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This week’s poll was a little more abstract than previous ones as it focused on genres and game styles. As everyone has a different take what makes up a genre, it was a little bit tough to complete.Question one asked “What is your favourite genre?” and the clear winner was Fantasy with 66%. Second [...]

Why Character Sheets SuckAlmost without exception, RPG character sheets fail to make the player’s life as easy as possible. They are all product of either bad game system design, bad graphical design or bad usability design. It is far easier to find character sheets that are bad in all three categories than it is to [...]

Great news for fans of the SF RPG game Traveller. Mongoose Publishing, creators of the 5th Edition (T5) version of Traveller, are providing a open licence for the game. Fans can now create and publish their own material using the official logo under the Open Content License. The Developer’s Pack can be downloaded from [...]

As a long-time fan of post-apocalypse scenarios in games, books and TV, massive asteroid strikes have always attracted me. Their unstoppable nature and the amount of damage they can do create the perfect doomsday scenario. The best example of this is Niven & Pournelle’s book Lucifer’s Hammer which is far better than any of [...]

This is the very first post of the new Role-playing games web site 6d6Fireball.com. Obviously there is absolutely nothing here yet and the design looks awful. All that will be changing over the next few weeks.