CoC Blocking!

May 23, 2013 from HeroPress
Filed under: Call of Cthulhu, RPG, RPG Hub 
Bill Cavalier, The Dungeon Bastard, has strong opinions on DMs who want to run Call Of Cthulhu as a change from Dungeons & Dragons![...]
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en garde!

May 23, 2013 from Blog of Holding
Filed under: Legacy D&D, Other Systems, RPG Hub 
If I had been reading Strategic Review 1.4 in winter 1975, this ad would have caught my eye: EN GARDE! is Game Designers' Workshop's newest, and most unusual game. The 17th Century, with musketeers, and swordfights in th[...]
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New Post-Apocalyptic Supplements From Fishwife Games

May 23, 2013 from The Savage Afterworld
Filed under: Game Design, Mutant Future, RPG Hub 
The merry mutants over at Fishwife Games has been busily churning out some new settings and scenarios for your post-apocalyptic RPG games, including their biggest setting yet -- the town of Minco! Their materials are sys[...]
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Centaur and Goblin Character Classes – Leveling Creatures Old School

Setting the wayback machine to the very origin of the hobby, the game encouraged players to play whatever they really …Continue reading » [...]
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[God-Machine Chronicles Actual Play] GMC Test Drive

Last weekend, my gaming group was able to take the new GMC rules out for a spin. I had two players in on this playtest, Mappy and Silver Countess, who put together their characters in about 30 minutes or so. They’r[...]
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Microlite74 Special Version I Now Available (FREE)

May 22, 2013 from RetroRoleplaying
Filed under: Microlite74, Old School, RPG Hub 
When I announced this project, I figured it would only take a week to ten days to do as the material was written. All I had to do was strip out the campaign specific information (aka the "product identity") and reformat.[...]
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A Pirate’s Life For Me!

May 22, 2013 from Tower of the Archmage
Filed under: RPG Hub, Swords and Wizardry 
Tenkar had a contest to give away a free copy of the S&W version of the Razor Coast and all you had to do was come up with a pirate ship and it's captain, and post it on his blog. I did a little more than that, and[...]
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Prestigious Roles: Breaker

May 22, 2013 from G*M*S Magazine
Filed under: 4e, pathfinder, RPG, RPG Hub, World of Darkness 
This pdf is 5 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving us with 2 pages of content, so what do we get? [...]
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Order of Black Earth: a player faction for Shadows over Vathak

May 22, 2013 from G*M*S Magazine
Filed under: 4e, pathfinder, RPG, RPG Hub, World of Darkness 
The first player faction-offering for the Vathak-setting is 13 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving us with 10 pages of content, so let's take a look! [...]
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Dangerous Encounter: I See You

May 22, 2013 from The Savage Afterworld
Filed under: Game Design, Mutant Future, RPG Hub 
 For this encounter, the PCs will need to be tasked with locating some very special, very efficient medical assistance.One of PCs could be infected with a slow, but ultimately fatal disease.A powerful NPC could be s[...]
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Weapons and Armour in Risus

May 21, 2013 from SoogaGames
Filed under: Risus, RPG Hub 
Hear me out. I don't want gear lists for Risus. I don't want a bunch of modifiers and special rules for specific weapons. It isn't that sort of game. Risus already has a perfectly fine rule in place for handling equipmen[...]
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[Tuesday Map] Darkling Depths Level 2

The MegaDungeon Continues! Level 2 of the Darkling Depths is broken up into three distinct areas.  The main complex of …Continue reading » [...]
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Risus Death Roll

May 21, 2013 from SoogaGames
Filed under: Risus, RPG Hub 
In Risus combat, the winner decides the fate of the loser. This could range from embarrassment to a badass scar or even death. Sometimes you'll want to put that down to a roll. Risus Death RollIn a deadly combat, a defea[...]
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Combat Focused Game

May 21, 2013 from Game in the Brain
Filed under: GURPS, RPG Hub 
I was able to play GURPS Gladiators obsidian portal link +Vaclav Tofl and +Martin Davis. It is a combat focus game, but I still get thrilled about combat.Combat games require accepting character death or l[...]
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What I’m Up To

May 20, 2013 from The RPG Corner
Filed under: RPG Hub, Savage Worlds 
These are halcyon days, dear readers.Back in the early 90s, I had the misfortune of coming of age in a gaming desert. For reasons best left to a doctoral thesis on the statistics of population distribution, I attended a [...]
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