GameWyrd had over 1,200 suggestions and memories of “Famous Last Words” of NPCs and PCs from all sorts of roleplaying games. This collection is the third archive saved from the original GameWyrd and brought over to Geek Native. One advantage of the new blog post format for this list (and a whole famous last words […]
Famous Last Words 2/15: That’s only a statue
This is the second collection of Famous Last Words from GameWyrd. It’s a sample of some of the more popular contributions from over 1,200 submissions. The original list would let registered Wyrdlings vote on which famous last words they thought were the best. We’ve not been able to bring that function over to Geek Native […]
Famous Last Words 1/15: I poke the body
One of GameWyrd’s most popular section was “Famous Last Words”. There were over 1200 user submitted contributions and thousands votes for people’s favourites.The ran the range from sci-fi to fantasy, from real to urban myth and most of them funny. This page contains GameWyrd’s most popular Famous Last Words. You’re also welcome to submit new […]
F.A.T.A.L. (From Another Time, Another Land) Download
This post is here because I can see from Geek Native’s traffic logs that people want it. One of the user-submitted reviews to GameWyrd, the site that came before Geek Native, was of an infamous roleplaying game titled “From Another Time, Another Land” aka F.A.T.A.L. To this day the site gets traffic from people searching […]
Gaming scenery – Capital City – so clever it confuses
This is so clever I’m not even sure how it works. I think this PDF results in printed cut outs – perhaps stuck onto card? I do get the end goal, though. You wind up with a 3D set of gaming scenery. You can have no grid, 1×1 or hex grids; in other words this […]
Music for roleplaying
I wish “Music for Roleplaying” had been one of the first sections I added to GameWyrd as perhaps it would have had a higher profile and been more successful. I still think the internet would benefit from a music database/recommendation service for gamers and scenes. Lately sites like Last.fm and Spotify have helped though. Last.fm […]
The Friendly Face of Fear
Oh my gwad. This is an original article from 2001 back when I was exploring the possibility of writing editorial dialog for web sites. I paid no attention to the writing. It was all about the HTML construct and whether the concept worked. The Friendly Face of Fear “The Friendly Face of Fear” comes in […]
Practical Wisdom by Fell Coldwyn
This article was submitted to GameWyrd by Wyrdling Fell Coldwyn. I was very happy to make a page just for it. Practical Wisdom I’ve played various RPG’s for six years now, which isn’t long by most standards. Still, it’s long enough to notice something: namely, that a character’s Wisdom score, in all its variations, has […]
Fullmetal Alchemist as a CRPG
There’s going to be a Fullmetal Alchemist RPG for the PSP – and it looks pretty cool. Right now we’ve got Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood going great guns in both the US and the UK so while this preview is entirely in Japanese we can be hopeful the game makes the leap to an English version. […]
An introduction to GUMSHOE
The GUMSHOE rules system was created by Robin D Laws – the creator of the Dying Earth RPG – and is designed to work best for investigation games. Since it’s launch GUMSHOE has picked up other big names; including Kenneth Hite who produced a new version of Call of Cthulhu called Trail of Cthulhu with […]
