by J.M. Perkins – author of The Ultimate Adequate Commoner – the everyman’s guide to surviving and thriving. 1. When in Doubt: Run Away! Normal adventurers don’t retreat often, assuming (usually) that any challenge they are likely to face is ‘balanced’ to their level. Commoners never have this luxury, and so you should run away […]
Superhero Week: Create a Powerful Sojourner’s Moon Science Fiction RPG Character
Last year, during Superhero Week, Randall C Ellis wrote about What’s in a super hero character?. We’re pleased to have Randall back this year. The 2014 challenge – can you adapt a sci-fi game to suit super powers? Guardians of the Galaxy, for example, is that a sci-fi title or a superhero one? Both? Randall […]
Superhero Week: 6 Tips for running a Better Better Angels Game
Caleb Stokes is the author if No Security: Horror Scenarios in the Great Depression. This is a five star collection of scenarios suitable for a range of tabletop RPGs set in 1930s America. Over on Roleplaying Public Radio his Better Angels campaign called “The Spared and the Spoiled” caught the attention of Arc Dream Publihing […]
Expert advice: How to manage magic and mystery without annoying your players
Ari Marmell, aka Mouseferatu, is a novelist that many gamers know well. He’s written novels for the likes of Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf as well as RPG material supporting D&D 4E for Expeditious Retreat Press, Pathfinder for Adamant Entertainment and plenty of World of Darkness game material for White Wolf. The Rodent […]
5 Ways to Make Great NPCs
Elizabeth Strong is part of the Basic Adventuring 101 LARP webseries. In fact, Elizabeth is the writer and script supervisor for the show with the well written and worth a look pilot episode. Geek Native offered the 101 cast and crew a chance to share some game geek goodness and it was Elizabeth who stepped […]
Freda Warrington’s Top Ten supernatural novels for vampire lovers… and weird house fanatics
Freda Warrington is a British author of vampire, fantasy and supernatural novels. Born in Leicester, Warrington has created such favourites as the Blackbird series, the Blood Wine series, Dark Cathedral series, The Jewelfire Trilogy and Aetherial Tales series. The British Fantasy Society have nominated four of her stories for Best Novel awards and Elfland took […]
350 free dungeons and winning tips
The One Page Dungeon Contest is a chance to put your ideas and designs in front of the roleplaying community. This year Gary Gygax’s son Ernie Gygax will be a judge along with the famous Steve Winter of TSR and Wizards of the Coast fame. The contest has created more than 300 one page dungeons […]
From the Inkwell: Worldbuilding is a funny business
Robin Wyatt Dunn is the author of the forthcoming fantasy Fighting Down into the Kingdom of Dreams. In the book we encounter a giant metal rabbit, the lost dreaming of the Rat City of Roth and re-fight old battles with fusion weapons in a parallel New York City. Geek Native invited Robin to write a […]
7 Weird & Wonderful Tales from London
The Cubicle 7 team has been scouring the darkest corners of London seeking forbidden knowledge for their Kickstarter project Cthulhu Britannica: London. Writer David Wade invites you to join him to peruse a selection of weird and wonderful tales from the city. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461807648/cthulhu-britannica-london-call-of-cthulhu-rpg-boxe/ [Find out more] 1. The Oldest Mummy in the World In 1892, […]
Kickstarting Chaos – crowdfunding a classic
Kevin Gilmartin is the editor of GeekChocolate. He reads a lot of sci-fi, plays a lot of Warhammer 40k and is old enough to know better. [Read the prelaunch page] “Retro” is term used too lightly these days. Stuff from 1997 is not retro – it’s just a bit old. When people talk about retro […]
