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You have to be quick to catch a Cocaine Owlbear: An interview with Mike Lafferty

July 4, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Until someone approaches us for a video game version, this is the last roar of the Cocaine Owlbear. Fainting Goat will continue to focus on indie and Savage Worlds games supplements.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, eric bloat, Fainting Goat Games, kickstarters, Mike Lafferty

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Bloat Games

January 23, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Can you imagine how busy Eric Bloat must be? Nevertheless, Eric very kindly made time for us.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, dark places & demogorgons, dungeon crawl classics, eric bloat

Bloat Games goes weird retro with Greasers & Ghouls RPG

September 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Greasers & Ghouls is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game set in a small town in the 1950s. Players take on the roles of normal high school-aged teens, who encounter B-movie monsters lurking in the shadows, all while trying to go to high school, the drive-in, and still make it to the sock hop dance.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, eric bloat, kickstarters, monsters, survive this!!

War For the Wasteland: Welcome to the lo-fi sci-fi apocalypse

August 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bloat Games are on Kickstarter for ZineQuest with a minimalist lo-fi tabletop RPG called War For The Wasteland. As common with ZineQuest, the campaign isn’t running for a whole month, and there’s now just over a week to get involved. [Back this Campaign] Impactful art always gets with Bloat Game’s products, and Phil Stone is […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, eric bloat, kickstarters, zinequest

Overworld: Legend of Zelda inspired monsters to get their own RPG zine series

February 22, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Eric and artist Phil Stone are helming a project to bring as many monsters inspired by that iconic Nintendo game to a tabletop RPG near you.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, Dungeons & Dragons, eric bloat, kickstarters, monsters, survive this!!

We Die Young is a supernatural counter-culture RPG

April 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Eric Bloat describes We Die Young as the spiritual successor to Dark Places & Demogorgons, another title from Bloat Games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, dark places & demogorgons, eric bloat, kickstarters, survive this!!

Name Your Own Price: Agents of BAMF

January 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The OSR style tabletop game is a Name Your Own Price download and was made for Itch.io’s The Last RPG Jam.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: eric bloat, Fainting Goat Games, itch.io

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #18

October 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Speed-read your way through this week’s RPG news from Geek Native and around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrew Peregrine, Carnival Row, cubicle 7, eric bloat, gale force 9, lord of the rings, Modiphius Entertainment, paizo, Pelgrane Press, routinely itemised, Shades of Vengeance, soulbound, The One Ring, Troll Lord Games, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Superhero Week: Vigilante City RPG on Kickstarter

July 2, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As it’s Superhero Week here on Geek Native let’s head to Kickstarter and see which RPGs might fit the bill. Eric Bloat’s OSR inspired ‘Survive This!!1 Vigilante City is an easy game to pick for the week as it made 100% of its (modest) goal in just 3 hours. If you’re quick enough you can […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, bloat games, drivethrurpg, eric bloat, gallant knight games, kickstarters

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