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Another coup for Savage Worlds fans as the epic flintlock fantasy series by author Brian McClellan, the Powder Mage Trilogy, gets "savaged" via Kickstarter. THE POWDER MAGE RPG This tabletop role-playing game will immerse players in a world of muskets, intrigue, sorcery, and revolution set...

One of gaming's greats, Ed Greenwood, steps up with Critical Role star Matthew Mercer in creating Amaurea's Dawn as part of the Open Legend RPG Kickstarter. OPEN LEGEND RPG & AMAUREA'S DAWN Open-source RPG for any genre. Explore Amaurea's Dawn, a companion multi-genre campaign setting with...

It's a day later than I normally shoot for, but the Rocky Mountains called me yesterday, and I had to answer. It was a long, very thoughtful conversation that was uplifting and spirit-enhancing. Seriously, if you ever make it to anywhere near Denver, you need to get up into the mountains and see...

The Kickstarter platform continues to foment some of the most advanced thinking and creativity ever in the tabletop and RPG arenas. Eden explores the concept of what it is to be human by immersing players in the mindsets of animals and critters. Gaming goes full circle as it rediscovers where...

Few writer/designers in the RPG field today have a resume quite like Steve Perrin's. He's arguably one of the most defining and influential names in gaming, especially when you look at the development of games (and companies) outside of TSR. To see his work coming back into prominence is a treat...

Once again, I am overwhelmed by the sheer variety of games and settings available to us as a hobby, and the immense quality of those offerings. When I first started as a gamer (1977, folks), it was almost all D&D, and anything else out there was black-and-white, often photocopied or printed in...

For any industry watchers out there, the ever-growing entity that is Fantasy Flight Games/Asmodee Group has to be either fascinating or terrifying (or maybe a little of both). There can be no denying their power and their reach, which is clearly why Modiphius and Cabinet Entertainment decided to...

The Gygax family will forever be linked with Dungeons & Dragons and the RPG hobby, and they universally embrace this role with class and enthusiasm. Gary's son, Luke Gygax, is one of the organizers of Gary Con, as well as a soldier in the U.S. Army. He's interviewed by the folks at Trench...

Welcome to another Saturday, and another batch of gamer-ific Kickstarters that are closing in on being over. If you know of one you want to see covered in the future, be sure to email me at seanpatfan {at} gmail. After all, we've all had that "D'oh! I wish I'd backed that before it ended!"...

It's a wide array of genres this week - far-flung future sci-fi; epic high fantasy; classic steampunk; and a place where all that and more comes together. I've said it many times, but I think it bears repeating - it's a glorious time to be an RPG fan! There's more amazing stuff to play with...

An all-woman team takes one of the best-known and best-loved Old School retroclones of the core D&D rules (the 74-78 era iteration) and brings the third printing of Swords & Wizardry into the 21st Century. Frog God Games stands by the assertion that this is by no means the "pink edition,"...

According to one of the Critical Role Twitch moderators, over 30,000 people tuned in to one of the latest shows, which is enough to fill a number of American sports stadiums! While we've got no independent verification of this, it does seem that a rather significant audience surrounds the...

It's another Saturday, and therefore another time to look at the Kickstarter projects that are coming to a close soon. These are various tabletop gaming KS projects that caught my attention as being of potential interest to all you fine folks. If ever you come across one that you want to make...

As you read this, I am likely in Tucson, AZ at RinCon. I remember a time when I was hungry to be invited to conventions as a Guest. Now I find myself thinking "Maybe I've gone too far?" Seriously, I've been at a lot of shows lately, and for the next few months, only December doesn't see me in a...

{This is a Sponsored Post} Heya, folks! One of the more exciting things going on in RPG KS land is the impending Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game, Powered by GURPS. If you somehow missed this, you'd best take a fast look and get behind it, especially if you're a long-time GURPS fan. This marks...

Here's the first Post-Database-Disaster edition of the Final Countdown, where I go through and show you some of the gaming-oriented Kickstarters that in their final days (or perhaps even final hours). I imagine most of you are like me, often discovering a great Kickstarter that you really wished...

By now, friends, you've likely tumbled to the fact that we lost a lot of stuff due to a database crash. I thought about going back and trying to recreate some of the lost Picks of the Week, but to be honest, I felt it better to just press on with new stuff. If you want to go back and check out...

[ENN] If you're keen to use tech to enhance your Game Mastering efficiency and experience, you may have heard of Johnn Four's Campaign Logger. It's a tool designed to make sure all those things you work on are tied together effectively, and you can take notes real-time as your players inevitably...

I pretty much never begin any week with a theme in mind for my Picks, and this week was certainly no exception. I sometimes wonder what a future historian or sociologist might make of my thought processes if they reviewed the various weeks of Picks I make. Will they find some kind of pattern I...

Greetings, Driftwood. I believe I might be able to help you. ;-) The Tomorrow Legion is a new "adventuring paradigm" organization that makes it a heck of a lot easier to get folks immediately engaged in the area where we started our work - the middle part of North America. There's a decent...