I work in digital marketing so I get to do stuff like monitor which of all the thousands of videos uploaded to YouTube each and every day have been the most successful. There are a lot of gaming videos; Call of Duty, zombies and recently Minecraft. Imagine my surprise, though, when I saw one og […]
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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Ultramodern 4: Dias Ex Machina’s D&D evolution goes OGL
Dias Ex Machina will be offering their universal 4th under the Open Gaming License. This means that the raw files can be downloaded for free and any publisher in the GSL can use the rules too. However, the final product from Dias Ex Machina – you know, with art, layout and extra – will be […]
Pelgrane Press boosts Ashen Stars
Ashen Stars is a new game from Pelgrane Press. It hit the shelves at the start of the month. The game uses the Gumshoe system by Robin D. Laws and draws on the artistic talents of Jerome Huguenin and Chris Huth. In this gritty space opera game, the PCs are Lasers, freelance troubleshooters and law […]
Money off: Monte Cook’s World of Darkness
White Wolf have a special deal on DriveThru RPG for Monte Cook’s World of Darkness book. This link puts the book in your basket! beware at the discount. I guess they don’t want to share the discounted price with people outside the mailing list… so, um, time will tell of what they make of Geek […]
A first play of The One Ring
Michael McCabe, Mike, reached out to Geek Native through his influential web of contacts with an offer we could not refuse. The deal? He was about to play the brand new The One Ring RPG and was prepared to give us his gameplay impressions. Thanks Mike! Last week, a friend and fellow roleplayer received his […]
Dungeon Master Gurls
I missed this last year. I’ve two theories as to how that managed to happen. Theory 1: I reached California Gurls parody overload. In a defensive move my brain developed a way to ignore anything that mentioned Katy Perry, California Gurls and perhaps even the word “parody” on Youtube. Theory 2: I was distracted by […]
Sexy pirate RPG covers for Talk Like a Pirate Day
You will have noticed that today is Talk LIke a Pirate Day. Sites are doing pirate things all over the web. All over the web pirate things are going on. Oh, wait, ahem… What will Geek Native do? Some clever, academic, geeky pirate essay? No. This blog will instead offer up a bunch of pirate […]
Paizo announces subscription for Pathfinder models
Fancy subscribing to a series of RPG minis? It was back in June when Paizo paried up with WizKids to start producing Pathfinder models and now gamers can automatically recieve boxes of them on release. There are other perks for gamers die-hard enough to step forward with the cash for the subscription. There’s a 75% […]
Win Heroes of Neverwinter beta codes
Update! The goalposts shifted on us, folks! Everyone who entered this competition already is a winner! There are still some codes left in the new flash competition. Did you play Dungeons & Dragons: Tiny Adventures only to wake up one day and find it yanked from Facebook? Perhaps you’ve been hearing more and more chat […]
RPG Musical: Role Initiative
Okay, keep playing through the first few seconds of over dramatised musical and the actual video begins. This video is actually an entry for the 2011 Windy City 72 hour film competition. If that means they only had 72 hours to put it together – it’s very good. They had extra requirements; they had to […]
