Hero Kids is a fantasy RPG designed to introduce kids to pen-and-paper role-playing games (don’t tell Jack Chick). The game is cheap — $5.99 for a PDF of the basic set — and gets very good reviews from folks who have tried it. The developer also has an informative and helpful blog dedicated to the…
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Cityographer is a Kickstarter-funded random city generator/mapping software for role-playing games. You set up the parameters for the city you want to randomly generate using dialogue screens like this: Cityographer then cranks out randomly generated cities based on your choices that look like this: Cityographer was successfully Kickstarted back in June 2012. Developer Joe Wetzel…
Mattie Brice makes the case for eliminating quests altogether in open world role-playing game such as Skyrim, My response? Abandon quests altogether for future Elder Scrolls games. Skyrim is at a place in its evolution where the series can’t rationalize holding onto several RPG conventions for convention’s sake. There is no reason that we need…
Saw an ad for a Wizard of Oz-themed pen-and-paper RPG the other day and decided to look around the web for Oz-based RPGs. The RPG I saw the ad for was Emerald City Expeditions’ Oz: Dark and Terrible, which describes it thusly, Welcome Welcome to Oz! An Oz where Witches with extraordinary magical abilities vie…
Cubicle 7 Entertainment received the license to make an RPG based on Charles Stross’ awesome Laundry Files series of novels. The core rulebook is out and available in both old skool paper as well as PDF, an a series of supplements including an Agent’s Handbook and collection of scenarios are all planned for the coming…
Rob Lang, the person behind the excellent FreeRPG blog, did an excellent job on his 24 hour RPG challenge. Within the space of just 24 hours, Lang put together a complete RPG, Cloudship Atlantis.