weekly Mutant Future "Wisdom From The Wastelands" Launches

Skirmisher Publishing LLC has announced the release of Wisdom from the Wastelands, a weekly publication dedicated to providing useful information, game content, and ideas for modern, science fiction, and post-apocalyptic[...]
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Raging Swan Press releases So What’s The Pirate Ship Like, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The Pirate Ship Like, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Creighton Broadhurst designed to add colour and flavo[...]
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Raging Swan released So What’s The Human Called, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The Human Called, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Creighton Broadhurst. If you are as crap at naming NPCs a[...]
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News from Around the Net: 3-FEB-2012

February!?! Where’d January go? Geesh! Here in Colorado, the snow started to fly last night and we are in the first real winter storm in 2012. What does that mean for yours truly? Not much really… I work from[...]
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review: kobold quarterly 20

Metric: Kobolds.  They've proven their worth even in these straitened times.  One of nature's survivors and what's this - next issue they can go into a tavern?  Must be doing something... Click the title [...]
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Review: Weird Adventures

...blues man scribing the perfect murder ballad in the jaundice hue of a street light.  I want to be a smuggler running bootleg alchemicals in a forest infested with shotgun wielding ogres and they are the least of [...]
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Review – Threat Report: King Babylon

King Babylon, possessed of nearly godlike powers and a notable lack of self-control is the kind of villain you do not want to have to tangle with but he is just too dangerous to ignore.  A useful character to use as a r[...]
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DDXP 2012 Recap: Running the New D&D and Playing Games

This year's DDXP was a very interesting one, as I suspected. We were actually able to get there, unlike last year, though Fort Wayne's weather seems persistant in its attempts to keep us out. In order to help finance the[...]
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Publisher Interview: Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games

The “Old School” gaming movement continues to impress me with the enthusiasm of the gamers and game companies supporting it. One of the games many gamers are excited about in 2012 is the Spring release of the[...]
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Caves of Chaos Reimagined by Weem

So, this was another project spurred by something said on Twitter. Two nights ago Jerry LeNeave (@DreadGazeebo) asked the following via Twitter… Anyone know where I can find a nice high-res copy / fan-recreated map[...]
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EN World Review – Review of They Shall Be Paid In Coin of the Realm by Taurus Twelve

Happy Humpday, fellow gamers!  We’re halfway to the weekend, and this week cannot get over soon enough to please me.  I’ve got not only my regular local Friday night game this week, but also my bi-monthly D&D [...]
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Things to Love, Things to Hate: February RPG Blog Carnival

February belongs to Cupid – it’s a month of love and lust, want and wonder. On the flip side, it’s also a month of scorn, disappointment, and frustration for some...Visit the original post, Things to Lo[...]
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Madness at Gardmore Abbey (Tome 188)

A panel of Gardmore Abbey experts provides a review of the boxed set adventure while Jeff asks the questions you all want to know. We are joined by Sam Dillon (Tome Editor), Stewart, and Michael. Sponsors: Gamerati Game[...]
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From January to February

As the first month of the new year draws to a close and we hope it has gone well for you.   Now we are almost into February, which gets its name from Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification r[...]
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Answering Ten Questions from the Barking Alien

A variety of GM playstyle questions. 1) What is the most common type of environment or terrain encountered thus far in your current or most recent campaign? Not really been a consistent theme, but they keep returning to [...]
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A Gamey Proposal!

One of our fans, Alan reached out to us, wanting us to design a personalized Ascension card that he can use as a "A Gamey Proposal" to his girlfriend, Crystol while they were playing the newest expansion. [...]
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Interview – Chris Dias (Dias Ex Machina Games)

Chris Dias is the founder and co-writer of Dias Ex Machina Games. First off, let me thank you for taking the time to be interviewed for the ENnies. I truly appreciate you taking the time to talk about the ENnies. Startin[...]
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Review: Thunderstone (Base Set)

Game Night Blog Carnival Greetings readers! I’ve recently become part of the Game Night Blog Carnival, wherein once a month some of us RPG bloggers sit down and talk about the board, card, and other miscellaneous g[...]
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Carcosa Review

So I was able to acquire a hard copy of Carcosa and give it a look through in all of its Sci-fi, Post-Apocalyptic, Cthulhoid and Dinosaurian glory.First off the book itself.   It is a pretty nice hard cover,  s[...]
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Jean Wells 1955-2012

Jean Wells, one of the early pioneers of gaming and long time TSR developer has passed.Here are some of the links that can better explain her contributions than I can.http://poleandrope.blogspot.com/2012/01/jean-wells-19[...]
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Google+ & RPGs: Are You Missing Out?

