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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #100

May 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In a big release, Demiplane the gamer-find-game site, made profiles optionally public.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: April Kit Walsh, Atlas Games, awfully cheerful engine, Chaosium, cyberpunk red, demiplane, Dungeons & Dragons, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, evil beagle games, Evil Hat Productions, flyos games, Genesis of Legend Publishing, ghosts of saltmarsh, GURPS, ICONS, Infinity, inspirisles, lion banner games, Modiphius Entertainment, moonmares games, Prowlers & Paragons, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Skirmisher Publishing, talisman, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Tricube Tales, Vampire: The Masquerade, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, wizards of the coast, wizkids, Zadmar Games

Icons superheroes fly through the Bundle of Holding

May 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Steve Kenson (Mutants & Masterminds) and Ad Infinitum Adventures have the Icons superhero game in the Bundle of Holding. Not once, but twice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ad Infinitum Adventures, bundle of holding, bundles, ICONS, Steve Kenson

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #82

January 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New RPG releases, news from creators and publishers along with reviews, interviews and a host of new Kickstarter activity. It’s Geek Native’s weekly round-up in Routinely Itemised!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, bundle of holding, Chaosium, cthulhu dark, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, Fainting Goat Games, goodman games, Graham Walmsley, ICONS, level up, lords of the middle sea, Monte Cook Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Porcupine Publishing, righteous blood ruthless blades, routinely itemised, Sanguine Productions, shadowrun: collapsing now, Steve Kenson, the grinning frog, wizards of the coast

The best selling superhero RPGs of 2019

December 26, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There can be no doubt that superheroes have become big business in recent years. What about for tabletop RPGs?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ad Infinitum Adventures, bloat games, city of mist, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, gallant knight games, genesys, Green Ronin Publishing, ICONS, Mutants & Masterminds, runehammer games, Son of Oak Game Studio, superheroes

Genre Police: Look, Up In The Sky!

September 9, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Superheroes

Is it a bird, is it a plane? No! It’s the wonderful world of superheroes. Easy to discuss Supers, just check out Captain America, right? What do you mean he comes from a different genre to Thor? What about Rorschach? Claire Bennet fits in here somewhere as well, doesn’t she? Now we are in a […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, ICONS, Mutants & Masterminds, superheroes

Superhero Week: 10 of the most popular free superhero RPGs

July 6, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let’s be clear about this – DriveThruRPG’s ‘Pay As You Want’ allows you to pay nothing to download a high-quality RPG or accessory and very often that’s what the author encourages you to do. There’s a suggested price. Geek Native recommends paying what you think is appropriate, not what you want, and if the author […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalypse world, Dungeons & Dragons, Evil Hat, free to download, ICONS, monster of the week, Sanguine Productions, savage worlds, superhero week, Swords & Wizardry, third eye games

Superhero Week: An exclusive peak at ICONS – The Assembled Edition

July 2, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Bring on the Bad Guys! As you may well know, the “Assembled Edition” of Icons Superpowered Roleplaying became available for pre-orders at the beginning of this week, along with going on sale in electronic format on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow. Green Ronin Publishing is printing and distributing the print edition of the book, a 232-page full-color […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ad Infinitum Adventures, green ronin, ICONS, Steve Kenson, superhero week, superheroes

Green Ronin and Ad Infinitum partner to produce Icons: The Assembled Edition

March 25, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A new edition of the superheroes RPG Icons is on the way and via a partnership between Green Ronin and Ad Infinitum Adventures. Steve Kenson, who created Icons, will write and Dan Houser and Daniel Solis will provide the art. The Assembled Edition of Icons will be brought up to date with everything that’s happened […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ad Infinitum Adventures, green ronin, ICONS, Steve Kenson, superheroes

Superhero Week: 10 more brave superhero RPGs go to war

July 1, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 12 Comments

This is the second Superhero Week here at Geek Native. It is therefore the second time 10 superhero RPGs have stepped up to battle it out. It’s your chance to using the rating stars to say how much you enjoyed the games. Is you favourite game included? If not then perhaps it made the list […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ad Infinitum Adventures, Arc Dream Publishing, green ronin, ICONS, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment, savage worlds, superhero week, TSR, Wild Talents

Vigliance Press tease new Field Guide to Superheroes volume

May 2, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Vigliance Press has a successful collection of superhero “archetype encyclopedia”. The Field Guide to Superheroes is available on DriveThru RPG and are written by Jason Tondro. Tondro may have studied comics for his PhD in Literature but he also contributed an Index to Sharn, City of Towers many years ago to GameWyrd.com. That’s impressive too. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adamant Entertainment, ICONS, Jason Tondro, Steve Kenson, vigilance press

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