The German site LARP-Monster Bau has an impressive collection of LARP costumes on display. It’s possible to see how most of these Hollywood-level costumes were made too and that’s a lovely touch. As someone who’s tried to creep through a dark wood while in full LARP mode I can promise you none of these horrors are […]
Rifts opening a path to Savage Worlds
I played a lot of Rifts back at University. There was just so much world, so many dimensions, to play with. Ooph, though, did that system begin to struggle! I can see why fans are pleased the Shane Hensley and co finally have permission to take a Savage Worlds conversion to Kickstater. You can follow […]
Ivica Stevanovic’s wicked creatures from The Bestiary
The Bestiary is a collection of monster, fantastic, creatures from the lines of authors like China Mieville, Catherynne M. Valente, Dexter Palmer, Karen Lord, Karin Tidbeck, Vandana Singh, Rikkie Ducornet, Brian Evenson, Felix Gilman and many others. Edited by Hugo Award winning Ann VanderMeer and World Fantasy Award winning Jeff VanderMeer the Bestiary collection has […]
Dare you face this LEGO centaur knight?
This impressive work of art, made from LEGO, is the work of Nobu_Tary. The more unusual pieces you can see, the curves and slopes, are LEGO bricks from Constraction and Bionicle. It’s well worth checking out Nobu Tary’s Flickr stream for very many more excellent builds. Via Brothers Brick.
The rise of the Wolfmen: A werewolf survival game in the UK
Zombie survival games in which you’re chased around by a group of actors in zombie make-up are pretty popular these days. They’ve featured on US TV shows like Castle and British soap operas. If you pop over to the experience day site Wish.co.uk’s best sellers you’ll see it’s dominated with zombie encounters. That’s right; fighting […]
Humanity dies under the sea: Polaris floats on Kickstarter
Black Book Editions is the publisher that handles the French editions of Pathfinder. They’ve taken their underwater RPG Polaris to Kickstarter and it’s doing well. At the time of writing, there’s still 13-day still on the clock and they’re approaching 300% funding. You can follow the progress here. [Back this Campaign] Underwater kingdoms bled dry. […]
Creatures and characters by Markus Lovadina
Markus Lovadina, aka malo, is a senior concept artist at Rocksteady Studios in London. His concept art is used by both movie and game studios and is out of this world. You can check out a larger sample of his portfolio over at his public Behance page as well as his blog which he updates […]
Monster Hunter Academy wants to reach out to young gamers
There’s been some huge RPG Kickstarters this month. Let’s take the time to look at a much smaller project. In this case we’re looking at the Invisible Rocket project “Monster hUnter Academy”. Brian Colin wants to get children excited by mail and help parents spend time with their kids. You can follow the Kickstarter progress […]
Bold and colourful: The illustrations of Chris Rahn
Rahn began illustrating when his family moved to a small town in rural Washington state. Since then he’s gone on to work for Magic the Gathering, Tor Publishing, Random House, Harlequin and Blizzard Entertainment. You can buy some of his prints, sometimes signed, from his online store. If you’re lucky this includes the artist’s proof […]
The amazing fan art of Patrick Brown
He was drawing aged 5 and took it from a hobby to a profession. Australian Patrick Brown’s Deviant Art page says “Fan art is my thing”. Goodness, is he right! His illustrations are impressive. Patrick notes how he takes inspiration from many things and by being a fan he has a reason to draw, improve […]
