Here’s a question that DMs of the Forgotten Realms might have to ask themselves every now and then. Besides Drow and Illithids what else might adventurers encounter in the Underdark? It can be quite a challenging terrain to DM. I mean, can you describe the darkness for tunnel after tunnel while keeping the player’s attention? […]
Archives for August 2018
10 outstanding sci-fi illustrations from Adam Kuczek
Adam Kucek is a freelance concept artist who runs his own studio AK-ART. AK-ART has worked on projects like Jupiter Ascending, Cloud Atlas and Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It’s an impressive list. He shares some of his art on Deviant Art and others through his Facebook Page. A clue to how good these illustrations […]
RPG Inspiration: Ancient Scotland
Are you trying to come up with images and scenery suitable for your RPG? Filmmaker Joh Duncan just shared a film called ‘Ancient Scotland’ that shows twenty-one unusual locations from the air. Here we have ancient wonders, castles and islands. It was a hard film to make, physically demanding and often wrestling with the weather. […]
Legendlore RPG due 2019 from Onyx Path and Caliber Comics
Legendlore and The Realm are comic book series from Caliber Comics. The Realm is the fantasy world of orcs, magic and dragons and in Legendlore four teenagers from our modern day world find themselves plunged into it. Onyx Path Publishing and Caliber Comics have signed a partnership which will bring Legendlore into print and digital […]
This is how you get a world filled with dungeons: the true story of a temple digging compulsion
Dungeons are a big part of Dungeons & Dragons adventures and many other similar roleplaying games. A few years ago Geek Native put together a list of 22 reasons why your fantasy RPG has so many dungeons, but sometimes true stories are stranger than fiction. What if people in your fantasy world just had a […]
The dark king of independent fashion: Lovecraft t-shirts
Lovecraft was not famous when he died. He imagined horrors from beyond time and space but could he believe that on his 128th birthday you could use a network of processing machines, access cyberspace, explore a virtual market square of independent designers, type in his own name and discover nearly 6,000 matches? For today’s experiment, […]
Era: The Chosen – An RPG of horror across three time periods
Geek Native has covered Shades of Vengeance Era Kickstarters before and the latest looks to stick closely to the design principles of the previous. Era: The Chosen is a horror RPG in which PCs are from human clans fighting to save the world from The Anonassi. The project has funded already. At the time of […]
Frightfully ugly! Paul Komoda’s Nyarlathotep statue
[I summon you!] This post is going live on H. P. Lovecraft’s 128th birthday, and it seems like a better day than lost to look at the latest Cthulhu Mythos statue from Gecco Co. This is Nyarlathotep and the skinsuit it was wearing while running around Egypt causing all sorts of chaos. We don’t have […]
Dozens of female 5e game designers answer the call
A sign of a good and healthy community is not just its diversity but that people are willing to step forward and identify themselves. On Twitter, the very respected game designer Kenneth Hite recognised that he couldn’t name any female freelancers comfortable with tackling 5e mechanical design. All he did was ask people to tag […]
Brace yourself for impact: The remarkable Degenesis RPG is coming
SIXMOREVODKA is a conceptual art studio in Berlin. They’re sought after by movie companies, game makers and comic book publishers, and they have a roleplaying game called Degenesis. You can read more about Degenesis the Rebirth Edition over at SIXMOREVODKA’s website, and there’s a short introduction to the game below. Degenesis is set in the […]
