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Style and substance in Role Playing Games

Sunday, 28 February 2010 12:43 |

Written by Sam |

sam5 merp I started gaming back in 1984. Myself and a couple of mates started on this new game my friend Stuart had heard of, called Middle Earth Role Playing. He had Neil and I create a couple of characters each (a Sindar Ranger and a Dwarf Warrior for myself, if you're interested). Keeping with tradition, we happened to be at a local tavern where the barman told us about an abandoned keep of ill repute. Shortly after, I'm being attacked by Crebain in a crenelated death-trap of shoddy construction ™. Next day I buy my first set of dice.

Weekly RPG Releases - 1st March

Tuesday, 02 March 2010 11:10 |

Written by David Jones |

New Roleplaying Games

BASIC Roleplaying: Rome: Life and Death of the Republic: Realistic campaign setting for the early Roman era (Cubicle 7 Entertainment)
D&D 4th Ed: Hammerfast: A dwarven town to use as a basis for exploration and adventure (Wizards of the Coast)
D&D 4th Ed: Players Handbook 3: new classes and options for primal and divine characters, and adds the psionic power source and its classes (Wizards of the Coast)
D&D 4th Ed: Harrowing Hall Dungeon Tiles: cardstock terrain tiles (Wizards of the Coast)
Earthdawn: Namegivers of Barsaive: source material and rules for each of the namegiving races (Mongoose)
Judge Dredd RPG: The Mega City One Archive Vol 2 - Lawbringers: source material on the Judges themselves (Mongoose)
Judge Dredd RPG: The Judges Handbook: Secrets of the Justice Department (Mongoose)
Mage: The Awakening: Night Horros, The Unbidden: antagonists for the Awakened (White Wolf)
Runequest 2: GM Screen (Mongoose)
Shadowrun: Shadowrun Vice: Criminal Sourcebook (Catalyst Games)
Traveller: The Gvurrdon Map Pack: Huge poster map (Mongoose)

CCG

A Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall Chapter Pack (Fantasy Flight)

Warlord Romans Reviewed

Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:19 |

Written by Gabrio Tolentino |

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We have taken a look at the plastic 28mm Roman Legionaries. Assembling and painting them ready for the battlefield...

Last Updated (Wednesday, 03 March 2010 21:42)

Help Haiti, roleplaying...

Friday, 22 January 2010 16:10 |

Written by Gabrio Tolentino |

DRIVETHROUGH RPG has found a very generous way of helping the people of Haiti.

Go to http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/ and donate $20 to the Haiti appeal and they'll give you access to loads ($1000) of RPG PDFs for free. Examples include the Serenity RPG.