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Chaosium’s Lynne Hardy will be at Edinburgh’s Cymera 2025

May 15, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s Andrew Girdwood and Bronwen Winter Phoenix will both be at Scotland’s Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing Cymera in June.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, conventions, lynne hardy

Rivers of London: “Jimmy’s Last Dance” will follow “The Font of All Evil”

September 7, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Rivers of London TTRPG line editor Lynne Hardy is at Tabletop Scotland this weekend, and while she’s busy dealing with many fans, Geek Native may have managed to wrangle an exclusive.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, lynne hardy, Rivers of London, tabletop scotland

Folklore in fantasy RPGs? Over, under or inappropriately used?

September 7, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At Tabletop Scotland, Adam of Blackwell Games, Brian Tyrell of Stout Stoat Press, author of the “Pict-ish” Carved in Stone, Pablo Clark of The Old King’s Crown and Chaosium’s Lynne Hardy and Associate Editor of Call of Cthulhu and Rivers of London champion talked about folklore in fantasy RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: lynne hardy, stout stoat, tabletop scotland

Free to Download: Rivers of London TTRPG releases its solo “The Domestic” adventure

December 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Spring, 2016: the Folly, also known as the Metropolitan Police Service’s “special magic branch,” has received word of repeated domestic disturbances at an address on Prince of Wales Road, London—and very odd ones, at that.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, free to download, lynne hardy, paul fricker, Rivers of London

Rivers of London RPG review: Rich with Ben Aaronovitch’s magic

December 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m a fan of Rivers of London and have read several books, I enjoyed each one but have not read them all.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, lynne hardy, paul fricker, reviews, Rivers of London

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #89

February 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Keep up with RPG news, Wizards of the Coast’s new promotion with Hasbro, the many D&D TV shows, an Altered Carbon RPG review and interviews from around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2d20, 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, altered carbon, arium, Avatar: The Last Airbender, cawood publishing, chamomile has adventures, Champions, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, fanatical, fandom, Fantasy Grounds, far away land rpg, foundry, game designers workshop, greater than games, Hero System, jay dragon, lynne hardy, magpie games, Modiphius Entertainment, nerdburger games, obsidian portal, Ogre, Paizo Publishing, quest, roll20, routinely itemised, Sentinel comics, Steve Jackson Games, tales from the loop, twilight: 2000, vampires, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, wanderhome, wizards of the coast, wizkids, year zero engine, Zadmar Games

Monsters hunters in muscle cars: Welcome to Rivers of London America

December 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cops that do magic just seems to have broad appeal. It’s safely in the geek interest zone and manages to lure in people who wouldn’t usually be interested in urban fantasy.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, lynne hardy, Rivers of London

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #71

October 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news summary, complete with a roundup of new releases, freebies, interviews and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, adventure system, Arion Games, astate, beadle & grimm's, Bruce Cordell, bundle of holding, Chaosium, Corpus Malicious, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dnd beyond, Dragonlance, Dream Realm Storytellers, Elder Scrolls, en publishing, fat dragon games, Free League Publishing, gama, halloween, handiwork games, idyll creations, Inkwell Ideas, king arthur pendragon, kobold press, Loke BattleMats, lynne hardy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rhianna pratchett, Rivers of London, roll20con, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadow of the Demon Lord, soulbound, stargrave, terminator, the grinning frog, the wildsea, vaesen, warhammer, wizards of the coast

Call of Cthulhu’s The Children of Fear due out this month

October 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chaosium has confirmed that their mammoth Call of Cthulhu adventure The Children of Fear will be available in digital format this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, lynne hardy, the children of fear

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #48

May 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news and a newly launched RPG convention calendar to keep track of all these new projects. Catch up with Routinely Itemised.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, Bully Pulpit Games, Chaosium, charity, critical role, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, exploring eberron, fiasco, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, grimmerspace, Keith Baker, kobold press, lynne hardy, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, Skeletonkey games, star trek adventures, the lost citadel, the witcher, Trudvang Adventures, twilight: 2000, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

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