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Archives for January 2018

15 cute Disney costume swaps

January 22, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Japanese artist Haruki Godo as the knack of dressing people up. In particular, putting Disney Princesses into their Princes’ clothes! We’re not talking drag king fun here, nope, these ladies manage to look as feminine as ever while rocking someone else’s suit… And yes, some of these princesses have turned up wearing the clothes of […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: disney, princesses

Lost The Prisoner comic book to be published for 50th anniversary

January 22, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Titan Comics have two new The Prisoner projects in the works, under license from ITV Studios and timed to coincide with the 50th Anniversary for the first US transmission of the show in 1968. The Prisoner aired in Canada and the UK the year before. Co-created, written, directed and famously starring by Patrick McGoohan (also […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Jack Kirby, previews, the prisoner, titan comics

The most awesome game of Talisman ever?

January 22, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Talisman is a board game adventure where your random hero travels randomly around three realms, dealing with random situations, before a final dice off in the centre of the world. The skill is in dealing with the random. It can be a lot of fun. There are no shortage of supplements and occassionally you get […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: talisman

Three days left: Albino Dragon’s Ghostbusters and your exclusive coin

January 21, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Up until January 24th if you spend $50 or more (excluding shipping) at Albino Dragon you’ll be able to secure one of 100 exclusive coins. Why are they doing this? To raise $5,000 by next week. It seems they have a chance to create a new Ghostbusters game based on the mechanics on their Ink […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: board games, coins, Ghostbusters, sales

Genre Police: Alienating half my readership by choosing High Fantasy!

January 21, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

Welcome to back Genre police, a new series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. This column we are going to take a look at the one of the two Big Dogs of Fantasy […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, genre police, Middle-earth, star wars

UK RPG and board games conventions 2018

January 21, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

With the sad closure of UK Role Players (UKRP) coming this year gamers in the United Kingdom might be wondering where to find out what conventions are on. Fortunately, as with last year, Tabletop Scotland (September, Perth) organsier David Wright has put together a list! Some of these events are bigger than others! Here in […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: dragonmeet, paizo, tabletop gaming live, uk games expo

Piano Man maps eerily well to HP Lovecraft’s Nemesis and the internet loves it

January 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A week ago Twitter user “Captain Video” noticed that Piano Man by Billy Joel has the same meter as the poem ‘Nemesis’ by HP Lovecraft. https://twitter.com/OurWorldcomic/status/952683144171450368 Not only did the internet approve of this canny observation (6K likes and counting) but it rallied around to bring this mashup to live. At the time of posting […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: H.P. Lovecraft

The Revilo Creature Collection: A bestiary on Kickstarter

January 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Brian Colin offered you the chance to have the head of a murderous insect mounted on your wall. That critter was from his fantasy world of Revilo and now there’s a chance to pick up an art book full of creatures. The campaign is asking for £5,050 and you can follow it here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/briancolin/revilo-creature-collection-a-fantasy-art-book-and/ [Back […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Brian colin, kickstarters, monsters

The Lost Fleet: Corsair trailer

January 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Lost Fleet: Corsair is a new graphic novel from Titan Comics and Jack Campbell. Geek Native has dabbled in the original Lost Fleet and enjoyed the military sci-fi adventures. There’s even been a Jack Campbell interview (aka John G Hemry on the site. The promise of a graphic novel has my attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa8aVggWhN0 What […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Jack Campbell, Lost Fleet, titan comics, trailers

Linda Lundqvist’s Nightmare

January 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In mythology a Nightmare is sometimes a demonic horse. Can you imagine how one might look? One of Geek Native’s favourite model makers, Linda Lundqvist, has done the hard work so you don’t have to. All of Escaron’s work is worth checking out and her Deviant Art page is a good place to start. Most […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: craft, Escaron, models, monsters

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