Over on Google+ there is a thriving role playing scene for writers, artists and gamers chatting, sharing and playing together. All of it happening off many people’s radar. While media pundits have claimed Google+ i[...]
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Game Night: Thunderstone

Welcome to the Game Night Blog Carnival for December! You can get more information about the carnival at the main Game Night site. Thunderstone is a deck-building game from Alderac Entertainment Group where players cont[...]
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Book Review: Unusual Suspects: Guide to an Interrogation Session by Robert Oglodzinski from Library of Ancient Scroll

When I started working with Robert Oglodzinski a few months ago, I reviewed Walls Can Talk, which collects a few “legends and adventure ideas” for fantasy and horror games. The layout, done by Michael Wolf (S[...]
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Loviatar

I've never bought a zine before. It always seemed silly to drop cash on something someone typed up, copied, and stapled in their basement, especially when I could just pick up an issue of Dragon magazine where I could ge[...]
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Game Night Blog Carnival: Thunderstone

Welcome to the new Game Night Blog Carnival! This is a feature we’re doing once a month with a few other RPG blogs. If you have an RPG blog, and would like to participate, check out the FAQ at the main Game Night p[...]
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RIP Jean Wells

The original Sage has passed.[...]
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DDXP 2012: “Charting the Course: An Edition for All Editions” and “New Products” Seminars

This past weekend was DDXP, and since this the new edition of D&D was announced recently, this was both the first chance the public would both find out directly from the mouths of the people making the game what it [...]
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Review: Thunderstone – Dragonspire

Periodically I’ll be participating in the game night blog carnival, which gives me a chance to review some board games that might be a good break from your typical RPG session nights. This month I’ll be reviewing th[...]
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Inspiration Viewing – A Bad Day at Black Rock

A Bad Day at Black Rock is fascinating movie set in 1946 in the small, isolated California town of Black Rock.  The train stops and a man gets off, a stranger to the town.  This is notable as this is the first time the[...]
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Questions For Game Designers

Over twitter, Quinn Murphy posted a pool of questions he plans to send to some game designers he admires for small interviews, to inform his own views on game design. His questions are pretty interesting, so I thought I [...]
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Imagination, a review

Imagination is not a new product, but is one easy to overlook among the countless pile of RPGs and supplements we gamers collect. Let’s take a look at this classic aid to role-playing and see if there is still room[...]
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Welcome To The Empire State

Adam Christopher’s debut novel, Empire State, is billed as a mix of science fiction, noir and super heroes. It’s actually quite light in the super hero department and heavy on the noir elements. And there’s nothing[...]
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D&D News Reactions

Since the announcement of D&D Next earlier this month, there has been a flurry of news about D&D. I’ve held off on writing about the new edition because I wanted to avoid speculation, but as more details[...]
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Perusing Pathfinder’s Bestiary 3

Welcome to post 600.I picked up the pdf of Pathfinder Bestiary 3 last week.  I had heard it had some Lovecraftian creatures in it, and I was curious, but in general, I like mining monster manuals for ideas.&nbs[...]
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Supplement Review: Caves & Caverns (PFRPG) by Creighton Broadhurst and David Posener from Raging Swan Press

Just about every fantasy campaign I’ve ever played in has involved a cave system or cavern at one time or another. And though I’m a fan of dungeons, I really like it when there’s more of a natural eleme[...]
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Review – True Halflings

True Halflings is a resource for an alternate type of halflings, one perhaps more true to their original literary roots.  If more humble and homebody sort of halflings are welcome in your campaign, this is the supplemen[...]
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[Review] A Dirty World

A Dirty World is an indie tabletop RPG  about secrets, deception, betrayal and hidden vice. What are you buying? 70 pages filled with one of the few pure Noir games out there. No superpowers, aliens, menaces from t[...]
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The Royalty

The Royalty, our newest supplement is now available for sale. The Royalty is a combination of our Baker's Dozen and our 100s. There's A Baker's Dozen Royal Persons, 100 Noblemen, and 100 Castle Staff. That's 213 NPCs [...]
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Pattern Seekers – Episode 7: Gold, Gold, Gold (Part 2)

Our heroes are on their way out of the mines when Pho stops and bristles at somethingahead.  Thea calls on people to stop and Dr Martin see a trio of black circular stones on the ground ahead and rushes forward to bottl[...]
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Raging Swan Press releases Cultists of Havra Zhoul

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of Cultists of Havra Zhoul a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Pierre van Rooden that presents a semi-secret cult seemingly dedicated [...]
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News from Around the Net: 27-JAN-12

Hope everyone has had a good week! Mine has been interesting… We’ve been dealing with getting some water damage assessed and fixed in our house after a small overflow in an upstairs bathroom resulted in a fam[...]
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TheSheDM Reviews: Terraclips

Last weekend our Friday night DM surprised us with a fantastic pair of maps made from Terraclips and D&D tiles for our campaign finale. I had never heard or seen these strange tile-and-clip things, so I asked him ab[...]
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DriveThru Reviews

These are more like "Drive By" reviews since I am posting rather fast today.  Also a mixed bag of stuff.Power Pics Heroes 1 -Female SpeedsterGreat concept really. Provide the art and a paper mini for the g[...]
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EN World Review – The Breaking of Forstor Nagar by Rite Publishing

Greetings good Readers and fellow D&D gamers! Today is the first day of the DDXP convention down in Indiana this weekend, and I understand that some of us have had a chance to try their hand at D&D Next.  In f[...]
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Rite Publishing releases 10 Luckbringer Feats

A Lucky Snack! Sometimes you want to sit down to a full meal of archetypes, base classes,  feats, magic items, npcs, prestige classes,  traits, classes, spells,  and sometime you just want a cheap quick an[...]
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Review: The Game Master by Tobiah Panshin

  I thought I’d do something a little different and review something slightly more out of the ordinary. I’d originally planned to have this up and online in November when I first heard about it, but I[...]
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A Game For All People: The Perfect DnD Recipe

This article is being written in advance of reading any material concerning the actual content of DnDNext from WOTC. Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, the odds are that you’ve heard the announ[...]
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