I’ll admit to have been guilty of pro-gamer apocalypse thoughts. I figured that in the event of surviving an apocalypse that gamers, traditional tabletop roleplayers, would be good to people to associate with. Why? Roleplayers tend to have a wide knowledge of tips, tricks and tactics when it comes to weird situations, survival and travel. A […]
Articles by Andrew Girdwood
In this archive, you'll find Andrew Girdwood's recent work on Tabletop & RPGs, Music, and Geek Stuff.
Player Piano Indiegogos for great geeky piano music
Player Piano is responsible for one of my favourite YouTube creations of the year. They covered the Akira theme so well. Now they’ve given us a Tetris cover and asked for Indiegogo support. [Back this Campaign] This is a flexible funding so Player Piano don’t need to hit their target of $60,000 to cash in. […]
The cosplay highlights: NEKOCON 2014
Can you find yourself in this video? Beat Down Boogie maintain their busy video schedule. Nekocon has produced another crop of individual cosplay – and credit to the fans who push the bar up every year – but some great group cosplay ideas too. Santa meets Attack on Titan? You can peak at more pictures […]
Create your own monster mythos with Silent Legions
Silent Legions is a sandbox RPG from Kevin Crawford that offers GMs with the toolkit they need to create their own Lovecraftian style alien gods. At the time of writing it is nearly 300% funded. You can check out more on Kickstarter. [Back this Campaign] Silent Legions will offer tools for creating black sorcery and […]
The ultimate history of card games [infographic]
This infographic suggests that card games can be traced back to China and between 618 AD to 907 AD. Baccarat appears around about the 1400s as an early gambling game and we don’t get Solitaire or Patience until about the 1700s in Europe. Rummy and Gin Rummy are American inventions as is the Joker card […]
Bayonetta cosplay all the way from Russia
Bayonetta is a good character to cosplay as she looks unique, is pretty famous and has a number of iconic elements that all help recreate the style of the character. On the other hand; the costume is unforgiving and all the visual cues challenging to make. Oniksiya Sofinkikum does an excellent job here! Check out […]
Blasted and torn: The sci-fi artof A.J. Trahan
A.J. Trahan is a professional artist who’s worked at Midway Games, Junction Point, Steamboat Studios and Kojima Studios. He has a range of styles and covers various topics but the sample gallery below has a focus on his sci-fi art and pieces in the aftermath of destruction. You can see more illustrations and find out […]
The Bender woodstove
This Bender is actually a wood burning stove. The man who made this has a blog with a single entry. Called Bender Bending Rodriguez the post details how one drunken idea turned into the stand up stove. If you want to build a Futurama inspired stove yourself; this post will tell you how. Blogged by […]
The puck is one grumpy looking forest goblin
The Puck is based off British fairy legends and is the creation of Uncanny Critters. The model is about 10cm tall and painted by hand. Pucks are forest Goblins, who are viewed as the most dim witted of the tree spirits, often thought by other fairy folks as being no smarter then a young dog. […]
The Dark Below prologue
Are you sticking with Destiny? I’ve not made time for Destiny in a while but I still feel faithful to the game. Like everyone else; I need more content. I’m not in the PvP camp. The Dark Below looks pretty interesting. You can tell the plan straight away when the prologue mentions Croata’s dad. No […]
