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 […]
Dinosaurs dominate 2018’s best selling Pops
The Hut Group’s Pop In A Box site specialises in selling geeky pop vinyls and they sell lots of them. There’s two deals on right now; 10% off Funko items for subscribers and everyone else can get 2 Pop! Vinyl’s for £18.99. With all that Pop expertise who else is better placed to reveal which […]
14 most popular D&D memes on Tumblr
D&D memes are like goblins… they keep coming. Just when you think you’ve finished the last one, there’s another D&D meme hiding around the corner and waiting to ambush you. We’ve already looked at the best D&D memes on Facebook and on Pinterest. Now we’ve got the labyrinth that is Tumblr to explore. If we […]
17 artists worth watching on Buy Me A Coffee
Geek Native recently signed up to Buy Me A Coffee. It is an electronic tips jar and any funds this blog earns with it will be used to pay for either commissioned art or writing. Buy Me A Coffee is also a gallery to explore talent. You can use the site to find artists you […]
Why did so many medieval knights fight snails?
If you’ve ever looked at medieval art you might well have seen images of knights fighting all sorts of monsters. And snails. Actually, you might have noticed knights fought snails often. Why is that? This video from Vox looks at the observations of Michael Camille and the theory of Lilian Randall. The snails, suggests Randall, […]
RPG City generator
Do you need to generate a map for a city and do it quickly? A strong recommendation is Oskar Stalbery’s City Generator. [Show me more] You simply click on the grid to start and the city grows before you. Click again and the city grows again, pick the square you want to add more detail […]
DM dad discovers his daughters are D&D pros in this viral tweet
James Breakwell, aka @XplodingUnicorn, has over 1 million followers on Twitter and is the author of the hugely popular Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. He has four daughters under the age of seven and this weekend he played D&D with them. I played Dungeons and Dragons with […]
UK Role Players (UKRP) closes
After 15 years of life UK Role Players will close. The site was set up after the closer of the Raven forums in the UK and was run expertly by Dave McAlister of Modus Operandi. Dave wrote; I have spent as long on this website as I have raising my son (who turns 15 at […]