It is the first Irregular Reconnaissance: Comics catch up of 2014 and there’s more than half a dozen micro-reviews. In Irregular Reconnaissance I look back of recent reading to share opinion, insight but mainly opinion. The goal? There’s a wealth of comic book goodness out there and it can be hard to decide when to […]
Unlock the Eternal Siege of the Shard: A Review of The Timeless Fort
Long ago, three kingdoms were gifted with the fiery arrival of a skybourne crystal shard. Some say the artefact possessed the ability to enhance magical powers, but none of the kingdoms could tell for sure, for a righteous order of men and women stole it from beneath their noses. So started the Shard Wars. Like […]
Trove of Lost Hopes: A Review of Tomb of Rils
Treasures heaped so high they’d make a golden dragon weep. A gamemaster can sometimes find such a potential trove, not in the fictional content of some forgotten dungeon, but in the words, setting and ingenuity of a written adventure. Other times, you might come across something more commonplace and uncover a gem or two – […]
Avalanche!: A Review of The Mysterious Peaks of Baranthar
Scaling the sheer cliffs of the Baranthar Mountains, falling to your death might prove the least of your worries. The elements and unforgiving crags of the Baranthar peaks may prove as dangerous and uninviting as the struggling and desperate settlers that once called it home. However, the evil that lies at the summit poses a […]
Why was the Pathfinder Dice Arena cancelled? We ask Luke of Fun to 11
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 […]
Paizo opens the gates to RPG Superstar 2014
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 […]
5 favourite monster templates from the famous Advanced Bestiary
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 […]
The Pathfinder Dice Arena rolls towards Kickstarter funding
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 […]
Irregular Reconnaissance: Comic Books #5
It’s been a busy month of comic book reading for me. For the most part this is made possible by a shiny new Nexus 7 tablet (hmm, comics in HD) and the inability to sleep. I wonder if the two are connected? In Irregular Reconnaissance I take the chance to write up some of these […]
Top RPGs this summer: Pathfinder top, D&D third and Fate Core new in fifth
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 […]
