The Friendly Local Gaming Store (FLGS) should be the heart of any role-playing community with expert staff helping gamers discover new games and gaming groups. Until recently though, it seemed to be a dying breed. In my home town, Nottingham, we haven’t had a shop selling a decent range of RPG games for years.
But all [...]
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3 Technologies That Will Change Gaming
The era of pure paper and pen games is drawing to a close. Technology is coming to the gaming table and changing how we play. At the moment this is limited to PDFs of rule books and iPhone dice shakers but where will we be in 10 years time?
Always Online with a Big Fat Pipe
In [...]
Other Court Games
Other Court Games are a new company to me. They just come to my attention via my Live Journal account. I know nothing about their products other than there are lots of free RPG PDFs to download plus a novel.
My only reason for posting about them is that they are a small game company [...]
Twitter Games
What games can you play on Twitter?
With Twitter exploding into the mainstream, the opportunities for Twitter games should also expand yet there seems to be very little out there at the moment. There are several dull games for Twitter like Twit Brain which sends you a calculation every three hours and you have to see [...]
Poll Results: Spaceships & Swords
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 [...]
RPG Character Sheets
Why Character Sheets Suck
Almost 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 [...]
The Traveller Developer’s Pack
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 [...]
Killer Asteroid
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 [...]
Welcome to 6d6Fireball.com
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.
