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Review – Crime Pays: A Godfather’s Grimoire by Goodman Games
When I sat down to read Crime Pays: A Godfather’s Grimoire by Goodman Games I was extremely shocked! And, in a very good way! I was expecting a DM resource to bring the Medieval Mafia down on your unsuspecting PCs. And of course, it does this very well. There are 60 new stat blocks with [...]
Kickstarter: Gaming Paper Adventures–65 Square Feet of Dungeon Map!
Gamingpaper.com has a new project up on Kickstarter for role-playing gamers. The new idea is “Gaming Paper Adventures.” GP created a massive, double-sided, 100 page dungeon map that you assemble yourself into a map…a really large map. Titled “The Citadel of Pain,” the map supports a module of the same name and several pending PDF [...]
Book Report: The Führer’s Headquarters – Hitler’s command bunkers 1939–45
At LivingDice, we often trumpet our love of using history as inspiration for RPG adventuring. One of my favorite quotes, when I think of history and RPGs, comes from an American author named Joseph Heller (of Catch-22 fame). In his book ‘Good as Gold’ he said: History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open [...]
Review: The Adventures of Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer: Shadows of Mirahan from Goodman Games (4E D&D)
The Adventures of Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer: Shadows of Mirahan arrived today and I decided to give it a review. Whether they know it or not, almost every geek is familiar with the artistry of Frank Frazetta. In addition to his fantasy and science fiction paintings, his work has graced the covers of novels, comic [...]
Role-Playing Resource: The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
I ran across a great resource for medieval role-playing games and I thought I would share. Fordham University maintains the excellent “Internet Medieval Sourcebook” and it is definitely worth a look. The archive contains hundreds of links to everything from Anglo-Saxon literature to the Barcelona Maritime Code and just about anything else you can [...]
Paperback Swap–Fantasy and RPG Books on the Cheap
Hello fellow LivingDice readers, It is Haaldaar, your friendly Holy Knight of Haruspices! I thought I would take some of the load off of Trask for the night and tell you about Paperbackswap. Now, this website isn’t solely focused on gaming, but there are a lot of fantasy and gaming books available in this book [...]
Subterranea Britannica–Images and Maps of Cold War Military Bunkers
Malcolm Craig, author of “Hot War ,” the pointed me towards a fascinating site from the UK with dozens of maps and images of old military installations. Most of the locations have both original images that show them in their prime, maps and modern images that show the ravages of time. This is one of [...]
Game Component Manufacturers and Printers for the Entrepreneur
I truly believe that a great game does not need a big corporation’s marketing muscle behind it to achieve success. Take “Wizards of the Coast” and “Magic: The Gathering” as an example. It started out as a home-based operation and grew into the juggernaut of gaming companies. It happened once, it can happen again. Somewhere, [...]
Antique Playing Card Images
While poking about the Beinecke Rare Book library at Yale, the online version at least, I found this interesting item. There are hundreds of examples of playing cards through the ages, stretching back 500 years. The link below leads to a very dull discussion of the archive. Read it if you want some background on [...]