Category: Spotlight
| October 23, 2009 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
Recently fellow gnome John Arcadian and I attended “Con on the Cob” where we hung out with the crew from Windmill Game Co. They are the creative power behind the new Dread: Tales of Terror series which are supplements that provide wonderful scenarios and questionnaires for the fabulous game Dread. Now every year I run a very simple RPG for non-gamers around Halloween time. In the past I have used games like Fudge, or Savage Worlds. Both are simple and wonderful systems, and each can…
| September 25, 2009 | Posted by Walt Ciechanowski |
One of the most fun things for me to do at GenCon is to wander the Dealers Room and check out the new stuff. GenCon is a natural place for RPG Publishers to launch new books and this year was no exception. One of the books that caught my eye was Fantasy Craft by Crafty Games. After the con, I received a free copy of Fantasy Craft for this article, courtesy of Crafty Games and Atomic Array. Crafty Games is best known for its stewardship of…
| September 1, 2009 | Posted by Walt Ciechanowski |
This past GenCon, Paizo Publishing released the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Now if you’ve been a GM (or DM, I’ll use the generic here since it’s what the Open Game Content and Pathfinder uses) for more than a couple of weeks then you probably know that Pathfinder is a refinement of the previous (D&D3.5) version of Dungeons & Dragons. Today’s article takes a look at Pathfinder from a prospective GM’s standpoint: what will Pathfinder bring to my gaming table? I love D&D3.5 and I have a…
| August 11, 2009 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
On May 13th, 2009 (I suggest that you read that article first if you have not already) I posted a review of the EpicWords web site and service. I gave the site a solid “C”, and I mentioned that the site was constantly improving. Well I believe that it has improved in enough ways for me to revisit my original review and to add this follow-up. Hey! The Wiki, um, Wikis! My number one complaint about EpicWords was that “The wiki not having an easy…
| July 3, 2009 | Posted by Scott Martin |
Dogs in the Vineyard is a popular roleplaying game, published by Vincent Baker’s Lumpley Games. It won the Indie RPG of the Year and Most Innovative Game awards way back in the 2004 Indie RPG Awards. I’ll tell you all about it– but if you’re looking for multiple opinions, other gnome comments are scattered throughout. So what are Dogs and what do they do? The characters that the players make up are all Dogs. [No, not the animal.] Dogs is a convenient shorthand– they are…
| May 13, 2009 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
Are you one of those gaming geeks who loves to mix your RPGs with your technical savvy? Like to have all of your resources available to you from anywhere in the world via the Internet? Do you like loot? Then this review is for you. EpicWords is a content management system (CMS) designed for GMs and their gaming groups. EpicWords offers both a free account plan and a one year subscription plan for $12 (US). With the free account you can have up to three…
| April 10, 2009 | Posted by Phil Vecchione |
Yesterday, I gave a review of the Corporation RPG, and today, we I present an interview with Corporations lead designer, James Norbury. I Recently got a chance to ask James some questions about Corporation, as well as GMing, in general. About James James, can you tell us a bit about yourself, and your RPG background. I’m James Norbury. I live with my fiancée Ruth and my herd of animals in Swansea, a large industrial city in the UK where I work full time developing the…
