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GM Inspiration: Those sneaky weredog-werewolves

April 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Quite some picture. I wonder if the owner knows that the friendly looking dog is actually either a werewolf or some sort of canine shadow demon? Perhaps the owner is actually a demonologist and the very woman responsible for summoning the creature. Via /r/pics.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: monsters, pictures, rpg ideas, werewolves

SOTY – RPG community recognition

April 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Stuffer Shack is a role playing games source site. It accepts articles, as a store and runs contests. Every year they run SOTY. That’s Site of The Year from among RPG sites. Every day this week they’re asking gamers to pick a site and vote for it. On Thursday Geek Native will be up. It’ll […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awards

LARP costumes for the sexiest, bravest, elf warriors

April 15, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mittelalter is a German store that sells medieval clothing, fantasy and LARP costumes. They specialise in leather armour and creating feelings of insecurity. Okay, the insecurity may not be intentional but Mittelalter create tiny pieces of leather armour, designed for the body beautiful and the brave. It’s hard to judge what the AC for these […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: armour, cosplay, larp, leather

Plague Drones of Nurgle

April 14, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m very much out of date with my Warhammer lore. In my day one of the true horrors of chaos was the plague god Nurgle. The most fierce of the demons was the Great Unclean One and my proudest achievement as a wargamer was gluing one together and applying a splash or two of green […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: models, warhammer, Warhammer Fantasy Battle

GM Inspiration: Steampunk werelion gentlemen

April 14, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s a picture that might inspire an encounter or two. If you’re running a steampunk came that features werelions or lion-men in suits then I think we’d all like to hear about it! Why not leave a teaser in the comments below. You might also check out some other RPG ideas. Via /r/pics.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: monsters, rpg ideas, steampunk

A look inside… Shattered Moon Ogre Pledged and Devout

April 13, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Broken Tower have released Shattered Moon Ogre Pledged and Devout as a supplement for their new Shattered Moon setting. Ogres are protectors of nature but for some of them the calling is beyond the natural. The supplement has details of teh Pledged and Devout racial vocations for ogres, three templates with avatar record sheets and […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Broken Tower, previews

Challenging conventions on steampunk and dice: The Edara RPG pitch

April 12, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Carl Harrison is the Lead Deigner for Caelestis Designs and Ryan Schoon is the Lead Writer. The team has a Kickstarter pitch for a steampunk RPG that proposes a “Renaissance” view to steampunk and a close look at the use of dice and luck in RPGs. Geek Native was able to ask Ryan and Carl […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, steampunk

Art confirms Kickstarter for Cthulhu Britannica London

April 11, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A few days ago this poster for Cthulhu Britannica London popped up online. Looks good – but there is no Cthulhu Britannica London. It hinted at a new game and given the style of the poster the question was “Will there be a Kickstarter?” Geek Native has more art for the Cthulhu Britannica London. It […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, cthulhu, Cthulhu Britannica London, cubicle 7

Wizards without Coats: One Ring

April 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this week’s Wizard without Coats encounter, we go to places that The Lord of the Rings never did.   < PreviousWizards without Coats Next >  Thats like, the first unwritten rule; no one wears the One Ring doing dishes… gah hobbits! The first rule of surviving the dangerous fantasy world – do not wear […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, lord of the rings, the hobbit, v shane, wizards without coats

A look inside Atlantis: The Second Age

April 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Khepera Publishing, the team behind Godsend and Hellas, have bought the the rights to the classic Atlantean Trilogy by Bard Games. The result is a Kickstarter for the RPG Atlantis: The Second Age. [Back this Campaign] Jerry Grayson is offering a large degree of transparency on the project. The entire draft text of the RPG […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

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