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Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News – Apocalypse, Nevermore, Nightmare Fuel, and more
This week’s article looks at RPG crowdfunding projects that end between October 27 to November 6. This list includes lots of projects that run on RPG engines with “dungeon” in the title as well as system neutral and an original system. If you’re looking for Halloween themed offerings, there are some winners in this sampling.
Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons 
Gen Con Haul 2022
What do you do when attending Gen Con, the largest tabletop gaming convention in North America? Enjoy a vacation, connect with friends and creators, play games that you don’t normally get to or with new adventuring parties, learn about upcoming releases, and, for many, shop for brand new and long sought products. I attend Gen Con for all of that and collected a fantastic RPG haul in 2022. A of...
Boardgames  Conventions  Film & TV  Peregrine's Nest 
Returning to Gen Con
I’ve missed Gen Con, really missed it. I’ve been lucky enough to be a regular attendee for the last few years, and it’s become something of an addiction. I’ve met so many amazing people over the years, Gen Con has become less of a gaming con for me and more of an opportunity to hang out with friends I can only see once a year. Even with its return last year, those of us outside the US were...
Boardgames  Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons 
RPG Crowdfunding News - The Thief & the Necromancer, Graveyard of the Gods, PEACEMAKER, and more
This week’s article includes RPG crowdfunding projects that end between September 7th to the 15th. I look at a sampling of games including the tail end of Kickstarters’s 2022 RPG Zine Quest. As always, I encourage you to check out these campaigns as well as others that may interest your gaming table.
Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
GEN CON 2022: MAZES at MIDNIGHT
Why attend Gen Con? From time to time, that question arises from gaming fans that have yet to attend. Many of the replies attempt to recreate the dimension of the convention, it’s impressively large, or touch on the excitement that gathering a stadium’s worth of gamers in one place generates. Because the scope of the convention (held across four days in a convention center, a football stadium...
Call of Cthulhu  Conventions 
ENNIE Award Dream Dates: 2022 Guide
The 2022 ENNIE Awards show returns to Gen Con! Coming August 5th at 8pm in Indianapolis, Indiana, the ceremony reveals the winners of the most prestigious awards in tabletop roleplaying games. If you’re interested in attending the event with some of the best known publishers and personalities in roleplaying, then you can bid for one of the ENNIE Award Dream Dates. The winner gets a seat at a...
Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News – Arora, Everyday Heroes, Bloodpunk, and more
This week, I’m drowning in RPGs to report on. The first six on this list have raised six-figures each. As of this writing, there are ten live RPG campaigns at seven or six figures. That’s a nice number. As always, this list is just a sampling of what’s available through crowdfunding right now. Normally, I like to share projects from FASA, Richard A. Knaak, Nerdburger Games, Bloat Games, Philip...
Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News – 2023 Quest Calendar, PIRATE BORG, Fragged Empire 2e, and more
The RPG crowdfunding campaigns I look at this week end between March 22nd and the 31st. Included in the article is a calendar based RPG, pirates, a grim dark offering, OSRs, a convention, and more. In addition, the highest funded Kickstarter to-date is Brandon Sanderson’s four mystery novels. I mention that to give a shout out to Brandon Sanderson’s RPG, Mistborn Adventure Game from Crafty...
Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons  OSR 
RPG Crowdfunding News – OVERISLES, Old-School Essentials, and more
This week’s column looks at projects that end between March 15th to 27th. There are some great projects out there including an option that helps with learning sign language, some OSR options, a new magazine, a gaming convention, and more.
Conventions  Reviews 
Check Out the Scene: MACE 25
MACE 25 ran from November 12 to 14, 2021 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place in Charlotte, North Carolina. MACE is a dedicated tabletop gaming convention heavy on board games, RPGs, and charity, one of the many local shows nationwide with under a thousand attendees. Conducted as a family oriented gathering, this was the 25th year for the show and really proving the longevity a local show...
Call of Cthulhu  Conventions 
Chaosium Con: An Interview With Michael O’Brien
It’s the 40th anniversary of Call of Cthulhu and amid the celebration of that milestone, The Chaosium Group publicized a new convention. Announcing the first Chaosium Con coming to Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 8th and 9th, 2022 is a bold step, but all part of Chaosium’s ongoing strategy of engaging with their fanbase. In 2020, I interviewed Michael O’Brien (MOB) about the pandemic induced...
Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons  Novels 
Origins Game Fair 2021 – After Report Part Two
In the first part of this two-part series about the tabletop RPG scene at Origins Game Fair 2021, I looked at the attendance at the show and 2021 tabletop gaming conventions in general. In addition, I talked to Chaosium, 9th Level Games, Fragging Unicorn Games, Imagining Games, and Inkwell Ideas about their thoughts on the convention. In this part, I talk to IGDN, Free League Publishing, Gooey...
Conventions  Dungeons & Dragons 
Origins Game Fair 2021 – After Report Part One
With Origins Game Fair 2021 over and in the books, I reached out to several publishers about their experiences at the show. In this two-part series, Chaosium, IGDN, 9th Level Games, Imagining Games, Gooey Cube, Fragging Unicorn Games, Inkwell Ideas, World of Game Design, Chris A. Jackson, and Penny for a Tale shared their reactions to the show and talked about their fans and games. Before I...
Conventions 
Check Out The Scene – Dragon Con 2021
From September 2nd through the 6th, 2021, Dragon Con returned in Atlanta, Georgia. Along with 42,000 fans, I attended the first major North American great geek gathering since 2019. In this article, I’ll share some of the experience of Dragon Con 2021, quotes from attending professionals in the tabletop games industry, and some of the challenges the con con faced.
Conventions 
Origins Game Fair 2021 – The Games Begin
Origins Game Fair returns to Columbus, Ohio after taking 2020 off. This year, the convention was pushed back from its traditional dates to September 30th through October 3rd to, among other considerations, give gamers more opportunity to get vaccinated against the pandemic. I’ve talked about what to expect with the return of the 2021 convention scene (here, here, and here). As we’ve...
Conventions  Shadowrun  World of Darkness 
Ice & Dice Gaming Convention – An Interview With Randy Price
I met Randy Price of 2 Kings Games through a charity and did a review of his all-ages 5e adventure, Little Feet: The Legend of Gimcrack Jack. When he announced that he was kickstarting a tabletop gaming convention showcasing some of the hottest names in gaming, I was intrigued. Since I’m thinking of going, I had questions which led to this interview. If you’re curious about an Ohio convention...

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