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The zombies lure in money as Toxicity comes to life in Kickstarter

April 24, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I Am Zombie is a RPG from Vampire: the Masquerade creator Mark Rein-Hagen. Toxicity is both a supplement and a standalone zombie RPG that takes the zombie action into the mean-streets of 70s NYC. You can follow its undead shuffle on the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/make-believegames/toxicity-i-am-zombie-rpg [Back this Campaign] At the time of writing Toxicity has […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, make-believe, mark rein-hagen, zombies

New Zombie RPG from World of Darkness’ Mark Rein-Hagen

June 7, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Following on from a Kickstater campaign launched in June 2013 Mark Rein-Hagen’s new RPG “I am Zombie” is due in stores. The game will have a I Am Zombie Field Manual which will cos about $40 and a I Am Zombie Playkit which includes two decks of ID cards, 8 “Brainz” dice, bump chips and […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, make-believe, mark rein-hagen, zombies

6 famous RPG designers and the monsters they look like

December 1, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

You can search Google with images. All you need to do is drag and drop your image from your desktop or tab into the search box. As a security and privacy feature Google refuses to match faces for faces. If you search for a face you’ll exact matches and a wide range in the so-called […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, jonathan tweet, mark rein-hagen, Mike Mearls, monsters, Monte Cook, steve jackson, Stewart Wieck

Twitter accounts to follow this International #TableTopDay

March 30, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s International TableTop Day! You may well have noticed by now as the web is all a flutter about it. How is Geek Native taking part? This blog is covering the virtual side of the event. You might risk a peek at 5 RPG Kickstarters or even join one of 10 Google+ RPG communities and […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Angus Abranson, Broken Tower, Chronicle City, cubicle 7, International TableTop Day, make-believe, mark rein-hagen, Pelgrane Press, twitter

Succubus: The Reborn

March 29, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this Campaign] Mark Rein-Hagen co-founded the RPG publisher White Wolf and created iconic games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. His next game might be Succubus: The Reborn if this Kickstarter is successful. This game is very different from the storyteller RPGs. This is a card game in which players, working in […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card game, kickstarters, make-believe, mark rein-hagen, vampires

The Ars Magica computer game could happen

October 23, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Support this Campaign] When I say “The Ars Magica computer game could happen” I bet your mind is already turning to Kickstarter. You’d be right. Black Chicken Studios, already responsible for the ages 9 and up Academagia and equally targeted Scheherazadegane 2D sim style roleplaying games, are looking for a tasty $290,000 to get going. […]

Filed Under: PC, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ars magica, Atlas Games, jonathan tweet, kickstarters, mark rein-hagen

Are these the best horror RPGs of all time?

October 23, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 16 Comments

Halloween is sneaking ever closer and around the world gamers will be wondering what to do. Some gaming groups will have especially spooky encounters and others will play one off horror games. It’s little surprise that horror RPGs have a spike of sales around about now. Geek Native asked the kindly souls at OneBookShelf (RPGNow […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Changeling: the Lost, Chaosium, cthulhu, deathwatch, Dresden Files, Eclipse Phase, eden studios, Evil Hat Productions, fantasy flight games, halloween, horror, Jim Butcher, mark rein-hagen, posthuman studios, Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires, warhammer 40k, white wolf, world of darkness, zombies

Original developers attempt Deluxe Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition

October 3, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this project]. The second World of Darkness game, Werewolf: the Apocalypse, is due it’s 20th anniversary. Designers Bill Bridges, who worked on the first supplement, and Ethan Skemp have turned to Kickstarter to try and rise $85,000 to publish a deluxe edition to mark the date. This will happen. At the time of posting […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, mark rein-hagen, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, werewolves, world of darkness

Vampire: the Masquerade inventor has a new game

July 15, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Mark Rein•Hagen may be best known for creating the World of Darkness and the flagship RPG from the series – Vampire: the Masquerade. He’s created other games to, including the card game Long Live the King. He’s not done anything that’s hit Geek Native’s radar in a while though. In fact, the Facebook page of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, kickstarters, make-believe, mark rein-hagen, Vampire: The Masquerade, world of darkness

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