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 Racing Penguin is a HUGE success!
Four days ago, we launched Racing Penguin for iPhone. It is currently the number 3 app in number of downloads on the whole App Store! You can download Racing penguin for free here We love our fans we would like to reproduce a message from a great fan. Here ...
Games
The short URL for this page is http://bit.ly/mhGames. Read
First thoughts on “EMS” (“Effective Military Strength”) in Mass Effect 3
Here begin the spoilerish posts. If you haven t finished yet, I sincerely hope you ll come back once you have. here
FOR SALE: Bavarian Infantry Regt. Minucci
THIS ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD 16 Seven Years' War Bavarian infantry figures, by Crusader Miniatures, painted in enamels by me. They represent a battalion of Infantry Regiment Minucci as detailed in Funcken. Read more
Aaron Foster's tutorials
The second challenge for our year 2 Games Design students as they created and set up the art assets for their playable level designs was to design, build and texture, 3D meshes in Autodesk Maya and import them into the UDK engine to create a convincing environment. This process of importing the assets into UDK was made much easier for them due to the video tutorials that Aaron Foster has created which they can access online. Here ...
Indoor Exercises for Young Children
Indoor exercises for young children Physical exercise is one of the key components to a healthy life for every human being, and young children are no different. Children tend to love going outside and running around or playing in the park, and they certainly get lots of exercise in that way, even if they are not aware of it. Read
The Russian Plan
After doing the first two Prussian unit upgrades to 24 man units, and quickly adding two more (photos to follow), I decided to do some Russian unit upgrades. Whilst I sorted out the figures to upgrade 5 Russian units in their green coats, I also counted everything up. Here ...
A Flight Simulator Control For Your Sim Aircraft
A Flight Simulator Control For Your Sim Aircraft To be able to enjoy flying your very own aircraft at home, it is necessary for you to have a flight simulator control to maneuver it properly. The controls allow you not only to experience flying as if it is real, but it also lets you learn more about how to fly the aircraft properly just like a real pilot. here
Seven Years War Non-project Begins
I'm going to call this pile of lead a non-project. What is the difference between a project and a non-project? A project supersedes all other painting and is the focus of paintbrush attention a project has a finishing date a non-project has neither. here
Linux mini servers
Small, low power, plug in any USB storage, cloud backups. Cost around 70. Read more

Economy Class: Free Online Options On Free RPG Day

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Free RPG Day has just been held at game stores across the USA and UK. Plenty of players and potential players will have had a chance to pick up hard copies of selected tabletop RPGs and RPG scenarios. We applaud the whole exercise but what about those who couldn’t make it to a store? Time to jump on the Net and find some free RPG content.

Ars Magica 4th Edition Core Rulebook

Download 272 pages of narrative fantasy RPG at the cost of logging in to the site. Ars Magica uses detailed rules to deliver a fully-realised alternate 13th-Century European setting. Life is, unsurprisingly, hard in ‘Mythic Europe’ and it’s up to players to try to ‘lighten the load’. The game is particularly successfully at merging history, superstition and magic into coherent gameplay. It’s, perhaps, a bit much for beginners, but an ideal choice for players with an eye on costs or looking for a change.

WotC

WotC offer an archive of older AD&D scenarios for free online. These include a lot of ‘classics’, such as the infamous Tomb of Horrors, (which shows some of the best and worst scenario design ever), and White Plume Mountain. Most of these modules don’t offer players a great deal of freedom to choose how play develops, but they’re a goldmine for GMs looking for ideas for set pieces, traps and mini-dungeons. The best ideas can then be slotted into more modern, opened-ended settings and scenarios. (Thanks to an EN World poster for the reminder).

Traveller SRD

Mongoose Publishing has what amounts to a free copy of ‘rules light’ Sci-Fi RPG Traveller available for download. It’s an Open Licence Developer’s Kit, which means the core rules are there but all the presentation has been stripped out. All that’s needed to get a free, custom set of Traveller rules is to load the text to a word processor, apply some formatting and add as many images as you like. The same page also includes links to a stack of old Traveller scenarios.

Treasure

Visual fantasy RPG/ design game Treasure has seen a lot of changes over the last year and now offers a much more streamlined fantasy RPG at no cost. It’s deliberately ‘rules light’ and determinedly experimental, so the gameplay and scenario design doesn’t fit the ‘retro’ tag. As a design game, Treasure sets out to help players to rapidly ‘sketch out’ or outline skeleton settings and scenarios, which then act as ‘springboards’ to open-ended gameplay.