Talisman is a board game adventure where your random hero travels randomly around three realms, dealing with random situations, before a final dice off in the centre of the world. The skill is in dealing with the random. It can be a lot of fun. There are no shortage of supplements and occassionally you get […]
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Genre Police: Alienating half my readership by choosing High Fantasy!
Welcome to back Genre police, a new series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. This column we are going to take a look at the one of the two Big Dogs of Fantasy […]
Chronicles of Darkness bundle
Here’s a chance to scoop up a load of first edition World of Darkness RPGs from White Wolf. A US $17.95 spent gets you $66 of DRM-free PDFS. You can check out the offer here. The Player Collection is the World of Darkness Rulebook 1e, World of Darkness: Armory, Armory Reloaded and Skinchangers. Beat the […]
The Dark Void: Davide Tramma
Davide Tramma is an Italian living in Mexico and he has a Starfinder Kickstarter which has already met its campaign goals. You can check out ‘From Beyond: Distress Call’ over at the Campaign Page. Geek Native sometimes works with authors to help promote their Kickstarter. With Davide we started to talk about sci-fi genres and […]
John Carter of Mars is an out of this world Kickstarter success
It’s day one of Modiphius Entertainment’s John Carter of Mars Kickstarter and they’re at 300% of target. It’s already listed in Kickstarter’s “Projects We Love”. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modiphius/john-carter-of-mars-the-roleplaying-game/ [Back this Campaign] Let’s talk money. It’s £15 (about $20) to get the PDF of the core rules, £25 (~$33) to get the Heroes of Barsoom Minatures with the […]
Genre Police: Down And Dirty With Grimdark
Welcome to back Genre police, a new series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. This column we are going to take a look at Grimdark, the new weird kid that moved into town. […]
John Carter of Mars RPG Kickstarter due
Modiphius Entertainment‘s latest Kickstarter project is ‘John Carter of Mars: Adventures on The Dying World of Barsoom’. This license will use a variant of Modiphius’ 2d20 system, Momentum, with a focus on pulp-action. The British publisher has worked with the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs and with Scott Tracy Griffin, a leading scholar of the […]
Tickets for Tabletop Gaming Live
Tabletop Gaming Magazine’s London event runs from Saturday 29th of September to Sunday 30th. It’s being billed as the first table all tabletop genres; RPGs, board games, card games, miniatures (and others) will be played and demonstrated under a single roof. The roof in question is Alexandra Palace. That’s a big venue. Wood Green is […]
ENnie nominated ‘Best Free Product’ Kickstarts for life under 5e
Darklight Interactive are after just £551 to Kickstart “A Night in Seyvoth Manor” for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. [Back this Campaign] In 2013 A Night in Seyvoth Manor was free and available for Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. It’s a challenge adventure, suitable for something like a Halloween one off, that uses throwaway and […]
New Agenda Publishing to promote diversity in the RPG community
2018 has seen the launch of New Agenda Publishing with a goal of amplifying underrepresented voices in the RPG community. There are three founding board members. There’s Misha Bushyager who will be acting as writer, editor and marketing manager. Misha is a GM who has written for games like Dead Scare, Lovecraftesque and Chill: SAVE. […]
