Gearing up for PAX East
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli Dice… check. Paper and pencils… check. Laptop… check. So yes, PAX East is almost upon us, coming up on March 26-28, and I’ve been al[...]Read on >>
Continuum 2010: Game Highlights
Continuum 2010. John Foster Hall, Leicester University. UK. Friday 2nd - Monday 5th July 2010. http://www.continuum.uk.netHere are some of the games already planned for this year’s convention. If your game isn&rsqu[...]Read on >>
Rituals and Incantations: Welcome Zombie Sky Press
Though he’s too modest to brag about it himself, our Web Editor Scott Gable has launched a dual-edition set of Spirit Magic that I think is the most promising new company launch in ages. Now I might be slightly bia[...]Read on >>
Review of A Magical Society: Silk Road
I dig Expeditious Retreat Press, and not only cause they're named after one of my favorite spells. Their "A Magical Society" series has consistently been good. I recently got a great deal on eBay and added Silk Road t[...]Read on >>
Review: The Road
There are two parts to this review: the basic review and the bits usable in a game. The second part will contain spoilers. I’ll include a warning between them. The Road: Director John Hillcoat (who’s done som[...]Read on >>
Does your DM Rock or Suck?
I suspect that’s skewed somewhat by the human tendency to complain and whine! What do you think?[...]Read on >>
A Much Belated Runepunk Review
I finally had the chance to pick a copy of Runepunk from Reality Blurs and its pretty good. In case you don’t know they’re the folks who gave us such Savage greats as Realms of Cthulhu and the upcoming Agents[...]Read on >>
Larry Elmore Interview
Allesandro Sacco put up a great new interview with Larry Elmore on the Acaeum forums. "Larry Elmore is purely and simply one of the best fantasy artists ever and surely one of my favourites. Many, many gamers remem[...]Read on >>
Kobold Quarterly Wins Gen Con Indy Marketing Fellowship
Kobold Quarterly has just been announced one of the first two recipients of a Gen Con Indy Marketing Fellowship! To encourage and reward deeper engagement in marketing their presences at Gen Con, we are awarding marketi[...]Read on >>
i4e review
I’ve been meaning to post this review for awhile. At the end of last year I blogged about playing without my character sheet. In the comments, DM Ron suggested I check out a iPhone/iPod Touch program called i4e. It[...]Read on >>
RELEASE: NAA D6 V1.3
Just in time for Spring Break is NAA D6 V1.3. This is the first “major update” which invalidates older versions (though those aren’t going anywhere yet) by tweaking rules, adding content and removing co[...]Read on >>
Review of Blackdirge’s Bargain Templates: Brutish
Miracle Max: Go away or I’ll call the Brute Squad.| Fezzik: I’m on the Brute Squad. | Miracle Max: You *are* the Brute Squad! ~ The Princess Bride If you think about it, a fairy tale wouldn’t be c[...]Read on >>
rpg review roundup
As a featured reviewer for RPGNow and DriveThruRPG, every Monday I’ll be posting a new batch of commentary on a wide variety of games. Follow the links below to read the reviews, and if you buy something during tha[...]Read on >>
Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 02 Episode 09
March 8, 2010 from Happy Jacks RPG Podcast
Filed under: DnD4e, Podcast Episode, Podcasts, RPG Hub, Reviews, Savage Worlds, podcast
Stu, Stork and Tappy discuss listener email, a few qualities of great players, DnD4e Martial Power 2 and Player’s Handbook 3.
Featured song: The Man Who Doesn’t Like Beer, by the Poxy Boggards, featured on Li[...] Filed under: DnD4e, Podcast Episode, Podcasts, RPG Hub, Reviews, Savage Worlds, podcast
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Review – Villainous Liars: Amusement Park
Villainous Liars: Amusement Park is a 6-page PDF (4 pages if you remove the credits/OGL page) for Mutants and Masterminds written by Steve Kenson and published by Green Ronin Publishing. The layout is a straight forward [...]Read on >>
News in Review for March 1 to March 7 2010
It’s been a week of podcasts and updates, with not one but two new Chris Perkins vs. Robot Chicken D&D Sessions and the whopping eighty-eight page March Update from WotC! That update was huge and had tons of ru[...]Read on >>
4E Vault of the Clay Medusa
This past week, the winners of the Design a Dungeon Room contest were announced, and my entry – Vault of the Clay Medusa – earned a runner-up spot. You can download the entire collection of rooms here. You[...]Read on >>
Rynn’s World Review
Review of Rynn’s World Let me preface my review of Rynn’s World by saying a little bit about my background with 40K and my motivations for picking this book up. First is the fact that I am only casually familiar w[...]Read on >>
Buying tickets for Con-Quest Midlands 2010.
