Game School #7: Machinations of the Space Princess Game School talks with James Desborough about his game Machinations of the Space Princess. MotSP is a space game running on a version of old school D&D that allows you to play in a world reminiscent of Heavy Metal, Galaxina, and Flash Gordon. It’s as stylistic, sexy, and fun as you’d …
Book Retort: Wrath Of The Eternal Warrior #9
“The axe is coming for you” growls Gilad Anni-Padda, the eternal warrior himself, several thousand years old, and in your face on the eye-popping teal-toned double-splash page 2 into 3, and you can bet your bottom platinum piece that Gilad’s axe will slake its thirst for blood before this issue is through. Robert Venditti (writer) along with Raul Allen (artist) …
Music Character Motivation
MUSIC CHARACTER MOTIVATION Creating characters for role-playing games can be daunting at times. Players can spend up to two hours crawling through character generation and by the time they hit the sections on ‘about your character’ their creativity is either fried or they just want to play. Companies like R. Talsorian and Kenzer & Company, for example offer tables to …
VICTORIE CITY has arrived!
Take a trip to VICTORIE CITY in July with 44FLOOD and IDW Publishing “Brutal, bare, and beautifully crafted, VICTORIE CITY is a pitch-perfect combination of style and substance.” -JOEY BRACCINO, talkingcomicbooks.com Prepare for darkness in the collected edition of VICTORIE CITY, the complete four-part series created by Keith Carmack and Vincent Nappi that mixes thriller, mystery and noir with a touch of horror. Published by 44FLOOD and IDW, VICTORIE CITY was …
Q&A with Raffaele Ienco
It’s not every day that we get to enjoy seeing illustrator Raffaele Ienco chime in on MECHANISM, SYMMETRY, and all things indie comics, so let’s do this, with relish. Q: MECHANISM drops this month. We’re stoked! What can you tell us about this tale, without giving too much away? RI: MECHANISM is a science-fiction tale that combines the wonder of …
The Harbors of Ancient Athens
Ancient Athens had a large navy it used to beat the Persians at Salamis, and later to establish an empire and come to war with Sparta and its allies in the Peloponnesian Wars. Wooden ships were subject to drying and shrinking under the hot sun, water and rot and sea creatures eating the wood. The powerful triremes of Athens were …
Character Sheets Galore
Eventually an RPG is developed for pretty much every licensed property with any popularity that a player could want. The games and how the license is treated varies. Some are very good systems on their own and some are just there to be tie-ins. Sometimes, though, you just want to play your favorite characters in a system you already have …
Beyond Rexes and Raptors: Five Alternative Prehistoric Beasts For Your Game
Due to the rule of cool, every RPG genre has room for an appearance of dinosaurs. This was established way back in the early 80s with the widely known D&D module Isle of Dread. There has been a number of dinos and other prehistoric animals in every Monster Manual since the beginning. However, an outdated The Lost World view of …
My 3D Adventures Part III
I see a red mini and I want to paint it, purple-blue-gray I’ve never actually painted a mini of any kind before. I am an artist though, so I hoped that knowledge would transfer to my mini. I’d read a lot online regarding painting 3D printed objects. Lots of different advice on preparation and application of paint. After sifting through …
Cyberpunk’s White Lotus Windstorm Monk: Bringing Shaolin action to the player
Nearly 28 years ago the Cyberpunk Role-Playing Game launched and with it the hardcore legacy of Mike Pondsmith. In the 1980s just about everyone that gamed had heard of, if not played, Cyberpunk 2020. Fans across the United States and Europe raged over the themes and many of the concepts in the game were visionary of the very technology we …