April 2012
17 posts
Switched On: Big kicks not all for starters →
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Southern Rising →
Southern Rising is a roleplaying game in which players take on the roles of average citizens (businessmen, school teachers, public servants, police officers, and/or soldiers) trying to stop the rising of the confederacy by any means necessary.
Set in 2011 the game allows modern player characters to take on undead soldiers of the Confederacy, making this a mash-up of genres. It is a...
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Dark Eon Assassin →
Dark Eon Assassin is an exciting solo science-fiction boardgame, designed to challenge players of all ages as they infiltrate the Tyrant of Acheron’s palace, avoiding the traps and guards he has prepared, in an effort to rid the galaxy of his maniacal atrocities. You will have a range of high technology equipment and weapons to aid you, but the odds are stacked against easy success…
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Cristoforo: Reviving Victorian fonts with a... →
Cristoforo is my name for a pair of new fonts reviving classic American-Victorian art nouveau metal types by Hermann Ihlenburg: Columbus (1892), Columbus Initials (upright swash capitals) and the italic companion American Italic (1902). Cristoforo Regular will have some 300+ glyphs. Cristoforo has a huge history here. Its predecessor, Columbus, was the typeface used to create the logo for the Call...
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Roll20: A new virtual tabletop focused on ease of... →
Roll20 is a new virtual tabletop that’s completely web-based and incredibly easy to use. It focuses on storytelling and camaraderie rather than specific gameplay mechanics. It has built in web search for tokens and maps, a jukebox for playing background music, and fully integrated audio and video chat. It’s currently raising money to fund development during a closed beta, and plans to...
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Midgard Tales →
Great adventures are the foundation of any tabletop RPG. The Dragonlance series, the Vault of the Drow, Tomb of Horrors, Sunless Citadel, Rise of the Runelords—and even Open Design’s own Courts of the Shadow Fey have all defined adventure for a generation of gamers.
The Midgard Tales project aims to do to the same, with 13 adventures that reach out to remake classic themes, such as a...
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Ogre Designer's Edition →
Ogre was the first game I ever designed. It came out in 1977! It’s been out of print for years, except for the miniatures rules. I’m constantly getting requests to bring it back, and in 2008 we started working on a new edition … a “designer’s edition” that would be as big and beautiful as any wargame you’ve ever seen.
Even as planned right now, the game is huge. The current prototype weighs...
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Metamorphosis Alpha RPG →
Metamorphosis Alpha was the very first science-fiction roleplaying game, written and designed by James M. Ward and published by TSR in 1976. It became the precursor and inspiration for other settings that included mutations, forgotten technology, and lost mysteries. Now Signal Fire Studios is prepared to relaunch Metamorphosis Alpha as a self-contained RPG with setting material by James M. Ward...
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Track Initiative →
TrackInitiative.com is the easy to use, flexible initiative tracker for your Table-top RPG’s. Games like Dungeons and Dragons, or any game where your players take turns, are made much easier with Track Initiative. Not only can you manage the order with which your combatants take their turns, but our initiative tracker reminds your players of status effects, including when they begin and end,...
The Women of Geekdom 2013 Calendar →
This calendar is a celebration of Everday Geek Girls in all their forms. Each participant would dress up as their favorite character from various fandoms: RPGS, Movies, TV, Comics, Novels, and Video Games. This calendar will not only try to showcase a diverse section of fandoms but also show the diverse types of women that love these shows, books and games. This will be a professionally printed,...
Champions Live Action →
Champions Live is a Live Action Roleplaying Game coming soon from Silverback Press, using a new rules set derived from the well-known and award-winning Hero System rules but modified for speed and ease of use away from the table. It uses a stopwatch, or “PCD” as the randomizer for conflict resolution- any device that keeps time to the hundredths of a second can be used. We use the...
Shadowrun Returns →
Jordan Weisman, the creator of Shadowrun, is back and Shadowrun Returns (for Apple & Android tablets and PCs) is the game that Shadowrun fans have been waiting for a long time. A graphically rich 2D turn-based single player game with deep story interaction, meaningful character development, and highly-contextual tactical combat, Shadowrun Returns is not only going to make some old geeks (like...
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Dice Chuckers →
Dice Chuckers is an intimate look at those among us who play role playing games (RPGS), those whom you might not expect. From lawyers to movie producers to professors, they’re all around us. Someone you know might even love these games, or have fond memories of them from their youth. Modeled after one of my favorite documentaries, Trekkies, our documentary will open up this secret world, one...
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Quicksilver Worldbook for Pathfinder →
What would it be like if a quaint medieval fantasy realm had humans, goblins, and elves living peacefully side-by-side? What if there were psionic powers? What if there was a strange substance that “mind-mages” could shape, and imbue with mystical abilities? And, what if that process occasionally went awry, producing creatures of living metal that immediately turned on their...
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Witch Girls: Book of Shadows →
Witch Girls Adventures did the impossible by bringing table top role-playing to a new and under appreciated demographic (Girls ages 11-16). Now two years later we’re preparing our second edition, “Witch Girls: Book of Shadows” . Our goal is a bigger print run and a full color book with the same easy rules and character generation and expansive family friendly world.
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The Urban Tarot →
The Urban Tarot Deck began in 2003 as a tie-in to a RPG called the Zero Movement written by Nick Fortugno. However, the project was never fully realized. Since then, I’ve continued to add to the deck and show at gaming and fantasy conventions all over the country and received a ton of great feedback. So now I’m aiming to finally complete the set and distribute it myself. With the help...
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The Sense of the Sleight of Hand Man →
The Sense of the Sleight of Hand Man is a complete classic Call of Cthulhu campaign set in 1920s New York and in H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands. It will be approximately 128 pages. It is a fully illustrated, mapped and lavishly detailed tabletop RPG PDF book, written and illustrated by Dennis Detwiller. This work will be finished by summer 2012.
March 2012
38 posts
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The Parsec RPG →
Parsec is a fast, simple system with minimal notes and bookkeeping that still lets you create and portray a huge variety of futuristic characters. The conflict systems are interesting and all have consequences that will drive the story forward. Players collaborate to determine what their goals are, what obstacles they will face, and when they spend time coming up with a cool plan, they get dice...
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Myth & Magic Player's Guide - 2E Revived and... →
2nd Edition was wonderful and unique. Not only did it maintain most of the game’s 1st Edition mechanics, but it created more options for the player and delivered to the Game Master a horde of awesome product. Enter Myth & Magic, a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game that brings back 2E and it brings it back better than ever. Myth & Magic retains so much of what made 2E so damn great...
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Class of Heroes 2 Deluxe for the PSP System →
We’ve licensed the Class of Heroes™ series from Acquire Corp. We’ll start with Class of Heroes II for the PSP® system. The game is a charming take on the Wizardry-style dungeon crawl games with a twist – all the party members are drawn from a pool of newly-enrolled students at a Sword and Sorcery School. The game features 10 classes to choose from: Novice, Fighter, Swordsman, Ranger, Monk,...
