This Famous Last Words Friday! Last week we had death before dishonor and this week we have the art of illusion spotting. Don’t be fooled. It’s probably an illusion. Check out the old school famous last words section in the GameWyrd archives. < Previous stripFamous Last WordsNext strip >
Famous Last Words Friday: Death before Dishonor
Famous Last Words Friday is a homage to the Famous Last Words collection. With original art from V Shane the next couple of Fridays will cycle through some of the most popular quotes and turn them into picture post cards. It starts hereFamous Last WordsNext strip > First up; When I said ‘death’ before […]
The holy unholy terror of Pyramid Head in stained glass
Stained glass always reminds me of churches and cathedrals. What about you? For me, stained glass therefore has implications of holy places and perhaps even protection. Fantasy gamers know all too well that if you’re on a retreat from an unholy terror then get onto sanctified soil. What’s why a stained glass display of Silent […]
Orcs
The following post was found within the original GameWyrd Famous Last Words. It’s not a list of famous last words. It deserved to be saved and restored. Here it is. Some of the greatest Orc inventors and exploreres from history and a concise list of their fine achievements. 1: ‘Urgrak Eek’ – Inventor of the […]
Support the RPG industry
Google’s new Priority Inbox is digging up age old starred emails. It’s surfaced a campaign I tried to start in 2005 at GameWyrd. This was an anti-pirate campaign. A pro-RPG industry campaign. Back in 2005 – and today as well – I was upset at the number of authors who’d write a fantastic product for […]
The Battle Imp Gallery
It’s not possible to play the Battle Imps any more (due leave a comment if you think its worth re-creating though). The original game simply randomly awarded you an imp with stats randomly generated between 1 and 10. Imps battled by rolling a d10 and adding that to a current stat. The imp which won […]
A guide to battle imps
The battle imps were GameWyrd’s first viral hit. They launched with a small competition and a news article on GamingReport. The concept was really basic. Your name was used to generate random characteristics for a randomly selected battle imp. You then “battled” your imp against others by entering their name into the system. Guide / […]
Famous Last Words 15/15: Stupidity is a right, not a privilege.
Geek Native have taken over 1,200 user generated “Famous Last Words” from GameWyrd and split them up into 15 collections for re-publishing here. This blog has published one each day for the last two weeks. This is the last of those collections but hopefully not the last of the famous last words. If you’ve some […]
Famous Last Words 14/15: Okay you bunch of whusses, I’ll take the lead
Welcome to the penultimate collection of Famous Last Words. These originally appeared on GameWyrd and were transported over to Geek Native when the two sites converged. Geek Native is super honoured to be this collection’s great new home. We’re nearly at the end of the list here. These famous last word suggestions were those that […]
Famous Last Words 13/15: Hey, what does this button do…?
Are you used to playing in games where characters die often? Is re-rolling a frequent event? Or are you from a gaming group where there is fear of death but the end of character; the end of that story point, is a rare and significant event? Hopefully, no matter how you might answer the question […]