A sign of a good and healthy community is not just its diversity but that people are willing to step forward and identify themselves. On Twitter, the very respected game designer Kenneth Hite recognised that he couldn’t name any female freelancers comfortable with tackling 5e mechanical design. All he did was ask people to tag […]
Map maker: Generating a fantasy world atlas
Let’s say you don’t want to spend a penny, don’t want to download any software, that you are in a hurry and you need to generate a fantasy map for your RPG campaign. In this post, we’ll look at a map maker that’s capable of generating an entire fantasy world. There are a few software […]
Your DM is better than any dating service
This strip is the work of Light Roast Comics. The site is less than a year, only founded in February. We’re reminded that ‘send me a DM’ clearly hasn’t changed its meaning since Gary Gygax coined the phrase Dungeon Master. What else could people be thinking? If you like the style pop over to teespring […]
5 examples of death by paperwork
Geek Native isn’t normally concerned with the dark arts of HR. Normally if there is talk about Human Resources then it’ll probably be for an inventory management RTS. Not this time. This time a marketing stunt by a secure document storage company has caught my eye. I don’t imagine gamers need to use such facilities […]
Crunchyroll and Rooster Teeth now owned by Warner
The company that owns DC Comics has secured control of both Rooster Teeth and Crunchyroll. Honestly, it felt like only a matter of time. Both Rooster Teeth (the people behind RWBY) and Crunchyroll were owned by Otter Media, and Otter Media was a co-venture between AT&T and The Chernin Group. AT&T, last week, bought out […]
Get paid to talk D&D! The DMs Guild is hiring a full-time Community Manager
Want to talk about D&D, full time, and get paid for it? The internet’s largest shop for PDF copies of tabletop RPGs is hiring a ‘DMs Guild Community Manager’. Tempted? Pop over to DriveThruRPG/jobs to find out more. The company is One Book Shelf and they own DriveThruRPG, RPGNow, The Storyteller’s Vault which focuses on […]
Large Amazon US flash sale; 40% off many board games
There’s a daily deal section in the top navigation in most versions of Amazon. In the States, on Amazon.com, that link takes you to a URL with ‘goldbox’ in it, and the <title> tag of the page says ‘Gold Box. I can see why the daily sales have become known as gold box sales. Maybe […]
977 tabletop game publishers just signed a new distribution deal
It’s not easy being an independent tabletop game publisher or designer and one of the many significant challenges to crack is distribution. There are some well-known consolidators in the tabletop games industry; PSI, Hit Point and Impressions. Impressions are the company behind Free RPG Day. The problem with getting access to these guys is size […]
Can’t make Gen Con? Print your Gen Can’t badge instead
Gen Con is an iconic roleplaying games convention. Founded in 1968 by Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, it now hosts tens of thousands of gamers. Gen Con 2018 will run from August 2nd to 5th, in Indianapolis, Indiana, but not everyone will get to go. The list of gamers missing out include […]
White Wolf’s new rules ban Nazi symbols, trolls and upsetting people
White Wolf have published new rules of conduct for their World of Darkness site. You may not rile up anyone with your posts, you may not troll, and you may not depict Nazi propaganda. You’ll be forgiven for wondering if this sounds a bit vague and sweeping. After all, you don’t always know what will […]