There may only be 9 days left on the clock at the time of writing but the campaign to create fantasy miniatures for FASA’s Earthdawn has now edged past their $2,400 goal. You can Back it here. [Back Campaign] Impact! Miniatures project aim to provide unpainted spincast resin minatures at 28mm scale. We’re told the […]
Fantasy Articles
Explore Geek Native's articles tagged with Fantasy. This collection covers topics in Tabletop & RPGs, Art, and Comics.
The wildscapes of Maxime Desmettre
Maxime Desmettre is an environment concept artist who has worked on titles like Assassin’s Creed, Prince of Persia and King Kong. You can access his person site and portfolio at MaxisLand.net and admire his Deviant Art gallery too.
Chaos is awesome: A review of Elric – The Ruby Throne
“Slender but impressive” – two words which could be used to describe the skull-white, 1000 year old, lord of Melniboné or the latest hardback from Titan Comics. The Ruby Throne is the first in a new comic adaption of the books by Michael Moorcock. I’ve not read any of the Elric of Melniboné books but […]
Genre-hopping drama: A review of Ecko Burning
Ecko Burning is the sequel to Ecko Rising. I enjoyed Rising even though I had to wrestle with it. I wrestled less with Burning and enjoyed it more. Our anti-hero is a full tech cyberpunk creation called Ecko. A mission goes wrong, he falls off a roof and wakes up in a fantasy world. There […]
A Beastly Bestiary: A Review of the 13th Age Bestiary
Like a well-meaning-but-sort-of-annoying-best-friend, I worry about the future of 13th Age. The 3rd/4th edition fantasy RPG house blend by Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet hit the perfect note, melding those two polarizing editions together into something that is fast, playable, and fun, all the while being its own thing and fostering the creativity of players, […]
10 beautiful pictures ruined by shockingly bad writing
It might be best to sit down for this one. The Twitter account @AwfulFantasy promises to be the best source for the worst Fantasy and Science Fiction writing. How well is it doing? There’s less than 300 followers at the minute. A good sign, right? Some scoundrel took 10 samples of AwfulFantasy’s awful fantasy and […]
Dazzling fantasy, sci-fi and game art from Josh Corpuz
Josh Corpuz is an illustrator and character artist who may well have worked on some of your favourite games. He’s worked for Paizo Publishing (Blood of the Night and the NPC Codex), MKUltra Studios, Super Appli and Forged Chaos in just the last few years. You can check out more of his work over on […]
How to watch the George RR Martin and Robin Hobb world building live steam
On Tuesday the 19th of August, at 8pm in London George RR Martin and Robin Hobb will talk about building a world. The fantasy authors will talk about creating fictional universes, characters and balancing fantasy with reality. You can still buy ticket to the event in London. They come with a hardback copy of Robin […]
Escape to new worlds with Mathias Zamecki’s art
Mathias Zamecki is a freelane artist. He lives in Wroclaw in Poland and has nearly 5,000 followers on Facebook. These days he posts most of his art on his tumblr but it’s worth watching Society6 for prints now and then.
A look inside: Symbaroum
Symbaroum is a Swedish tabletop RPG from Järnringen. The game’s graphic designer took to Reddit to share images from the full colour hardback. I don’t blame them. It looks gorgeous! Symbaroum cover The RPG is some 240 pages long. Introduction The book begins by introducing people to the hobby, the types of dice and about […]
