Looking for a modern day monster you can terrorise players with? Want to avoid classics like werewolves and vampires but want to draw on contemporary myth and legend? The work Vladmir Stankovic put into the Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Cryptozoology might appeal then. These are all monsters that people still whisper about today, at least in […]
Monsters Articles
Explore Geek Native's articles tagged with Monsters. This collection covers topics in Art, Tabletop & RPGs, and Books.
Monsters In the Classroom
Today is the start of Teach your Kids to Game week at DriveThru RPG. There’s a sale of family RPG material all week and you can keep up with the events via their Facebook and Twitter profiles. Worth keeping an eye on if you’ve little minions of your own. Eden Jones-Hinds, formerly of Oak Mountain Intermediate […]
A look inside: Pathfinder’s Bestiary 4
As we draw up to Halloween there are GMs around the world looking for some new horrors to scare their players with. Right on schedule the ever helpful Paizo have unleashed Bestiary 4 for Pathfinder. Now, it might be that the 320-paged hardback won’t make it to your local store in time but it will […]
Porcelain critters
Pokemon stands for ‘pocket monsters’ so perhaps we should call these porcelain monsters from Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev ‘Pocemon’. Mind you, I’m not sure porcelain is the best material for battles. Porcelain is certainly a great material for creating colourful and crisp, alien and odd, textured little critters. Via Geek Art Gallery.
The cyclopean nightmares of K.L. Turner
Oo. Shudder. It’s getting dark earlier. The winter is drawing in. This is the time of the year that horrors begin to bubble closer to the surface in nightmares and visions. Let’s turn our attention to the world K.L. Turner, aka Electixx, a conceptual artist of surreal skill. For your dreaming wisdom; Gigantocephalopodes irradiatus Moorish […]
Dan Abnett’s Kingdom to get sequel; Fiefdom
Dan Abnett’s 2000 AD series “Kingdom” is an action-packed comic book series in which genetically created dog-soldiers defend the Antarctic from mutant insect horrors. It’s a post-apocalyptic future that explores loyalty, nature and nurture as well as the sense of belonging but is very much a blood soaked action drama in fitting with the best […]
A review of Monster Massacre
Monster Massacre is a graphic novel anthology from an impressive collection of artists and storytellers. The line-up includes Jack Kirby, Alex Horley, Joe Simon, Mark A Nelson, Andy Kuhn, Ron Marz, Sami Basri, Ian Edington, D’Israeli, Tony Raney, Vito Delsante, Dave Wilkins and Javier Aranda. There are 10 stories in the showcase and each one […]
Street art monsters are watching you
Artist Aiden Glynn can do a lot with a set of eyes. He can transform every day objects, the sort of thing you see on the street, into watchful monsters. Okay, sure, yes; they’re slightly derpy monsters but they’re monsters!
The custom King Kong Paw model
Designed by James Fuller is this impressive King Kong model called King Kong Paw. Fuller oozes experience in toy design and you can browse his store here. At the time of writing King Kong Paw is his latest and perhaps his biggest model too at 26″ tall. I especially like the airplane treatment. They really […]
The pitch for the Accursed RPG: monsters as heroes
Authors John Dunn, Jason Marker and Ross Watson have teamed up to work on the Accursed RPG. This is a Savage Worlds game in which darkness has won and the only ones left to fight back are monsters.
