Third Eye Games have been successful with their superhero AMP range and mystic martial arts range with Ninja Crusade through a combination of Kickstarter and hardwork. Now they’re back on the crowdfunding platform looking to expand Ninja Crusade with this campaign. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eloylasanta/empires-reign-and-other-ninja-crusade-2e-expansion [Back this Campaign] At the time of writing there’s 9 days left to […]
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Fighting Fantasy in Spaaaace! Stellar Adventures on Kickstarter
Here’s a straight forward Kickstarter proposition for you. In 2011 Arion Games re-released the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG and now they’re offering to take it to space with Stellar Adventures. You can follow the campaign progress online. [Back this Campaign] There’s no video pitch. Arion are asking for £3,500 and with 20 days on the […]
Privateer Press makes Warmachine and Hordes MK.III rules available for free
You can grab the new MK.III versions of Warmachine and Hordes from Privateer Press. They’re entirely free PDFs. If you’ve already bought MK.II copies of the rules and want to see what’s changed between them then this thread started by Dybbuk on the Privateer Forums helps sum up the differences.
Massive Darkness rakes in massive mega bucks
Cool Mini or Not’s latest Kickstarter has two weeks left to run and is well over the $2,000,000 mark! Check out the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/massive-darkness [Back this Campaign] The pledge tiers are simple. The early bird has sold out. That leaves you with the ‘Lightbringer Pledge’ level for $120. You’ll get the Massive Darkness core […]
Kickstarter darling Symbaroum returns with the Thistle Hold – Wrath of the Warden
We like Symbaroum here at Geek Native. In fact, Paul Baldowski has his own site all about it call The Iron Pact. If you’ve already discovered the dark wonders of the RPG then you might want to skip ahead to the Kickstarter campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/449518387/symbaroum-thistle-hold-wrath-of-the-warden [Back this Campaign] This Kickstarter has more than two weeks, […]
5579 free RPGs and counting: It’s free RPG Day
Saturday 18th is Free RPG Day. The idea here is that you pop into a store, support your local trader and pick up a free RPG in exchange. Is your local RPG shop taking part? This store locator will know. Right now there are 5579 free RPGs available on DriveThruRPG, that’s up from 4578 free […]
A Great Game to Read: A Review of Exalted, Third Edition
I don’t have any experience with Exalted’s previous editions, so I can’t really comment on what’s changed. All I know is this: by the time I finally finished reviewing all of Exalted: Third Edition (EX3)’s 650+ pages, I was stunned. Not just by the monumental size of this game, but it’s scope and execution. EX3 […]
Paizo announces a new RPG: Starfinder
Starfinder is Pathfinder in space. It’s Pathfinder in one possible future and the gods are acting strangely. The project is being helmed by Creative Director James L Sutter, has a microsite of its own and is due out in August 2017. Does that feel like a far future date for a RPG release to you? […]
Blood Will Run: Shadow of the Demon Lord Adventure Review
Blood Will Run is a Novice level adventure for Shadow of the Demon Lord. It focuses on an investigation to discover the fate of two missing children. The adventure sets this out in clear sections – explaining the interrelationship of key players in a background section followed by hooks, the locale, rumours and five key […]
Nearly 300 free 3D-printable D&D minis
At the start of the year Geek Native called out mz4250’s 3D printing project. This talented artist was making free templates so you could 3D print your own D&D monster. This amazing project has kept going. Now you can access nearly 300 3D-printable creations from Miguel Zavala (that’s mz4250 to you and me). His Shapeways […]
