Cubicle 7 have a revised edition of their Lord of the Rings roleplaying game on the way. The new cover, designed by Jon Hodgson, was revealed today. The One Ring RPG, designed by the award winning Francesco Nepitello, has been received well by gamers. The new edition is a single 320-paged hardback with art from […]
Blasted Martian Skies: A Review of Rocket Age and Blood Red Mars
Rocket Age embraces the science fiction of a century past and the radio dramas of the 30s, the likes of Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and John Carter, blended with the pulp action heroics of characters like Doc Savage or Allan Quatermain. Heroes of the new colonial frontier, varied personalities seek to hunt, explorer, unearth and […]
Exclusive art: Cubicle 7’s The One Ring RPG schedule for 2014 and beyond
Today, British publisher Cubicle 7 announced their Lord of the Rings/Hobbit roleplaying game has a range of sourcebooks and supplements due out in 2014. Geek Native spoke to CEO Dominic McDowall-Thomas and blagged a look at some of non-approved, initial, might not appear as you see here art. The pictures you see in this post […]
Between the Shadow and the Light: Review of The Darkening of Mirkwood
The Darkening of Mirkwood recounts an impressive and engaging tale of the Wilderland, encompassing all the many peoples, factions and powers of the region. The fate of Mirkwood itself lies within the richly illustrated pages of this volume, drawn from an incredibly brief source… Now, I hate to sound like some stereotypical teacher stood ramrod […]
If you find yourself in a hole…: Review of Medicine Man, for the Doctor Who RPG
If you have access to the whole of time and space with this machine of yours, how come you always end up chasing down the same stretch of corridor? While the average episode of Doctor Who contains the events and storyline of a finite space, often to keep the story focussed and the budgets within […]
Revenge of the Mad Cat Lady?: A Review of Cat’s Eye, for Doctor Who
With 50 years of stories, Doctor Who has a phenomenal bank of imagery. The Doctor and his companions have been across the universe and back. It occurred to me that it might be quite entertaining to take a few images from a bunch of stories and use them as the catalyst for new role playing […]
Things That Go Fhtägn in the Night: A Review of Cultists Under The Bed, for The Laundry RPG
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was formed during World War II as a secret unit engaged in combating certain enemies and forces intent on activities esoteric and occult. With Hitler’s Abwehr-SS hell-bent on the use of malevolent and otherworldly weapons to change the course of the war, Britain needed a counter-force. It was vital the […]
3 card preview: Hobbit Tales
Hobbit Tales is a storytelling card game due out early 2014 from Sophisticated Games and Cubicle 7. The game has been designed by Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello, the creators of The One Ring RPG and the Tolkien-themed strategy game War of the Ring. In the game players take turns being Narrator and make-up a […]
Vampires of Sorrow: A Review of The Ravens of Despair, for Doctor Who
Do you remember in The Mind Terrors when the TARDIS landed in ancient Rome and The Doctor narrowly avoided a death in the gladiatorial area with the offer of a Jelly Baby? You know the one where The Doctor and Sarah Jane found Rome besieged and battered by fierce barbarians, because the spirit of city […]
Good grief…. It’s a Stegosaurus!: A Review of Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Sourcebook
The interesting thing about Doctor Who, highlighted in more than one of the documentaries released around the 50th anniversary celebration of the show, is how different each Doctor has been. More so , it’s interesting to note just how much earlier Doctors have influenced the characteristics and actions of those that followed. The Third Doctor, […]
