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Contributor: Andrew Girdwood

Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 262).

A look inside: Dungeons & Dragons Lore & Legends

October 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The book has more than 900 artworks, including photography, digs into the history of D&D and has been sculpted by an impressive team of writers and researchers.

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Jon Peterson, previews

Can an RPG go viral? Don’t Play This Game horror chain letter might

October 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once an Event is completed the Entity will select another. This repeats and your story unfolds until either you complete the game and are free, or you lose and, well, then really bad things happen…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kickstarters, parable games

Aconyte Books brings Marvel Zombie’s The Hunger to DriveThruComics

October 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sister site to the DMsGuild and DriveThruRPG, DriveThruComics has Aconyte Books as a publisher, and they’ve just published 352-pages of zombies.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: aconyte, zombie

Data shows Netflix hit three times as hard as Apple in the writers’ strike

October 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The JustWatch data shows Netflix suffered about a third of all delays, thrice as much as Apple TV+ and much more than HBOMax, Prime Video and Disney+.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff

Competition: Win a deluxe Cocaine Owlbear (yes, really!)

October 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 8 Comments

The new edition adds spells. That’s right, your wildlife creature can be high on drugs and casting spells. What could go wrong?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: competitions, Fainting Goat Games, Honey Heist, kickstarters

Voting opens for Patrons in the November RPG Publisher Spotlight

October 1, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Scoundrel Game Labs won for October. Congratulations! I’ll be getting in touch to try and line up an interview.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: geek native, Patreon, spotlight

Audio EXP Podcast: #212 – On the way and gone to court

October 1, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Which RPG publisher is in a fight with Netflix and which anime-inspired game of ecological science fantasy is out as a free download this week? Find out on the podcast. Welcome to Audio EXP.

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

Rebellion launch anthology sale ahead of Nordic Visions

September 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nordic speculative fiction is a unique and exciting genre that combines dark humour, pacts with nature, and a unique view of the world with dystopian science fiction, terrifying horror, social criticism, and themes of loneliness and humanity’s impact on the wilderness.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Neil Gaiman, rebellion, sales

Audiobook bundle: Sci-fi and Fantasy from Blackstone Publishing

September 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are 20 audiobooks in total in this deal, with the bottom tier starting at £0.79 and the top £14.30 for £380+ downloads.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: audiobook, humble

Defenders of the Wild is animals against machines in a TTRPG and board game

September 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Defenders of the Wild also has over 1,000 backers and is $10,000 through its funding target. There’s a little under two weeks to

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, kickstarters

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