Con-Quest Midlands 2010. Derby Assembly Rooms, Derby, UK. Saturday 10th April 2010. http://www.con-quest.co.ukThere are several ways to get tickets for you to attend Con-Quest Midlands 2010.1. Press this Paypal link belo[...]Read on >>
Gen Con UK is Dead
So over on UK Role Players the news has been announced that Gen Con UK is dead, not just 2010 but the chance of any UK convention taking place under the Gen Con banner.Adrian Swartout, CEO Gen Con LLC"Peter and I ha[...]Read on >>
Ancient Enemies Cthulhutech Preview
Some Cthulhutech coverage on the blog for everybody. Ancient Enemies is the upcoming sourcebook detailing the Eldritch Society and Chrysalis Corporation, the protagonist and antagonist sides of the shadow war side of the[...]Read on >>
Review – Genius Guide to: the Magus
The Genius Guide to: the Magus is a 10-page PDF (9 pages if you remove the credits/OGL page) for the Pathfinder RPG written by Owen C. K. Stephens and published by Super Genius Games. This is part of Super Genius Games[...]Read on >>
GM’s Day Sale
It’s that time of year… Happy GM’s Day! And there’s a sale… Until the morning of Monday, March 8th, Open Design will be taking part in the annual GM’s Day Celebration Sale at DriveTh[...]Read on >>
Not Wearing Me Down…
It is 2010 and while Dungeons & Dragons is alive and well, and the Old School Renaissance keeps a bullseye lantern shone firmly on the game as it was played more than thirty years ago, the “Deathtrap Dungeon” as [...]Read on >>
Issue 13 of OD&Dities
After some debate on what to buy next I decided on the one I was sure I wanted to take a look at, Issue 13 of OD&Dities. I'm sure you've all seen it hanging out at the #1 spot on RPGNow for the past couple of weeks.[...]Read on >>
March is “In Like A Lion…” with a Bunch of Errata!
Alright, so you might know the old saying about March – “In Like a Lion, Out like a Lamb” – which everyone interprets as meaning that the month starts out stormy and roaring, then fades into April, all gentle-lik[...]Read on >>
A Brief Introduction to Geheimkrieg
As the second World War trudges on, both the Allied and Axis powers begin to look for alternative resources to secure the final victory. Thus the Secret War, the Geheimkrieg has begun. UFOs have begun supplementing the L[...]Read on >>
Getting back on track
It's been ages since I've last posted here and I'm putting this post to remind myself that I need to start getting back to blogging. To explain my absence, I can only say that I've started a full time job in the past few[...]Read on >>
Bi-annual Podcast Round-up: 2010
It’s that time of the year again: It’s time to go through my podcast feeds and decide what will go and what will stay. Here are my mini-reviews of the RPG podcasts I’m currently subscribed to and whet[...]Read on >>
Help WOTC better their adventures.
