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 […]
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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 […]
Meet the writers of Orun RPG and find out what they like about the game
New Agenda Publishing is an RPG publisher working to bring even more diversity to the roleplaying industry. Right now, New Agenda Publishing has a successful Kickstarter on their hands with ORUN. Orun is a post-apotheosis, Afro-centric, space opera RPG. I can safely say I don’t have one of those in my collection already. You can […]
Genre Police: Pouches & Punishment!
If you were researching comics history and you asked Wikipedia for its opinion, you’d see posits that the publication of Watchmen creates a modern, more sophisticated age of comics overnight that is still in place today. This is a commonly held sentiment and is also is massively wrong. Go pick up an issue of Watchmen, […]
Save a dinosaur: Kaboom Universe on Kickstarter
This looks fun. Alvaro G. Echave is an artist and designer from Spain and his Kaboom Universe Kickstarter is already 204% funded with three weeks still to run. You can check out the campain page here. [Back this Campaign] At the time of publishing, there are three days left on the early bird offers. This […]
Archvillain’s Character Gauntlets have funded
Back in August, we covered the teaser for Character Gauntlets from Archvillain Games. The Kickstarter has started, funded and now has 10 days (at the time of writing) let to run. You can see the progress at the campaign page. [Back this Campaign] The main concern expressed by readers in Geek Native’s original coverage of […]
