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Monster hunting in 16th-century Brazil: The Elephant and Macaw Banner RPG bundle

February 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s reviewed and liked The Elephant & Macaw Banner RPG. Deadly combat, and all.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Elephant & Macaw Banner, Porcupine Publishing

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #125

November 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Fortunately, there’s been plenty of RPG news to keep brains distracted here in the North from the unrelenting encroachment of winter of darkness.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, adam lee, alien rpg, banana chan, battlelords of the 23rd century, Call of Cthulhu, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, ghost hunters, goodman games, Ill Gotten Games, Jim Butler, kickstarter, Legendary Games, leyline press, lord of the rings, modern age, Mongoose Publishing, neverending, Newt Newport, Numenera, Paizo Publishing, planebreaker, Polyhedra Games, Porcupine Publishing, roll20, routinely itemised, salvage union, savage worlds, scp, sidequest, the grinning frog, the merciless merchants, The One Ring, traveller, Troll Lord Games, wizards of the coast

PWYW: Revolution Comes to the Kingdom enters beta

November 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ancient places, ruins, visions of awe and terror are also part of Tom McGrenery’s game. It’s a struggle against Eight Evil Thoughts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: pay what you want, Porcupine Publishing

The refreshing touch of change and death: A review of The Elephant and Macaw Banner

May 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I learned more about Brazilian mythology and related stories from this RPG than I had read in years.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Elephant & Macaw Banner, Porcupine Publishing, reviews, Supernatural

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #82

January 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New RPG releases, news from creators and publishers along with reviews, interviews and a host of new Kickstarter activity. It’s Geek Native’s weekly round-up in Routinely Itemised!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, bundle of holding, Chaosium, cthulhu dark, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, Fainting Goat Games, goodman games, Graham Walmsley, ICONS, level up, lords of the middle sea, Monte Cook Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Porcupine Publishing, righteous blood ruthless blades, routinely itemised, Sanguine Productions, shadowrun: collapsing now, Steve Kenson, the grinning frog, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #75

November 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the RPG news this week we’ve a review roundup of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, a legal fight between Wizards of the Coast and a partner, Kickstarter projects to look at a website from Google that makes monsters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Absolute Tabletop, alice is missing, astral tabletop, awfully cheerful engine, Battlefield Press, blue rose, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, gale force nine, gallant knight games, grant howitt, Indie Press Revolution, itch.io, Keith Baker, liminal, magpie games, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mythic table, Nightfall Games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Palladium Books, Paradox Interactive, parts per million, Porcupine Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, Steve Jackson Games, Symbaroum, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, the children of fear, the fantasy trip, the grinning frog, the oracle, the wildsea, those dark places, traveller, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, world of darkness

The gorgeous Elephant & Macaw Banner RPG

February 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Elephant & Macaw Banner is a game of muskets and magic and already an award-winning fiction series.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Elephant & Macaw Banner, kickstarters, Porcupine Publishing

Your ENnies 2019 dashboard!

July 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native has popped all the runners and riders into a wee database so you can quickly navigate between categories.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, 9th level games, AAW Games, Ashley Warren Writes, Chaosium, Dwarven Forge, Free League Publishing, Helmgast, hunters entertainment, kobold press, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Necrotic Gnome, nerdburger games, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Porcupine Publishing, questing beast, Renegade Game Studios, Saturday Morning Scenarios, Shawn Tomkin, Stygian Fox Publishing, Tuesday Knight Games, World Anvil

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