The question “Is the $50K Dwimmermount RPG Megadungeon doomed? was asked about a month ago. It seemed the designer of the dungeon, the person who collected almost $50K worth of Kickstarter funds, had dropped off the grid. Kickstarter makes it clear that sometimes projects, even if backed, don’t happen. That’s the risk you take as […]
From the Inkwell: Why we run Pinterest boards for the Nights of the Crusades RPG
Nights of the Crusades is an RPG set in a world that blends One Thousand and One Nights, the history of the Crusades, modern and ancient terror. The roleplaying game is free to download from DriveThruRPG. MJ Alishah is the author and artist for Nights of the Crusades and runs a themed collection of Pinterest […]
Official Dungeons & Dragons Classics site launches
Wizards of the Coast and DriveThruRPG have today launched DnDClassics.com. This is a new online store for D&D material. There are 80 titles available today, for launch, and it is expected that additional batches of titles will be added to the store starting in February. Dungeons and Dragons PDF downloads have been made available previously […]
Administrators take down HMV.com
HMV was one of the few places to buy anime in-store in the UK. Fopp was another; but was owned by HMV. HMV.com was also one of the few places British shoppers could buy anime online. HMV called in the Administrators, had its shares supsended and stopped taking vouchers and gift cards. It’s still possible […]
Rebuild EN World (Kickstarter makes an exception)
Popular gaming forum EN World has had a tough 2012. The site towers above many others in the RPG fan space and represents an aspirational success for Geek Native – but it was also an aspiration for hackers. In December last year the site was infected by malware. Kickstarter doesn’t deal with web build projects […]
e20 RPG Kickstarter failure results in complaint to Texas State Attorney General
Gary M. Sarli’s Game Design: “e20 System Evolved” Roleplaying Game successfully closed with $14,605 (asking $10,000) in March 2010. One backer pledged $1,500 and 27 others pledged $200 each out of a total of 148 backers. Kickstarter has been vitally important to the RPG landscape in recently months and there have been many successes. However, […]
10 Pinterest accounts for geek gamers to follow
Geek Native launched on Pinterest in the middle of November. You can follow Geek Native on Pinterest here which lets you keep track of the more visual of the site’s posts – not everything, just some of them, and sorted by art category rather than subject matter. Who else should you follow? In no particular […]
10 new tabletop RPG communities on Google+ to join
Yesterday Google rolled out a new feature on Google+ – communities. Communities let people chat and share around common interests. As you can expect there’s already a wealth of RPG communities as gamers tend to be early adopters. Here’s Google’s video that explains the concept. It’s early days, so some communities might take off yet […]
Malware warnings on EN World – what’s going on?
Popular RPG site EN World is currently down, offline due to malware, but closed on purpose. Malware warnings happen to blogs and forums all the time. It’s a sad fact of the internet. Sometimes they’re false positives too. In this case, Morrus and team have done the very safe thing and taken the site offline […]
Will Berserkon see life?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947923695/berserkon/ [Pledge Support] A Kickstarter pitch to bring a gaming and geek convention to Duluth in Minnesota. Wikipedia tells me Duluth is the fourth largest city in Minnesota with a population of about 87,000. Kevin Michelson has turned to Kickstarter to try and raise the small fortune necessary to run the convention (named Berserkon). The […]