I’m guilty of being on the boat of people who thought all the WOTC adventures for 4e were bad. But then when I read adventures like Village of Hommlet and Demon Queen’s Enclave I realize that they’re no[...]Read on >>
M&M Superlink
Earlier this week, we received communication from the Mutants & Masterminds Line Developer, Jon Leitheusser, that our M&M Superlink license query for the Geheimkrieg setting had conceptual approval. This is great[...]Read on >>
Our Next Campaign: Alternity
For our next campaign, we’re going Sci-Fi. We’ll be using the Alternity ruleset. Written by Bill Slavicsek and Richard Baker it was published by TSR in 1998, it had a short but bright life. There’s stuf[...]Read on >>
Review: “Vox” RPG
Vox by Michael Fiegel is a somewhat schizophrenic game. No, literally. You play a character with voices in his or her head. Each player controls a character and may also control a voice in another player's head. The PCs [...]Read on >>
March Fo(u)rth for GM’s Day Sale 2010
DriveThruRPG is having its annual March 4th sale, and extending it a few days after that. In case you didn't get your fill from the Haiti bundle (and really, who could get their fill of RPG books?) there's plenty of good[...]Read on >>
Secret Project Update Club 3/3 – A Pile Of #spuc
In more general update news, I’m running a new Shambles scenario at the Endgame Oakland Minicon and you should come play it. I’ve also put some pendants and such up for sale in my Etsy store – it’[...]Read on >>
Review: Kingdom Builder Generator Pack
March 3, 2010 from The Spirits of Eden
Filed under: Campaigns, D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub, news
Chaotic Shiny is well-known for its many generators, so a product like this is long awaited. While opening up a web browser is not exactly inconvenient, having a bunch of generators in one place is a lot better an option[...] Filed under: Campaigns, D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub, news
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More Reviews of Kobold Quarterly #12
Kobold Quarterly #12 has been out for over a month and there are still reviews steadily pouring in. Find out what the buzz is about. (We were even able to fool those grumpy gnomes.) Wow, that’s really a nice piece of[...]Read on >>
The review that got me into RPGs
Back in 1997 I was a year into high school and obsessed with Magic: The Gathering. Who wasn't? The game was on fire, and I was making lots of friends at drop-in Magic events.As far as RPGs went, I had purchased and playe[...]Read on >>
Review of A Pox Upon You by Tangent Games
“You have to admire its simplicity. It’s one billionth our size and it’s beating us.” ~ Col. Daniels (Outbreak, Dustin Hoffman, 1995) No matter what generation you’re in, diseases seem to always be in t[...]Read on >>
Interview With A Flying Mouse: Clash Bowley
Today, we're featuring a Q&A from one of my favorite RPG publishers/authors. Clash Bowley is the man behind Flying Mice LLC, publishers of such awesome titles as In Her Majesty's Arcane Service, In Harm's Way, Cold [...]Read on >>
L5R – JYSB Campaign Report 4
Continuing on their way towards Cold Wind City from the Shaiga outpost, the characters com across a shrine to Oinari, fortune of rice, fertility, agriculture (and foxes) where the priest of the shrine is weeping as the s[...]Read on >>
UK & Europe RPG Conventions Listing 2010.
Here is the latest update of RPG conventions in the UK and Europe.0 Leprecon XXXI. Goldsmith Hall, Pearse St. Dublin 2, Ireland. Friday 12th - Sunday 14th March 2010. http://www.leprecon.ie 0 CONcrete Cow 10. Old Bath Ho[...]Read on >>
This Week in Gaming News
Here is some random gaming news from around the universe for you folks today. March has finally arrived. That is important because this is the month when HBO is scheduled to make its determination on their 'A Game[...]Read on >>
The Hundred-Dollar RPG
In this post, I present a fairly detailed review of what I do and don't like about the 3rd Edition of Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play.You may or may not have seen the latest edition of Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play, the versio[...]Read on >>
A Lost Gem: Everstone: Blood Legacy
Today I want to discuss a game many gamers may have never heard of. It was produced during the d20 boom, and quickly dropped into near-obscurity. It was one of the best iterations of the d20 rules I have seen to this day[...]Read on >>
A 4E chocolate box – review: underdark
I've been looking forward to this. The Underdark is a wonderful environment for games and taps into the essence of D&D. What I didn't expect was a lavish campaign setting in it's own right... Click the title [...]Read on >>
Litko 4E Condition Counters
A few weeks ago I posted a bit on using some conditional counters of my own making. I liked getting away from just a color coded method of using markers and use something that also had writing on them. The ones I made we[...]Read on >>
CthulhuTech Wants To Eat Your Face
Let’s talk about CthulhuTech When this game first came out, I didn’t pay much attention to it. It’s not normally the kind of thing I play, and I’m coming to feel like games based on the Cthulhu m[...]Read on >>
Review: RPG Atmosphere
RPG Atmosphere is the most intriguing RPG sound utility I have reviewed to date. The program comes with a large number of preconfigured sound scenarios you can drop into your game without having to spend hours prepar[...]Read on >>
Review of The Scouring of Gate Pass by EN Publishing
“I’m not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted i[...]Read on >>
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