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For one week, Sept 28 to Oct 6th, all print titles are 20% off, while all PDFs are 25% or more off. Compose Dream Games Marketplace runs this sale each year to celebrate Dave Arneson Game Day (Oct 1st). For the first time it is on our new UK website as well as on our Canadian site. CAD...

This will be the 3rd year I attend Tabletop Scotland. It's always been a good convention, with interesting exhibitors, panels and lots of gaming. It's move this year to Edinburgh and a much larger location. I'll be at Compose Dream Games booth D3-07 with over 50+ different titles. These are...

4 Ontario and Quebec based publishers have crowdfunders which started in February 2024. If you know other Canadian projects funding sound off. Solo Martial Blues (Radio James Games, James Kerr) Orillia, ON -- Ends March 3rd https://crowdfundr.com/solo-martial-blues This one breaks the mold by...

The Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace is a Canadian focussed RPG marketplace. We sell both direct to consumers and to Canadian Friendly Local Game Stores. We sell both Print&PDF and PDF only. --edit in May 2024 we officially launched our UK sister site composedreamgames.co.uk You can read a...

I have always loved Friendly Local Game Stores. I suspect I never would have run my own game sessions without having stumbled into a FLGS a year or so after my initial exposure to D&D. For my Master’s thesis I visited just over 50 game and comic stores in the Greater Toronto Area. With many...

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Simple Superheroes is now on Kickstarter. It is a flexible framework that lets you create exactly the superheroes you imagine. The game is powered by your creativity. I have been playtesting Simple Superheroes for 6 years, and now at long last, you can bring it home. It’s easy to learn and easy...

So this is a bit of a shameless plug for my Simple Superheroes RPG which I'll be kickstarting this Thursday. But I am seriously interested if anyone has seen similar video's done by Game Designers, particularly about character creation but also game mechanic overviews. Here is the video that I...

Inspired by Morrus's old hexographer map of the RPG Community (unfortunately lost), I give you a Community data map of many of the forums that we all tend to use. Follow the link to interact with it. Go to the visualization There's a number of sites that I'd love to include if I could find...

Rogues Gallery for Artifice City. I may use this OP to post some details on Artifice City, and/or opponents. The current players are: Fireinthedust - Doctor Nexus - Maj. Sir Nethaddeus Cavor, MD, PhD etc (mutated Genius in armour) Mark Chance - American Dreamer - Aiden O'Leary (Former police...

If you've always wanted to make your own Superhero - This Game is for You. Recruiting? Well this is an old thread, and I primarily wanted to let everyone know who was interested in the past that Simple Superheroes is now on Kickstarter. But if there is a bunch of interest . . . who knows? Maybe...

A friend recently asked if I had any advice for running a game at a con. I went on at some length, and shared the whole thing on my blog. Here are the key points: 1. You don't always get a full table. 2. Get a sense of the players familiarity with the RPG you are running (and RPGs in...

A few months ago I invited my father, who has just turned 60, and my mother to play a Tabletop Roleplaying Game with me. Neither had ever played such a game before. The game was Simple Superheroes, a game which I designed, developed and wrote. In some circles, there has been a big push to...

So who else is going to Toronto's FanExpo? I'll be running my Simple Superheroes game on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon. In the Toronto Area Gamers RPG room (I think it is room 703). I'll also be running a AD&D game Sunday afternoon. I missed FanExpo last year, so I'm really...

So . . . I know a lot about the history of the magazine . . . But how are the wargames that come with it these days. (I've even looked at a couple without the game part at a magazine store and they look neat in terms of the military history.) The price tag is a little heafty for a subscription...

So I'm looking through my 1e books and OSRIC and I can't for the life of me find a reference to what actually mechanically happens when someone is blind or deafened. I could certainly infer things on blindness based on invisibility rules. (-4 to hit all opponents and must guess correct...

Anyone else heading to CanGames in Ottawa this weekend (May 21-23)? I've never been before, but I'm pretty excited about it. Been around since 1977. Anyone gone before? How was the experience?

Has anyone come across any statistics for a Phoenix in 3.0/3.5? I noticed that they have stats for it in OSRIC, and while I could rework it from there, I was wondering if its already been done. Thanks.

I found a copy of both for almost the same price (1$ difference) and am planning to pick up one at least. So which do you prefer? Which monsters book do you use more often? (if you have both) Do they have noticeably different flavours? Any particular beasties stand out in either one?

Five things I learned writing a competition-winning Adventure Back in June, I won the Summer 6d6 Fireball Adventure Writing Competition. Since then, I have spent a fair bit of time mulling things over and learning some new things as well. So here are a few tips and thoughts on the process, and...