Over on Awesome Dice you’ll find a remarkable post and infographic. Yeah; it’s about dice… but it’s a deep dive on the history of dice, going back to 3100 BCE, to the Egyptian era that surfaced the first d12 and up to modern day. I was impressed. I asked Brian Wood of Awesome Dice to […]
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Kickstarter cancels funding for anime tentacle game Tentacle Bento
Tentacle Bento raised more than $30,000 in half the time set aside for a $13,000 request total. The project was set up by Soda Pop, the copany behind Super Dungeon Explore and Relic Knights. The concern? Kickstarter hasn’t said publicly but the implication is the funding site wasn’t happy with a game based around hentai […]
Paizo launch Pathfinder comic
More Pathfinder news from Paizo today and it’s not about the challenge the MMO faces on Kickstater. Paizo, in conjunction with Dynamite, are launching a Pathfinder comic book. The series will be written by Jim Zubkavich, art by Andrew Huerta and covers from the likes of Lucio Parillo, Matteo Scalera, Dave Dorman and Erik Jones. […]
How to score 20% off DriveThru RPG this month
About once a month DriveThru RPG bundle together a group of lucky RPG products and make a 20% discount available on them. The catch? You need to know the right code. Geek Native has the code for May – it’s good up until June 14th. It’s… um, it’s a little quirky this month. Time travel […]
Wall Street Journal reporter hacks RPG projects on Kickstarter
A Wall Street Journal reporter or a programmer working for him/her has exploited a bug in Kickstarter’s API. The result was some 70,000 unlaunched Kickstarter projects were exposed. The good news? Only 48 of these unlaunched projects were actually accessed by the Wall Street Journal. It is highly likely that many RPG and game projects […]
May of the Dead: Lesser Gloom Lich
Stuart Renton, author of the Lords of the Night series, returns to Geek Native for a second contribution to May of the Dead. This is the Lesser Gloom Lich – a horror for your Dungeons & Dragons 3.5e adventures. All throughout May blogs from the gaming world are contributing posts to the carnival. You can […]
Tweet RPG and Sam Richards
Sam Richards is the creator of the Twitter-based RPG experience Tweet RPG. The game, which has a site at tweetrpg.co.uk is approaching 100 players. So far, in Tweet RPG the players have assassinated the evil leader of an invading army, investigated the theft of a time-machine and piloted a giant robot in a intergalactic battle. […]
Author Iain Lowson on the release of Resistance for Dark Harvest
Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein – Resistance is the first RPG supplement for Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein. The supplement contains new (and clarified) rules and mechanics, a six page comic, new NPCs, organisations and Augmentations as well as maps of military installations and whole new scenario along with campaign ideas. The supplement […]
Goblinworks turns to Kickstarter: Pathfinder Online faces investor objections
The headline news is that you can now get a piece of Pathfinder Online fame by being a backer at Kickstarter. At the time of posting, 463 gamers had done just that, raising more than $33,000 and with one of the three $5,000 top tier pledges already gone. We’re a day into the project. However, […]
Brittannia Game Designs signs with Chronicle City
Brittannia Game Designs, who publish licensed Chivary and Sorcery products, have signed with Angus Abranson’s Chronicle City. Under the deal, Chronicle City will manage the print and distribution for Brittannia Game Designs. The first product from the deal to reach game stores is expected to be Chivalry & Sorcery Essence, which a taster to the […]
