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The new GURPS Dungeon Fantasy game is getting out into the wilds, and into the hands of gamers. This Powered By GURPS boxed set funded on Kickstarter just over a year ago. The standalone game is inspired by the Dungeons & Dragons school of fantasy role-playing (as the name implies) and spins out...

The Fate Adversary Toolkit, the latest in the Toolkit line of supplements for Fate Core from Evil Hat Productions, opens up some interesting new avenues for your Fate games. Written by Ed Turner and Brian Engard, one of the architects of the Fate Core rules, this supplement widens the scope of...

Put it into the ashcan itself. In big, bold, block letters: "If you like this game run it at your game store. Run it anyplace that lets people run games. Run it for your friends. Its future depends as much on the fans as it does the publisher." Tell it to people when you sell it at conventions...

It is important to remember that an ashcan is only one of the steps in the process, without that leap to the people running/showing off the game to other gamers and in gaming spaces, you aren't going to get any of the impact.

Ashcans. The popularity of ashcan editions come and go in role-playing game publishing, but a conversation about them with an indie publisher while I was at Gen Con brought to mind a couple of things about them: 1) RPG publishers don't use ashcan editions for marketing purposes as much as they...

We ended up evacuating (we are in the first evacuation zone) to Orlando, and then of course the storm followed us there instead. But other than a couple of trees, and a whole bunch of tree limbs, down we ended up okay. Just away from home for about a week.

With the Azurth Adventures Digest, Trey Causey returns to the World of Azurth that he first brought to the public in the D&D 5E adventure supplement Mortzengersturm, The Mad Manticore of the Prismatic Peak. With the Azurth Adventures Digest (promised to be an irregularly published periodical)...

This column is running late because I am waiting out one myself, and because of that I have been spending the last couple of days thinking about how to use a coming storm as a part of the story of an ongoing gaming campaign. Either a literal or figurative approaching storm can bring some...

It wasn't intended to be an argument. It was a dismissal.

Counterpoint: Everyone has different reasons for their gaming.

Gen Con isn't always the best about communications.

Gaming has been growing again over the last few years. You can see it in the heightened sales for Wizards of the Coasts' latest edition of Dungeons & Dragons. You can see it in million dollar tabletop role-playing game Kickstarter projects like 7th Sea. You can see it in the increased attendance...

While at Gen Con, I had the opportunity to briefly meet with James Sutter, the Creative Director for the new Starfinder game from Paizo Publishing, as well as the co-creator of the Pathfinder role-playing game. We met in the first hour of the con, before Starfinder sold out, when the press of...

These numbers were the same for three years now, so probably not.

While flying home from Gen Con on Monday, the convention released its attendance numbers for the Best Four Days In Gaming. If you were there at the convention, you knew there were a lot of people there. The place was busy, there were big crowds lining up at the door each day to get in when the...

Day One of Gen Con has come and gone, and honestly it is already nearly a blur. So many people, so many new things, and so many bright shiny things. The reports that I heard was that there are 60-70,000 people in attendance at the con. I took that picture yesterday about an hour before the...

Owen KC Stephens said on Facebook that "Paizo will have a secondary booth outside the Sagamore Ballroom on the second floor of the exhibit hall that will be selling Starfinder product ONLY during show floor hours (even though it is not on the show floor)."

One open review call on G+, and my email is completely under siege with storyteller RPGs. Leave it to those designers to never miss an opportunity to change the narrative… Eh? All kidding aside, many of these indie products will be featured in the next couple of reviews, and I’m really looking...

Just about anything can spark a campaign idea in my brain. Over the last few weeks I have been talking about approaching GMing and game prep. As someone who primarily GMs, and as many of you who GM probably have the same troubles, I am usually have more ideas for campaigns than I will actually...

I wouldn't call the rules streamlined. They pull things from a number of sources, but it isn't all that different mechanically from Pathfinder.