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Archives for February 2018

Dress up your dungeon with just a roll of the die

February 25, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dungeon Dressing Dice are a Kickstarter from Incognito Solutions. The idea is simple but effective; rather than using tables to conjure up descriptions for your dungeon why not read straight off the die themselves? This Kickstarter has funded, at the time of writing there are 22 days still go and the campaign is racing towards […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, kickstarters

17 artists worth watching on Buy Me A Coffee

February 25, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Geek Native recently signed up to Buy Me A Coffee. It is an electronic tips jar and any funds this blog earns with it will be used to pay for either commissioned art or writing. Buy Me A Coffee is also a gallery to explore talent. You can use the site to find artists you […]

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Genre Police: Gothpunk: The Learnering

February 25, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

When we suffix -punk to a word and create a genre, often it’s about a scientific development and it’s effect on the individual or the status quo. ‘Cyber’, ‘Steam’ or ‘Diesel’ punk have easily identifiable technologies and timeframes that divide them. But when we a cultural ideal instead we have a difficult job in working […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, Unknown Armies, Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires

Chainsaw carved dragon bench

February 25, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Estonian artist Igor Loskutov is responsible for this impressive dragon bench. He made the whole thing with a chainsaw. You can keep check of his artwork over at Facebook.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: dragons

22 ideas for a spellbook that isn’t a book

February 25, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Many tabletop RPGs have a spellbook as a necessary in-game item for wizards and spellcasters. The spellbook is generally used as a mechanical means to both limit and explain the spells the character has access to. However, some GMs might allow characters to use an item that has the same mechanical effect while giving off […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

A treasure trove of Creative Commons pixel art

February 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

DeviantArt user Kaiseto, aka Kevin Chaloux, offers up some fantastic pixel art. A few years back he made the effort of converting most of them to Creative Commons. What does this mean? It means you can use the art for yourself providing you do not make any money off it. For example, you could use […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: dragons, monsters

Why did so many medieval knights fight snails?

February 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever looked at medieval art you might well have seen images of knights fighting all sorts of monsters. And snails. Actually, you might have noticed knights fought snails often. Why is that? This video from Vox looks at the observations of Michael Camille and the theory of Lilian Randall. The snails, suggests Randall, […]

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: history

Competition: Geek Native sweatshirt

February 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 42 Comments

We’ve a Geek Native sweatshirt to give away to one lucky reader! The black sweatshirt has a word cloud made from Geek Native’s tags (how we describe posts) based on the blog’s content after the rebrand from GameWyrd. The cloud is shaped to look like a wizard’s hat. This is the only branded item of […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: competitions, geek native, ready player one, redbubble

EN Publishing tease The Possessed – For We Are Many

February 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

EN Publishing’s ‘WOIN Studios’ is working on new content for What’s OLD is NEW. The toolkit-orientated tabletop from Russ Morrissey. In particular the imprint is producing supplements showcasing the best of a parallel universe of film and TV. These are shows and movies that might feel familiar but never actually broadcast. In ‘The Possessed – […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: demons, en publishing, richard august, Russ Morrissey, woin

TradeCraft Bonus: Download instant spell books and scroll props

February 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you running a tabletop RPG tomorrow and in desperate need to make a player handout look good? There are various designs on the arts and crafts site Etsy that you can download and use to enhance your game. This issue of TradeCraft Bonus compiles some of the best candidates for spell books and scroll […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Etsy, props, tradecraft bonus

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