• About
    • Policies
    • Write For Us
    • Ads
    • How We Earn Money
  • Email Digest
  • Patreon
  • Shop
  • Resources
    • Archives
    • Conventions
    • Chat Portal
    • Free eBooks
    • Latest TTRPG News Summary
    • RPG Tips
    • RPG Tools
    • Short Film Roulette

Geek Native

From the land of Geek

  • Books
    • Comics
  • Games
    • Console
    • Mobile
    • PC
    • Tabletop & RPGs
  • Geek Stuff
    • Cool Tech
    • Art
    • Interviews
    • Sites
    • GameWyrd
      • Echoes from the Wyrd
      • Famous Last Words
      • The Lost Archives
      • Weird Awards
      • Wyrd Reviews
  • Movies
  • Music
  • TV
    • Anime
    • Online Shows
Independent Journalism 📜 16+ Year Archive 🔍 Primary Sourced

Cool Tech Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Cool Tech reporting (Archive Page 14).

AboveVTT: A Chrome extension to turn D&D Beyond into a virtual tabletop

March 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once installed on your browser, the extension uses the DnDBeyond.com site to overlap virtual tabletop facilities.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: dndbeyond, virtual tabletop

Challenger virtual tabletop Foundry scores the Alien RPG and Forbidden Lands

February 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Free League Publishing has partnered with the virtual tabletop Foundry.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: alien rpg, forbidden lands, foundry, Free League Publishing

Paths of Savage Gods: Manage and procedurally generate your next adventure

February 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The software procedurally generates worlds. That’s to say, it’s not randomly lobbing maps together but following rulesets with a random chance in them to create different but cohesive cartography.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: kickstarters

Turn your Echo Dot into Star Wars tech

February 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Etsy design studio Slic3DArt say they offer unique 3D printing and art. Well now. They’re right. Star Wars fans and geeks, in particular, will approve.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: 3d printers, amazon, Etsy, star wars, star wars: the mandalorian

Asus launch two Gundam routers

January 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tech company Asus has two new versions of popular gaming routers. The RT-AX82U and RT-AX86U have gone Gundam.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: asus, gundam

Ironsworn Solo RPG tool The Augur updates

January 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest update to The Augur adds new contextual drag and drop, new maps, locations, portraits and avatars.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: ironsworn, itch.io

KFC will actually release a KFConsole (and you didn’t get it for Christmas)

December 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We like to think we’ve built a competitive system with the specs we have in it.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: food

Control the Darksaber: Zavvi taking pre-orders

December 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Mandalorian Darksaber is an ancient weapon and a powerful symbol of leadership. It’s a unique sword, one that appears as a black blade surrounded by crackling white lightening.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: lightsaber, models, star wars, star wars: the mandalorian, zavvi

Free app Game Master Journal gets an update

November 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The app provides structured storage for NPCs, cities and loot. You can even define your own custom item, religion, for example, can keep track of those.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: apps

Black Friday: Humble Bundle does a Maps Extravaganza Encore

November 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the geeky discounter Humble Bundle has brought back a cartography package for gamers, artists and world builders.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: bundles, campaign cartographer, cartography, humble bundle, sales

« Previous Page
Next Page »

Quick Links

  • Archives
  • Become an Event Sponsor
  • Chat Portal
  • Cookie Policy (UK)
  • Geek Conventions
  • Kickstarter Heat
  • Newsletter
  • Patreon
  • Resources
  • RPG Publisher Spotlight
  • Social Media
  • UK Games Expo
  • Podcast: Audio EXP

Info

  • Contact Us
  • Corrections
  • Privacy

Columns

  • Routinely Itemised TTRPG News
  • Quick mini-reviews
  • Quick highlights podcast
  • Recent Kickstarters 
  • Competitions!

Follow Us

Social Media

Recent Posts

  • Tabletop aggregator RPGnews.com targeted by automated SEO spam injections
  • Audio EXP #333: The D&D Lease, Spicy RPG Bans, and Cyber-Shells
  • From Megoosa to Girafusa: The brilliant Gorgon variants of Socks and Puppets

Supporters

  • Patreon

Copyright © 2026 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Accept cookies?

To provide the best experiences, we and our partners use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us and our partners to process personal data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site and show (non-) personalized ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.

Click below to consent to the above or make granular choices. Your choices will be applied to this site only. You can change your settings at any time, including withdrawing your consent, by using the toggles on the Cookie Policy, or by clicking on the manage consent button at the bottom of the screen.

Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Statistics

Marketing

Features
Always active

Always active
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
Manage options
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}
pixel