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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #7

August 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

News on the D&D movie, the release of Pathfinder 2nd edition and the discovery that two out the three best selling RPGs last quarter are sci-fi games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astral tabletop, cubicle 7, dms guild, Evil Hat Productions, FATE, Free League Publishing, Ill Gotten Games, lord of the rings, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, routinely itemised, the adventure zone, the expanse rpg, The One Ring, wizards of the coast

You may not have considered: A review of Fate Accessibility Toolkit (Prototype Edition)

August 1, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Disability is not one size fits all; it looks different on everyone, and everyone who has a disability handles their own differently. Even people with the same disability ‘don’t all handle it in the exact same way.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Evil Hat Productions, FATE, reviews

Superhero Week: The Deluxe Super Villain Handbook

July 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s actually a lot of reasons Golden Age characters make great material. The DSVH includes several golden age characters like the Black Terror and Stardust the Super-Wizard, and even older characters like Robur the Conqueror and Dracula, but most of the characters are brand new.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fainting Goat Games, FATE, Jason Tondro, Mike Lafferty, superhero week, superheroes

What if Cthulhu is like Skynet? Fate of Cthulhu

April 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What if Cthulhu was like Skynet? It’s a thing from the future that sends agents back to the present in order to trigger the apocalypse it needs?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cthulhu, Evil Hat Productions, FATE, fate of cthulhu, kickstarters

The Christmas in July sale means 25% off 50, 259 RPGs!

July 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To keep us going from shopping frenzy to shopping frenzy DriveThruRPG and family run the Christmas in July sale. At the time of writing this post, there are just over 12 days left in the sale. That may seem a lot but there are over fifty thousand items with 25% off! Ouch. Let’s hope we […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Alligator Alley Entertainment, amazing tales, Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk, drivethrurpg, Esper Genesis, Evil Hat, FATE, godbound, heroic maps, horror, Modiphius Entertainment, R. Talsorian Games, sales, Shadowrun, sine nomine publishing, star trek, Vampire: The Masquerade, white wolf

7,764 free RPGs! It’s Free RPG Day

June 16, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

It’s Free RPG today. Gamers around the world are encouraged to pop into their local store and try a new RPG for free today. It’s made possible by a host of sponsors which Geek Native thank and will mention a little later on. Since 2014 Geek Native has been tracking the number of free RPGs […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, Atlas Games, Chaosium, chessex, D101 Games, Delta Green, dms guild, dungeon masters guild, Dungeons & Dragons, FATE, flying buffalo, free rpg day, free to download, goodman games, Monte Cook Games, paizo, Pelgrane Press, q-workshop, Renegade Game Studios, sales, stats, Steve Jackson Games, Troll Lord Games, Ulisses Spiele, UltraPro, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures

RPG Ideas: Running games in a historical context

June 2, 2018 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Tim Chant is a gamer and author (and baker) based in Edinburgh. His latest project, The Frost Fair, asks ‘what if?’. What if history worked out slightly differently. Would the world be very different? Geek Native invited Tim to suggest some ideas for running RPGs in a historical context and he stepped up to the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: deadlands, FATE, Legend of the Five Rings, rpg ideas, savage worlds

A New Way for an Old System: A Review of Nova Praxis, Savage Worlds Edition

October 3, 2014 by Guest Reviewer 2 Comments

For those of you who just want to hear the bottom line, here it is: Nova Praxis: Savage Worlds Edition is more or less exactly what you would expect. If you like the freaky transhuman setting but don’t like the Fate system, then the Savage Worlds take on it may be more your cup of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: FATE, reviews, savage worlds, sci-fi

Great Deeds of Cruelty and Derring-do: A Review of the Fate Freeport Companion

January 8, 2014 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

Blacksand, Babylon 5, Ankh Morpork, Mos Eisley… Sometimes, to say ‘Any Port in a Storm‘ is simply an uncomplicated fact. When life or the weather get choppy and you need to find somewhere to shelter or hide out, then a port will likely have all you need. Because all forms of life tend to end […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Evil Hat Productions, FATE, freeport, green ronin, reviews, rpgs

10 new tabletop RPG communities on Google+ to join

December 7, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

Yesterday Google rolled out a new feature on Google+ – communities. Communities let people chat and share around common interests. As you can expect there’s already a wealth of RPG communities as gamers tend to be early adopters. Here’s Google’s video that explains the concept. It’s early days, so some communities might take off yet […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: FATE, google, pathfinder, star wars, tabletop forge

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