• About
    • Policies
    • Write For Us
    • Ads
    • How We Earn Money
  • Email Digest
  • Patreon
  • Shop
  • Resources
    • Archives
    • Conventions
    • Chat Portal
    • Free eBooks
    • Latest TTRPG News Summary
    • Podcast
    • RPG Tips
    • RPG Tools
    • Short Film Roulette

Geek Native

From the land of Geek

  • Books
    • Comics
  • Games
    • Console
    • Mobile
    • PC
    • Tabletop & RPGs
  • Geek Stuff
    • Cool Tech
    • Art
    • Interviews
    • Sites
    • GameWyrd
      • Echoes from the Wyrd
      • Famous Last Words
      • The Lost Archives
      • Weird Awards
      • Wyrd Reviews
  • Movies
  • Music
  • TV
    • Anime
    • Online Shows

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Handiwork Games

December 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re a small band of creators based around the world, but mostly in Scotland, UK. We have team members in England, The US, and New Zealand. 

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, beowulf, handimonsters, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland, spotlight, The One Ring

Tremendous karma and RPG goodness are in these generous Doctors Without Borders megabundles

March 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I don’t have the context; I just noticed the bundles going live and presume that we’ve the tabletop RPG community of publishers and creators rallying to raise money for war-torn Ukraine.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 5 minute workday publishing, after the war, Age of Ambition, bean!, bundles, charity, dms guild, drivethrurpg, Eclipse Phase, epyllion: a dragon epic, fabled worlds, fading embers, forthright, Genesis of Legend Publishing, handimonsters, handiwork games, magpie games, posthuman studios, room 209 gaming, tab creations, valiant

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #135

January 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week with more TSR drama, horror RPGs, killer future robots and babies with broadswords.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure squared, arc, awfully queer heroes, Babies and Broadswords, Call of Cthulhu, candle, Chaosium, coyote & crow, crow land publishing, darrington press, descender, epoch possibilitie, even footing games, fantasy heartbreaker, fat dragon games, frostforge gaming, gallantfunding, goodman games, handimonsters, handiwork games, horror in blackwood forest, humble bundle, infinium game studios, ken wickham, Loke BattleMats, losing games, luna publishing, m-powered production, maustritter, metroville, mindjammer press, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, neon blues, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Outland Entertainment, philip reed, roll20, root, routinely itemised, Skirmisher Publishing, solo but not alone, speaks, tabletop simulator, terminator, the wilderness books of battle mats, They Came From Beyond the Grave, TSR, Vault of Magic, void gate games, warhammer elector counts, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

Handimonsters Annual 2022 turns a Patreon of monsters into a book

January 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Handimonsters Annual 2022 is the first of its kind and, in 5e-terms, features monsters like the subterranean knackers of CR 1/4 to the Dragon of Dreams with CR 20.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, handimonsters, handiwork games, jacob rodgers, Jon Hodgson, monsters, Paul Bourne, Scott Purdy

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #99

May 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Roll20 price increase, D&D movie starts to film, and a US court throws out a legal case against Gen Con. It’s been a week of RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, arcane dice, archon studio, arctanis games, awfully cheerful engine, black box games, blood votillion, broken tales, cinder dove publishing, clynche, convergence, Craig Campbell, creatively queer press, Creature Curation, crescent, cubicle 7, d&d live, dmdave, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, fanattik, Fire Ruby Designs, four-color studios, galactic, handimonsters, hasbro, heavy metal thunder, inspirisles, Jonathan Goldstein, laidback dungeon master, Legendary Games, legendary planet, limitless adventures, midlam miniatures, miniatures ezipion, monsterhearts, mousewife games, nerdburger games, nowhereville, onebookshelf, pathfinder, Ptolus, roll20, routinely itemised, run the dungeon, skies publishing, soulbound, soulbound starter set, stonehell dungeon, Symbaroum, talon & crew, the bard's gambit, the black wyrm of brandonsford, the dig, the velvet book, trinity knot studio, uk games expo, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, wargame forge, warpstar, wet ink games, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, world wide wrestling, XII: Inner Demons

Free to Download: 6 monsters

April 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The preview suggests we’ll get the Knacker, Quicksilver Troll, Spell-Thief, Holigean and Swamp Boulder among the collection.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, handimonsters, handiwork games, jacob rodgers, Jon Hodgson, monsters, Patreon, Scott Purdy

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #78

December 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week D&D hired a new senior game designer, an army of monsters appeared on Humble Bundle, publishers backed New Gamemaster Month and a load more. It’s time for a Routinely Itemised collection of RPG news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Amanda Hamon, archives of the empire, below, blueshift nine, bundles, christmas, conflict games, Coriolis, Crystal Frasier, cubicle 7, dare-luck club, dnd beyond, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, Elephant & Macaw Banner, entromancy, Fantasy Grounds, First Responders, foundry, gama, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, godforsaken, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, griffon lore games, gumshoe, handimonsters, handiwork games, humble bundle, jonathan hicks, loresmyth, mercy of the icons, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, nightpath publishing, Outland Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, Philip J Reed, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, remarkable shops, rifts, routinely itemised, savage worlds, schwalb entertainment, see you in hell, Shadow of the Demon Lord, silver hoof games, skycrawl, starfinder, the dungeon alphabet, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Last Cyclade, those dark places, Tian Shang: Lone Wolf Fists, tombpunk, trophy, ubersreik adventures, warhammer, wizards of the coast, xenovore

Handiwork Games launch Handimonsters subscription

December 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designed by Jon Hodgson and Jacob Rodgers, two tabletop veterans the three-tiered model comes complete with fantastic art and expertly balanced stats.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, handimonsters, handiwork games, jacob rodgers, Jon Hodgson, monsters, Patreon

Quick Links

  • Archives
  • Chat Portal
  • Cookie Policy (UK)
  • Geek Conventions
  • Kickstarter Heat
  • Newsletter
  • Patreon
  • Podcast
  • Resources
  • RPG Publisher Spotlight
  • Social Media

Geek Native's newsletter

Info

  • Contact Us
  • Corrections
  • Privacy

Columns

  • Quick RPG news summaries
  • Quick mini-reviews
  • Quick highlights podcast
  • Recent Kickstarters 
  • Competitions!

Follow Us

Social Media

Recent Posts

  • Anthony Daniels on Returning to Play C-3PO in STAR WARS Series ‘Ahsoka’
  • Watch the world collapse in new trailer for ‘Leave the World Behind’
  • Competition: Win a deluxe Cocaine Owlbear (yes, really!)

Supporters

  • Patreon

Geek Native

"Where everybody knows your game"

Copyright © 2023 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Manage Cookie Consent
This site uses cookies 🍪, and links are ads that may earn bloggers some money 💰, and with this alert, we very much hope that these dark truths 👿 are acknowledged.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
Preferences
{title} {title} {title}
pixel