You may well remember To Lydia with Love when it appeared on Geek Native. This blog was an also run. Not a single comment – so many people had seen it before. However, creator @Nedopak did give us a retweet. And so… the radar tingles, Indiegogo lights flash, and we notice the promise of two […]
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Turn to Cthulhu and help fight cancer [good causes]
In 2011 we saw the 30th anniversary edition of Call of Cthulhu and we have to go all the way back to 2004 to catch up with the release of the 6th edition of the rules. The good news is that the 7th edition of Call of Cthulhu is in the works and Paul Fricker […]
The awesome dice infographic
Over on Awesome Dice you’ll find a remarkable post and infographic. Yeah; it’s about dice… but it’s a deep dive on the history of dice, going back to 3100 BCE, to the Egyptian era that surfaced the first d12 and up to modern day. I was impressed. I asked Brian Wood of Awesome Dice to […]
Druids in Dungeons & Dragons Online
This video is part of a series from Warner – who look after the MOO Dungeons & Dragons Online game. On the 25th June the Menance of the Underdark expansion is released and with it comes… Druids. It turns out that druids have been a hugely popular request from players. Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) […]
What’s inside the Borderlands 2 Deluxe Vault Hunter’s Collector’s and Loot Chest Editions?
Amazingly the post is a look inside – take a breah – the Borderlands 2 Deluxe Vault Hunter’s Collector’s Edition and Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition. At this point I can’t even tell you whether that’s 2K Games’ Borderland humour or whether “Borderlands 2 Deluxe Vault Hunter’s Collector’s Edition and Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition” […]
Kickstarter cancels funding for anime tentacle game Tentacle Bento
Tentacle Bento raised more than $30,000 in half the time set aside for a $13,000 request total. The project was set up by Soda Pop, the copany behind Super Dungeon Explore and Relic Knights. The concern? Kickstarter hasn’t said publicly but the implication is the funding site wasn’t happy with a game based around hentai […]
Paizo launch Pathfinder comic
More Pathfinder news from Paizo today and it’s not about the challenge the MMO faces on Kickstater. Paizo, in conjunction with Dynamite, are launching a Pathfinder comic book. The series will be written by Jim Zubkavich, art by Andrew Huerta and covers from the likes of Lucio Parillo, Matteo Scalera, Dave Dorman and Erik Jones. […]
How to score 20% off DriveThru RPG this month
About once a month DriveThru RPG bundle together a group of lucky RPG products and make a 20% discount available on them. The catch? You need to know the right code. Geek Native has the code for May – it’s good up until June 14th. It’s… um, it’s a little quirky this month. Time travel […]
Wall Street Journal reporter hacks RPG projects on Kickstarter
A Wall Street Journal reporter or a programmer working for him/her has exploited a bug in Kickstarter’s API. The result was some 70,000 unlaunched Kickstarter projects were exposed. The good news? Only 48 of these unlaunched projects were actually accessed by the Wall Street Journal. It is highly likely that many RPG and game projects […]
May of the Dead: Lesser Gloom Lich
Stuart Renton, author of the Lords of the Night series, returns to Geek Native for a second contribution to May of the Dead. This is the Lesser Gloom Lich – a horror for your Dungeons & Dragons 3.5e adventures. All throughout May blogs from the gaming world are contributing posts to the carnival. You can […]
