This month Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One hits the cinemas. In it geeks battle to survive and safe the virtual reality known as the Oasis. The book features Acererak and the Tomb of Horrors and lots of 80s geek culture from Japan. Trailers from the film suggest a more American spin […]
Archives for March 2018
Murderously good: A review of Prodigy
I’m reminded of one my all time favourite thrillers; Rope by Alfred Hitchcock. In Rope two friends have murder someone, hide his body in a chest, and then host a dinner with the victim’s family with the corpse just nearby. It’s a powerful film and the murderers are very sure of their intellectual superiority. Prodigy, […]
Has Paizo launched Pathfinder 2nd edition too soon after Starfinder?
The big news this week from Paizo Publishing is that Pathfinder 2nd edition is coming. First up, there will be a big playtest. It was May 2016 when the same publisher announced Starfinder. That RPG is a version of Pathfinder in a sci-fi setting, and the hardcover for Starfinder was released in October 2017. Has […]
What do you do as a DM when you realise you’ve made a terrible call?
We’re only human and sometimes we make mistakes. DMs might muddle up initiative order or something just as easy but more serious like forget to act as a helpful NPC or confuse the effects of aggressive magic. It happens. As a rule players are generally good at coping when the DM fesses up to a […]
Pathfinder 2nd Edition announced
Paizo has just announced the second edition of Pathfinder. The popular RPG was released in 2008 and was playtested by over 40,000 people. The new game will have a playtest, too, and the first official post about how that will work has now been shared by the publisher. They write; New, but the SameOur first […]
BHP Comics snaps up Killtopia
Card Shark Comics made a name for itself with Dave Cook’s Bust and Vessels. Both titles were neatly run and effective Kickstarters. It wasn’t a surprise to see Killtopia do well on Kickstarter but I don’t think anyone expected the project to raise over £16,000 from more than 850 backers. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bust/killtopia-1/ [Read about the Kickstarter] […]
A secret success? Liminal RPG
Paul Mitchener’s Kickstarter for the Liminal RPG looks like it does everything wrong. Like Summerland we have a vertical video, just the author dialogue and in this case shaky cam footage from Mitchener’s lap. Easy to give a miss? Right? Stick with it. You’ll be able to tell that Paul Mitchener isn’t reading off a […]
The world has changed: Summerland 2e Kickstarts
This is one of two British RPGs that are doing well in Kickstarter that Geek Native will look at tonight. Like Liminal the pitch video is… poor. A vertical shot of the author explaining his game. No art. No wow. Nothing. But what Summerland offers is intelligence. This is a sequel as well, the second […]
Hexcrawl mashup with sandbox as The Demonplague takes us post-apocalyptic
Geek Native will find a lot of time for Johnn Four of Roleplaying Tips.com. Four has contributed hugely to the online RPG community and written many books. His first Kickstarter, The Demonplague, asks for just CA$2,500 and its very close to making that target. At the time of writing there are two weeks still on […]
Is this the best ‘dice bag’ you’ve ever seen?
Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPGer Melissa Alexandria likes her dice. Don’t we all? Those shiny little sparkle polyhedral. The problem? No pretty dice bags to match! Now Geek Native has blogged about impressive dice bags, dragon dice bags and even Total War dice bags but I admit Melissa has a point. In a Facebook share […]
