Do you use miniatures in your RPGs? Do you use them to help make sense of melee? Or perhaps to assist the imagination? Over on Etsy, CicadaCrafts has a collection of tabletop terrain that does both. I’m not a huge fan of models in my gaming. I prefer to let imagination have almost total control […]
Archives for February 2014
The science of the Catanosphere: Settlers of Catan globe
This is a remarkable Instructable. That’s right; if you want to build this then the instructions are online, 16 steps in all, a lot of work but a truly impressive game of Settlers of Catan at the end. How does it work? Magnets. You guessed right. Hundreds and hundreds of magnets. Why build it? As […]
Geek grub: Domo-kun heart cookies
Want to do a little bit of geeky baking this Valentine’s Day? Or any day for that matter? That’s what Alana Dimou suggests as she shares the secret steps to these tasty looking Domo-kun cookies. Found by the ever watchful Pipdreamergrey at Geek Art Gallery.
Wave Goodbye to the World of Tomorrow: Aeon Wave for Fate Core
In the near future, the scientific community become aware of a signal emanating from space. The signal contains a massive quantity of indecipherable information, a data stream, broadcast from an object in orbit around Mars. The signal becomes known as the Aeon Wave – and for those able to decrypt even a fraction, the data […]
RoboCop Valentine’s Day images
Aaron Diaz, the Portland based author of the Dresden Codak, created a number of RoboCop Valentine’s Day cards. They take stills from the original RoboCop movie and layers on some lovely, warm and fluffy Valentine’s messages. Via Aaron Diaz.
Rodarte do high Star Wars fashion
In a galaxy far, far away from geek culture there was a fashion week. This fashion week, hold in New York, like so many events before it has been touched by the greatness of geek. The fashion house Rodarte modelled some Star Wars themed dresses. Fashion fans saw Luke Skywalker, Yoda, C-3P0, R2-D” and even […]
Valentine’s dating tips for superheroes
Cyclops! You’ve broken the rules of dating etiquette. Bad mutant. Bad superhero. Via Toonhole.
Sleeping giant: Mutant Chronicles relaunches
There’s been games, miniatures and even movies but Mutant Chronicles faded. Now, Modiphius has teamed up with Paradox Entertainment to use Kickstarter to fund a return. There’s nearly £65,000 pledged, six times the funding goal and still three weeks on the clock. [Back this Campaign] Geek Native caught up with Chris Birch, publisher at Modiphius […]
4 reasons to follow Geek Native on Twitter
Geek Native is active on a number of social channels. If you’re not interested skip to the bottom to enjoy some stunning art from freelancer artist Maxime B that’s surfaced by CGHub.com when you search for Twitter. Twitter is the fastest blog to social network connection there is with a tweet going out within 15 […]
Irregular Reconnaissance: Comic Books #6
It is the first Irregular Reconnaissance: Comics catch up of 2014 and there’s more than half a dozen micro-reviews. In Irregular Reconnaissance I look back of recent reading to share opinion, insight but mainly opinion. The goal? There’s a wealth of comic book goodness out there and it can be hard to decide when to […]
