Recent content by Thondor

I've seen some mechanic's that specifically represent/gameify tension in RPGs: Dread's Jenga Tower -- you pull when you need to do something it falls, you probably die, and the tension resets for everyone else. This one didn't work particularly well for me when I got to play it, but it is...

I hope many folks make it out to their local game store! I also feel I should point out that we have a free section on our Marketplace. 20 Titles are here: Free Products (Canada site) And Free Products (UK site) You can also chose to "tip the creator" for most of these. My own "Dungeons...

It doesn't deliver Firefly in terms of the feel of the tech level, but I default to Free Spacer these days (for a touch point Dark Matter TV series might be better). But it really does the feel of negotiating contracts really well, and then pulling off the jobs. Plus it has a neat backdrop of...

Father’s Day Flash Sale today and tomorrow! (Sunday and Monday) Five titles are 50% off in PDF and 15% off in print for Father's day via Compose Dream Games. Head to either our Canadian marketplace or our British site: the affected titles are currently in the “Featured” section. Bettin’...

It was great to meet @Morrus and Jess at UKGE this year! I've done UKGE for the last three years as a vendor (representing a multitude of Canadian publishers as Compose Dream Games) and once back in 2016 right after my first game Simple Superheroes came out. It was certainly huge this year. In...

Got one of the transparent/clear decks myself for use (mostly) for my one shot GMfull game God-Killer Prophecy. It requires two decks of cards, one for the Dark God and one for the heroes to share -- it helps if one of the deck is pretty obviously different. I just saw it at a Canadian Tire and...

I recently released an Alpha playkit of Fabrication: A game that makes games It's maybe a little past a toolkit game. It is a game design game, that can help you pick all sorts of base assumptions (like number of players and how you divide authority) as well as construct and play-test wildly...

Maybe this video with about 50 Canadian ttRPGs I did recently will help. I have another with 16 more that I'll put up soon.

Printers here generally don't really fulfill individual orders. You'd want someone like us to do that for you, ship a pallet or so to us and we ship 'em to backers, and help get them into retailers. Friesens does good work. (The Monster Overhaul is done by them among others.) There are some...

Most of the publishers we carry (Compose Dream Games) are either Canadian or British. There are a handful of exceptions (including Malta and Australia). FLGS across the country can order in from us too. Here's the publisher list: https://composedreamgames.com/marketplace/publisher We already...

He should look for other customs brokers . . . He shouldn't be stuck with only one option. I imagine he is already doing so.

Last month I had a pallet of RPG books for the USA into Canada. It was initially declared as 9504.90 i.e. "games" It was relatively straightforward to have it changed by my customs broker to 4901.99.00.99 books. This is certainly something I am always keeping an eye out for with any shipments...

Chaosium co-ordinates a standard release date across markets -- which is quite difficult. This means stock arrives at some of those warehouses well ahead of time (and ahead enough for retailers to get them into their stores on those release dates.) I can confirm that the Pendragon GM guide is...

If y'all are interested in Reanimated it is available Canada: Reanimated And United Kindgom: Reanimated Jed and I met at Game-itoba in Winnipeg, last month, and we just missed each other at the last UK Games Expo.

One of the new starter sets for SHIVER is basically a Jurassic Park adventure "Welcome to Hollow World." It has the extra layer of the players are playing the actors playing their characters. It's a nice set, and I do enjoy SHIVER's mechanics. The starter rulebook covers a lot of what you need...