Tim Chant is a gamer and author (and baker) based in Edinburgh. His new novel Sam Cane: Hard Setdown follows the ex-con artist and ex-soldier Sam Cane as she flees to fringe of humanity’s scattered worlds and finds a whole lot of danger. Geek Native wanted to tap into Tim’s experience and unearth some tips […]
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In Shadow and Corruption – a review of Symbaroum
Symbaroum brings a complete Swedish tabletop fantasy role-playing game to a wider English-speaking audience in a hardback volume or as a PDF. Not the first tabletop game to achieve this transition by any means, Symbaroum might seem unusual in that it only appeared in it’s original language format in 2013. Funding the translation by IndieGoGo, […]
Tavern Tales RPG oozes with creative possibility
Tavern Tales is another RPG going for a Kickstarter birth. It’s done everything right so far; you can download the rules for free and check out the incredible art, or some of it, in advance. I spoke to Tavern Tales’ creator Dabney Bailey who confirmed the free rules download will last the duration of the […]
Delayed Conan RPG puts Brom back on the front cover
The original plan for Modiphius’ forthcoming Conan RPG was to have Brom illustrate the front cover. Unfortunately, the iconic artist’s schedule couldn’t cope. Modiphius have been working with other Conan Properties licensing partners in conjunction with the project since then, including Monolith Board Games, the team behind the Conan boardgame, and Funcom who run the […]
Dragon Keeper – The Dungeon Kickstarter
Here’s another board game from Europe that looks like its capturing attention. Dragon Keeper – The Dungeon uses a board design that creates a tower like 3D effect. You can see more on the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/512832899/dragon-keeper-the-dungeon[Back this Campaign] At the time of writing Dragon Keeper has funded. It wanted €10,000 and is currently approaching […]
Dungeons & Dragons 5 goes OGL; Wizards launch DMs Guild
It’s a big day over at Wizards of the Coast and for the D&D community. There’s now an Systems Reference Document (PDF Link) for D&D 5e. This means you can professionally design your own content using fifth edition rules, you can publish your own campaign world and sell it provided you stick within the rules. […]
The Evil Hat gang announce Fate More
Evil Hat Productions has done well with Fate Core. A new Kickstarter shouldn’t be that surprising but there are some twists here. Fate More isn’t an expansion to Fate Core; it’s some new Fate Core books that need a Kickstarter to become physical rather than just digital. Additionally, this is a two part Kickstarter. That’s […]
Is there room for alien tentacle sex in your campaign?
A debate. Do we want perversions and gross-outs in our tabletop encounters? It’s clear that some gamers – perhaps many do – as the Kickstarter smashed its target and Alpha Blue is selling.
Free to Download: A host of D&D monsters and dungeons for 3D printing
Reddit user /u/mz4250 has made files that’ll enable you to 3D print most of the D&D monsters. That’s not all; he’s made them available for for free. You can download them here. At the same time, user /u/sasuke_so_cool, ramped up his own campaign by designing and 3d printing his own dungeon elements. Want those for […]
Settlers of Catan sold, Mayfair Games to continue
Settlers of Catan is one of those board games that’s made it out of the geek world fame and earned more mainstream status. There may well be people at your work or university who’ve never heard of Pathfinder but who know what Settlers of Catan is. Have you heard of Asmodee? They’ve just bought the […]
