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⏱️ Content Velocity: High velocity: 10 articles published in the span of 6 days.

Articles by Andrew Girdwood - Page 1194

Looking back to 12th August 2017, Andrew Girdwood filed a report detailed as "I think a discovery like this is a good way to keep player characters distracted for a while.". It also was tagged with RPG Ideas.

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Star Wars: RPG 30th Anniversary Edition announced

August 17, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fantasy Flight Games have an anniversary edition for the Star Wars RPG. The Star Wars Sourcebook is also being brought back – but both books will be limited editions. They’ll come in a stylized slipcase. The original game was first printed by West End Games back in 1987. At the time the trilogy had finished […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fantasy flight games, star wars, west end games

This dice is between 1,700 and 4,000 years old

August 17, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dating from the Ptolemaic Period, which is around 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD, is this icosahedron from Egypt. The ancient d20 sided die is held now by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art and rather nicely the image of the artifact is entirely in the public domain. It is inscribed with Greek […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice

Iron Sky: The Roleplaying Game in the works

August 16, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you seen the indie film Iron Sky? It’s a quirky adventure that deals with Nazis secretly living on the dark side of the moon. In 2018 there will be a sequel and, perhaps, an Iron Sky RPG. There’s a Kickstarter campaign live today. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1815087115/iron-sky-the-roleplaying-game [Back this Campaign] At the time of writing there are […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Reaper Miniatures quickly reacts to alt-right employee’s Facebook rant

August 16, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Reaper Miniatures is known to many gamers because of a series of very successful Kickstarters. It’s Gen Con week and the company seems to be taking the steps necessary to ensure they don’t become known for other reasons. CEO Ed Pugh had to take to Twitter to say; It has to our attention that one […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Reaper Miniatures

GM Inspiration: Scary coin trap

August 12, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

https://imgur.com/wZLHTlZ This dangerous coin trap was put together by Roman Booteen. He’s had lots of offers to buy it. I think a discovery like this is a good way to keep player characters distracted for a while. The snapping teeth don’t have to be all that damaging as I think the mystery around why anyone […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: coins, rpg ideas

Petition started to beg IKEA to make gaming tables

August 12, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve seen gaming table good enough to dream about on Geek Native before. The story is always the same – they’re not cheap. Now gamer Brad Smoley of Nottingham, MD, has put together a Change.org petition to beg IKEA to make affordable gaming tables available. He notes; The board gaming community is passionate and fickle […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: household

Warhammer 40K: Wrath & Glory RPG due in 2018

August 12, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Ulisses North America, a branch of Ulisses Spiele, has picked up the license for the Warhammer 40,000 RPG. Designer Ross Watson, known for Rogue Trader and Deathwatch, will lead development. Wrath & Glory will be set in the Gothic future, the Imperium of Man under threat and at endless war. There will be a seminar […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gen con, Ulisses North America, Ulisses Spiele, warhammer 40k, wrath & glory

The secret origins of the Titans? Watermelons!

August 12, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Twitter is full of strange discoveries. This set of photographs comes from @bashauma_, aka Naruto But Mom likes Free Watermelon, and blends food with anime. Bashauma_ explains that their son is a fan of the show Attack on Titan. Obviously this meant carving a watermelon into a Titan and watching as kid transformed into the […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: attack on titan, food

The Fallout board game will be out for Christmas

August 12, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fantasy Flight Games and Bethesda’s Fallout board game has been announced for Q4 2017. That means you can put it on your Christmas wishlist. The game is for 1 to 4 players who must decide whether they work together or not. The game is based on the landscape of Fallout 3 and 4. Wilds and […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bethesda, board games, fallout, fantasy flight games

The Targaryens are attacking with this dragon kite!

August 10, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Coolest Kite ever Yup! This dragon kite is pretty cool. While it must take a lot of skill to get it into the air it would look impressive if you crested a hill with it flying along behind you. It would be an awful time to be caught trying to move gold and troops around. […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: dragon

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