Every year Paizo hold a great big competition in which GMs compete with ideas for monsters, adventures and a host of other RPG situations. This year the RPG Superstar competition was won by Victoria Jaczko. Victoria’s entry, The Daughters of Fury, is expected to be released as an adventure module by Paizo in November of […]
Tears at Bitter Manor: Insights from RPG Superstar winner Steven Helt
Tears at Bitter Manor is a brand new adventure from Paizo for Pathfinder. The 64-paged book includes a two-sided, full-colour poster map and suits a group of 5th-level characters. The adventure module is written by Paizo’s in-house team and Steven Helt. Helt won Paizo’s RPG Superstar winner of 2013 and this means that this adventure […]
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 […]
Paizo announce RPG Superstar 2014 winner: Victoria Jaczko
Victoria Jaczko has won Paizo’s annual RPG Superstar competition. Her module, The Daughters of Fury, is set now to be published professionally for November 2014. RPG Superstar host and former judge Steam K Reynolds said; “Victoria’s design decisions—a grief-based magic item, an undead warhorse, a haunted chapel in a land torn by revolution, and a […]
Half-orc barbarian rages and the mystery of cakes
Kimberly Chapman is a roleplayer and a baker. She runs the site Eat the Evidence where you’ll enjoy a mix of ‘edible media’, parenting chat and geek references. Baking and gaming are both hobbies and as Kimberly’s site says, “Failure is always an option, then eat the evidence” who better to ask about tips, tricks […]
OGL and fantasy world epic: Orin Rakatha
[Back this Campaign] I was able to speak to Mike Penny of the Orin Rakatha project ahead of this Kickstarter launch and used it to ask some questions about the campaign. As usual, given the busy Kickstarter marketplace, I was keen to discover some of the details and why gamers might pick Orin Rakatha ahead […]
Irregular Reconnaissance: Comic Books #6
It is the first Irregular Reconnaissance: Comics catch up of 2014 and there’s more than half a dozen micro-reviews. In Irregular Reconnaissance I look back of recent reading to share opinion, insight but mainly opinion. The goal? There’s a wealth of comic book goodness out there and it can be hard to decide when to […]
Unlock the Eternal Siege of the Shard: A Review of The Timeless Fort
Long ago, three kingdoms were gifted with the fiery arrival of a skybourne crystal shard. Some say the artefact possessed the ability to enhance magical powers, but none of the kingdoms could tell for sure, for a righteous order of men and women stole it from beneath their noses. So started the Shard Wars. Like […]
Trove of Lost Hopes: A Review of Tomb of Rils
Treasures heaped so high they’d make a golden dragon weep. A gamemaster can sometimes find such a potential trove, not in the fictional content of some forgotten dungeon, but in the words, setting and ingenuity of a written adventure. Other times, you might come across something more commonplace and uncover a gem or two – […]
Avalanche!: A Review of The Mysterious Peaks of Baranthar
Scaling the sheer cliffs of the Baranthar Mountains, falling to your death might prove the least of your worries. The elements and unforgiving crags of the Baranthar peaks may prove as dangerous and uninviting as the struggling and desperate settlers that once called it home. However, the evil that lies at the summit poses a […]
