Geeky gifts? Quirky gifts? Weird treats for yourself? I’m not sure how to classific this nordic soap, but the 80g gift box set is a thing.
Archives for August 2021
Browse the Geek Native archives from August 2021. This collection covers topics in Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs, and Cool Tech.
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Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone’s Dungeon World supplements surface at the Bundle of Holding
The 2014 bundle of Apocalypse Engine fantasy RPG content from Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone is back in the Bundle of Holding.
Franchise mastermind Modiphius grapple James Bond with a SPECTRE board game on the way
If you haven’t met the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Rosa Klebb, and Raoul Silva before, the game will guide you through their exquisite evil expertise and how to employ them against 007.
You’re gonna die and you might like it: A review of A Good Death
A Good Death is a solo RPG and journal game from Trent Seltzer. It’s a Name Your Own Price download from Itch.io. I paid $2, and I’ll get way more value from it than that.
Solo adventures and a Never Ending Dungeon map set: Lifetime Memberships woo Kickstarter backers
The system procedurally generates entire dungeons and other fantasy landscapes suitable for flatscreen TVs or VTTS. They don’t get into the details, but it is also possible to have physical tiles created and sent to you.
5e Spelljammer: Wildjammer gets 100-page supplement and FoundryVTT module
This system uses a different scale of combat for ship fights and has means through which player characters can use their own attack bonus, class features, etc. to influence the way a fight goes
UK Games Expo 2021 Awards winners
The UK Games Expo is one of the first significant gaming conventions to push on ahead into the opening wake of the lockdown. As a result, the prestigious UK Games Expo Awards has winners for 2021.
Fandom and geeky conventions update for August 2021
It’s become a bit of a start of the month routine to call out some highlights from those additions and the weeks coming up, so let’s look at that calendar.
17 volumes of manga later, and Police in a Pod finally gets an anime
Yuzo Sato (Hunter × Hunter: Phantom Rouge) will direct, and Madhouse is making the comedy slice of life anime.
Genre Police: Wangrods and Warriors
I think ‘The Wangrod Defence’ is the perfect example of what happens when we refuse to view the meta.
