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• I Was a Teenage Superhero

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 424
  Three schoolboys sit around a table. David, the friend to my left, has been genetically mutated by a radiation leak. He now has the ability to shoot beams of energy from his eyes, and teleport short distances via wormholes into alternate dimensions. Greg was stung by an irradiated wasp, his body morphing into ...
  11 hours ago

• One Ring to Rule Them All? – GGG Reviews the Latest Middle-Earth Based RPG

  
  Geek's Dream Girl — Authority: 455
  Although I love RPGs, and I love Tolkien’s fictional setting, I have never been a fan of RPGs set in Middle-Earth. I’ve tried, honestly! ICE’s Middle-Earth Role-Playing (MERP) was just a watered down version of Rolemaster, a game I really didn’t care for. To add insult to injury, the game only went up to level ...
  3 days ago

• Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: To Punish and Enslave (or “Being Lawful”)

  
  Game Knight Reviews — Authority: 410
  Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. - Albert Einstein One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community ...
  3 days ago

• News from Around the Net: 27-JAN-12

  
  Game Knight Reviews — Authority: 410
  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 family room waterfall through a spinning ceiling fan. Who needs Vegas and the Bellagio fountains? I had one in ...
  4 days ago

• Download and Play D&D4e for Free -- Legally!

  
  RetroRoleplaying: The Blog — Authority: 103
  According this a post on the RPGSite from Windjammer, there is an amazing amount of free 4e material on the WOTC web site -- and not behind their paywall. Enough material to play 4e for quite a while -- and without most of the limitations of their basic set. While Im not a fan of 4e and have little interest in playing ...
  5 days ago

• Interview: Wynter Rouse, CoastCon 35 – The Dark Crab Rises in Biloxi, Mississippi – March 16-18, 2012

  
  Game Knight Reviews — Authority: 410
  As CoastCon gets ready for its 35th annual science fiction and gaming convention in Biloxi, Mississippi on March 16-18, 2012, Wynter Rouse has her hands full. She’s the Charity Liason this year and she’s been involved with CoastCon for more than a decade. She even met her husband at a CoastCon! With ...
  5 days ago

• Adventure Review: The Haunting of Larvik Island (4E) by Stephen Newton from Thick Skull Adventures

  
  Game Knight Reviews — Authority: 410
  Though The Haunting of Larvik Island has been out since June 2011, I’m coming very late to the party. Written by Stephen Newton and published by Thick Skull Adventures , this adventure for a group of five 1st level D&D 4E characters is not just a solid adventure with an old school feel. It also manages to ...
  1 week ago

• turner-d-century:GURPS Infinite Worlds :...

  
  YABAN — Authority: 139
  turner-d-century : GURPS Infinite Worlds : Britannica-6 From Victorian Adventure Enthusiast’s interview with Phil Masters : VAE: In more a steampunk vein you’ve written GURPS Infinite Worlds: Britannica-6. Despite its late 19th century setting Britannica-6 is *not* Victorian setting. What makes this ...
  1 week ago

• Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: The Rules of Chaos

  
  Game Knight Reviews — Authority: 410
  Last week I spoke about playing good and evil characters but promised that I’d follow up with my thoughts on playing lawful and chaotic PCs. When I started to think about it, I decided to break this post into two parts – one for chaos, the other for law. So today we start with chaos. Or maybe that’s CHAOS! ...
  1 week ago

• Legend: A New Take on the D20 Rules

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 692
  Credit: Rule of Cool Games Rule of Cool Games is in the process of playtesting a new RPG called Legend , which offers some fresh ideas on how to use the tried and true D20 rules for fantasy gaming. More than just the work of a couple of guys trying to sell another RPG, the game is built around a community of ...
  1 week ago

• News from Around the Net: 20-JAN-12

  
  Game Knight Reviews — Authority: 410
  Welcome to the gaming news roundup for the week of 20-JAN-2012! This week was “one of those” weeks with work, so I’m gleeful that it’s Friday! Yay! The debate continued this week about “ D&D Next” or “D&D 5e” or “Ultimate Fighting D&D With Kung-fu Grip ,” so you’ll see a few ...
  1 week ago

• Wizards to Reprint 1e AD&D

  
  Geek Related — Authority: 94
  Interesting!   I logged on to RPG Stack Exchange chat this morning and people were talking about this WotC release indicating that they’ll be reprinting and selling copies of the AD&D 1e books , on sale as of April 17. That’s cool but surprising. The clarifications coming out of Seattle on the “multiple ...
  1 week ago

• First Edition Premium Dungeons & Dragons, AKA “AD&D”

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 113
  According to a sell-sheet found on the company’s website, Wizards of the Coast is reprinting the old Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks [PDF]. The first edition Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual will be available in limited-run, “premium reprints” exclusively through ...
  1 week ago

• Gadgets for Games

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 113
  The Consumer Electronics Show is just that, a show about electronics, so it’s not something we usually pay much attention to. In this video, however, the guys at Woot point out some interesting gadgets that could be used for our type of games. One of the devices they mention is the ePawn Arena . Yes, we’ve seen ...
  1 week ago

• Game Bandit — Two Words Edition

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 113
  Get a free DCC RPG poster by emailing Goodman Games your address. Out of the Box Publishing is giving away five copies of Word on the Street Expansion 1 but to enter you’ll have to answer some questions . You can get the original Word on the Street from the Makobi Scribe blog. Mommy Ramblings blog is giving ...
  1 week ago

• Want Metamorphosis Alpha 1st Edition in hardcopy?

  
  The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope — Authority: 106
  According to anannouncement made by Craig J. Bain of WardCo. in JimWard’s Q&A thread over at Dragonsfoot , you can nowpurchase reprints of MetamorphosisAlpha through Lulu.com . The reprint is, Bain says, “the 1976 edition with a shortadventure included and the corrections - the same as the RPGNow ...
  1 week ago

• DarkCon event recap from Tunnels & Trolls creator Ken St. Andre

  
  Nerdvana — Authority: 116
  Reposted with kind permission from the personal blog of Tunnels & Trolls game creator Ken St. Andre. Check out his post there for more photos and comments. The fannish new year of 2012 started off very well for me with DarkCon in Mesa, Arizona. I live in west Phoenix, and it was a long drive back and ...
  1 week ago

• Top 10 Underrated Video Games of 2011

  
  Top 10 Lists — Authority: 515
  2011 was a banner year for video games. It saw the release of Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, and a dozen other indistinguishable shooters, all of them selling millions of copies. And then there were these games. Their sales ranged from “okay” to “embarrassing,” but each took creative risks that paid off. For ...
  1 week ago

• Mike Sugarbaker Tackles the Definition of an RPG

  
  gameplaywright — Authority: 92
  I love the question, “What is a roleplaying game?” I loathe the same question. We all contain multitudes. Apparently, I’ve recently taken to talking about roleplaying games and story games with one of my weekly gaming groups in a particular way. What way? I don’t know, exactly. I was just blathering something ...
  1 week ago

• Voices + The Old Republic = biscuits and gravy: A warning to SWTOR players

  
  Nerdvana — Authority: 116
  Have you ever heard a voice on the radio, promoting some god-awful-yet-delicious meal or snack, and by the end of the bit you’re seriously considering getting it? Well apparently, it can happen in video games too. Over the weekend I played the crap out of Star Wars: The Old Republic (like I have been the past ...
  2 weeks ago

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