It’s not wrong to start your fantasy adventure with your to-be-heroes in a tavern but it is a cliche. What if you want to do something different? An accessible and wise approach is to have your players work together to build some reason to care for the other PCs into their own character’s background. ‘Session […]
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Genre Police: The Only Good Pirate Is A Fake Pirate
Hoist the mainsail! Stow the booty! Set Sail For Outer shores! And while we’re at it, make sure we paint over anything that might make a bunch of bandits at sea look like criminals! Spend some time with us and let investigate the genre of pirates and how its far from a guide to the […]
Trade and tactics: Efemeris – Celestial Domination navigates Kickstarter
There’s a lovely “old school” sketch style to DTDA Games’ Efemeris – Celestial Dominations board game. At a glance you might think it’s about the European nations expanding out to subjugate and trade with the rest of the world. Well, it kinda is… but in space. You can follow the progress on Kickstarter here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dtdagames/efemeris-celestial-domination/ […]
7,764 free RPGs! It’s Free RPG Day
It’s Free RPG today. Gamers around the world are encouraged to pop into their local store and try a new RPG for free today. It’s made possible by a host of sponsors which Geek Native thank and will mention a little later on. Since 2014 Geek Native has been tracking the number of free RPGs […]
Roll20 introduces character builder and shines the light on which RPGs are hot
The Orr Group is the company responsible for the very popular Roll20 virtual tabletop that lets you and friends play RPG online even if you’re thousands of miles apart. Just how popular is Roll20? The latest industry report from the software developers looks at the first quarter of 2018 and has a player sample size […]
FFG announce new Legend of the Five Rings RPG
A new version of the popular Legend of the Five Rings RPG is due out in the third quarter of this year. There will be a Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Core Rulebook, the Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Dice Pack and the Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game Master’s Kit. The […]
Gaze at Inkdmage’s incredible tabletop set-up
Over at Instagram Inkdmage shares close up pictures snapped during his group’s tabletop RPG session. There’s an awesome amount of great minis and model scenery on display. View this post on Instagram A post shared by InkdMage- Dan Masucci (@inkdmage) View this post on Instagram A post shared by InkdMage- Dan Masucci (@inkdmage) View this […]
Genre Police: The Sum Of All Fears
It’s far too late, far far too late to do anything about it. The end is not nigh, it’s been and gone. All that remains is this wasteland. And into this wasteland comes one man, a man with a mission to inform you about a genre. Count your bullets road warriors, let’s drive headlong into […]
Building the 3D dungeon adventure grid
Andrew French runs DM’s Den a Tumblr for lovers of RPGs. In his latest post the Bear DM shares the development of 3-dimensional dungeon he built for his players. What’s a 3-dimensional dungeon? Exactly as you would expect; you don’t just have passages that go North, East, South and West but you can go up […]
Choose your weapon dice box
I rather like this ‘Dice Sword’ dice box from Etsy retailer Burned Studio. [I want it] This catchy design is wood and metal, stained and sandpapered and entirely handcrafted. The box is about 15.25cm by 5.75cm by 4.4cm deep on the inside, so there’s room to store more than dice if you want. Tempted? At […]
