These miniatures were sculpted by a special encounter in a Pathfinder RPG. The GM’s wife was the creative talent, using Super Sculpey over a wire and aluminum foil armature to build the bodies from scratch. Via Reddit.
Free to Download: The Caravan of Watched Enlightenment
Lady Ophelia’s Shop of Roleplay Specialties is an indie publisher run by Venus De Coy. De Coy doesn’t mix her words has given Ophelia’s Shop a clear stter; this is a conmpany for non-dungeon crawlers, pushing roleplay over roll-play. The publisher also has plenty of time for international gamers, like this blogger, but promotes a […]
Houserule Handbooks: Spellpoint Expansions
Super Genius Games, founded by Hyrum Savage and Stan!, is an imprint for OtherWorld Creations. The publisher creates supplements for Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, Call of Cthulhu and picked up the rights to Warlords of the Apocalypse from Adamant Entertainment. The Houserule Handbooks from SGG are available from Paizo.com as a Pathfinder supplement. The latest offering, […]
Paizo announce Mystery Monsters Revisited for Pathfinder
Mystery Monsters Revisited (~$19.99) is a campaign setting for Pathfinder. The book looks at the myths behind legendary creatures featuring beasts like the chupacabra, sasquatch and the mountain-dwelling yeti, mothman and Sandpoint Devil. Each monster comes with a summary of its own misdeeds, evidence the creature tends to leave behind and a stat block for […]
Alluria’s Pathfinder bundle: 65% off a sea-themed collection
Alluria Publishing have a “Super Pathfinder Holiday Mega-Bundle” on sale at DriveThru RPG. The usual value of the gaming books is just over $88 but with the bundle discount in place the actual total is $30. That’s a 65% discount. The catch? Alluria’s not said when the holiday mega-bundle deal comes to a close. The […]
10 new tabletop RPG communities on Google+ to join
Yesterday Google rolled out a new feature on Google+ – communities. Communities let people chat and share around common interests. As you can expect there’s already a wealth of RPG communities as gamers tend to be early adopters. Here’s Google’s video that explains the concept. It’s early days, so some communities might take off yet […]
Paizo Publishing launches RPG Superstar 2013
This will be the 6th RPG Superstar contest from Pathfinder publisher Paizo. The goal is to find fresh talent in game design and represents a chance for game designers to have their work scrutinised by industry leads. Sign up at paizo.com/rpgsuperstar if you’re interested. What challenges do you face? There will be five RPG Superstar […]
Paizo to run huge open playtest for Mythic Adventures
Paizo Publishing had more than 55,000 gamers help playtest the preliminary rules for Pathfinder back in 2008. That’s a success they’re looking to recreate. Starting on the 14th, players will be able to download a free copy of the preliminary design document for Mythic Adventures from Paizo.com. The results of the playtest; suggestions, comments, corrections […]
An introduction to Indie+
What is Indie+? It is an online convention and hangout for gamers. It’s made possible by Google+ Events and Google’s rather awesome Hangouts (also part of Google+). Hangouts, if you’re not familiar with them, are super easy to use video chats that support many people at once. They represent a virtual table as much as […]
The best selling RPGs of the summmer (2012)
Industry watchers ICv2 have released their count of the top five selling roleplaying games this summer. Tallies will always differ but ICv2 run interviews with manufacturers, distributors and retailers. The top five are; Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing) Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the Coast) Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch (Fantasy Flight Games) Dragon Age (Green Ronin Publishing) Dungeon […]
