Geek Native was fortunate enough to quickly catch up with Craig Campbell, the founder of NerdBurger Games and designer of the RPG Good Strong Hands.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Samurai Sheepdog
Last month Geek Native patrons voting in the RPG Publisher Spotlight awarded the June title to Samurai Sheepdog.
D&D 5e’s Thaemin’s Guide to Gods and Miracles is the halfway project for 12 Kickstarters in 12 months
Chamomile Has Adventures has often featured in the weekly Kickstarter roundup in the RPG news summary Routinely Itemised: RPGs. There’s a reason for that. Chamomile will launch 12 Kickstarters in 12 months.
Wolf spirits and fish: A look into the future of the Mara webcomic
Mara is a webcomic from Stuffed Rock. It’s a story of magic, monsters, gods and follows the young Mara, a girl gifted the strength of many.
DoodleMeeple: A site helps you get paid to paint miniatures (or proofread, voice act…)
Can you turn your hobby into a paying job?
VoxStory is a traditional RPG designed for the television screen
VoxStory is a traditional TTRPG made cinematic. Played in a similar way to traditional TTRPGs, VoxStory modernises by allowing players to see their actions play out on a big screen.
Knight of the Sun: The gorgeous moral dilemma of wicked 5e module
Knight of the Sun is an adventure that fully embraces that your party of so-called heroes could go the evil route.
Sensitivity reading: What does it do, and does it make RPGs better? A Paranormal Affairs Canada case study
A credit that I’ve started to see in new RPGs is “sensitivity reader”. I think it’s fair enough to wonder two things; what do sensitivity readers do? If we’re paying for them through the cost of the book, do they make RPGs better?
Chaos League, creators of First They Came, the blindfolded RPG hint at other blindfolded games
We are transmedial storytellers, we like to tell stories through first person experiences in which body, mind and heart of the participants are involved at the same time.
Biohazard Games: Jeff Barber on using RPGs as a lens for modern concerns
Blue Planet was often criticized for having an environmental agenda, and though I always felt that was only one aspect of setting, we are certainly leaning into that intent now as the threats to the Earth’s ecology have become existential.
