Night Fears from Evil Hat Productions – the company lucky enough to have the Dresden Files RPG license – is a free to download casefile. It’s a pre-written adventure designed for 3 to 7 characters at the “Feet in the Water” power level. The Dresden Files RPG uses the FATE rule system and so the […]
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IronDie competition from UnderDiscussion
The gamer podcast UnderDiscussion (itunes link) is a year old. Their last podcast reached over thousand uniques – that’s traffic many blogs would be jealous of! To mark their first anniversary the team are giving away some IronDie. These are dice cast from solid metal and shipped in from Italy. These metal die are up […]
Chronicles of Arax expansion free until April 26
If you’ve already got a copy of Crystal Star Games’ Chronicles of Arax then this offer is a no brainer. As an Easter promotion Crystal Star Games are giving a way promo codes to download the Chronicles of Arax expansion to anyone who emails [email protected] with the subject line “ARAX EASTER”. Crystal Star Games‘ Chronicles […]
The Caladon Falls for Savage Worlds Indiegogo project
We have the PDF for Caladon Falls and have had it for a while. It’s popular, scores an average of 4/5 on RPGNow and has generated a lot of “Can we have it print?” requests. This Indiegogo project is to turn the electronic Savage Worlds supplement from Savage Mojo into a 750 issue limited print […]
30 years of Call of Cthulhu
This may make you feel old, but 2011 is the 30th anniversary of Call of Cthulhu. Zip back in time to 1981. Sandy Petersen – he of Doom fame, yeah; the computer game – pitched a concept to the RPG publisher Chaosium that made use of Lovecraft’s Dreamlands setting. The original game, Dark Worlds, was […]
Spend More on Beer: A Free RPG Round-Up
This is a guest article from Craig Higdon. Higdon heads up RPG Character Illustrations where he combines his extensive gaming knowledge with a savvy knack for online businesses, good content and strategy. Think back on the last game supplement you bought. Yeah, the one for $39.95 with 5 new classes and two new races. Does […]
Drow – a non racist alternative?
I think it’s a bit too politically correct to worry that Drow – dark elves – are a racist race. The concern here is that they’re evil and black, that they’re evil because they’re black or black because they’re evil. I suspect the original D&D Drow were black just to look cool, scary and to […]
RPG Character Illustrations walkthrough
RPG Character Illustrations is a useful resource for gamers like myself – gamers without an atom of artistic talent. The site gives you a way to order custom crafted and hand illustrated character portraits at a resonable price. This post is a walkthrough of my experience becoming a customer of RPG Character Illustrations. A chance […]
Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein review
I’ll admit to something of a rollercoaster of expectations for Dark Harvest. Here’s how it goes; firstly the Twitter account EmbraAgain follows both Geek Native and my personal account, I’m in a train speeding towards London at the time, so my curiosity is restricted by the dodgy mobile internet access I have. RPG author! Looking […]
Preview: Small Town Hero
A short while back Geek Native interviewed Al Seeger of Point of Insanity Game Studio. Al had a tendency to work on the traditional RPG equivalent of cross-platform games. He’s been working on a systemless super hero adventure called Small Town Here. We’ve grabbed a preview! Every hero needs to start somewhere. Stonewell is just […]
