These dragon eggs shouldn’t hatch into anything nasty. They should be attack by a geek in a hunger frenzy. Made with rice krispie treats, covered in molder’s chocolate and with White Chocolate, Chocolate and Mint they’re sure to be a mouthful! As Game of Thrones season 5 approaches I think it’s only natural we turn […]
Archives for February 2015
Succumb to the Masks of Nyarathotep
Masks of Nyarathotep has long been considered a classic Call of Cthulhu supplement. I’ve not tried it but I’m told running the game is a challenge. There are many NPCs, plenty of locations, cultists and one angry Outer God. The Companion is Sixtystone Press‘s proposed solution. It seems they’re right as the Kickstarter asked for […]
Geek natives get married Fallout style
Chris Love and Kara Kyser are geek natives. You can tell because this awesome couple got married post-apocalyptic style with a Fallout wedding! The photographs were taken by Joshua Hoffine, who should now see his order book bloom, at Belvoir Winery in Missouri. The story appeared at Buzzfeed where Love said; We’re both geeks. Kara […]
Know this Baby Groot’s source
Deviant Artist’s Hiroyasu Bastard Prince) created this baby Groot without having watched Guardians of the Galaxy. I think he’s done a remarkable job with this statue. You can see the original posting here. There’s a twist in the story. Hiroyasu has caught people taking this design and images of it to try and resell as […]
Short film: Skyborn
Jamie Stone’s Skyborn is set in a foggy post-apocalyptic world. It begins with some great animation and then cuts to a surprisingly emotional film. Gideon is determined that his son will escape the fog but Blue doesn’t have faith in the flying machine they’ve built. So Blue, the son, sets about a dangerous attempt to […]
Dungeon Worlds surge past funding goal
Acheson Creations have a tabletop model success on their hands as a Kickstarter for highly-detailed 28mm dungeon titles surges past funding goal with two weeks still to go. For more details check out the Kickstarter page. [Back this Campaign] The team are asking for $3,800. At the time of writing they’ve $10,069 and 15 days […]
Women more likely to become super villains
At the start of the year Geek Native gave away a bundle of books from Brandon Sanderson’s The Reckoners series. To win Firefight and Steelheart competition players had to say what they would do with super powers. As this is a competition with just over 100 responses this is not science but it is interesting. […]
Free to download: Ascendant RPG
Bodlar Danger Leben has launched a public beta of his Ascendant RPG. Right now you can download it for free from Ascendantrpg.com. The game has been in the works, off and on, for 8 years. The game was described to me as “genuinely modern” and “takes a lot of standard RPG mechanic ideas and turns […]
SanctuaryRPG is retro ASCII-based RPG for Steam
Black Shell Games have put an ASCII-based RPG on Steam. If you don’t know what this is then you’re lucky; you’re young. This is an old skool computer RPG made up of text driven choices and illustrations composed of characters and symbols. The genre was born when traditional tabletop gamers started to take their hobby […]
Gollancz signs Moorcock for The Whispering Swarm
Michael Moorcock’s The Whispering Swarm is coming to the UK Via the Orion Publishing imprint Gollancz. The Times named Moorcock was one of the best English writers since 1945 and he’s been compared to the likes of Ian Fleming, J.R.R. Tolkien and even Charles Dickens. This is his first independent book in nearly 10 years. […]
