Chris Birch is the writer and game designer of the FATE based Starblazer Adventures space opera RPG published by Cubicle 7. He is the creative director at Joystick Junkies and runs the publishing imprint Modiphius. Birch, already a very busy man, has another RPG projecting going in the form of Achtung! Cthulhu – a World […]
Achtung! Cthulhu summons Chaosium licence
Chris Birch’s London imprint for RPGs MODIPHIUS has signed a deal with Chaosium to bring the Achtung! Cthulhu campaign series to Call of Cthulhu. The Achtung! Cthulhu setting, which Geek Native wrote about first in March, is Cthulhu among the horror of the Second World War. Zero Point Part 1 “Three Kings” is available at RPG […]
The Shadows of Esteren: A Medieval Horror RPG kickstarts
The English translation of The Shadows of Esteren: A Medieval Horror will kickstart. The project has three weeks left to colllect funds and has smashed through the humble request of $3,000 to reach, at the time of posting, $12,000. It looks like the book is complete – finally translated into English from French and has […]
The Call of Cthulhu
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Turn to Cthulhu and help fight cancer [good causes]
In 2011 we saw the 30th anniversary edition of Call of Cthulhu and we have to go all the way back to 2004 to catch up with the release of the 6th edition of the rules. The good news is that the 7th edition of Call of Cthulhu is in the works and Paul Fricker […]
Achtung! Cthulhu – mythos set in World War 2
Modiphius, a new imprint from Chris Birch, have announced Achtung! Cthulhu. The game takes the Cthulhu mythos and brings it into the horror of the second world war. Imagine fiendish Nazi scientists chasing occult lore, war machines, spies and tentacled horrors from beyond time. The first release is due out in April as a PDF. […]
Chaosium’s Mythic Iceland opens for pre-orders
Call of Cthulhu publisher Chaosium have a 276 paged sourcebook for Basic Roleplaying. Mythic Iceland looks at the Nordic and Celtic people who settled Iceland in the 9th century while diving deep into folklore and the supernatural. The book comes with with a fold out map, in colour, and promises legend and adventure in the […]
Interview with Brian Wood of Awesome Dice
Brian Wood runs Awesome Dice shop and accompanying blog. Selling die online is surprisingly competitive and there’s a far greater range of options than even some experienced roleplayers might imagine. When Brian dropped Geek Native a note about a rather clever WordPress dice roller I thought it might be wise to get a walkthrough from the man himself.
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land screenshots
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is an RPG for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s now due out on the 30th of January, 2012, which is quite a wait since the game was originally announced back in May. It must have taken a while for the stars to align. The game is being produced […]
30 years of Call of Cthulhu
This may make you feel old, but 2011 is the 30th anniversary of Call of Cthulhu. Zip back in time to 1981. Sandy Petersen – he of Doom fame, yeah; the computer game – pitched a concept to the RPG publisher Chaosium that made use of Lovecraft’s Dreamlands setting. The original game, Dark Worlds, was […]
