Bluefishworks Posters

Bluefishworks is a UK-based company offering a range of high-quality art and design posters. They also sell a wide selection of art and design books, as well as ‘art packs’ containing multiple copies of various famous works of art for passing round classes.

Our interest is in the posters, because they look [...]

Tabletop RPGs: Where Did All The Girls Go?: Update

The recent “Tabletop RPGs: Where Did All The Girls Go?” post drew a few remarks over at RPG forum EN World. We’d been invited to comment on ways to encourage more girls to take part in tabletop RPGs. However, our opinion, (which suggested publishers, communities and players might want to review how they [...]

Tabletop RPGs: Treasure v1.4

Version 1.4 of free tabletop fantasy RPG Treasure has just been released in xHTML. The game offers a full fantasy RPG at zero cost. Treasure is also a Graphic RPG, which lets players choose to display some, or all, skills, actions and events as images, icons or gestures.

New Features

Streamlined and greatly simplified text
Single [...]

Free Image Editors

Any kind of games design, blogging or web design relies on working quickly and easily with a range of graphics software. Professional software like Photoshop and Illustrator are expensive and often contain features which go beyond those needed for most jobs. We use a variety of free software which is either very easy [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

WOW @Aviary is now FREE? http://bit.ly/aviaryfree #

Online graphics suite Aviary can now be accessed for free from here:

Images For Free

GMs, games designers and many players often need themed and styled artwork to help to design, illustrate, promote and play games. The following sites offer licenced images, which can be used freely for a variety of game related purposes. Possible uses include:

Posters and leaflets promoting events and groups
In-game illustrations
Images for web and blog [...]