Posts Tagged ‘RPGs’
Save 30% on Everything at Chaosium Through Memorial Day!
The stars are right to get your hands on loads of goodies from Chaosium regardless of whatever of their classic RPGs you might play (or be looking forward to trying out) because you can save some serious dough through much of M...
Eldritch Skies Horror RPG Available Now!
As I mentioned on yesterday’s show, you just can never have enough Lovecraftian Cthulhu goodness and what’s more interesting than to explore the mythos in an all new way? Say… In the farthest reaches of space?...
Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition
Available now from White Wolf is Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition. Vampire: The Masquerade exploded into hobby games in 1991 and inspired a generation of fans of which the game industry had never seen before or ...
Come Play with Brandon Sanderson at Crafty Games This Gen Con
Our friend Patrick Kapera, at Crafty Games, let us know that author Brandon Sanderson will be sitting down for a play section of the Mistborn Adventure Game and you can have the chance to partake in that event! From Crafty: The...
The Top Ten Censored RPG Books?
Shannon Applegate, over at RPG.net, has written an interesting column regarding ten role playing game books that have been banned over the years. I have to say it’s an interesting read as most gamers probably never think ...
Dungeons & Dragons Events at Origins
Wizards of the Coast will be at Origins Game Fair at the end of the month and have planned some exciting events, including a playtest of D&D Next, the 5th edition of D&D now in development. Here’s what they have p...
Trail of Cthulhu: The Millionaire’s Special to Benefit Heroes in the Dark Charity
I always love to share news of a companies. or even individuals, who are willing to donate a portion of the proceeds of a gaming related item to a worthy charity. So it gives me great pleasure to bring along this item from Pelg...
Shadowrun: The Twilight Horizon in Stores This Week
The print edition of the Twilight Horizon campaign setting for Shadowrun, from Catalyst Game Labs, should arrive in stores this week. Can your Shadowrunners chart their way through the storm brewing at the Horizon Corporation? ...
Chaosium Releases Free Call of Cthulhu Quick Start Rules
I’m sure if you’ve listened to a few of our podcasts that you’ve heard Jeff and I talk about playing Call of Cthulhu the Role Playing Game. Well, if you have ever been interested in trying a true horror RPG, here is your ...
Age of Cthulhu: A Dream of Japan Now Available
The latest in the line of Age of Cthulhu scenarios is now available from Goodman Games. In A Dream of Japan, the sixth AoC supplement, the quest to find a missing socialite unearths much more than the investigators ever bargain...
Shadowrun Universe Website Launches
With the successful Kickstart of Shadowrun Returns, the new Shadowrun website has been launched. A whole new day has dawned for Shadowrun. From the Catalyst news post: With the Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter wrapping up, www.sha...
Monte Cook Makes D&D Next Departure Official
As we had already known, Monte Cook decided to leave the design team at Wizards of the Coast which is working on the next edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Now, a recent post on Cook’s blog makes it official but sheds li...
Open Source RPG, Chronicles, Now Available for Free Download
Chronicles is a table top RPG skirmish game that’s yours for the taking, free of charge. Along with the twenty page core book there’s also an adventure to get you started as well entitled A New Start. A previous ver...
Wizards of the Coast Announce Phase Two of D&D Next Playtesting to Begin May 24th
Mike Mearls, senior manager for the D&D research and design team at Wizards of the Coast, has made the announcement the next phase in the playtesting of the upcoming edition of Dungeons & Dragons is set to commence in M...
This Week Brings New A Song Of Ice And Fire Core Rulebook
This week Green Ronin Publishing releases the new updated A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying: A Game of Thrones Edition. The core book provides revamped rules as well as a never before printed adventure! From Green Ronin: A Gam...
Colony: Moon from Postmortem Studios
Postmortem Studios has released Colony: Moon, which is kind of like an RPG, but not really. They describe it as: “A cooperative (or competetive) story game about founding a Moon colony, making it succeed and opening up th...
New Pathfinder Supplements Arrive This Week
Four new Pathfinder supplements arrive in stores this week from Paizo Publishing. An all new Adventure Path begins, a horror investigation challenges players, Tieflings arrive in a players companion, and the pirate filled high ...
Chaosium Releases Chronicles of Future Earth
Now available is Chaosium’s Chronicles of Future Earth, which uses Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying System. In the last centuries of the Fifth Cycliad, a great malaise began to descend upon the lands of humankind. The g...
Call of Cthulhu: 4th Edition Masks of Nyarlathotep Now Available!
Perhaps one of the greatest role playing campaigns of all time, for any RPG, is making a return! Masks of Nyarlathotep is now available once again from Chaosium in an all new edition. As Elliott, his nephew Paul, and our friend...
Gareth-Michael Skarka to Lead Cubicle 7 Publishing Partnership Programme
RPG heavy hitter Cubicle 7 Studios has announced a new leader for it’s Publishing Partnership Programme. Taking the reins of the program is Gareth-Michael Skarka of Adamant Entertainment. From Cubicle 7: Cubicle 7 has re...
Romark Entertainment Acquires Media Rights to SLA Industries
SLA Industries, the Nightfall Games RPG set in a dystopian future could be making it’s way from the table top to the big (or small) screen as Romark Entertainment has optioned the rights to the system for expansion to oth...
Chaosium Releases Cthulhu by Gaslight
The Victorian era comes alive once again as Chaosium is releasing Cthulhu by Gaslight this week. I assume this is a revised edition of the classic source book for Call of Cthulhu from the 1990s. From Chaosium: IN THE 1890s, Cth...
It’s Clobberin’ Time! Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Reviewed
Game Name: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Basic Game Publisher: Margaret Weis Productions Designers: Cam Banks with Rob Donoghue, Jack Norris, Jesse Scoble, Aaron Sullivan, and Chad Underkoffler Year: 2012 Players: 2 or more Ages:...
Delay Announced for Advanced D&D Premium Editions
We were expecting the release of the the special memorial editions of the original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons this month but Wizards of the Coast have announced a delay until July 17th. The premium editions are reproductio...
Rise of the Underdark – Beware the Spider Queen
Wizards of the Coast will be bringing the Rise of the Underdark campaign to Dungeons and Dragons this spring. The theme will give players all kinds of opportunities to learn more of the Drow, including D&D Encounter session...
FFG Reveals WH40k RPG: Only War
Fantasy Flight Games is expanding the line of Warhammer 40k role playing games with an all new title focusing on the unsung, yet stalwart, Imperial Guard! The new title is Only War! From FFG: “The men and women of the Imperia...
Preorder Tales from Wilderland from Cubicle 7
Cubicle 7 Studios has the latest supplement for The One Ring RPG available for preorder. Tales from Wilderland brings your Middle Earth characters into the wild as they seek danger and adventure! From Cubicle 7: The One Ring: A...
An Exciting Year for Cthulhu and Chaosium
Chaosium has a huge publishing year in the works for 2012 with a lot of Call of Cthulhu Goodness on the way. We’ve heard about some of them, and some are completely new. Here is what’s happening: Spring 2012 finds u...
Doctor Who RPG the Eleventh Doctor Edition
Cubicle 7 has released an updated version of their Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space RPG, so that now you can travel with the 11th Doctor and his companions. Yes your 10th Doctor troubles are now over, it’s time to...
Horror Ensues When Shadows Rise
A new horror RPG is in the future from Signal Fire Studios. When Shadows Rise is designed by Lester Smith and he has created a system using a D13 (D13???) for action resolution. No word yet when the print edition will be availa...
