Friday’s are a good day for a recap of the news of the week. In Mr Root, we’ll take a look at news from Geek Native and around the web.
How to find an LGBTQ+ creator in the tabletop industry for your next project
Does it reflect poorly on roleplaying as an industry that such a list is needed in the first place?
8,948 free RPGs! It’s Free RPG Day
We’ve shrugged off last year’s decline in free RPGs, and there’s a treasure hoard of free goodies available today.
Threefold is the first original setting for Green Ronin’s Modern AGE
What if you could go anywhere?
The Expanse RPG opens for pre-orders
The Expanse RPG now officially taking pre-orders after rogue copies spotted on Amazon storefronts outside the US.
Discover the winners of the ENnies 2018 RPG Awards
Gen Con hosted the ENnies last night and there’s a host of winners to announce. EN World shared the news this morning, along with a hat tip to the hosts Andy Hopp, Stacy Dellorfano, BJ Hensley, Mark Morrison and Amanda Valentine. Congratulations to everyone who took home a prize. It’s worth popping back to Geek […]
Preview Green Ronin’s Freeport: The City of Adventure VR computer game
A strange mix of Sea of Thieves and Robot Chicken? No, this is tabletop games publisher Green Ronin’s forthcoming computer game based on their Freeport series. Let’s be very clear. This video is an early preview of an unfinished computer game. It’s just exciting that Green Ronin is flirting with the computer game space in […]
Free to Download: The Expanse Roleplaying Game quickstart
You can now download The Expanse RPG quickstart for free. The timing is spot on as publisher Green Ronin are only a few days into their The Expanse Roleplaying Game Kickstarter, and it is going great guns. It funded in just one hour, smashing the US$30, 000 goal. At the time of writing, there are […]
Genre Police: The Only Good Pirate Is A Fake Pirate
Hoist the mainsail! Stow the booty! Set Sail For Outer shores! And while we’re at it, make sure we paint over anything that might make a bunch of bandits at sea look like criminals! Spend some time with us and let investigate the genre of pirates and how its far from a guide to the […]
Genre Police: Down And Dirty With Grimdark
Welcome to back Genre police, a new series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. This column we are going to take a look at Grimdark, the new weird kid that moved into town. […]









