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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Dark Coast Fantasy RPG

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Dark Coast is a new fantasy RPG with some unique mechanisms.

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Sunday, August 07, 2011

Badass B-Movie RPG

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Badass is a free RPG for playing B Movie action characters.

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Friday, August 05, 2011

Dark Crystal RPG

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Dark Crystal was a strange movie, but here’s an RPG based on the Jim Henson film.

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Dungeon Geomorph Map Maker

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Dave’s Mapper is an online tool that uses geomorphs to randomly generate new dungeon maps. The hand drawn geomorphs are deliciously hand drawn and very evocative of old school gaming.

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Sunday, July 03, 2011

Busiris Fantasy RPG

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From Gawd ‘Elp Us Games comes Busiris, a fantasy RPG. The authors write:

Busiris is a colony of a distant, almost fabled, Empire. It is a melting pot where the high culture & ancient magic of the Empire meets a new continent full of promise & danger. Here the Old Gods compete with the Wild Spirit Lords of the interior & their feral magic.

Being a place of both peril & fabulous riches it attracts the best & worst men of the Empire. Ambitious Princes, devious Priests & greedy Merchants rub shoulders with Mercenaries, Adventurers & Tomb Robbers. It is a political and physical battleground for the great noble houses and the temples to play out their ambitions.

Everyone here is out to make their fortune & advance their destiny far from the stultifying & oppressive ‘harmony’ of the Empire proper. Intrigue, conspiracy & betrayal are as common as the rain is not.

This RPG takes you to the frontier of an ancient civilization where nothing is as it seems. It has Bronze Age technology, but with pistols and muskets. A heady mixture of Ancient Egypt, the Arabian Nights and 16th century yo-ho-ho!

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

BattleTech RPG

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A Time of War is an RPG set in the Battletech Universe.

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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Free RPG Day Is Saturday June 18, 2011

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Head down to your local game store today to see if they’ve got anything for Free RPG day! More information on participating stores here.

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Monday, June 13, 2011

First Contact Free RPG

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From the prolific Jim Wallman, First Contact is: A role playing game about the first contact between alien cultures. Designed to be run by a game controller and 4 - 10 players. Do not read the materials if you intend to play!

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Platemail RPG

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Platemail is a free RPG based on the seminal Chainmail wargames rules. The Book of Magic is here.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Labyrinth Lord Pocket Mod Character Sheets

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Pocket Mods are a neat method of turning—through a series of folds and clever cuts—a single 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper into a small eight page booklet. I’ve often thought that the format would be great for small miniature wargames rules, or for keeping track of unit statistics. I missed the obvious use—as character sheets for a role playing game. The blog, A Character For Every Game has a very nicely done Pocket Mod character sheet for the Labyrinth Lords rpg.

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About the Miniature Wargaming Hobby

Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.

The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.

Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.

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Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.

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