AshyFeetGames has released a free 30-page quickstart of Shibuyan Knights.
Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)
Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?
Superhero Week: 10 of the most popular free superhero RPGs
Let’s be clear about this – DriveThruRPG’s ‘Pay As You Want’ allows you to pay nothing to download a high-quality RPG or accessory and very often that’s what the author encourages you to do. There’s a suggested price. Geek Native recommends paying what you think is appropriate, not what you want, and if the author […]
Genre Police: The Sum Of All Fears
It’s far too late, far far too late to do anything about it. The end is not nigh, it’s been and gone. All that remains is this wasteland. And into this wasteland comes one man, a man with a mission to inform you about a genre. Count your bullets road warriors, let’s drive headlong into […]
Apocalypse 2.0: A Review of Legacy: Life Among the Ruins
The latest game powered by the Apocalypse, Legacy: Life Among the Ruins serves as an elegant re-exploration of the trail first blazed by Vincent Baker in his revolutionary RPG, Apocalypse World. Legacy is, essentially, a prettier, cleaner, and more-refined version of Baker’s game. Legacy is classic post-apocalypse adventure, complete with mutant monsters, weird and wild technology, and even a Maelstrom to […]
Super-light: A review of Worlds in Peril
The bar-raising, mind-blowing Apocalypse World has taken the hobby by storm, quickly moving from its post-apocalypse roots to old-school swords-and-sorcery with Dungeon World, urban fantasy with Monster of the Week, teen romance with Monsterhearts, even professional wrestling with World Wide Wrestling. Now, Kyle Simmons has brought the apocalypse to the realm of superheroes with Worlds in Peril. For those not in the know, the Apocalypse Engine, as […]