EN World News Today is the last day to bid on the ENnies Publisher Karaoke! If the person you want to sing isn’t in the top three, you’re not going to hear them! Make sure that doesn’t happen! Southern Oracle discusses elves in Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty. This week in Pretty Darn Fun (a look at new PDFs) we are met with the sad news that MWP has given up the Marvel Comics license...
This week we are met with the sad news that MWP has given up the Marvel Comics license. Following this intro message there are links to the PDFs for the rpg, but keep in mind that after April 30th the PDFs will no longer be available. The good news for the week is that we have another excellent batch of new PDFs spanning new systems, useful supplements and ready to use adventures. Check them...
Way back when I started playing D&D, the elf was a class, and there was only one kind of elf. As the game evolved, subspecies developed and joined the game. New settings brought more kinds of elves, and now there are more than you can shake a stick at. Why so many elves? Why do they have such a fascination for gamers? From One Sprung Many For most gamers, I think that high elves, gray...
EN World News Don't forget the EN World 7 Day RPG Contest with its $1000 prize! We have a new board game review: Horus Heresy from Fantasy Flight Games -- "Horus Heresy is certainly a good game, but it’s far from an easy beast to tame." Game Design 107 from Challenger RPG deals with formatting. Radiating Gnome takes a look at five iPad apps you might be able to use in your game prep. The EN...
I like to say, “There are no bad ideas, only good ideas explained poorly.” In my experience, absolutely everybody has really awesome ideas for writing a book or coming up with their own cool game design. Often, there isn’t anything wrong with the cool ideas unless it’s that they haven’t been well thought out, well implemented, or attempted at all. I believe the foundation of good writing and...
Can you write an RPG in 7 days? If so, here's a chance to win $1000! By next week! I'm holding a competition this week. Entries must be posted by midnight my time next Sunday (the 5th of May; I'm in the UK, so that's BST). All you have to do is write a roleplaying game. Or dig one up you wrote twenty years ago. It can be short - I've seen 24 hour RPG contests before, and games under 20...
Good lord, this is a beast. The first thing you'll notice about Horus Heresy is the size. It's massive, the last coffin-box that Fantasy Flight Games produced before they decided that it was probably a bit easier to use a smaller but taller effort along the lines of Descent 2.0. Based on the original Games Workshop property, FFG has waved its magic wand over a really rather old-fashioned game...
There are a lot of iPad apps that we've talked about in the forum and in articles here on the site; but with a library of about a million apps, 350K of which are designed for the iPad, there's a incredible variety of apps that could be very useful to support your gaming habit. And, many of them are not specifically designed for gaming. So, here's a quick roundup of a few Apps to consider...
Roleplaying Games News Cubicle 7 Gets Lone Wolf! Joe Dever and Cubicle 7 Entertainment have announced that that they will develop Lone Wolf Roleplaying Games, and detailed colour maps of Magnamund - Lone Wolf’s iconic homeworld. Prior to Cubicle 7, Mongoose Publishing produced a Lone Wolf line, with editions in 2004 and 2010. Joe Dever said, “I’m really very happy to be working with Cubicle...
Dungeons & Dragons News This week's D&D Next Q&A talks about starting gold, paragon paths/prestige classes, and bounded accuracy. 2nd Edition Excerpts: DMG -- "In today's 2nd Edition excerpt, we look at various details and advice offered through the book. First, we consider the mundane: the quality of equipment, including horses and locks. Next, the magical: specifically, the possible powers...
Surprisingly true to the source material. Games are different. Not just between distantly-related games like, say, curling and Dogs in the Vineyard, but also between closely-related games, like, say, AD&D (first edition) and D&D (fourth edition). Those differences are expressed in ways that become more and more specific the more and more similar the games get to each other. We know this...
As I mentioned in a couple of previous reviews, the past few years have seen an explosion of independent games and innovative new game systems appearing all over the Fantasy Role-Playing Game market. Gamers have a wide range of choices now between game rules which are detailed and focused on “realism” – if that can be said of anything happening in a made-up fantasy world – to game systems...
I feel rotten right now. I literally just walked back in from the doctor’s office where I tested negative for both flu and strep throat, which means my sinus drainage has managed to produce clinical levels of pain without actually resorting to an ailment for which prescription medications are the answer. Basically they said, “Keep taking what you’ve been taking and it’ll eventually go away...
Announcing the 2013 ENnie Awards Guest Presenters Every year, the ENnies is honored to have guest presenters who have contributed so much to make the RPG industry strong and thriving, as well as just plain fun. This year’s guest presenters are no exception and we are excited to have them be a part of the ceremony. The four guest presenters will be: ENnie Award winning designer and writer...
EN World News IT'S ST GEORGE'S DAY! Not only the patron saint of England, St. George famously slew a dragon - which makes him pretty much the patron saint of fantasy gamers! Celebrate it by including a dragon in your gaming today! PLUS - reply to this post with a dragon-related anecdote, tidbit, gaming goodie, picture, statblock, idea (anything really, as long as it's dragon-related) and...
9 new PDFs, 4 new WotC rereleases, 8 new adventures, 1 Rewind PDF and a Spotlight for the old school crowd. As usual, the products run the gamut of new systems, supplements for old systems, bundle packs, big page counts and useful but cheap stuff. Every week there is bound to be something for almost every type of player or group. Fractured Kingdom This setting/rule system features a setting...