Have you seen the original You Know Your GM’s Evil When… list? It’s a classic from GameWyrd I’m glad survived the move to Geek Native. We can now add a new “evil GM” warning sign to gamer awareness. If your GM uses any of these horrible, monster, book covers designed by Lori Layne. Want to […]
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Interview with Jim Zub, lead writer for the Pathfinder comics
Jim Zub is a writer and artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has worked for Capcom, Hasbro, Namco-Bandai and others. Jim’s the lead writer on the new Pathfinder comics and has agreed to do a Q&A interview with Geek Native. Geek Native quoted Jim along with the first art teasers from the series. He said; […]
Crochet Dice
Geek Native has featured plenty of intersting dice in the past. Check out this impressive collection of custom dice from Dice Creator, this skull dice thrower, this felt lined castle dice tray or even this history of dice infographic. Time for something new? What about crochet dice? Not sure they’re evenly balanced but they’d be […]
Interview with RPG designer James Desborough
James Desborough runs Postmortem Studios and is a self-employed games designer. This month Desborough finds himself in a whirlwind of attention when a petition against him urged Mongoose Publishing to drop his work. That petition used to be available here but now redirects here and has transformed into a petition to Steve Jackson Games to […]
The Great Indie RPG Giveaway 2012
The Roleplayers Chronicle are running a great giveaway competition. The great Indie RPG Giveaway of 2012 is a chance to win one of five huge bundles of RPG loot. The competition is designed to promote indie publishers of RPG titles. To enter and try to win one of the free bundles gamers are asked to […]
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land comes to Android
The turn-based strategy RPG inspired by H.P. Lovecraft is now available for Android. Droid Ftaghn! Developed by the indie studio Red Wasp Design under the watching gaze of Chaosium, the game features nine 3D levels of madness set in the trenches of World War One. The game can be downloaded by popping over to Google […]
A Cthulhu mask for a masquerade ball
Have you been invited to a masquerade ball? This blogger once went to one as part of a work Christmas party – all the rest have been roleplaying events. In all cases this Cthulhu inspired mask would have been a sure hit. Right now you can pick the mask up from Looking Glass Leather over […]
Free to Download: Dungeonslayers 4th edition
One of the early partnerships the Chronicle City announced was with Uhrwek Verlag, the German publishers and owners of very popular Dungeonslayers RPG. You can pre-order a copy of the print copy of Dungeonslayers 4 from the separate Dungeonslayers website. Chronicle City had said that the PDF of Dungeonslayers, the full rules, would be available […]
Games Workshop appoint Bio Agency
Games Workshop have appointed their very first digital agency according to Sarah Shearman over at Campaign. Bio won the work after a four-way shootout between three other, undisclosed agencies. Bio will step up to produce a global digital strategy for Games Workshop. This blogger works in digital marketing and would (half) like to have won […]
Crazy idea? Mathematical waves as magic?
A few roleplaying games lean heavily on the idea that magic is either a special language or mathematical incantations that tap into the heatbeat of the world. This video from the New Scientist highlights those equations that rule the world with an almost exclusive focus on understanding waves. They don’t mean the waves that break […]
