The unofficial sequel to Planescape: Torment and official computer RPG for Monte Cooke’s Numenera is Torment: Tides of Numenera. You can watch 3 minutes of “pre-alpha footage” here. That’s awfully early in the cycle but it still looks good. What you get in your 3 preview are clips for choice-based focus of the game and […]
Cold Blooded Numenera: A Review of Ninth World Assassins
If you have a problem… if no one else can help… and if you can find them… maybe you can hire… a Ninth World Assassin. While Numenera sets a stage for adventure in the far flung future, after the rise and fall of nine great civilisations, certain things remain the same – like the shadowy […]
Mashing Up The Strange: A Review of When Worlds Collide
The strange and incredible come in many guises and sometimes you need a helping hand making sense of it all. With the release, from Monte Cook Games, of The Strange, the Cypher System has expanded with more than 400 pages of content. Given that the game uses the same system as the acclaimed Numenera, can […]
5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens
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 […]
The 2014 Origins Winners
The 2014 Origins Winners were announced during the Origins Game Fair last week. This is the 40th annual Origins Awards and winners include AEG, who one twice, Monte Cook and Green Ronin. Categories included RPGs, various tabletop games, figures, accessories and even related media. Best Roleplaying Game Numenera by Monte Cook Games Best Roleplaying Supplement […]
Spend $20 and save $300 at DriveThru RPG!
Two new bundles have been uploaded to Drivethru RPG this morning. They caught my eye. Mega bucks of saving. DTRPG 10th Annivesary (RPG) Bundle is normally worth $150.42 but you can have it for $10 DTRPG 10th Anniversary (RPG 2) Bundle costs $168.16 outside the sale but is currently priced at only $10 This means […]
Free games and International Tabletop Day rush slams DriveThru RPG’s servers
Saturday April the 5th is International Tabletop Day. Names like Atlas Games, Stronghold Games, Asmodee, Days of Wonder, Mayfair, AEG, Ravensburger, Japanime Games, Looney Labs and Steve Jackson Games are teaming up with Geek & Sundry for the big event. Another name of note is DriveThru RPG who are holding a huge sale. This isn’t […]
Curious and Terrible Things: A Review of The Ninth World Bestiary
The adversaries, beasts, constructs and monsters of the Ninth World poses a formidable and often unfathomable threat to life. Characters setting out on a voyage of discovery through the weird landscape of ruins, drit and numenera can expect to not expect much of what they encounter. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition – true enough. […]
It’s Not Easy Being Weird: A Review of Numenera’s Injecting the Weird
Your mounts are quadruped leeches with shrivelled, underdeveloped forearms and an odour like pickled limes. Having arrived in Thexz, entering through a gateway in the wall of solidified whispers that surround it, and left the mounts in stables, you search out your contact. H’eth is an ex-Aeon Priest who speaks with two voices, one like […]
Wheels Within Wheels – A Review of Beyond The Edge: Buried Burdens
The townsfolk of Ample Quarry make their livelihood from quartz mining in the Scattered Lands beyond The Beyond. Once part of the Kingdom of Xendalia, that civilisation collapsed millennia ago and what remains jutts awkwardly and mysteriously from the landscape – pillars and pylons of rocks, ceramics or metal. While mining proves might be thankless […]