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I'm glad to see that someone is giving them an audience. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster and tabletop RPG publisher who talks about games and other forms of geekery at the long-running Dorkland! blog He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on[...]

Not a lot of gamers, whether with tabletop RPGs or the computer variety, may know who Jeff Perren is, or realize the foundation that he helped create for their hobbies Along with Gary Gygax, Perren created a set of miniatures rules called Chainmail that would later become the basis of a little game known as Dungeons & Dragons. One[...]

Until then (if that happens), this is what we have. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster and tabletop RPG publisher who talks about games and other forms of geekery at the long-running Dorkland! blog 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+[...]

Not every retailer can afford to put our beautiful books cover-first, so most of the RPG books in stores are on a bookshelf spine-out Most retailers DO have comic book racks though, and this way they have the option of putting the new format books in a more prominent location The low cost also helps[...]

That may be the only way to put an end to all of this theft. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster and tabletop RPG publisher who talks about games and other forms of geekery at the long-running Dorkland! blog He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter[...]

On June 3rd, a small indie role playing game company called Rarr I'm A Monster Publishing posted a a new RPG book, Monster Menagerie, for sale here. It featured the over art of one Jon Towers. On September 8th, the publisher informed Towers that a competitor of theirs, Outlaw Press Inc had downloaded the book and were now[...]

I have a 5×5 Rhodia pad (graph paper with 5 squares to the inch) that I can transcribe the geomorphs from the DungeonMorph dice into, so with a minimum of effort I can come up with a quick and easy few hours of play with a few friends and the fantasy RPG of our choice[...]

While it does go a bit against some of the tenants of the game, which I will get into, I think that the writeup of the War Doctor should have better reflected the fact that, more than any other regeneration, he was meant to be a warrior. This doesn't take away from the overall playability of[...]

One of the biggest problems that Dungeons & Dragons, or any other fantasy tabletop RPG, has to face is that there are so many options out there nowadays Nearly any preferred fantasy genre or playing style is catered to by some already existing roleplaying game. I had games like Swords & Wizardry or Castles & Crusades[...]

This kind of gameplay is an ideal compromise between the 100% action game and the turn-based RPG Both types of game having their hardcore fan base, situating their newest game in a middle ground allows Supergiant to reach gamers in both factions Without being completely obligatory, the turn function has to be used if you[...]

By Jason Vey So here it is, August 2014, and I’m neck-deep in the first Kickstarter campaign related to a core game of my design: Troll Lord Games’

Bowen also said that players and DMs will "always have access to their content." I was able to pick up a copy of The Strange, the new RPG from Monte Cook Games, using the same system as their award-winning Numenera game, but with a different setting I haven't been able to read enough to get anything[...]

By Christine Marie Vinciquarra Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) has been expanding imaginations since the 1970s, but I didn’t encounter it until a few years

By Jared Cornelius Hey gang, before we get started this week just a bit of housekeeping news, I've decided to retire the Live(ish) From The Games Shop moniker.  Without getting into the boring specifics, I got tired of my ego stroking Google searches turning up results for bait shops.  It's also made less sense since our beloved EIC[...]

By Michele Brittany I come into this panel with a severe bias: I think Mouse Guard is a beautiful series and yes, I’m a fan girl. I’ve followed and

The Spotlight Award winners are: Hooper: Hobomancer Companion – Hex Games Kayra Keri Kupcu: Deep Magic – Kobold Press Stacy Muth: Rocket Age RPG – Cubicle 7 Entertainment Jakub Nowosad: The Demolished Ones – Chronicle City/Rite Publishing Kurt Wiegel: Weird Wars Rome – Pinnacle Entertainment Group The only one of these that I am familiar with is Kobold Press' Deep Magic[...]

Talk a bit about that early stage of your career.  What drew you into the world of RPG's? PS: Roleplaying was a booming subculture when I was growing up, and it attracted a lot of people who, like me, were picked last for the soccer team I loved being immersed in stories in all types of[...]

With the release of the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set in stores, and the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules PDF on the Wizards of the Coast website, we have the beginnings of the fifth edition of the game that started tabletop RPGs and influenced a swath of video and computer games as well. Since unboxing photos/videos[...]

We need to open up to other people and build up our network. We spoke to Brian Baglow (Scottish Games Network) about contacts with the film and TV industry and my brother who is studying film is also interested in making a film in 48 hours. I think we've got the ball rolling to attract other disciplines[...]

He also wrote a fantasy supplement called Vornheim which has some pretty neat stuff in it. John Tarnowski is better known online as the "RPGPundit." He has spent a lot of time pissing off a lot of people for a lot of different reasons online He posts online under a number of names, and also runs[...]

At present Cubicle 7 and Sophisticated Games' The One Ring Roleplaying Game (TORRPG), written by Francesco Nepitello; with art direction by Jon Hodgson, represents the finest researched of all of them and this was proven by the numerous awards it received at launch The new Revised Edition resolves a number of  design issues the original[...]

There are so many better fan-based YouTube productions out there on the internet that you might be better off waiting for the actual release of the Starter Set and seeing what some of these people have to say. The Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set is scheduled to be released July 15th. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster and tabletop[...]

This edition was never published and disappeared under questions of proper licensing. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster and tabletop RPG publisher who talks about games and other forms of geekery at the long-running Dorkland! blog He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and[...]

100% of the money for these auctions will go to the charities of Human Rights Watch, the Women's Learning Partnership and Child's Play. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster and tabletop RPG publisher who talks about games and other forms of geekery at the long-running Dorkland! blog He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You[...]

The previous Horror-themed issue is available at the above link as well (which, in the interest of disclosure features a Swords & Sorcery setting created by me), and issue three is supposed to come out later this year. Be warned that this issue is mature themed, and not for all audiences. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster[...]

Laws' DramaSystem, the rules at the heart of Hillfolk are "an elegant and clever take on group storytelling that puts gameplay and competition on an equal footing with structured narrative and individual creativity." Paizo Publishing, a publishing company run by Lisa Stevens (publishers of the Pathfinder RPG). Paizo Publishing is best know as the publisher of the wildly successful Pathfinder RPG as[...]

Considering how some publishers have been in the past about fan material, this is definitely a step in the right direction for how game publishers treat their fanbases. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster and tabletop RPG publisher who talks about games and other forms of geekery at the long-running Dorkland! blog He is also the co-publisher[...]

By Sage Ashford Since Kickstarter began, both veteran and newbie developers alike have been making proposals in an attempt to get gamers to fund their dream project.  Some are incredible success stories, others…not so much.   Likewise, fan reception has had an equally polarizing range.  There are those who have been elated to learn their favorite developer[...]

Once you've written it down and once its somewhere you have ownership of it. You just, kind of, shepherd it. Dark Harvest: Legacy of Frankenstein is a free download at RPG.Net, and the Resistance supplement is still available for purchase You can also follow Dark Harvest on Facebook and Twitter. Next year Dark Harvest: Legacy of Frankenstein will[...]

Probably one of the earliest fantasy RPGs to eschew the standard tropes of tabletop gaming (dungeon crawling, killing monsters for advancement and etc.) Pendragon has long been a favorite of gamers and designers for its integration of culture and religion into the game and the rules for playing The importance of religion and culture  have[...]