As Black Friday begins what are the hottest RPGs and sourcebooks at the Dungeon Masters Guild and DriveThruRPG? Geek Native has put the lists together for you. DriveThruRPG hot titles Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale There’s an impressive 47,596 (at the time of writing) titles in DriveThruRPG’s sales. Dungeon Masters Guild hot titles Black […]
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The Forest Dragon Bang & Twang: Artist kickstarts the game his kids designed
Veteran game illustrator Jon Hodgson has successfully Kickstarted a game his sons Rory and Ben have designed. At the time of posting there are still two weeks to add your pledge to The Forest Dragon Bang & Twang. This isn’t even the first time Ben and Rory have made a game. You can read the […]
Roll20 reveal their Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica preview
The Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica goes on sale today. This is the new D&D setting from Wizards of the Coast… except it’s been a Magic: The Gathering setting for many years now. Ravnica is the first crossover setting between the two huge product lines. Roll20, the virtual tabletop, also put their Racnica bundle up today […]
York gets a Dungeons & Dragons inspired bar
The Quest Inn is a family-friendly fantasy themed restaurant opening in the centre of medieval York. The Indiegogo pitch for The Quest Inn raised some money but not the full £50,000 that would have made this clever idea a slam-dunk certainty. Geek Native spoke to the architect of the plan, Elliot Howden-Roberts, about the project. […]
Thoughts on the touchy nature of player mortality
In July Geek Native published a review of Nathan Quill’s Middenarde. In this guest post, Nathan shares his reply. Games in which player death is par for the course have always been divisive. When the survival platformer Rain World released in 2017, it caused an explosion of debate over the worthiness of its punishing karma […]
Moglan’s D&D augmented reality items deck struggles on Kickstarter
Ben Doran’s idea is to help DMs put the magic back into magic chests or even those chests you get at the end of a battle. Rather than risk forgetting to put some exotic loot in your notes for the Moglan magic item cards let the players get a more visual experience and something to […]
Genre Police: The Spy Who Critted Me
Espionage is an instantly recognisable genre. Due to its very clearly defined tropes, everyone can remake a spy movie – just think about it now, you can already see the grand opening action sequence in your mind. But when we get down to particulars, lots of spy media are very different. Goldfinger is not the […]
Roll20 lets D&D gamers into the Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Wizards of the Coast’s latest D&D 5e titles, “Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica and Dungeon of the Mad Mage, are now available on the virtual tabletop Roll20. Geek Native has some art from inside the Waterdeep adventure Dungeon of the Mad Mage to share. In the game adventures find themselves exploring the mage Halaster’s Undermountain domain. […]
TORG Eternity: The Nile Empire brings in the pulp
Ulisses is looking to expand The Other Roleplaying Game, aka TORG, with the help of some 1930’s pulp fiction. Ulisses Spiele bought the license for TORG back in 2015, president of the company, Markus Plotz, being a fan of the game. Now there a Kickstarter expected on November 20th to add new adventures, heroes and […]
Genre Police: Where DM’s dare
The War genre is widely variable. Depending on nation creating the media, the level of patriotism acceptable in the cultural environment and the directors intent, a ‘War Story’ can be anything from a heavily edited propaganda piece, meditation on the cost of war, a high action thriller, documentary or long running comedy that also makes […]
