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Tears at Bitter Manor: Insights from RPG Superstar winner Steven Helt

April 14, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tears at Bitter Manor is a brand new adventure from Paizo for Pathfinder. The 64-paged book includes a two-sided, full-colour poster map and suits a group of 5th-level characters. The adventure module is written by Paizo’s in-house team and Steven Helt. Helt won Paizo’s RPG Superstar winner of 2013 and this means that this adventure […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paizo Publishing, pathfinder

Top selling RPGs this winter: D&D slips even lower

March 13, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Industry watchers ICv2 have released their research on which RPGs sold best in the Winter of 2013. This data is based on interviews with retailers, distributors and manufacturers. It’ll be US-centric too. The result? These charts aren’t bulletproof but still a pretty good indicator. You can see the chart for Summer 2013 here which had […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Evil Hat Productions, fantasy flight games, fate core, icv2, iron kingdoms, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Privateer Press, star wars, wizards of the coast

Competition: The ConTessa treasure hunt!

January 15, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This competition runs from now until the 10th of February when ConTessa, the free online tabletop gaming convention by women for everyone comes to a close. As a ConTessa sponsor Geek Native is running a treasure hunt competition. There are some great prizes to be won! Take a look at this: Treasure bundle $50 of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: competitions, contessa, lamentations of the flame princess, Paizo Publishing

Why was the Pathfinder Dice Arena cancelled? We ask Luke of Fun to 11

December 27, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Right from the start the Pathfinder Dice Arena had interest and pledges on Kickstarter. In a surprise announcement Fun to 11, the company who had licensed the Pathfinder name from Paizo Publishing for the project, announced the Kickstarter would be cancelled. But why? Geek Native reached out to Luke Peterschmidt, a partner at Fun to […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paizo Publishing, pathfinder

Pathfinder Dice Arena Kickstarter gets cancelled after success

December 27, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Pathfinder Dice Arena game from Fun to 11 was fully licensed fro Paizo and had funded in only three days when Geek Native first wrote about it. It has now been cancelled. Why? Feedback from the Pathfinder community. This is feedback that came along with cancelled pledges. In an update, Luke Peterschmidt at the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Paizo Publishing

Paizo opens the gates to RPG Superstar 2014

December 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is the largest ever open-call for amateur game designers and the 7th year of Paizo’s annual RPG Superstar competition. The competition gives unknown game designers the chance to have the work critiqued by industry veterans and (yikes!) the fan community. This year’s host is Paizo Designer Sean K. Reynolds and the panel includes other […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Crystal Frasier, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Peter Adkison, Russ Morrissey, Sean K. Reynolds

5 favourite monster templates from the famous Advanced Bestiary

December 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native checked in with Chris Pramas, the President of Green Ronin, to talk about their Kickstarter for Advanced Bestiary for the Pathfinder RPG. Here’s the pitch. [Back the Campaign] This will fund. There are 4 days left on the clock, when this post went live, and 700+ backers have taken the fund total to […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Pramas, Dungeon & Dragons, kickstarters, monsters, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder

The Pathfinder Dice Arena rolls towards Kickstarter funding

November 29, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225737959/pathfinder-dice-arena/ [Back this Campaign] The team up of Paizo and FunTo11 on Kickstarter for the Pathfinder Dice Arena lets you play the iconic Pathfinder characters in a tournament. The area-tournament is there to explain why these characters might be fighting in the first place and avoids the damage dealing or luck aspects of some dice […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder

Top RPGs this summer: Pathfinder top, D&D third and Fate Core new in fifth

October 29, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

ICv2 have released their 2013 summer research into the best-selling RPGs. This list is put together from interviews with retailers, distributors and manufactures. In other words they’ve not examined the bags of gamers leaving stores and some key players like large online book stores and second hand markets may not be included but this research […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Evil Hat Productions, fantasy flight games, fate core, iron kingdoms, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Privateer Press, wizards of the coast

A look inside: Pathfinder’s Bestiary 4

October 24, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cthulhu, monsters, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, previews

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