“On the world’s bloodiest gameshow you must kill to survive.” That’s the tagline for Hell for Leather, a RPG with no GM, a weird board game element, and tons and tons of  ”sexy gore” The designer...

I guess the title pretty much sums it up. You’ll see where this is going in a later post today. I’m mostly talking RPGs here, but everyone feel free to chime in. How “Adult” do you...

As part of Kobold Quarterly’s My First Gen Con series, game designer Colin McComb tells a story about how in 1992 executives of TSR asked him to spy on Gary Gygax . Make sure to read...

Variants, optional rules, alternate settings, and miscellaneous hacks are what you get with Mirrors . A supplement for White Wolf’s World of Darkness game, this e-book contains optional systems for morality, insanity, conviction, virtue (or vice),...

Following up on his superb online course, Scott Nicholson has written a book elaborating on his advice for managing game programs in libraries. As an Associate Professor at Syracuse University, host of fun board game video...

Lamentations of the Flame Princess is a small Finnish publisher receiving much acclaim (and an Ennie nomination ) for its surrealistic horror adventure modules . It’s also throwing its hat in to the ring with an...

As promised, I now have the link to the Actual Play sessions from KantCon 2010. There weren’t as many as I had originally thought (I estimated somwhere between 30 and 40), but we did clock in...

Image by: SoulRider.222 I figured I would take some time away from my convention coverage to begin a new series. As I’ve played RPGs over the years, I have run across items that I begin to...

Some publishers consider it their business to save friendly local game stores (FLGS), claiming that these locations are the points where new players enter the hobby. The big threat to these stores is online retailers who,...

Polls are open for the 2010 Ennie Awards . The Ennies recognize RPGs and related products in categories such as best cover art, best interior art, best writing, best rules, etc. Nominees have been selected by...