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[WOW!] Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Basic Game is coming

2012-02-02T18:41:00.000+01:00

28th of February a new game hit the shelves. It's the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Basic Game. I've just snooped the website but one thing already got my interest. It will be the first game based on the Ultimate universe, more specifically it will be set during New Avengers #1-6 by Brian Michael Bendis, David Finch, and Danny Miki. Considering that one of the post challenging things in a

New logos!

2012-02-02T13:25:00.000+01:00

Today I worked on a new series of logos for the blog. Do you like them?

[Review] A Dirty World

2012-01-30T00:28:00.003+01:00

A Dirty World is an indie tabletop RPG about secrets, deception, betrayal and hidden vice. What are you buying? 70 pages filled with one of the few pure Noir games out there. No superpowers, aliens, menaces from the outer space. No secret societies or cultist. Just rain, babes and guns. This game is an iteration of the One roll engine, where characters are defined by 6 Identities, 12

Ever recycled a popular character for your game?

2012-01-27T10:55:00.000+01:00

fashion princesses P1by *viria13 Today I came across the image on the right and I remembered an old habit I had some time ago while mastering. i used to insert MY VERSION of popular characters in a totally unexpected way. For example I remember when, during a Deadlands: Hell on Earth game my players came across a strange group of fellows with their van. They were a blond gunslinger, a cute

I Always Kill The Things I Love

2012-01-26T01:31:00.000+01:00

Rain on a smoking guy in a black trenchcoat. Beautiful voluptuous women in red dresses. A tommygun that fires in the night. Whiskey, some bullets and a dirty ashtray. These are the images that comes in my mind if I think about the Noir genre, but what makes a Noir Story, you know, noir? It's a pregnant question if you, like me for instance, want to run a Noir game. What's the difference

[Review] Gray Ranks

2012-01-23T08:00:00.000+01:00

Gray Ranks is an indie tabletop RPG by Jason Morningstar, the same guy who brought you Fiasco. What are you buying? Grey Ranks is a role-playing game that sees you play a group of pre-teens rebels in the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1944. Each game is divided into 10 chapters, to be played approximately in 3 sessions, that ferries the group of players through 3 distinct phases: Resistance,

[Interview] Mike Olson about the Atomic Robo RPG

2012-01-19T16:07:00.001+01:00

Atomic ROBO vol.3.1 When I heard that an Atomic Robo RPG was coming out in the future I writed to Mike Olson, the lead designer, to ask him for an interview. Guess what? He said yes and I came up with the 7 Questions of Doom (a totally unjustified cool name). Mike Olson is a freelance RPG writer and designer. His credits include Legends of Anglerre and The Kerberos Club (FATE Edition). He

Not living in the USA is not a good excuse for...

2012-01-18T15:57:00.003+01:00

...do not protect the freedom of everyone. PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Proud owner of a RPG collection

2012-01-17T02:14:00.001+01:00

Tonight I'm really proud of myself. A couple of days ago an idea crossed my mind: to make an inventory of my entire RPG collection. What a humongous task. I have something like 7 hundred books in my collection so Excel and manual data input was out of question, so I needed an alternative. On paper both Anobii and GoodReads seemed acceptable, but the task of typing more then 7 hundred of ISBN

[Review] Geasa

2012-01-16T06:14:00.027+01:00

Geasa is an unconventional tabletop RPG. It's always a little bit of an embarrassment trying to use a standard definition for "unconventional" RPGs. Being creatures born from a very limited group of people they lack of a unified definition. I think of them like "indie", even when they are not. What are you buying? A 66 pages PDF by Jonathan Lavallee that's all you need to play this little game.

[WOW!] The Fate of Atomic Robo

2012-01-13T08:00:00.000+01:00

Why I'm always the last to know? http://www.atomicroborpg.com/ It's ATOMIC ROBO! It's a FATE game! I Want it, and I want it NOW!

How do you choose a new game?

2012-01-12T18:54:00.001+01:00

Noir Detective 7 by *Salemburn It's a bit that I think to start a new game. Do not get me wrong, the campaign of D&D is progressing wonderfully and the entrance into the 4th year has brought my players a little 'twists and turns that have hit the mark, but I feel the need to change the atmosphere, to change themes, to change engine. But how to choose a new game to propose to my players?

