The nominations for the 2013 ENnies are out. These are a big set of awards in the roleplaying publishing world. Counting by hand, I reach 57 publishers nominated and that’s up from just shy of 40 from 2012. Paizo Publishing and Pelgrane Press lead the pack with 7 nominations each, with Cubicle 7 in third […]
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Savage Worlds Competition: Win a copy of Shaintar – Legends Arise
Ed Greenwood, the guy who created the hugely popular The Fogotten Realms setting, said of Shaintar: Legends Arise; Just paging through the Players Guide makes you want to play, and it’s genuinely hard to create a boring character using this book; everything works together to make your Hero interesting. And that’s even before you get […]
Solar Echoes: Explorer’s Pack
Solar Echoes is a fast paced sci-fi RPG from Corefun Studios. With the new Explorer’s Pack coming out, Geek Native took this chance to invite authors Andy Mitchell and Matthew Hannum to discuss the game. You can find other insights on Solar Echoes here on Geek Native including a From the Inkwell article from Andy […]
Wizards without Coats: Your resurrection plan
Imagine a fantasy campaign in which conditional resurrection was a thing. < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Look… I am sorry, but being mangled and killed by an umber hulk, just isn’t covered under his resurrection plan! Uh-oh! Bad news about your resurrection plan. Why is that insurance policies typically fail to cover the very […]
EN Publishing’s Zeitgiest AP hardcover storms Kickstarter
With a few days on the clock EN Publishing’s Zeitgeist AP Kickstarter project will beat its target by more than $10,000. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enworld/zeitgeist-ap-hardcover-compilation-pathfinder-and/ [Back this Campaign] The project from Russ Morrisey (aka Morrus) and Ryan Nock looks to put together as many of the Zeitgeist: The Gears of Revolution together in a hardback. It’ll be available […]
Visions of War leads Paizo’s 2013 & 2014 product releases
Pathfinder publisher Paizo have released details of a range of 2013 & 2014 products. A front runner, expected August 2103, is the 256-page, 10-year retrospective of the work of fantasy artist Wayne Reynolds. Visions of War: The Art of Wayne Reynolds ($29.99) has full colour covers, interior art and cart art from the artist who’s […]
White Wolf co-founder takes the Darkling Plain to Kickstarter
Stewart Wieck co-founded White Wolf and co-created the original World of Darkness. It was Wieck who was the editor-in-chief and co-founder of White Wolf with his brother Steve. It was in 1990 that the company merged with Lion Rampant, publisher of Ars Magica and he and Lion Rampant’s Mark Rein*Hagen became co-owners of the White […]
Cthulhu Wars Kicktarter races past $1,000,000 with hours to go
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/cthulhu-wars [Back this Campaign] The creator of Call of Cthulhu has seen his Kickstarter race through the one million dollar mark. With less than a day on the clock the pledge fund is at $1,224,958 and rising. Backers are supporting efforts to create a combination of a strategy board game with the Cthulhu mythos from […]
A review of Fantasy Flight’s a Game of Thrones card game
The first thing that Fantasy Flight does which makes sense and is yet disappointing is that it keeps the focus on Houses Stark and Lannister. This is only disappointing because the lands of George R. R. Martin’s world are fantastic and I relish every chance to explore them. Sanity check. This is a two player […]
A tabletop gaming comedy: Nights at the Round Table
This is the first episode of a new RPG comedy from Redshirt Films. Start with Max. He’s the supermarket worker, a total gamer and secretly in love with Milly. Then there’s Milly the protocol loving librarian/GM who has a special dislike for Sam. Sam would rather be tweeting from the pub but like everyone else […]
