There are warning signs and then warning signs < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Please Recycle after encounters. It’s important to be green. This is especially true if you’re an orc or a goblin. The rest of us will just have to recycle the best we can. Why not drop your useless and no […]
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Teach your Kids to Game Week: Kids and Gaming
Geek Native’s third expert guest post for DriveThru RPG’s Teach Your Kids to Game Week comes from MJ Alishah of Aetheric Dreams. MJ Alishah is the author Nights of the Crusades an RPG which blends history with modern and ancient horror. The pictures in this post come from Aetheric Dream’s The City of 10 Rings. […]
Alien vs Predator The Miniatures Game is winning the Kickstarter battle
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/513277403/alien-vs-predator-the-miniatures-game/ [Back this Campaign] When I first heard there was an Alien vs Predator board game on Kickstarter my very first thought was; “How did they get permission?” I asked about the pitch video and was answered with a shrug and a comment about there not really being a pitch video of note. I had […]
Gaming with my Father: A story of how something that didn’t happen changed my life
It is Teach your Kids to Game Week at DriveThruRPG and James Dawsey has kindly contributed to the cause by writing up his own experience. James runs Vigilance Press and is in the final week of a successful Kickstarter for the Wuxia RPG Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade. I was asked by my friend Andrew […]
Monsters In the Classroom
Today is the start of Teach your Kids to Game week at DriveThru RPG. There’s a sale of family RPG material all week and you can keep up with the events via their Facebook and Twitter profiles. Worth keeping an eye on if you’ve little minions of your own. Eden Jones-Hinds, formerly of Oak Mountain Intermediate […]
TradeCraft Bonus: 5 In character notebooks for RPGs
Whether you’re in a LARP, a GM looking for a player hand out or a player looking to have an in-character notebook for scribbling down clues, maps and ideas for your game then this collection might have something for you. Dual dragons sketchbook Buy this 100 sheets in a handmade, leather bound, notebook with a […]
Here’s how to serve drinks at games night
Got gamers coming around for a Saturday night of RPG action? Is it your task to ensure there’s enough to drink and eat? Sugar supplies can’t run out? I think this twin mana and health potion dispenser will put you in good stead. Via Cheezburger.
Sneakily straight forward: A review of the Discworld Ankh-Morpork board game
The rules to Tree Frog Games’ Discworld Ankh-Morpork board game say; Ankh-Morpork is a relatively simple game. When it is your turn you play a card, do what it says on it, and then fill your hand back up to five cards. The next player then does the same, and so on until someone […]
MWP’s Monica Valentinelli addresses Firefly RPG questions
Geek Native’s already dug into the differences between the Firefly RPG and the Serentiy RPG. We get it; different companies issue the rights. It also seems clear why so many fans don’t get it or don’t care to get it. We’re talking the same mythos. We’re talking versions of Cortex. I suspect this will be […]
Call of Cthulhu designer lines up for C7’s Cthulhu Britannica: London
Cubicle 7 are, as suspected, going to take to Kickstarter for Cthulhu Britannica: London. We’ve got more of the details now – this will be one of the boxed sets that C7 are known for. The Cthulhu Britannica: London deluxe boxed set for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game has a number of game designers […]
