Search for Degenesis: Rebirth Edition I’m trying not to buy any more roleplaying games; I don’t need any more, and especially not fat hardbacks that strain my poor shelves. But l had to have Degenesis. All 700 pages from the two core rulebooks spoke to me, in the way books sometimes do, whispering of impressive […]
Mutant Year Zero’s good year continues with The Eternal War and Hotel Imperator
Mutant Year Zero is a game by Paradox Entertainment. That’s the same company who own the rights to Conan the Barbarian, Mutant Chronicles and Kult. It is not Paradox Interactive the company who owns White wolf and Harebrained Schemes as that’s become independent. The tabletop roleplaying game Mutant Year Zero, which Geek Native recommends, was […]
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 […]
Fear the Sea of Leaves: A review of the Summerland RPG
Summerland is the result of a successful Kickstarter by Greg Saunders. Looking back at the campaign I can’t quite pinpoint the moment I decided to back it, I have vague memories of having heard good things about Saunders, and I certainly liked the concept even if it was presented in a remarkably simple pitch. The […]
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 […]
Mad World is far darker than expected…
Last Halloween we took a peek at a preview for Mad World. Another MMO? Yawn! Not so. One of the reasons why Mad World is interesting is because it just uses HTML 5 to run. There’s no downloads needed. You can run it any modern browser. We now have a mood trailer and Jandisoft’s game […]
Dan Jayson: The Last Squadron and the weapons that could kill us all
Dan Jayson served in the British Territorial Army and is the co-founder of an underwater salvage company. If your ship has gone missing, sunk under the stormy waves, taking its cargo of loot and goodies down with it – he’s the man you call. He’s already a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineers and […]
Halloween free alpha: Mad World MMO entirely in HTML5
Mad World MMORPG is a post-apocalyptic MMORPG from Korean developer Jandisoft. The game is significant for two reasons right now. Firstly, it uses just HTML 5 for its massively multiplayer connected world. If you’ve a modern browser for a desktop machine or mobile then you’ll be able to play without downloading any software. Secondly, until […]
Gobblin’: Goblins stranded in a post-apocalyptic Earth
Gobblin’: The Goblin RPG was years in the making and is now going strong on Kickstarter. Drunk and Ugly Games are asking only for a humble $1,500 to fund and, at the time of writing, have more than $1,300 in the pot. There’s still about three weeks left on the project. You can follow progress […]
SINS: Epic action horror in a dying world
SINS is a Kickstarter from the team of 20-year gaming industry vet Paul Moore, Jim Freeman and Sam Sleney. They’re asking for only £5,000 and with 22 days on the clock, at the time of writing, have slaughtered that goal with £16,000+ in the pot. You can follow the progress at the Kickstarter campaign page. […]