2000 AD’s publisher is missing some crucial art, and they hope you might have it. This week we also cover the new D&D playtest, the steampunk Vulcania, Lasers & Feelings, and $13 billion.
Planet Generator: Button press planets into existence for your sci-fi RPG
Cleverly, Iron Arachne’s system lets you see the random seed used to generate the planet, which means you can write it down, use it later and get the same world back.
Competition: Win a copy of The Forest Dragon Bang & Twang
Geek Native has one copy of The Forest Dragon Bang & Twang to give away.
Audio EXP: #86 – Drama, drama and D&D
The largest tabletop gaming convention in America is being sued. Kickstarter’s Head of Community upset the community. Gary Gygax’s DM has licensed his adventures and plenty of virtual tabletop news features in Geek Native’s Audio EXP highlights show.
D&D Beyond founder Adam Bradford joins RPG match-maker site Demiplane
Once you’re in the system, you can see which games people are offering to run and which platform they use, which might be Roll20, Google, Discord or an alternative.
Publishers Spotlight: April 2021 poll opens for Patrons
Geek Native’s Patrons can now vote to put a RPG publisher or creator in the Spotlight.
Audio EXP: #85 – D&D and Magic more valuable to Hasbro than toys
Wizards of the Coast have been promoted, and their sister company eOne has been tasked with creating a TV universe of D&D shows. New releases, recommendations and speculation on what another busy week of geek news might mean in this podcast.
Fandom, D&D Beyond’s owner, buys Fanatical game marketplace
Today, Fanatical announced it has been bought by Fandom.
Fantasy Grounds merges Classic and Unity for RPG report
There are two versions of Fantasy Grounds. There’s the classic virtual tabletop software and then the next generation, which no one is forced to use, built on Unity after a successful Kickstarter to fund the project.
Over 1 million homebrew games on Roll20
As Roll20 has shared their user base milestone, we can run some maths. We know the percentage of games users play and know the total number of users; we can convert those ratios to absolute figures.
