5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens Team EN World opened the voting booth for the 2014 ENnie Awards this week. Voting started with 5 winners being announced for the 2014 Judges’ Spotlight award. So, who won? Hobomancer Companion from Hex Games Deep Magic from Kobold Press Rocket Age RPG from Cubicle 7 […]
Superhero Week: 10 brave superhero RPGs step into the wrestling ring
For the last two years we’ve put 10 superhero RPGs in the ring and Geek Native readers have voted for their favourites. Who deserves to win this year? Can’t see your favourite superhero RPG in the list below? Leave a suggestion in the comments below after you check the 2012 battle and the 2013 conflict […]
High Rises, Low Morals: A Review of Venture City Stories
The real superheroes of the City have corporate sponsorship… or at least those heroes who have sanctioned powers and the legal teams behind them to cover for claims of massive structural and collateral damage. Superpowers appear to be a natural phenomenon, a potential in the whole of humanity, activated in a lucky few – or […]
Top selling RPGs this winter: D&D slips even lower
Industry watchers ICv2 have released their research on which RPGs sold best in the Winter of 2013. This data is based on interviews with retailers, distributors and manufacturers. It’ll be US-centric too. The result? These charts aren’t bulletproof but still a pretty good indicator. You can see the chart for Summer 2013 here which had […]
Great Deeds of Cruelty and Derring-do: A Review of the Fate Freeport Companion
Blacksand, Babylon 5, Ankh Morpork, Mos Eisley… Sometimes, to say ‘Any Port in a Storm‘ is simply an uncomplicated fact. When life or the weather get choppy and you need to find somewhere to shelter or hide out, then a port will likely have all you need. Because all forms of life tend to end […]
Top RPGs this summer: Pathfinder top, D&D third and Fate Core new in fifth
ICv2 have released their 2013 summer research into the best-selling RPGs. This list is put together from interviews with retailers, distributors and manufactures. In other words they’ve not examined the bags of gamers leaving stores and some key players like large online book stores and second hand markets may not be included but this research […]
Amazon launch Kindle Matchbook
The book-selling powerhouse Amazon has announced Kindle Matchbook. The program means anyone who buys a paperbook unlocks access to a cheap Kindle version of that book. Cheap or free. Of course, the Kindle book needs to be available in the first place. Amazon says there are thousands of qualifying books and that your past and […]
Chris Pramas: Green Ronin survived the theft of $100,000 and now deals directly with George R. R. Martin
Chris Pramas is the President of Green Ronin Publishing and veteran of the roleplaying industry. He’s worked for Wizards of the Coast, signed deals with George R. R. Martin and is currently mid-Kickstarter with Freeport: The City of Adventure for the Pathfinder RPG. In this interview we’re reminded that Green Ronin had a whirlwind of […]
Evil Hat announce Dresden Files Accelerated RPG
Evil Hat Productions have announced a new Dresden Files RPG. The new game is set to launch in 2014 and will be called Dresden Files Accelerated. They initial projection is for a 160 to 240 paged, 6″ x9″ full colour softcover. It’s going to be a slimmer form factor factor than the original Dresden Files. […]
Evil Hat offer art preview of Fate Core
The Kickstarter project for the core rules to Evil Hat Products’ system, Fate Core, is a huge success. At the time posting there are 46 days on the $3,000 campaign left to run. How much have they raised $145,845. It’s gone up twice while I was writing this post. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/fate-core/ Today, Fred Hicks updated the […]
