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About Andrew Girdwood

Andrew Girdwood is a gamer and a geek with several decades of experience. He's been blogging for nearly as long and has written for sites as prestigious and diverse as National Geographic Traveller, The Scotsman, EN World, Econsultancy and The Drum.
 
Andrew runs Geek Native as a hobby, and while he makes no pretence that the blog is a newspaper, or in fact anything other than a place to share geeky discoveries, he does try to achieve some minimum quality standards and transparent policies.

Spaceship name generator (song names)

May 15, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I don’t know enough good song lyrics to build a generator on this but I do know some song titles and I can throw the odd sci-fi themed word into make the spaceship name a bit exotic.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: generators, sci-fi

Enrique Alcatena’s Liquid Steel Comic arrives in English, accompanied by a new TROIKA! RPG setting

May 14, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Liquid Steel, the comic book series by artist Enrique Alcatena, is being translated into English for the first time.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit, crowdfunding, gavriel quiroga, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

Serenissima Obscura reveals minis & lore with more to come at UK Games Expo

May 14, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Set in a fantastical 1507 Venice, Serenissima Obscura is designed to be largely system-agnostic, offering stats for 5e and its own universal shorthand system, with additional compatibility for Ars Magica.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Melina Sedo, uk games expo, Vortex Verlag

Short film: Dating Woof

May 12, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this short animation we follow a young woman who does not cope well with computer game defeat.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, short film

Avatar: Train fan animation is impressive

May 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Googling ‘Avatar Train’ gets me to wikis about Fire Nation inventions. In this case, Avatar is a Swedish heavy metal band and, therefore, even more hardcore than the Fire Nation.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: animation, Avatar, Music video

Menagerie Shadowdark bundle offers extensive third-party adventures

May 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Menagerie Press has been a prolific supporter of Shadowdark, with publisher William Murakami-Brundage releasing dozens of diverse dungeon crawls over the past two years.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, shadowdark, william murakami-brundage

Audio EXP Podcast: #286 – Aliens and mimics

May 10, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

FGG Games wins RPG Publisher Spotlight, GTA 6 delay welcomed, Alien: Rogue Incursion goes flat-screen. Plus, GameFound’s RPG Party for new creators, US-made Botch Dice, publisher updates from Rowan, Rook & Decard and RAFM Miniatures, and new TTRPGs like ‘Return of the Living Dead’ and ‘Holmes & Co.’, alongside exciting game bundles.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: audio exp, geek native, podcasts

Buy an RPG from an indie shop, and you might win £250

May 10, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Notably, Bookshop.org’s offerings include RPGs and related supplementary books.

Filed Under: Books

Short film: Rogue (don’t get cocky)

May 10, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The official title for this The Animation Workshop graduation project is Rogue but given the laughing adventurers at the start, I like to think of it as Don’t Get Cocky.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, short film, zombie

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #308

May 9, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Recent RPG news includes a fundraiser for Rick Hershey’s injured children, Goodman Games clarifying a controversial partnership, new D&D horror subclasses, a UK publisher skipping GenCon over safety, and Canada’s biggest mini maker is closing.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, drink, Dungeons & Dragons, goodman games, judges guild, Rick Hershey, routinely itemised, wizards of the coast

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