Fancy some fluffy terror? These amigurumi dalek warriors could be yours – providing you’re okay at crochet. Over at Ravelry.com Lucy Ravenscar has made the pattern available for free. Lucy writes; These are instructions to make a classic 1970s grey and black Dalek or a bronze and gold new series Dalek. They are quite complicated, […]
10 RPG communities on Google+ to check out for #TableTopDay
Today, March 30th, is International TableTop Day. It’s a chance for local stores, gaming groups and even households to get some gaming in. It’s been created by Geek & Sundry and you can, in a way, even have Felicia Day or Wil Wheaton make an appearance at your gaming table! Can’t get out? You can […]
Dalek snack idea
This is a veggie friendly pizza. That said; it may be friendly to vegetarians but I’m not sure how friendly is to mankind or any other non-Dalek race in general though. This is Dalek pizza. Planning snacks for today’s return of Doctor Who? This might do.
5 Kickstarters to consider for International #TableTopDay
It’s past midnight here in the UK and so Geek & Sundry’s International TableTop Day starts. Europe joins the ranks of Asian and Aussie gamers who’ve been tweeting for hours and turns to watch the US and Canada as they wait to join us. There are lots of great deals on today. Local stores are […]
If Disney designed Daenerys Stormborn, Mother of Dragons, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea
Okay, I think it’s fair to say that Disney could never do a Game of Thrones. They’re not really into building characters up so you appreciate the horror of their death. They’re not really into the incest, murder, animal cruelty and descent into insanity that makes the Song of Ice and Fire so great. However, […]
Eon Altar is a new type of roleplaying game
The goal of Eon Altar is to have that tabletop experience of a traditional RPG and yet it’s been updated with the technology for the 21st century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu4O6hczQS4 That’s one mighty big tablet in the middle of the table but these devices are becoming increasingly common. There’s elements in here that help make this feel […]
The Pacific Rim battle mechs: Jaegers
Guillermo del Toro is doing well to channel the best of the mecha genre. We’ve been teased with a series of posters for the movie that show off some of the designs. This post has the mechas, known as Jaegers, for China, Russia, Japan and Australia. If you notice the Jaeger designs for the US […]
Succubus: The Reborn
[Back this Campaign] Mark Rein-Hagen co-founded the RPG publisher White Wolf and created iconic games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. His next game might be Succubus: The Reborn if this Kickstarter is successful. This game is very different from the storyteller RPGs. This is a card game in which players, working in […]
The best selling RPGs of the winter; Pathfinder rules and D&D slips to third (2012)
ICV2 has released their figures for hobby game sales in the US for the winter of 2012. It’s good news for the year wrap-up with hobby store growth being at 15%, that follows from 20% the year before and in wonderful contrast to the 5% decline we saw in 2008. In fact, 2012 is the […]
The Axis of Awesome channel nerd anger with “Rage of Thrones”
Not Safe for Work lyrics. Unless your work is cool. The Axis of Awesome channel righteous nerd rage with this Game of Thrones “tribute” song. I think tribute is the right word. I’ve seen this played life and, I must say, it’s a lot less angry. They must have to practise that or perhaps the […]