Tom Brown’s Africa Days

Veteran Gamer Bob Beattie has taken a popular 19th Century fictional character — Tom Brown, of Tom Brown’s Schooldays — and come up with a wonderful what-if game. What if Brown, all grown up, and disgraced in an accounting scandal ends up in Africa.

Bob calls this a “convergence role play game,” in which fictional and historical characters meet. Its the same sort of convergence that has been done in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the incredible Kim Newman novel Anno Dracula.

This page has a description and photos of Bob’s game.

Standalone RPG Adventure From Troll Lord Games

Troll Lord Games offers a free, standalone RPG adventure using their SIEGE Engine game system. From the description:

FREE OPEN & PLAY! All you need to start playing now! Introductory Adventure using the Siege Engine. Everything included.

Hell is an unkind place. A sprawling megalopolis of twisted streets and ramshackle buildings piled one on top of the other, clawing their way to height’s unseen where the Lords of Hell rule. Here the harvested souls of evil labor as slaves, doomed to eternal torment. Bound to a world of suffering, always yearning for a world beyond their own. Those wicked, and who are able, seek to flee this city of the damned and do so with whatever tool they can: greed, violence, avarice. Fleeing Hell is the only goal.

But to do so, these souls must pass the Borderhounds. They are Bounty Hunters set on the edge of forever who hunt down wayward souls and throw them in, or out, of Hell. Led by grim faced Brimstone, these Borderhounds are the bane of the damned.

Now you can join the Borderhounds!!

Brimstone and the Borderhounds is a complete, standalone Role Playing Game using the tried and tested Siege Engine, crafted by veteran game designer Jason Vey. Fight devils, demons and more in your hunt to capture Hell’s wayward souls!

How To Paint Zombicide Black Plague Figures

Here’s a nice video on how to paint your Zombicide Black Plague figures.

Victorian Villains Card Game

WarpSpawn has created a card game called Victorian Villains, which features such period luminaries as Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, James West, Professor Moriarty, Count Dracula, Rasputin and Jack The Ripper. Its obviously not a miniatures game, but fans of the genre might find it interesting.

Update: To clear up any confusion, there are no pdf files fo the actual cards. Like all of Lloyd’s marvelous games, there is simply a list of cards. You have to make your own set out of playing cards, or old ccg cards. I put stickey labels on playing cards and use them.

Mass Combat Rules For Role Playing Games

The Wrath of Zombies blog has a set of free RPG rules for Mass Combat. While written for the author’s own Thundarr style game, they are applicable to a wide variety of rules and settings.