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Contributor: Andrew Girdwood

Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 170).

Chaosium’s Lynne Hardy will be at Edinburgh’s Cymera 2025

May 15, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s Andrew Girdwood and Bronwen Winter Phoenix will both be at Scotland’s Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing Cymera in June.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, conventions, cymera, lynne hardy

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, rpg tools, 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, miniatures, serenissima obscura, 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, menagerie press, 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

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