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• Traveller Strontium Dog

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 144
  Traveller continues to branch out as Mongoose delivers Strontium Dog . This next setting book adapts the British science fiction comic series about a mutant bounty hunter in a post-nuclear holocaust world. Strontium Dog includes rules for rating character mutations on a scale of light, moderate, radical, severe, ...
  15 hours ago

• Turning D&D 4e’s Economy on its Head

  
  Musings of the Chatty DM — Authority: 114
  I love 4e with a passion that my geek-fueled prose has expressed numerous times on various platforms. However, after having played for more than one year, I must say that I really dislike the treasure attribution mechanics and the economics underlying them.   Spending time choosing magic items for my players and ...
  18 hours ago

• The Future of White Wolf

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 144
  Presentations by White Wolf at the recent International Camarilla Conclave revealed some interesting information about the future direction of the company. Describing White Wolf’s new vision, Greg Fountain said, “We want to stop administrating play patterns and start assisting them.” To that end, Shane ...
  21 hours ago

• Free Old School RPG: Monsters and Mazes

  
  RetroRoleplaying: The Blog — Authority: 117
  Sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s, John Garwood wrote a small roleplaying game called Monsters & Mazes. It was published as a text file designed to be printed on a printer -- complete with "end of page" codes to break the file into its proper pages. Some mistook the game as a parody, but it actually plays ...
  1 day ago

• Dragon Age: Hoisted on my own petard

  
  Dragonchasers — Authority: 472
  So after promoting Dragon Age heavily for the weeks leading up to the game, I’m happy to say that it is everything I hoped it would be, and I’m very much enjoying my time in the game. I spend much too much time reading and re-reading the codex and chatting up every NPC I can find who has a conversation tree ...
  1 day ago

• Despite signs of life, ‘Stargate Worlds’ out of money, on hold

  
  Nerdvana: Sci-fi, comics, games & more — Authority: 133
  Stargate Worlds, the planned online roleplaying game based on the sci-fi movie and TV series, is now officially on hold until further funding can be found. Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment CEO Timothy Jensen told Massively that the company’s recent website outage was due to a change in server providers. Around ...
  2 days ago

• Dragon Age: Origins — Learn2Play!!!

  
  Dragonchasers — Authority: 472
  If you bought your version of DA:O digitally, or if you bought the console version, you might be interested in downloading the manual for the game (I haven’t seen the console manual but I’m told it’s pretty thin). I just had a read through it and learned some nuances I wasn’t aware of. Plus it gives some ...
  3 days ago

• Dragon Age: Origins

  
  Flash of Steel — Authority: 420
  It’s not a strategy game but I thought I should weigh in on what’s been consuming the time of me and my friends.I sprung for Dragon Age: Origins (both versions) and I downloaded the toolset and even bought the Warden’s Keep DLC. So I am obviously hooked into yet another Bioware game. Some observations:1) The ...
  3 days ago

• November is…

  
  Siren Tides — Authority: 114
  Extremely counter productive. Especially when I keep getting sick. Woe. On the plus side, I’ve started working on small parts of peoples Christmas presents, and I watched the Scream Awards, which are possibly the most awesome awards show, ever. I’ve also been working on expanding a few of my characters and ...
  3 days ago

• Portable Electronic Battle Map

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 144
  Sean Pecor decided not to wait for surface computing and built an electronic battle map of his own design. Total cost, including projector: $782.66. Now before all the gadget and AV geeks get up in arms, yes, he did consider projecting from below. Placing the projector above the table, though, achieves a brighter ...
  3 days ago

• Two comments on Wraith: The Oblivions

  
  Transitive Property of Gaming — Authority: 112
  Last night, my weekly one-shot group played Wraith the Oblivion. Two observations: I really like the concept of you playing two characters: your main character, and the shadow-self (like the devil on the shoulder) of another player. It was really flavorful, and it meant every player always had something to do. Both ...
  4 days ago

• The 10 Most Beloved and Unhealthy Gaming Snacks

  
  Topless Robot — Authority: 718
  ​ By Shaun Clayton Youre having people over for a night of dungeon running, or maybe you are having no people over and playing your friends online with some Left 4 Dead . Either way, you are going to need to eat something during this lengthy gaming session, preferably something you can grasp without one hand ...
  4 days ago

• GOLD: CCG & DVD

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 144
  Now you can keep the drama going between seasons. GOLD , the internet video series about competitive roleplaying, is available as a card game . Or, you can skip the game part and just obsess over the characters . Efforts are also underway to produce a DVD of Season 1. To participate in funding this project, join ...
  4 days ago

• GURPS Range Ruler

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 144
  Steve Jackson Games is giving away a free-but-print-it-yourself new GURPS doohickey, a range ruler . On this 10 inch section of paper are marked hexes with appropriate range and size modifiers, so you can play without excessive table references, maybe even leave out the battle map.
  4 days ago

• Dragon Age Do-over

  
  Dragonchasers — Authority: 472
  Well after a lot of consideration I decided to restart Dragon Age, replacing my Human/Noble/Warrior with a Human/Noble/Rogue. “Gillain” is a character I created over 20 years ago. He’s a fairly typical charming rogue. Not an outright thief but not above conning a rich man out of his coin. A bit Robin Hoodish, I ...
  4 days ago

• Does Fragile Dreams have the best videogame name ever?

  
  Fidgit Atom Feed — Authority: 593
  The game formerly known as Fragile has a new name, perhaps to avoid confusion with Nine Inch Nails albums. It now has what I think is my favorite videogame name: Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon . When you read it you progress from "huh?" to "hmm" to "well..." to "okay, thats totally weird and cool and ...
  4 days ago

• Tom Hanks Makes His Attack Roll

  
  Topless Robot — Authority: 718
  ...but he fails his Saving Throw Against Being Fucking Insane. Above is a clip from an early Hanks movie called Mazes and Monsters , which cheerfully illustrated how Dungeons & Dragons-type games inevitably drive kids insane, and makes them kill, er... innocent thugs who are only trying to mug them. Almost all ...
  4 days ago

• Is It Fun To Learn?

  
  gameplaywright — Authority: 113
  Fantasy Flight Games’ new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a formidable-looking thing. Between this look at the game’s contents and this description of the pre-release demo scenario, I’m getting a little wary: Be among the first to experience this revolutionary new storytelling system with the ...
  5 days ago

• Dancers in the Dusk RPG Review

  
  Flames Rising Horror Webzine — Authority: 519
  Available at RPGNow.com Sunlight fades, and the world cools. The sounds of the day fade, and the sounds of the night begin. Deep in the Thorns, things shake themselves awake and come creeping down the pathways. The sun is gone. Dusk is here. Dancers in the Dusk and Swords at Dawn are bonus content books for ...
  5 days ago

• D&D Burgoo (3.5): A Fox Swiped Our Experience Points

  
  Gnome Stew — Authority: 121
  There’s a fox in the henhouse over at Open Design, Wolfgang Baur’s design project that produces d20 OGL and 4E materials for its patrons. This particular fox is games designer John Wick , who was the principal designer for 7th Sea and Legend of the Five Rings rpgs and has recently released Houses of the Blooded ...
  5 days ago

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