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Archives for January 2020

Browse the Geek Native archives from January 2020. This collection covers topics in Tabletop & RPGs, Sites, and Comics.

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Do these dice say 100 or 10?

January 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Most gamers roll two ten-sided dice where one dice counts for the tens and the other for the singles.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice

The OnTableTop Gaming Awards 2020 open for nominations

January 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

OnTableTop, once known as Beasts of War, has today opened nominations for their gaming awards.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: ontabletop

Honk! The GMless RPG about redeeming the reputation of geese

January 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sadly, I’m a fat goose with -1 in my Run skill, and when I rolled a 5 on my d6, that took my total down to 4. Failure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: animals, itch.io

The Treasury of British Comics 2020 timeline

January 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In it, we find Don Lawrence’s Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire and the long-lost war comics from Hugo Pratt.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: rebellion, treasury of british comics

Games Workshop mention a brand new Warhammer 40K anthology show

January 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Games Workshop has just posted a lengthy blog post about filming an ident. In it, they make a reference to an unannounced show; making a joke about what they just did.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: age of sigmar, games workshop, warhammer 40k

The release schedule for Netflix’s new 21 Studio Ghibli classics

January 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Netflix UK and almost all other global properties have just landed a raft of Studio Ghibli classics. Missing, though, are Netflix Japan, Netflix Canada and Netflix US.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, netflix, Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli

Creepypasta and urban legends: Strange Things Afoot RPG

January 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The premises is straight forward; all those creepy stories on the internet are true. The player characters have to do something about that.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Al Seeger, horror, kickstarters, Point of Insanity Game Studio

Why emotion is the new frontier for TTRPGs

January 19, 2020 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

The indie TTRPG scene, on the other hand, is brimming with smart, innovative designs based around the mental, emotional, and social lives of individual player characters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

Genre Police: The Beat Goes On

January 19, 2020 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Here’s how the thoughtful use of music can make your tabletop games better and more memorable.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police

EN World’s most anticipated RPGs of 2020 survey pushes Modiphius, Free League and Chaosium to all-time top

January 19, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

EN World, a popular RPG community and news site, surveyed members to see which games they were most looking forward to this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, cortex prime, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, cyberpunk red, dune, en world, fading suns, fallout, fandom, Free League Publishing, gale force nine, Modiphius Entertainment, Pelgrane Press, R. Talsorian Games, Rivers of London, soulbound, stargate, swords of the serpentine, vaesen, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, Wyvern Gaming

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