It’s a new year so perhaps it is time to try a new RPG? One of the biggest sales at DriveThru RPG is designed to encourage you to do just that – to start a new game. The sale, New Year, New Game offers up to 40% on a whole range of core rules. Geek […]
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Giant map of roleplaying games
This poster from Inkwell Ideas is a large map of roleplaying games. The RPG poster comes complete with a small set of monster stickers. The idea is to use to stickers to mark the games you’ve played and, therefore, your progress through the RPG dungeon. The games are divided by genre, so you pick an […]
New Year, New Game: Primeval
DriveThru RPG kicked off one of their biggest sales of the year today. “New Year, New Game” can offer discounts up to 40% and you can score another 15% if you use Geek Native’s extra code of happynyng2013. One of the new core rulebooks in the sale is Cubicle 7’s Primeval RPG Core Rulebook. Tempted? […]
The newest of the new games at the DriveThru RPG New Year, New Game sale
“New Year, New Game” is one of the biggest RPG sales at DriveThru RPG. The goal is simple; encourage gamers to start a new game, a new core system, this year. The sale only lasts a week and many of the games are 40% off. The goal of this blog post is to help you […]
More Prismatic gamer art
The Prismatic Art collection is a Kickstarter funded, free library, of art that represents heroes of all backgrounds. The collection is an attempt to sure that fantasy art isn’t dominated by white people looking cool. Geek Native has covered the collection before and you can look back for other examples. This post is an updated […]
Bring Forgotten Realms to Google Earth
The cartography page on the Forgotten Realms Wikia page suggests that the circumference of Abeir-Toril is about 40,007 km. That compares to Earth with about 40,075 km. That’s not the same but it’s a pretty good match. Redditor McCourt spent “Countless total hours, just messing around, fixing little things… a labour of love, though, so […]
Free to Download: The Caravan of Watched Enlightenment
Lady Ophelia’s Shop of Roleplay Specialties is an indie publisher run by Venus De Coy. De Coy doesn’t mix her words has given Ophelia’s Shop a clear stter; this is a conmpany for non-dungeon crawlers, pushing roleplay over roll-play. The publisher also has plenty of time for international gamers, like this blogger, but promotes a […]
The Delvers’ podcast launches
The Delvers is a podcast series of an actual roleplaying game. The game is Goblinoid’s Labyrinth Lord and the players are a mother and her two daughters. This is a roleplaying adventure that lives the favourite discussion topic of forums around the web; how do you introduce kids to RPGs. The Delvers’ experience is that […]
Bullet chart: exit and entry holes
It’s sometimes remarked that roleplayers know far more about guns and weapons than the general public. Certainly, here in the UK if you found youself eavesdropping on a conversation about which type of gun to use… the chances are quite high you’re listening to gamers talking about a campaign.
Houserule Handbooks: Spellpoint Expansions
Super Genius Games, founded by Hyrum Savage and Stan!, is an imprint for OtherWorld Creations. The publisher creates supplements for Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, Call of Cthulhu and picked up the rights to Warlords of the Apocalypse from Adamant Entertainment. The Houserule Handbooks from SGG are available from Paizo.com as a Pathfinder supplement. The latest offering, […]
