Guest Article: Aeturnum Gaming – Getting into Tabletop RPGs
Getting into Tabletop RPGs
By Jake Tegtman of Aeturnum Gaming
Tabletop RPGs (roleplay games) have one of the most devoted fanbases of any sort of gaming niche out there. There’s an entire industry based around it. Dice, miniatures, gaming mats, various roleplay games, and pre-made adventures all make tabletop gaming more in-depth and exciting. And it’s not a genre just for older generations. Even...
Guest Article: Sigil Entertainment – The Savage Sign 02 (Savage Worlds)
The Savage Sign 02
By Eugene Marshall
The following article discusses “The Depths of Madness,” an original setting in The Savage Sign 02, an anthology of settings, adventures, and options for Savage Worlds. The Savage Sign 02 is on Kickstarter now (link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sigil/the-savage-sign-02) In this article, you’ll get a peek into the design process and some of the cool...
Guest Article: Campaign Games – Forts & Frontiers The Feast of the Dead: Influences and Inspirations
Forts & Frontiers The Feast of the Dead: Influences and Inspirations
By Jameson Proctor
Our primary goal in creating Forts & Frontiers The Feast of the Dead was to bring our love of 17th and 18th century North America to the gaming table in a manner that allows game masters and players to tell deep, engaging stories about this critical period of history. We considered a number of systems as...
Guest Article: Attention Span Games – Creating the World of Big Eyes, Small Brains
Building a World of Adventure: Creating the World of Big Eyes, Small Brains
By Samantha Ferreira
If you had told me, five years ago that I’d co-create an RPG with one of my best friends, I probably would have given you a side-eyed glance. While I’ve always enjoyed tabletop gaming, both as an adventurer and a dungeon master, the thought of actually crafting a world, of building an actual...
Guest Article: Attention Span Games – “For the Class Idol”
“For the Class Idol”
By LB Bryant
Big Eyes, Small Brains was originally supposed to be an easy six-month project when we first signed on back in 2017. What our project leader didn’t realize at the time though is that Samantha and I share the mutual writing philosophy of “Go big, or go home.”
Past
My first introduction to tabletop roleplaying games was in late elementary school. The...
Guest Article: Attention Span Games – “The Journey of Big Eyes Small Brains”
“The Journey of Big Eyes Small Brains”By Will Carson – Owner of Attention Span Games
Big Eyes Small Brains is the 3rd pocket RPG that Attention Span Games has had the joy to publish. It all got started a few years ago. Ron, the writer of the first two Pocket RPGs (DnDizzle: Dragons in the Hood, and Laser Metal) chose to opt out of writing our third game, as he enjoys anime,...
Guest Article: Signal Fire Studios – “In With The Old, In With The New”
“In With The Old, In With The New”
By Jamie Chambers
The following article discusses the 5th Edition adventure A Delve In The Cave (written for 1st level characters) that has less than a week left on a Kickstarter campaign as of this posting. Here you’ll get a peek inside my creative process when writing adventures. If you’re a Game Master interested running this adventure you will find some...
Guest Article: Daring Entertainment – Apocalypse Campaign Guide (Savage Worlds)
Apocalypse Campaign Guide
By Lee F. Szczepanik, Jr.
There’s a new book on the horizon, and it’s currently doing well at Kickstarter. It’s called the Apocalypse Campaign Guide, for Savage Worlds. And it’s going to allow you to create your own apocalypse and destroy the world.
Roughly two years ago, I had some Savage Worlds fans asking me to continue my popular War of the Dead, zombie apocalypse...
Guest Article: Blackfall Press – Rogues Gallery (Cold Steel Wardens)
Cold Steel Wardens: Rogues Gallery
By: A.P. Klosky
I’m an unabashed comic book fan. Even as I was in grade school, I spent my free time reading through my uncle’s collection of Worlds’ Finest, Justice League of America, Spider-Man, and Fantastic-Four.
In a strange twist of fate, though, the first comic I ever read was Justice League of America, Vol. 1, #65…the issue in which time-travelling...
