(Note: this review is based on the Kickstarter release of Earthdawn’s fourth edition, which is not yet commercially available. Links to Earthdawn in this review refer to the first edition of the game, released in 1993). In my high school years, FASA’s Earthdawn was one of the defining games of my roleplaying hobby. An awesome setting that […]
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12 reasons why silver hurts werewolves
Running a RPG with lycanthropes? Perhaps you want silver to be the element that can harm werewolves. That would make sense… but why? What world building reason can you think up to explain silver’s ability? If you’ve got a great answer to this challenge why not pop it in the comments below? In the meantime; […]
Pro-Wrasslin’ Battle Royale grapples Kickstarter
Joe Prince of Prince of Darkness games is known to Geek Native readers as an RPG designer. He wrote Is the Era of the GM over? for the blog; a subject that remains a hot topic today. Prince’s latest project is a card game called Pro-Wrasslin’ Battle Royale. The Kickstarter is asking for just £1,000 […]
Exclusive: The fantastic art of Paizo’s Giantslayer
The Giantslayer Adventure Path is a 6-part adventure series for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The action kicks off with Pathfinder Adventure Path #91: Giantslayer Part 1 – Battle of Bloodmarch Hill, written by Patrick Renie, and available from stores, the web and Paizo.com. Paizo Publisher Erik Mona said; “Giantslayer is a return to the blood-and-thunder, […]
RPG Superstar 2015: The Final Four
The last four have been picked for Paizo’s RPG Superstar 2015 round. The four finalists along with their winning encounter and map designs are; Brian J. Fruzen (Milwaukee, WI) – The Gloomsworn Path Monica Marlowe (Cincinnati, OH) – The Hanging Gardens of Karexin Kalervo Oikarinen (Helsinki, Finland) – Fellforge Chapel Christopher Wasko (Connecticut) – Darkblight […]
International GM’s Day discounts!
March 4th is GM’s Day. This idea was born on EN World back in 2002 and now has a site of its own. Today is the day to thank your GM for all the hard work they do. Thank them every week. DriveThruRPG and RPGNow have a good GM’s Day sale on. You can get […]
Pay attention: Witch RPG
Witch is a dark and modern fantasy RPG from Angry Hamster Publishing. In the game you play someone who’s done the dark deal with a power… The Kickstater is doing well and is meeting the humble target of less than €5,000 in just a day. More details are available from here. [Back this Campaign] Geek […]
Exclusive peek at “How to Game Master like a Fucking Boss”
Interesting title, huh? “How to Game Master like a Fucking Boss” raised more than $4,500 on Kickstarter which was more than twice Venger Satanis’ campaign target. Venger writes for Kort’thalis Publishing with his most recent work Reverly in Torth currently sitting at 4.5/5 stars at DriveThruRPG after multpile reviews. The Kickstarter tells us a little […]
In a RPG you can do anything…
A piece titled “In Dungeons & Dragons you can do anything” by Rumbleraven. I think it works as well for any given RPG. There’s more than one truth in this straightforward but effective comic strip. It’s true that lots of guys character up as warriors they would like to be. It’s also true that the […]
Exclusive art from Faith RPG
Burning Games are running a Kickstarter for the sci-fi Faith RPG. It’s a bold project as a pen and paper RPG without the pen, paper or even dice. The action is resolved by cards. Geek Native has an exclusive look at the Hacker Suit card which you can see at the end of the post. […]
