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Archives for August 2020

Browse the Geek Native archives from August 2020. This collection covers topics in Tabletop & RPGs and Anime.

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D&D supplement looks to normalise mask-wearing

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Playing a high Int character and not able to lug around as much magical armour and equipment as everyone? What if there was a lightweight alternative article of clothing that offered up a tactically useful place to have some magic?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons

Yog-Sothothery in Rome: Cthulhu Invictus in the Bundle of Holding

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Set late Age of the Antonines (AD 145), at the peak of the Roman Empire when ancient wizards fought to defeat death and explorers brought back dangerous artefacts from the remains of alien civilisations, only a few fight to hold back the darkness.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium

Free to Download: XII – Inner Demons TTRPG playtest

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

XI is a survivor horror RPG about facing demons, your inner demons in only 12 days.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kickstarters, XII: Inner Demons

Game of Thrones RPG fans take note: Green Ronin announces the Chronicle System Guild

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Guild allows third-party publishers to make, sell and keep some of the profit from Chronicle System supplements via DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chronicle system, drivethrurpg, game of thrones, Green Ronin Publishing, sword chronicle

Dragon dice and monster alert: Book of Creatures

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Book of Creatures is a homage to fantasy bestiaries. It’s a large book, 400-pages with more than 200 illustrations and 5e rulesets for each.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, monsters, studio agate

Free to Download: Harbinger Beta RPG rules

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Harbinger is a grim, weird and wonderful science-fantasy RPG and it uses D&D’s 5e ruleset.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Absolute Tabletop, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, sci-fi

Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #72

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A look at The Seven Deadly Sin’s Imperial Wrath of the Gods as well as the drama that comes with renting a girlfriend or visiting a monster girl doctor.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: gibiate, Irregular Reconnaissance, rent-a-girlfriend, the god of high school, The Seven Deadly Sins

Gorgeous D&D campaign map inspired by Chinese mythology

August 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Leo used Inkscape to create the coastlines, then used Krita for the assets and then finished off in GIMP.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography

Is This Allowed Too? Save time with D&D chargen and session zero

August 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

DM Sam Russell has created a Google Spreadsheet, a tool called “Is This Allowed Too?” to help speed up chargen and session zero.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, rpg tools

Satisfyingly tactical: A review of The Umbrella Academy card game

August 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Umbrella Academy card game is so easy to learn that the gameplay is pretty much explained entirely in the Kickstarter pitch video.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, reviews, the umbrella academy

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