From the 1st-Edition DMG, Appendix N is a list of literary influences which inspired Gary Gygax' development of the game. It's entitled "APPENDIX N: INSPIRATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL READING" and reads as follows. Inspiration for all of the fantasy work I have done stems directly from the love my father showed when I was a tad, for he spent many hours telling me stories he made up as he...
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It's time for RPG Superstar 2013! Every year, Paizo holds an annual open-call RPG design competition to give the best and brightest aspiring game designers a chance to show the world their talent. This year's winner will receive a contract to write a Pathfinder Module to be published by Paizo. Read this article at the Paizo blog.
You spent hours making it though... Wouldn't you be better served playing D&D with something like the Neverwinter Nights construction toolset? You could build a 3d environment for that kind of effort.
Camp Myth: The RPG: Camp Myth is a summer camp built exclusively for mythological creatures. A place where mythical kids from across the globe gather to earn merit badges for obviously practical skills like Phoenix Watching, Kraken Fishing, Golem Building, or Unicorn Taming. Eloy Lasanta (Third Eye Games) and Chris Lewis Carter (author of Camp Myth) have joined forces to createCamp Myth: The...
Every traveling minstrel, peddler, and caravan brings news (and false rumors and overblown gossip) to town, its purveyors often trading their words for a drink or a meal at a wayside inn. Read All the News, and Then Some on D&D Insider here!
Are you curious about the lore of mounts in D&D? D&D Alumni takes you through the stables and out into the air with this month’s column. Read Flying Mounts on D&D Insider here!
Fans of PvP take note! Eisner and Harvey award-winning cartoonist Scott Kurtz (PvPonline.com), is mining his many years in front of and behind a D&D Dungeon Master's screen to bring us his brand new comic series, Table Titans. Read Scott Kurtz: Table Titans on D&D Insider here!
One of the great things about role-playing games is how they offer players the opportunity to be something greater, or perhaps stranger, than their normal lives allow. Whether gamers draw the inspiration for their characters from fantasy novels, Sci Fi movies, or from classical literature, RPG players are able to portray a wide range of amazing personas, limited only by the rules of game they...
Matt talks to game designer Robin D. Laws about his highly successful Kickstarter project, Hillfolk, while at Dragonmeet 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ffiT-P3TY
Fate Core System: Characters live at the core of Fate! Fate Core is the latest edition of Evil Hat Productions’ popular Fate roleplaying game system. Fate started as a “house rules” project for the Fudge system during a car ride Rob Donoghue and Fred Hicks had back in 2001. After seeing some success with it in their home games, they created a free, downloadable version for anyone who cared to grab it. They figured a few dozen people would have a look. Instead, hundreds did, and it fast became one of the most popular variants of Fudge out there, spawning its own thousands-strong discussion list and eventually helping to launch Evil Hat as a commercial game company.
ICONS: Great Power: A complete super-powers sourcebook for ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying! Great Power presents dozens of powers, new and old, along with power stunts and limits, more details on how to use powers, and how to look at renaming (or “reskinning”) them to make “new” powers with the same essential mechanics. The book also has an expanded chapter on Devices (items that provide...
Find out about the blood, sweat, and chainmail that it took to make the cover for Lesser Evils, in this conversation with Jon, Nina, and author Erin M. Evans. Read Judging a Book by Its Cover on D&D Insider here!
Corner of Your Eye: Four Systemless Horror Adventures: “Corner of Your Eye” is a four part horror anthology that is completely systemless for ease of integration into any ongoing campaign or for use with any group that exclusively plays one system. Each adventure features a different type of antagonist that players must survive against. The antagonists have been designed to give players an...
Telepath Tactics: Telepath Tactics is a turn-based tactical RPG in the tradition of Fire Emblem and Disgaea. It features a single player campaign with well-written characters embroiled in a tale of war and political intrigue, as well as 2-to-6 player multiplayer with support for hotseat play (i.e. you and your friends playing together in the same room, Super Smash Brothers style). Telepath...
Our sister company Goblinworks is busy developing Pathfinder Online, a sandbox-style MMORPG game based on the Pathfinder world. In celebration of them raising $200k in the first week of their Kickstarter initiative, and to thank our fans for their continued support, Paizo is thrilled to announce today new reward tiers for the Pathfinder Online fundraiser. These tiers add awesome new content to...