Conversion Hypothesis

2012-01-12T10:14:00.000+01:00

Ok guys, there's a question for you: Look at this trailer and tell me which RPG you will choose to play in this setting: Options that comes into my mind: Eclipse Phase Mutant Chronicles 3:16 Starblazers Adventures Any idea? More Alien(s) stuff: AMAZON UK AMAZON USA AMAZON IT NOTE: If you buy from here I will get a little income,

First new game of the year?

2012-01-11T22:10:00.001+01:00

Today in my mailbox has arrived, "A Dirty World". The first impression is great and the first pages I've read seem to confirm this feeling. What do you think? Deserves to become the first new game of 2012? Can anyone give me an opinion on this?

Already bored

2012-01-11T02:16:00.000+01:00

I'm already sick and tired of people speculating on the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Move along. Nothing to see here (yet)

[Review] Innovation

2012-01-09T09:32:00.005+01:00

Innovation is a board game for 2 to 4 players. The game, in short. The goal is the fist player to dominate a fixed number of ages, depending on the number of players or to be the first to activate a "win the game2 effect on a card. The fist option is the more likely Players take turns making a common civilisation evolve. Every player, in his turn can do 2 of the following actions: draw a card

[SALE] New Year, New Game @ DriveThruRPG

2012-01-08T02:08:00.000+01:00

DriveThruRPG is doing a New Year sale on Core books called New Year, New Game. If you want to try something new, maybe it's the right time to do it :) Arcanis: the Roleplaying Game PDF Publisher: Paradigm Concepts, Inc. A World of Heroes... With the power held in these pages, one will forge a Hero, a veteran of dangerous adventures, a capable and courageous champion

[Kickstarter] Tephra

2012-01-07T06:38:00.000+01:00

I've just started this section With Streets of Bedlam a couple of days ago and another nice project just popped in my sight. I'm currently searching for a steampunk RPG and this Tephra look promising.Getting weary of the same old elves and dwarves of fantasy? You like science fiction, but it's become a little overdone for you? Not a huge fan of modern roleplaying when you've been doing it all

[WOW!] Mass Effect Monopoly

2012-01-06T07:35:00.000+01:00

This news is totally unrelated to the usual categories, but a custom made Mass Effect Monolpoly is something you can't ignore. This beauty was made by Tommy LeRoy for his family and I discovered it via Rampaged Reality

[Kickstarter] Streets of Bedlam

2012-01-04T11:38:00.004+01:00

Starting from today I will publish randomly Kickstarter projects that I support and/or I think are worth support. I will use, when appropriate, the words of their author to advertise them.Bedford and Lamrose. Two sides of the same river. Two sides of the same coin. One, an affluent metropolis teeming with industry and aspiration. The other, a cesspool of crime and vice. Both dirty, both begging

[Review] Pathfinder Player Companion: Goblins of Golarion

2012-01-02T08:23:00.005+01:00

Goblins of Golarion is Pathfinder Player Companion for the Patfinder RPG easily adaptable to any fantasy world. What are you buying? A supplement of 32 pages about Goblin subdivided in the following sections: GOBLINS OF GOLARION. (pag. 2 to 17) Goblin history, goblin society, goblin songs, goblin traditions and so on. Informations are really tight packed but still fun to read. GOBLIN

Next Year

2011-12-30T09:07:00.000+01:00

I'll be back.

That's my destiny!

2011-05-09T18:24:00.004+02:00

- No, it's your FATE. These days I'm dabbling with the FATE system. I've first came in contact, last september with the italian edition of Spirit of the Century. I've statred reading it and it looked interestingbut pulp adventures where just not my focus at the moment and I've archived it under the mental classification of "good vibe". The RPG bloggers seemed on my same page and so, trusting

[Review] Lone Wolf Multiplayer Game Book

2011-04-25T09:42:00.000+02:00

Lone Wolf Multiplayer Game Book is an RPG. Sort of. The Good LONE WOLF The Lone wolf series of game books are a piece of my childhood. THE SETTING The setting is nice and the game books are a good source of flavor. The Bad A MONK PARTY One class, one race. That's all you can play with this book. FIVE OUT OF TEN Ramas monks

Where am I?

2011-04-15T21:58:00.000+02:00

I'm currently reading. What I'm reading? This and this and this and this and this and this and this I'm excused if i do not post much in these days? :)