Review: Adventures in Middle Earth Player’s Guide Published by the British RPG studio, Cubicle 7, the first book in the Adventures in Middle Earth product line is the Player’s Guide. Cubicle 7 current publishes of the One Ring roleplaying game […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged lord of the rings
Build and Play While prepainted plastic minis have returned to stores, for a few years there it was hard to find minis on the non-secondary market (i.e. gaming stores that specialized in minis or eBay). Lego minifigs made a nice […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One Ring I read Lord of the Rings when I was twelve. But even at this young age I saw a plot hole that never sat right with me. The Ring of Power allowed one person to become invisible to everyone […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Watcher in the Water Because I like to keep this webcomic G-rated (or, at the worst, PG) I’ll leave the details of this strip vague: either you get it or you don’t. Some bits of pop culture just saturate the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A D&D Movie? Old news now but not so old as to be irrelevant: the idea of a Dungeons & Dragons movie has re-entered the gamer consciousness. First there was the news Warner Brothers had acquired the rights and had […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cursed with awesome The DM PC or Dungeon Master Player Character is really an NPC that acts like a PC: going on adventures, saving the day, and often upstaging the actual PCs. Because the GM of the game cannot play […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Building a Fantasy Campaign World IV: Race Non-human races are a big part of what separates Fantasy fiction from Swords & Sorcerery (and extremely poorly researched historical fiction). Folk Tales, Mythology, and Tolkien have all blended together in a smoothy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Building a Fantasy Campaign World III: Geography Eventually, when designing a new fantasy campaign world, you’ll want to map things out. For many this is just doodling on paper or in Photoshop or turning to a campaign cartography or fractal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…