The preview introduces SPEAR (Special Executive Assault and Recon) as an organisation whose agents battle to protect the world from biological and paranormal threats.
Snowhaven brings Snowpunk to D&D
Snowpunk is the oppressive isolation of winter without end and near steampunk levels of technology in a high fantasy world. In a snowpunk game expect intrigue and noir.
Whatever happened to The Savage Worlds Adventurer’s Guild?
In September 2018 we had news of the Savage Worlds Adventurer’s Guild (aka SWAG). It’s been months. What happened? It’ll go live tomorrow; 22nd of Jan 2019. The Savage Worlds Adventurer’s Guild is both an official marketplace and permission to write, sell and keep (some) of the money for Savage Worlds content. Pinnacle Entertainment aren’t […]
The ‘other’ best selling RPGs of 2018
If your RPG doesn’t fit nicely into any of the provided genres or it can also be used in extra genres then DriveThruRPG provides the ‘Other’ tag as a place to put your game.
The Savage Worlds Adventurer’s Guild
Community marketplaces are big business in RPGland these days. The most famous is probably DM’s Guild where anyone can create and sell content created for Dungeons and Dragons 5e. There are some rules, of course, generally around the use of the D&D logo and name and that’s why you’ll see Kickstarters for ‘5e’ rather than […]
Bureau 13: Savage Worlds Black scores new RPGs before the Kickstarter is launched
Pinnacle Entertainment Group will take Savage Worlds back to Kickstarter this year. October 16th will see Shane Lacy Hensley’s RPG system, the winner of the 2003 Origin Gamers’ Choice Award, go back to the community to raise funds. The game had the internal codename ‘Savage Worlds Black’ and somehow that leaked, fans started to refer […]
Superhero Week: 10 of the most popular free superhero RPGs
Let’s be clear about this – DriveThruRPG’s ‘Pay As You Want’ allows you to pay nothing to download a high-quality RPG or accessory and very often that’s what the author encourages you to do. There’s a suggested price. Geek Native recommends paying what you think is appropriate, not what you want, and if the author […]
RPG Ideas: Running games in a historical context
Tim Chant is a gamer and author (and baker) based in Edinburgh. His latest project, The Frost Fair, asks ‘what if?’. What if history worked out slightly differently. Would the world be very different? Geek Native invited Tim to suggest some ideas for running RPGs in a historical context and he stepped up to the […]
11 Discord servers to interest tabletop and RPG fans
Update: This post is several years old and Discords come and go. Many thousand new Discords have arrived since this post was written. The green button on the bottom of your Discord app can be used for server discovery. Geek Native has (just) launched a Discord and you join here. If you notice any of […]
Mega-Cool: A Review of Savage Rifts: The Tomorrow Legion Players Guide
It doesn’t take much more than flipping through the first few pages of the Savage Rifts: Tomorrow Legion Players Guide to know that writer Sean Patrick Fannon has a deep love of the gonzo sci-fi setting first introduced to the world by Palladium Books in 1990. Fannon’s take on the material is significantly more than a straight […]
