“Let’s find out why you’d want monsters in your email.” Nicholas Cloister is an artist based in Sweden. As a gamer he’s played the likes of MERP, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer FRP, Skyrealms of Jorune as well as Swedish RPGs. Cloister has drawn for Paizo and Fantasy Flight Games with his Monsters by Email, which […]
Creighton Broadhurst’s success tips as Raging Swan Press turns three
Creighton Broadhurst worked with Wizards of the Coast for nine years before founding the RPG publisher Raging Swan Press. Creighton says he runs the company for “fun and the joy in creation” and has steered the company safely to its third birthday. Geek Native wanted to know what the trick was. How do you have […]
The game designer challenge with Stan! Cyberpunk in Japan
Stan! is a name that many gamers are familiar with. Along with Hyrum Savage, Stan! is a co-founder at Super Genius Games where he is both a Senior Producer and Designer. In the run up to Christmas he managed a successful Kickstarter for the Littlest Shoggoth, a Cthulhu for kids book, which is now at […]
Should gamers pay extra for professional cartography?
Charles White is the co-founder and director of marketing at Fabled Environments. Fabled Environments is an Ennie Award nominated cartography studio with a speciality in modern floor plans and diagrams for RPGs. As we find in this interview with Charles, cyberpunk is about as far into the future as Fabled Environments will go. That’s an […]
Rick Priestley: Beyond the Gates of Antares delayed, not dead
The surprise news last night was Beyond the Gates of Antares pulling the plug on their Kickstarter campaign. This wasn’t a campaign to get a second edition for the wargame out or a quest to fund some sourcebooks; this was a Kickstarter to launch the game in the first place. So where does that leave […]
Why is cyberpunk so popular? Let’s ask a Line Developer!
David Viars is the Line Developer for the cyberpunk RPG Interface Zero. As this post goes live Interface Zero 2.0 is rocking it on Kickstarter and the game is expanding before our eyes. Geek Native grabbed time from David for a catch up and questions. We talk about cyberpunk, Savage Worlds, the balance between systems […]
RPGPundit interview: The Old School Renaissance for Arrows of Indra
Geek Native regrets giving John Tanoswski, aka RPGPundit, this interview. Better research before agreeing to this interview would have revealed a tense past. Future events, including harassment allegations, have been disturbing. The RPGPundit is a game author with titles like “gnomemurdered” and Lords of Olympus” from Precis Intermedia as well as “Forward… to Adventure!” from Better […]
Making the jump to paper minis, tips from Arion Games
Arion Games is offering a 2013 Paper Mini Subscription on Drivethru RPG. This raises some interesting questions like what are paper minis and should you buy them on subscription? Thankfully, Graham Bottley of Arion Games has kindly agreed to help us understand what’s going on and help roleplayers get started with paper miniatures. Can you […]
Interview the man who vaporised America; John Birmingham
John Birmingham is an Australia based author known for writing detailed alternative histories series. Without Warning is the first of three books that discover what happens to the world after a large energy field, The Wave, wipes out America on the eve of the Gulf War. Without Warning is fresh out in the UK, after […]
Did Flying Mice lead to a Better Mousetrap: An interview with Clash Bowley
Clash Bowley is the lead author and artist of the sci-fi RPG StarCluster, a host of supplements, the Blood Games Occult Horror RPG, Book of Jalan RPG and plenty others. These are games that I assocaite with Flying Mice Games but now see attributed to Better Mousetrap Games. Clash has kindly agreed to an interview […]