Guest Article: Zombie Sky Press – The Faerie Ring (Pathfinder)
The Faerie Ring
By Scott Gable
One of the most important parts of The Faerie Ring are the new fey playable races. You can play as fir bolg, bitterclaws, darklings, goodfellows, wyrd, putti, twilight children, black hats, far darrig, kitsune, matabiri… maybe sidhe! We wanted players and GMs to be able to truly immerse themselves in our faeries worlds, to actively partake in courtly politics, to deal...
Guest Article: Black Banner Media and Games – Gunmetal Grey
Gunmetal Grey
By Thomas Hedges
Hello all, and thank you very much for taking the time to read my article. My name is Thomas Hedges and I’m going to talk about my upcoming RPG called Gunmetal Grey. It’s a Sci-Fi RPG set in a post-apocalyptic future, in which the earth has been nearly destroyed following the catastrophic events of World War Three. After the war, what was left of the population...
One Author’s Journey
One Author’s Journey
By Mike Phillips
Hello everyone, and thank you for reading my guest post. My name is Mike Phillips and my new book is The World Below. After reviewing the book last month, Editor-in-Chief Aaron T. Huss asked if I would be interested in talking a little about my journey as a writer, and if I might have some advice for anyone wanting to get into the business.
Before we begin,...
What is AetherCon II?
What is AetherCon II?By Barry Lewis
AetherCon organizer, Stephen Holodinsky, just wanted a way of getting people to the table to play RPGs, but when he couldn’t get that to happen he looked for another way. He then went out and searched the internet looking for like-minded people willing to stare at a computer screen for long hours and work for no pay and thus AetherCon was born. Our mission...
Modern Urban Fantasy in The World Below
The World Below
By Mike Phillips
Hello everyone, and thank you for reading my guest post. My name is Mike Phillips and my new book is The World Below. I have been asked to talk about a few of the characters in the novel. Our hero is Mitch Hardy, just an average guy trying to work his way through college and make something out of himself. While working in a foundry, he suffers a terrible accident....
Tabletop Towns from Julian Hicks
Tabletop Towns’ Julian Hicks has launched a second project via Kickstarter, Tabletop Castles was launched on the 3rd of September and finishes on the 6th of October, it is, at the time of writing, 85% funded having raised £3391 of its £3950 target.
Back the Kickstarter here.
The range of Towers and walls available are fold flat easy store easy to put up cardboard boxes, they are litho printed die...
The Making of Pirates & Dragons, The RPG
The making of Pirates & Dragons, the RPG
By Ken Walton & Peter Cakebread
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In The Beginning
We’ve always liked pirates. And dragons. When the idea popped into our heads to make a role-playing game called Pirates & Dragons, we were amazed no-one had beaten us to it. After all, since both are very fond of gold, the conflict inherent in the situation is obvious,...
Fabled Environments: Modern Floor Plans for RPGs
Jacob looked up. He heard the rumble overhead and knew that he would only have minutes to find shelter before the black rain fell and burned any flesh or clothing that came in contact with it. He raced down the middle of the broken asphalt road until he saw the large, intact brick school, now covered in overgrowth.
Cautiously and quietly, Jacob drew his ASP pistol and approached. He strained to hear...
Crossfire: Taking It To The Next Level
In previous articles we’ve told you about the mechanics within the Shadowrun: Crossfire deck-building game. Things like how to defeat an enemy and how to help your teammates. This time, we’re taking it to the next level and talking about one feature that makesCrossfire really stand out. On the first day of working on this game I decided I wanted to make a cooperative deck-building game. It fit...
The Making Of The Shadowrun Introductory Box Set Cover
“My Guilty Pleasure”
The life of a Shadowrun cover artist
By Echo Chernik
It all started twenty years ago in Brooklyn, New York with one simple sentence, “Hey, would you like to come back to my dorm and play Shadowrun?”
Somehow this game has remained an integral part of who I am throughout the many years since my (now) husband asked me that question so many years ago. We played in college...
What’s New in Killshot Reloaded?
When Roleplayers Chronicle asked me to summarize my latest Kickstarter and roleplaying game, Killshot Reloaded, I struggled for a moment. Not because I didn’t know how to explain it, that’s the not the problem. If anyone’s watched the daily Video Updates provided on the Kickstarter, you’ll see I can’t shut up about it. No, the problem was finding the right way to encapsulate...
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