If you get excited about new card, board, and roleplaying games (or just want to announce yours), then this Facebook group is for you. With very light posting rules (but still having a posting limit), it’s perfect for announcements of upcoming and current games that you’ll find on Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and even Patreon. While it’s geared for tabletop games, you’ll also see accessories for those [Read the article]
When I first got into blogging several years ago, I found the concept of a blogging network to be really cool. I got to find and read several other blogs dedicated to gaming, while drawing in visitors to my site as well. It just kind of felt cool to be a part of something, right from the get-go. Then the network that I joined stopped [Read the article]
Do you like buying things at a discount? DriveThruRPG is having a Halloween Holiday Sale. BILLIONS (billions?) of downloadable horror-themed products have been marked down by over 30%, including our Truly Terrifying Vampires (it’s about $2 right now). Or, here is a link to peruse all of the horror-themed items for sale. Happy haunting!
Venger Satanis does not shy away from the controversial… He is the author of Alpha Blue, an RPG that places sexual themes into a spotlight, and his new Adventure Writing Like a Fucking Boss puts an expletive directly into the title of each book. Regardless, his distinctive style provides content for a niche in the RPG industry that most RPG authors leave empty, and Venger [Read the article]
Have you heard the hoopla? Kort’thalis Publishing came out with a scenario for their flagship game, Alpha Blue. However, there may have been a few people (namely OneBookShelf) who thought that “Guardians of Galaxy XXX” sounded a little too familiar to a certain current big budget movie. I guess that after some words between parties… yelling, fighting, lasers, and ‘splosions, both sides came to an [Read the article]
It’s no secret… Shadowrun (any edition) has not exactly been a rules-lite game. It’s a meaty cyberpunk-fantasy dystopian setting with a very solid fan-base, and it also comes with a hefty set of rules for a very “simulationist” feel. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing (I have my favorite edition and have played many, many hours of it); I’m saying that that type of [Read the article]