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The characters are going to do it anyway: Barkeep on the Borderlands is a pubcrawl RPG adventure

February 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you use the book like this, the Barkeep on the Borderlands adventure is no longer on the borderlands, and the Keep has become a centre of culture and business.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Barkeep on the Borderlands, Chris McDowall, kickstarters, L.F. OSR, prismatic wasteland

Chris McDowall, Johan Nohr and Free League launch the Into the Odd Remastered Kickstarter

September 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The rules-light, flavourful, tabletop RPG of industrial horror with cosmic weird woven in.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Free League Publishing, Into The Odd, Johan Nohr, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116

September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As it’s Friday, it means RPG news in summary form. Routinely Itemised doesn’t just summarise Geek Native’s own content.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: .dungeon, Adam Daigle, All Rolled Up, Arcadia, battlezoo, beyond the horizon, blades in the dark, bloat games, bolt rpg, brancalonia, Briar & Bramble, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, character sheets, chris handley, Chris McDowall, city of mist, dead channel studios, dragons and demons, exalted, fenrisgames, Freddie Taylor-Bell, Free League Publishing, geek therapeutics, gen con, goblin scrawl games, himbo treasure hunt, horrible guild, hrothgar's hoard, Into The Odd, James Introcaso, jay dragon, kobold press, leyline press, lightning mage game design, long tail games, Massif Press, mcdm, meteor tales, mothership, mundos infinitos, Norse Foundry, one more quest, our haunt, Paizo Publishing, Paradox Interactive, pendragon, possum creek games, powered by lesbians, R. Talsorian Games, role, roll for combat, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, sine nomine publishing, Stars without Number, stephens woodwork, stingers & spores, survive this!!, teenagers from outerspace, thacko, the dee sanction, the only sheet, the oracle, There Once Were Dragons, tome of peculiar discoveries, valda's spire of secrets, venture & dungeon, warpland, wizards of the coast, worlds beyond the infernal breach, Wyrmworks Publishing, zweihander

Free League announce Into the Odd Remastered with Chris McDowall partnership

September 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Free League Publishing will produce a new edition of the weird-fantasy Into the Odd from Chris McDowall. Mork Borg’s Johan Nohr will do the art and design.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Free League Publishing, Into The Odd, Johan Nohr

Small Press Day 2021 and others: Mid-month conventions and geeky events update

June 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The fandom calendar is filling up so let’s take a look at recently added events.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Chris McDowall, comic con, convention, renegade con, Renegade Game Studios, small press day, wasabicon

Electric Bastionland RPG: From the creator of Into the Odd

November 22, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The rules are a modified version of Into the Odd, Chris isn’t re-inventing the wheel, and the bulk of Electric Bastionland is therefore 100 failed careers that you can randomly end up playing as.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, electric bastionland, kickstarters, lost pages

Free League’s Forbidden Lands RPG offers a twist to the classic fantasy

December 7, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the game, players take on the roles of rogues and raiders, not heroes, who are brave and bold enough to carve out their names in a cursed world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ben milton, Chris McDowall, Erik Granström, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, Modiphius Entertainment, Nils Gulliksson, Simon Stalenhag

Bastion is Full of Lies: A Review of Into The Odd

December 22, 2014 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

The business of roleplaying can be a tough sell to people who have been exposed to the experience previously in an uncontrolled or raw form. Speaking from experience, I have seen people enthused by the prospect turned sour when they saw the size of the average core rule book. The Player Handbook for 4th Edition […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, Into The Odd, Old School Renaissance, reviews, rpgs

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