The horror-fantasy comic book series from Federico Memola have gone digital and are now available at ComiXology and at DriveThru Comics. Set in Ireland and filled with witches, demons, supernatural horrors and plenty of magic, Rourke is an anti-hero who has the ability to take curses from others provided he takes them on instead. Rourke […]
Freda Warrington’s Top Ten supernatural novels for vampire lovers… and weird house fanatics
Freda Warrington is a British author of vampire, fantasy and supernatural novels. Born in Leicester, Warrington has created such favourites as the Blackbird series, the Blood Wine series, Dark Cathedral series, The Jewelfire Trilogy and Aetherial Tales series. The British Fantasy Society have nominated four of her stories for Best Novel awards and Elfland took […]
In Dark Service: Exploring Far-Called with Stephen Hunt
Stephen Hunt is geek of note and respect. He step up SFcrowsnest.org.uk, a hugely popular geek site (Geek Native has envy issues), he is an internet pioneer and his fiction has been so successful he writes full time now. The Times described his Jackelian Novels as “inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels”. Hunt’s […]
Midnight Crossroad: True Blood’s creator Charlaine Harris discusses the supernatural
Charlaine Harris is the best-selling author who created the Aurora Teagarden series, the Lily Bard (Shakespeare) series and the Sookie Stackhouse series. The latter of which is also known as the Southern Vampire series or as True Blood by fans of the HBO series. As part of a blog tour Geek Native had the chance […]
The geek streets: A review of The Secret Service – Kingsman
This post is a mixture. There’s a review, an audio interview with artist and illustrator Dave Gibbons and a video tour of the softback graphic novel. I opened The Secret Service: Kingsman with some trepidation. This is my usual reaction to a Mark Millar piece as I know I may be secrets away from reading […]
Winning tips for running Paizo’s The Daughters of Fury
Every year Paizo hold a great big competition in which GMs compete with ideas for monsters, adventures and a host of other RPG situations. This year the RPG Superstar competition was won by Victoria Jaczko. Victoria’s entry, The Daughters of Fury, is expected to be released as an adventure module by Paizo in November of […]
What is the Tianxia RPG and how can you run a better game?
The Kickstarter raised more than x3 the target goal and Tianxia looks stunning. But what is the RPG? The Wuxia flavoured, Fate Core powered, RPG is now available for purchase and you can download it today from DriveThru RPG. Geek Native reached out to Vigilance Press and author Jack Norris. What tips and tricks did […]
Half-orc barbarian rages and the mystery of cakes
Kimberly Chapman is a roleplayer and a baker. She runs the site Eat the Evidence where you’ll enjoy a mix of ‘edible media’, parenting chat and geek references. Baking and gaming are both hobbies and as Kimberly’s site says, “Failure is always an option, then eat the evidence” who better to ask about tips, tricks […]
Should LARPs ever be sexy?
The debate around sex in LARPs or sexiness at LARPs is an established one. There are passionate voices on both sides of the argument and underlying questions of just how women are treated by or seen as by the gaming community. Following a drama elseblog around the objectification and cruel comments towards female LARPers Geek […]
Free to Download (for now): Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition FREE Beta
It’s not normal to see a company releasing a set of free rules and then appointing a lead writer. If free rules happen at all; the writer normally comes first. So what’s going on with Modiphius and Mutant Chronicles? We know they raised a stack of cash in Kickstarter. I called the francise a sleeping […]
