https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412864360/you-are-the-hero/ [Back this Campaign] You Are the Hero is a Kickstarter campaign by the author Jonathan Green. The goal is to raise £15,000 to fund a celebration of 30 years of Fighting Fantasy, a book with a forward from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone themselves, art and insight. At the time this post was written […]
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End of the End of the World RPG Bundle: 3 games, 2 drafts, 6 wallpapers
Daniel Chan has created a pay-as-much-as-you-want bundle of RPG goodies. It includes 3 RPG books (God-king, The Legerdemain Betrayers, and Haunt Me), 2 playtest drafts, and 6 wallpapers. You can grab the bundle here and have until the 2nd of January to do so. Geek Native reached out to Chan with some questions; What sort […]
Brainstorming a Forgotten Realms adventure
A DM sits down to brainstorm his ideas for tomorrow’s campaign. It starts to go downhill from there. There’s a little bit of swearing too.
Mechanical Dragon for Pure Steam RPG
This mechanical dragon was shared by BomarrPunk on reddit. The illustration is by Alejandro Lee for the steampunk RPG Pure Steam. BomarrPunk was asked what the status of the game was. This was his response; We are in backers-only beta playtesting right now. Once our beta doc is cleaned up, we’re posting it on Paizo.com […]
Famous Last Words: Hey you!
< Previous stripFamous Last WordsNext strip > “Hey you! bitch queen of the spiders!” Have you any famous last words from one of your gaming groups? Silly things that players might regret having said?
Necronomicon fragment LARP scrolls
The Litany of Dagon scroll Geek Native shared in August had its fans so I took notice when I came across Zarono on Etsy selling a range of Cthulhu and Necronomicon scrolls. The experience feels in keeping with the H.P. Lovecraft experience; I was browsing through Etsy’s wonders when I noticed the strange designs on […]
Mayfair announce “Catan: Explorers and Pirates”
Mayfair games have a new $50 Settlers of Catan expansion. The Catan: Explorers and Pirates add-on supports three or four players and will last around 90 minutes. The new expansion includes three missions and five scenarios designed to be mixed and matched to extend the number of unique uses you’ll get from the game. The […]
Shadows of Esteren review: Fantasy done darkly
Shadows of Esteren first appeared on my radar when it smashed its Kickstarter campaign to get translated into English. I scratch my head because I do not believe I backed the campaign but even at this stage the game oozed quality. Let’s face it; grim fantasy games are hard to do well. Even at the […]
Famous Last Words: Actually, chainsaws…
< Previous stripFamous Last WordsNext strip > “Actually chainsaws make fairly clumsy weapons.” Cast your eye over the other Famous Last Words Friday pieces but know that this one is special. This Famous Last Words goes live on the day some worry might be the end of the world thanks to the Mayan calendar […]
Paizo announce Mystery Monsters Revisited for Pathfinder
Mystery Monsters Revisited (~$19.99) is a campaign setting for Pathfinder. The book looks at the myths behind legendary creatures featuring beasts like the chupacabra, sasquatch and the mountain-dwelling yeti, mothman and Sandpoint Devil. Each monster comes with a summary of its own misdeeds, evidence the creature tends to leave behind and a stat block for […]
