Third Eye Games has announced a Kickstarter for H.P. Lovecraft. Geek Native reached out to owner Eloy Lasanta and asked whether the game would feel more like Cthulhu or the shenanigans of a certain boy wizard. This is the response; Good question! HPL Prep has all the schooling and fantasy feel, but instead of students […]
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Genre Police: More Than Just Semi-Nudes – Sword & Sorcery
Welcome to back Genre Police, a series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. Today, we are going to round up our fantasy sub-genres for now with the most venerable tradition of all – […]
Will Mottokrosh’s Eldritch Online Character Sheet survive?
CharacterSheet.co.uk is home to Mottokrosh’s Eldritch Online. This is a Pathfinder character sheet app for your tablet or laptop created by Frank Reding, aka Mottokrosh. Two weeks ago the app updated with this message; This app is shutting down at the end of January 2018. I know it is used by many gamers, and I […]
Onyx Path picks up license for Dystopia Rising: Evolution and hires writers
Onyx Path Publishing, known for their Chronicles of Darkness evolution of White Wolf’s World of Darkness line has secured a license with Eschaton Media to write another Dystopia Rising. Dystopia Rising is a fast-paced survival game set after a zombie apocalypse. The next edition, Dystopia Rising: Evolution, will be written by Eddy Webb and will […]
11 Discord servers to interest tabletop and RPG fans
Update: This post is several years old and Discords come and go. Many thousand new Discords have arrived since this post was written. The green button on the bottom of your Discord app can be used for server discovery. Geek Native has (just) launched a Discord and you join here. If you notice any of […]
Are D&D gems based on any sort of real science?
There’s no shortage of gems and jewels in D&D but are they as fanciful as dragons? Are the economics behind the shinies grounded in any sort of sense? Questions like this don’t pop up too often in games but can be a real distraction when they do. Thankfully gem and gemology channel JTV on YouTube […]
Free to Download: John Carter of Mars RPG quick start rules
[Download for Free] Modiphius are calling the John Carter of Mars Kickstarter a success. At the time of writing there are still 18 days left on the clock but since they’re £100,000 over their asking price – I think they’re safe to do so! This means you can download the 27-paged Quickstart Guide for free. […]
The cost of light
As a GM do you go too easy or too hard on your players when it comes to light? Some games masters often have their caverns and dungeons filled with luminescent fungi or crystals so the characters can continue with an impromptu adventure without being thwarted by a lack of torch light. In other games […]
The most awesome game of Talisman ever?
Talisman is a board game adventure where your random hero travels randomly around three realms, dealing with random situations, before a final dice off in the centre of the world. The skill is in dealing with the random. It can be a lot of fun. There are no shortage of supplements and occassionally you get […]
Genre Police: Alienating half my readership by choosing High Fantasy!
Welcome to back Genre police, a new series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. This column we are going to take a look at the one of the two Big Dogs of Fantasy […]
