By Jared Cornelius Welcome back to Live(ish) From The Games Shop. It's another week of the maddening summer lull and it seems that the major publishers
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He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc. You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics.
Christopher has a crowdfunding page to help raise money to defray the costs for going to the Gen Con gaming convention and cover it[...]
Difficulty conversation, achievement conversation, retro gaming chatter, and how much I hate Service Electric, my internet "provider" that is incredibly terrible.
I'd love to give a more precise description of this episode, but I really can't Oh, except for the fact that I once again have to deal with a defective PS4, so the amount of[...]
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By Phil Harris J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth represents one of the largest franchises on the planet and his writings have created a variety of books,
With Paranoia, a lot of the tropes of gaming and gaming groups are satirized, making it easier for a group to get a hook into playing this game Paranoia has a long pedigree in gaming, having originally been published by West End Games (best known for the original Star Wars RPG) and the most recent[...]
He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc. You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics.
Christopher has a crowdfunding page to help raise money to defray the costs for going to the Gen Con gaming convention and cover it[...]
Kristi Uhles writes for Bleeding Cool: For decades, tabletop games have been made using cheap, disposable parts and pieces. Many of these you have to
By Phil Harris
Iain Lowson has spent a lot of time writing for various games and publications, and is currently writing for the Star Wars Fact File but it was only after a push from his friend, Gregor Hutton, that he decided it was time to exercise the ideas he had for a tabletop roleplaying world[...]
My academic studies were in heroes and hero worship in Celtic and Germanic literature by the time I was a grad student, and so once I was done with my studies, I decided to make a leap and start writing about medieval heroes in film.
At my second conference, I was put on a panel with[...]
The downpour made me think of Otherworld from Final Fantasy X, so we've got that starting things off followed an Animal Crossing remix, a song from the PS3 game rain, and due to the hail storm, why not a song from Halestorm?
Final Fantasy X – Otherworld
Pocketman – Just a Summer Drizzle (Animal Crossing)
Halestorm – Familiar[...]
By Jared Cornelius
Over the years, the term "Comic Con" has been adapted to fit the broader terms of fandom. What was once an exclusive show for comic books, has transformed into a show that mirrors the wide appeal of today's fan community. Sci-Fi, anime, toys, and yes games, and it seems Denver Comic Con wants[...]
Earlier today, Wizards of the Coast's head of R&D for D&D Mike Mearls took to Twitter:
Here's the big news about organized play and D&D fifth – http://t.co/OOEKJHYm2e
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) May 21, 2014
Organized Play, for those not familiar, is programmed adventures that are used in stores or gaming conventions[...]
He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc. You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics.
Christopher has a crowdfunding page to help raise money to defray the costs for going to the Gen Con gaming[...]
By Christopher Helton
Despite the growing popularity of games like Pathfinder or Fate Core, there is one game that wags the tail of tabletop gaming, and that is Dungeons & Dragons from Wizards of the Coast This summer, at the Gen Con gaming convention, the first book of the new, fifth edition of the game that[...]
One of the things that releasing the game's rules into the wild with D&D Third Edition's Open Gaming License was that it opened the gates for everyone to create their version of D&D, or in some cases recreate their favorite version of D&D A number of years ago, Troll Lord Games started work on their[...]
In this weekly video show, Dan and Charles will recap the gaming news of the past week and discuss its implications for fandom.
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Welcome to the new gaming news show The Dedicated Server Myself (Dan Celko) and Charles Hess will be trying every week to keep informed with the news that matters to them and[...]
By Etienne Dubuc In need of some more Marvel Universe? You've read every comics issue possible, seen every movie, played every video game? There is still
He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc. You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics.
By Christopher Helton
One of those givens is that tabletop gamers have an interest in the creations of H.P[...]
By Peter G
What's poppin', people? It's Peter G, your favorite Polish manga-ka, and field marshal for the Chicago division of the Bleeding Cool Stud Squad. I have returned from another run through the trenches of C2E2 in Chicago, Illinois. Wondering what you might have missed? Read on, true believer….
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As vast as the DC Universe is, there is obviously some details that are left out (like the lack of Wildstorm characters mentioned earlier), but the book does a good job of providing a backdrop against which to base your DC Adventures campaigns.
The DC Adventures game is a solid line of books that will appeal[...]
He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc. You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics.
By Christopher Helton
For one week only you can reach into the Bundle of Holding for a treasure trove of[...]
He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc. You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics.
By Christopher Helton
The Bundle of Holding is back with even more DRM-free PDFs for fans of tabletop roleplaying games,[...]
Delta Green from Pagan Publishing and Arc Dream Publishing is one of the most highly regarded gaming settings being produced With most of these books sadly out of print, and going for hundreds of dollars on the secondary market, these PDFs are the only way to get this setting In addition, 10% of all money[...]
According to the urban legends of gaming, the impetus behind creating the Shatterzone game was to give a home to ideas and concepts that had been created for West End Games' Star Wars RPG, but had been rejected by Lucasfilm I'm not sure if the evidence really gives credence to those rumors, but it is[...]
By Jared Cornelius This week California Senator Leland Yee was indicted on charges of corruption and weapons brokering among other things. While the
Special Bleeding Cool guest The Nerdy Show rolls forward through RPG month with this special podcast featuring the RPG enthusiasm of comic creators of the
We also chat Titanfall, PvZ Garden Warfare, and how much Kris talks about Diablo.
In the last half hour we are joined by Matthew "Maffew" Gregg, creator of the Botchamania series featuring wrestlers screwing up and flubbing lines, among other hilarious things that wrestlers do wrong.
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After decades in the adventure gaming hobby, Allen knew many designers, and more than a few who had written novels Ten designers contributed their self-published novels to the first Bundle of Holding, which had a successful 18-day run in February-March 2013 and was recently resurrected for a four-day encore.
The Bundle of Holding site has run[...]
Bonds do help circumvent some of the clichés of gaming characters, plus they can be altered as play goes Issues between characters can be resolved through play.
The art in Dungeon World is phenomenal It is one of the high points of the book for me It sets the tone of the game, from the party[...]