Monday, February 04, 2008
Barbarians of Lemuria is a free paper and pencil RPG by Simon Washbourne. Its obviously based on Lin Carter’s series.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Dungeon Plungin is Oversoul Games’ rules for a classic hack-and-slash dungeon crawl. The game is designed to work without a game master, instead relying on charts and some pre planning.
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Vignette is a simple and flexible RPG from Nathan Russell. He uses it for a wide variety of genres and settings. There are some concepts here to steal for the more RPG based miniatures games.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Space Rat is an RPG written by Nathan Russell in just 24 hours. It’s inspired by the cheesy science fiction movies of the 70s. It looks like a lot of fun.
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Friday, January 04, 2008
In this unusual free role playing game, you play a simple robot charged with defending the last human being. The Last Human is written by Nathan Russel as a part of the 24 Hour RPG Challenge.
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Friday, January 04, 2008
That’s right. David Hasselhoff comes to the paper-and-pencil world. Babewatch is a free RPG from Simon Washbourne, who writes that Babewatch is:
The sun, sea, sand and sex role-playing game
This is the fun role-playing game of beach babes and lifesaving hunks posing and playing their way through improbable adventures on the golden sands of Malibu or Hawaii.As if I need mention, this role-playing game is inspired by the tv series of a similar name.
It is a tongue-in-cheek game and can be fun for those nights when you want to play, but have limited time or simply want to have a laugh.
Character generation takes minutes, the rules are are as simple as the tv series plots and there are 17 episode ideas in the rulebook!
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Violence is a modern version of dungeon crawling, in which you shot your way through an apartment building instead of slashing your way through a dungeon. The authors write:
Violence™ is a lot like Dungeons & Dragons® by that other company. You and your friends play characters in an
imaginary world. You wander about a maze, kicking down doors, killing whatever you find on the other side, and
taking its possessions. The main difference is this: The world isn’t some third-rate fantasy writer’s drivel about
elves and dwarves and magic spells, but the world of today. The doors you kick down aren’t those of a subterranean
dungeon—unless you’re in the subway—but those of decent, honest, hard-working people who merely want to
live their lives. The things you kill aren’t cardboard “monsters” whom the game defines as okay to kill because,
well, they’re monsters—but fellow human beings, with families and friends and hopes and fears and highly
developed senses of morality—far better people than you, in fact. And the things you steal aren’t “magic items” and
“gold pieces” but stereos, computers, jewellery, and whatever other items of value you can lift.
In a sense, it seems that you’re not supposed to play this game as much as read it. As they pointed out on Play This Thing, reading it should bring about questions about what you’re doing in a standard dungeon crawl. What’s the real difference between raiding the homes of monsters and stealing their stuff and raiding apartments and stealing their electronics?
I wonder.
It is a good read, though.
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Legends of Time and Space is Dark City Games’ rules set for tactical science fiction role playing. It’s based on the well-loved, out-of-print Fantasy Trip system.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Dark City Games’ Legends of the Untamed West is a tactical RPG for the 1800s American West. The system is based on the wonderful Fantasy Trip system that originally was published in the micro games format. If you’re familiar with the Fantasy Trip, you know that it makes for just as good a miniatures system as an RPG.
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Saturday, December 08, 2007
You can’t get the Fantasy Trip any more, but you can get Dark City Games’ Legends of the Ancient World, a free tactical RPG that uses the same mechanics.
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Poll #1:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
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.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
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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