This video is a trailer for a Dungeons & Dragons documentary. I think it looks pretty good. It’s a complex story – even around apparently simple questions like; “Who actually created D&D?” https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewpascal/dungeons-and-dragons-a-documentary This is not a completed documentary though. It may never be finished. There’s a Kickstarter project for it with pledges beginning at […]
Archives for August 2012
Doctor Who: Pond Life, part 1
Pond Life is a series of 5 short, YouTube, Doctor Who episodes that run up to the start of season 7 and Asylum of the Daleks. The Doctor features heavily in this episode but we’re told it will actually focus on the “Ponds” and their struggle to have a normal life after their encounter with […]
Free to Download: HackMaster Basic
HackMaster was first published in 2001 and began life as a parody of D&D. It was the game played by the characters of Jolly R. Blackburn’s Knights of the Dinner Table. It’s not that much of a parody any more, with complete and original rules and set in the Kingdoms of Kalamar. Kenzer & Company, […]
Awesome papercraft models
Check out Gus Santome’s collection of incredible papercraft models. These aren’t just art to look at. Gus provides PDFs to download for geeks to have a go at creating their own papercraft superheroes, anime and sci-fi characters. Papercraft Avengers Papercraft Batman Papercraft Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Papercraft R2-D2 Papercraft She-Ra Papercraft Vegeta Papercraft Venom
The Litany of Dagon scroll
How’s this for a LARP prop? The seller, Hawanja, describes the prop as something for a Cthulhu LARP. Do you know of any Lovecraft live action games? It doesn’t matter. This scroll, made from heavy cardstock and then treated to age it, is good enough to be a breathtaking handout in a tabletop Cthulhu game. […]
8-bit life heart bookends
Back in April Geek Native posted a collection of bookends for geeks and gamers. Not only are they a thing – they’re pretty popular too. Knob Creek Metal Arts have caught onto the fact that it’s the geek community who has been buying up their clever designs. Hence new styles like 8-bit heart bookends.
The Tim Burton inspired Pokemon of bleak doom
Vaughn Pinpin is soaking up internet awe this week. His collection of Pokemon art is impressing and spooking everyone. These are no ordinary Pokemon. These are Pokemon that might have crawled from the dangerous dark places of the world as creations of Tim Burton. Tim Burton’s Blastoise Tim Burton’s Bulbasaur Tim Burton’s Charizard Tim Burton’s […]
Pirate mainstream hentai
Yup; “Pirate” + “mainstream” + “hentai”. Those are certainly three words this blogger didn’t imagine would come together to make a headline on a semi-respectable geek site. But wait, there’s a reason. There’s a debate as to whether D&D 5e needs to be less sexist and more diverse right now and as we find out […]
Zaphats and augmented reality clothing for LARPs
Augmented reality clothing brands, like Zappar, certainly aren’t restricted to making fashion to be adapted by LARPers. I suspect, for now, they may be restricted to fashion for geeks though. What a piece of AR clothing does is transform, on screen, when viewed with the right app. The best way to describe it is to […]
Dungeons & Dragons 5e shouldn’t be a white male fantasy – would you sign the petition?
Did you know there was only one image of a non-white human character in the D&D 4e core rule books? Another study suggests 60% of the “heroes” in DMG, PHB, PHB2 and Adventurer’s Vault are men. Over a third of images suffered from sexism, according to the same study. In response, Josh Fox has started […]
