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SmiteWorks announces that Fantasy Grounds will support the first edition of the Traveller role-playing game, published by Mongoose Publishing. Based on the Classic Traveller rules set, this book has been streamlined for modern roleplaying, and yet still retains that unmistakable Traveller...

A few months ago I saw a cover for a new role-playing game that was about to hit DriveThruRPG that really grabbed my attention. It was The Shivering Circle, a self-published game by Howard David Ingham delving into the folk horror genre popularized by such consummately British movies like the...

The specter of sexual harassment has once again risen up in tabletop gaming circles. Conventions are supposed to be places where gamers and geeks can be themselves and embrace their loves. Conventions need clear and well formulated harassment policies, and they need to enforce them. In this...

Just as a note: I don't actually say anything about non-violence at any point in my article.

Absolutely nothing.

Powerkill has some interesting things to say. The "New Style" games that James Wallis published don't get the attention that they deserve, because they all have some interesting things to say about games and gaming. Hopefully, like Baron Munchaussen and Puppetland, we'll get to see an expanded...

My games lean towards a pretty hard R in content, so sanitizing is far from what I am talking about. I'll take a Clive Barker-inspired game any day of the week. I've also been gaming since 1979, so I've been here since the early days. :D

While I'm not much of a fan of the song (and I didn't care for the movie it came from), I've been hearing a few commercials lately using the Bonnie Tyler song "I Need A Hero," and it has triggered thoughts on heroes and heroism in gaming. Photo by Jessica Podraza on Unsplash We have a problem...

White Wolf announced that they would be partnering with Modiphius Entertainment to bring Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (V5) worldwide in English. Modiphius will be White Wolf's distribution partner, and handle distributing the game line. The image above, shared exclusively with EN World...

There has been a lot of releases from Monte Cook Games over the last few months, as books come out and Kickstarter funded projects roll out, as it looks like the company is clearing the decks for the release this summer of their big project, Invisible Sun. Today, I am going to look at a couple...

It is an OSR game written with retroclones in mind, but playable for pretty much any iteration of D&D previous to D&D 3E.

The Black Blade of the Demon King is an old school adventure/setting supplement from Knight Owl Publishing that attempts to recapture the madcap energy of fantasy role-playing modules from the early 1980s. Does it? Let's talk about it. First, let's talk about the art in the book. My short...

One of the people that I game with locally has been running a game over the last few months of Gaslight Call of Cthulhu for the group of us at our monthly get together. As a backer of the Kickstarter, he has been using the Hudson and Brand setting by Stygian Fox as the foundation of our game...

I backed the KS, oh so many years ago now, but I've never had a group that was interested in playing it.

Magic can be many things in a fantasy role-playing game, but most often it is a powerful force within a game's world. However, the codification inherent in games also takes much of the awe and mystery out of magic that you see in fictional sources. The old school fantasy role-playing supplement...

Not really, no. Which is fine. There's no such thing as "one size fits all" in gaming.

I don't like card-based resolution systems, and particularly hated what it did to Marvel Super-Heroes.

Let's talk about using cards in your role-playing game sessions. I don't mean as an alternative to task resolution systems, but as a tool for players and game masters at the table. Recently, I ordered a Deck of Fate via OneBookShelf's sites. I ordered it because I've wanted a Deck of Fate...

That is easy to enough to fix with the addition of a "but with" after "Holmes Basic."

It did not, that is what made it Basic.