DeviantArt user Kaiseto, aka Kevin Chaloux, offers up some fantastic pixel art. A few years back he made the effort of converting most of them to Creative Commons. What does this mean? It means you can use the art for yourself providing you do not make any money off it. For example, you could use […]
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Looking back to 21st February 2018, Andrew Girdwood filed a report detailed as "Many games have alignments as mechanics or character sheet attributes. The alignment of the character should determine how they act and might impact the game in what abilities they have access to. It might also be important in systems with 'detect evil' and similar spells.". It also was tagged with RPG Ideas.
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Why did so many medieval knights fight snails?
If you’ve ever looked at medieval art you might well have seen images of knights fighting all sorts of monsters. And snails. Actually, you might have noticed knights fought snails often. Why is that? This video from Vox looks at the observations of Michael Camille and the theory of Lilian Randall. The snails, suggests Randall, […]
Competition: Geek Native sweatshirt
We’ve a Geek Native sweatshirt to give away to one lucky reader! The black sweatshirt has a word cloud made from Geek Native’s tags (how we describe posts) based on the blog’s content after the rebrand from GameWyrd. The cloud is shaped to look like a wizard’s hat. This is the only branded item of […]
EN Publishing tease The Possessed – For We Are Many
EN Publishing’s ‘WOIN Studios’ is working on new content for What’s OLD is NEW. The toolkit-orientated tabletop from Russ Morrissey. In particular the imprint is producing supplements showcasing the best of a parallel universe of film and TV. These are shows and movies that might feel familiar but never actually broadcast. In ‘The Possessed – […]
TradeCraft Bonus: Download instant spell books and scroll props
Are you running a tabletop RPG tomorrow and in desperate need to make a player handout look good? There are various designs on the arts and crafts site Etsy that you can download and use to enhance your game. This issue of TradeCraft Bonus compiles some of the best candidates for spell books and scroll […]
RPG City generator
Do you need to generate a map for a city and do it quickly? A strong recommendation is Oskar Stalbery’s City Generator. [Show me more] You simply click on the grid to start and the city grows before you. Click again and the city grows again, pick the square you want to add more detail […]
Kneel before this Cthulhu statue
[I need this] Talk about a statement piece! This resin Cthulhu status is 5.5″ tall and hand painted. It’ll only set you back €33.50 and shipping from the US. It’s either because you’re hardcore and can decorate your apartment as you want or you’re about to run a LARP. The store behind this creation, Dellamorteco, […]
Dum Dum Die: Its a boobfest out there
“Its a boobfest out there” is the title of the first episode of Dum Dum Die. This is a podcast of a homebrew D&D and as the title suggestions it is played by an all awesome, all female, gaming group. The success of Twitch and YouTube Live has created a boom in tabletop streams. Dum […]
How do you handle players who don’t act within their alignment?
Many games have alignments as mechanics or character sheet attributes. The alignment of the character should determine how they act and might impact the game in what abilities they have access to. It might also be important in systems with ‘detect evil’ and similar spells. What’s a DM to do if a character acts outside […]
Doctor Who has a new logo
It seems new Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall is giving the show a new coat of paint. Working with the creative agency LittleHawk he and executive producer Matt Strevens have put together new brand designs for the famous show. It’s quite unusual for the BBC to name a creative agency in this way, mentioning LittleHawk […]
