Microsoft’s Surface platform looks ready to revolutionize tabletop gaming. Here are some exclusive new pictures of Dungeons and Dragons being played on Surface at PAX East. I’m getting pretty excited to try this out myself. Hopefully, there will be a Surface installation at PAX Prime…

Of the adventures released thus far by any publisher, DCC #60: Thrones of Punjar by Rick Maffei stands out as one of the best adventure released for D&D 4th edition. Though released last year, I was shocked to not find a single review of this adventure on the internet. Be you a follower of the Old School or the New Generation, every gamemaster owes it to themself to seek out and study…

SceneSound has released a new version. I had a chance to poke around with it and the new features look interesting. Each sound can now have special effects: echo, flanger, tempo, and pitch. A gain option has been introduced to boost the volume of audio files that were recorded too low. The random feature has been fine tuned to give you more control over which random bank files…

I’m finally ready to unveil my latest project: a video and sound effects processing machine mounted in a portable case. The project is geared toward use with tabletop RPGs. The kit will contain a video projector to display initiative and effects during combat, images and video to illustrate the plot and a speaker system for music and sound effects. A wireless network access point will be installed to…

Allesandro Sacco put up a great new interview with Larry Elmore on the Acaeum forums. “Larry Elmore is purely and simply one of the best fantasy artists ever and surely one of my favourites. Many, many gamers remember him for the great covers and artwork done for TSR Inc and, especially in Italy, for his amazing work on the Classic Dungeons & Dragons game (from Basic to Immortal…

Gamers love puzzles. Even better – gamers like challenging puzzles. In my far out alternate modern world of cyberpunk, the gaming PCs became engrossed in their first “real” puzzle of the campaign. The best thing about it was that not only was it a “real” challenge – but it used real modern technology…

RPG Atmosphere is the most intriguing RPG sound utility I have reviewed to date. The program comes with a large number of preconfigured sound scenarios you can drop into your game without having to spend hours preparing. Once you are ready to create your own scenarios, the interface is easy to understand. RPG Atmosphere also has a number of features not seen in other RPG sound mixers…