Sometimes we can all agree on cool. When Think Geek first published these D20 Velvet Pillows I put them in a queue. This queue gets worked through on slow news days. Plans have had to change. All around the wise wonderful web I can see bloggers going cray over this clever idea. As Geek Native […]
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Is Pottermore.com a Harry Potter Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Experience?
Ever wondered what J.K. Rowling thought of all the Harry Potter fanfic and roleplaying forums? Did you imagine she might have seen them as the natural extension of the franchise once the books had finished and the last movie was beginning to air? Right now we’re waiting to see what the next thing in the […]
Mongoose renames the renamed RuneQuest II to Legend
In May Mongoose and Issaries announced a split. This would mean Mongoose parting ways with both the Glorantha RPG and RuneQuest. There was a wriggle though – the core rules to RuneQuest II belonged to Mongoose. Mongoose announced that they’d be releasing a RPG using the RuneQuest II rule set and would be calling it […]
The Diana Jones 2011 shortlist announced
The Diana Jones Award committee has announced their shortlist for the 2011 award. The original list had 22 nominees and the shortlist contains just five. The winner will be announced at Wednesday the 3rd of August at an event that the Diana Jones Award group describe has the “unnoficial start” of Gen Con Indy. The […]
Free to Download: A River Runs up it
A River Runs up it is a free adventure for Glorantha the Second Age. It can be downloaded from Mongoose Publishing or below. The adventure was written by Bruce L. Mason – who also produced the whole PDF. Many thanks Bruce! Author’s summary Caught up in an elf’s quest, can the player characters reach a […]
A peak inside Minions: NAU
Minions: NAU is best described as a “Mini monster manual” for Mutants & Masterminds (3e). The NAU, the North American Union, are the remains of the American military. The NAU is one of the points of light in an otherwise dark and turbulent part of the post-Event world. The NAU are Apoc high-bred genetic super-soldiers. […]
A social media view of PaizoCon 2011
This is Geek Native’s Storify for PaizoCon 2011. Why Storify? This blogger is based in Scotland. PaizoCon is not. Using social media it’s possible to view the conference through the eyes of the internet. The Storify software, which makes use of tech to embed people’s tweets, photos and status updates, is supposed only to use […]
Sexy Dungeons and Dragons ad campaign from the 80s
I’d describe this as a blast from the past – but I’ve never seen it before. Geeks may well notice the ad for “Warlocks & Warriors” and “Dungeon!”. The TSR logo will leap off the page. What about the tag line; “Where The Action Is?” Do you agree? Via URLbits.
Airship Pirates preview
Cakebread & Walton have released the first preview of the Airship Pirates RPG. This is a steampunk RPG based on the music of Abney Park. As Cakebread & Walton point out this is a works in progress so ignore the references to page XX. Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton are the designers behind for Clockwork […]
Dungeons and Dragons: Neverwinter trailer & Heroes of Neverwinter screens
There are two “Neverwinter” games coming out and the PR material for both are being lumped together. There’s a RPG for Facebook and a more typical action RPG. Atari have the D&D franchise when it comes to company games but different developers become involved with the game. There are different developers on the different Neverwinter […]
