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?…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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?…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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Dress up your dungeon with just a roll of the die

17 artists worth watching on Buy Me A Coffee

Genre Police: Gothpunk: The Learnering

Chainsaw carved dragon bench

22 ideas for a spellbook that isn’t a book

A treasure trove of Creative Commons pixel art

Why did so many medieval knights fight snails?

Competition: Geek Native sweatshirt

EN Publishing tease The Possessed – For We Are Many

TradeCraft Bonus: Download instant spell books and scroll props

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