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Raging Swan Press releases Robes of Summoning

Ever found (or thought about buying) a robe of bones but couldn’t be bothered to design the stat blocks or were worried that the other members of your party would object to fighting alongside your undead minions? Robes of Summoning banishes these problems! This PLAYER’S RESOURCE contains a detailed write-up of the standard version of…
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The Living Airship

This pdf from Rite Publishing is 37 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD and 2 pages of advertisements, leaving 32 pages of content for the adventure, so let’s dive right in.

Gender specific games

Recently I came across an indie game called Kagematsu and I was very taken by the premise that the GM is meant to be a woman, while the players are meant to be males playing female characters. I thought it was intriguing and started to wonder how much thought is given to gender and sexuality at the time of designing games

Ruins Perilous – Ruined Gate (level 1, Room 2)

To adequately review a file from the “Ruins Perilous”-line, I first have to explain the interesting and ambitious business model the series utilizes: You donate a certain amount of money to the project. If you donate at least $3.00, you get the following in addition to the pdf

The Mystic Empyrean Free Preview

For those who haven’t been following the development of Mystic Empyrean so far, here’s a breakdown of the game that promises to be one of the most groundbreaking RPGs of all time.