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RPG Publisher Spotlight: Grognardia Games

July 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The winner of the Geek Native’s Patrons RPG Publisher Spotlight this month is Grognardia Games.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: James Maliszewski, spotlight, Tekumel

The Bundle of Holding launches their Starter Store

April 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This isn’t a standard eCommerce experience; you only get starter packs here.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: black armada, bundle of holding, Champions, old school essentials, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Tekumel, tiny dungeon, Trail of Cthulhu, traveller

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #70

October 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest stats from Roll20, free RPG downloads, new releases, a host of reviews and a bunch of RPG news all presented at bullet point speed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, Atlas Games, awfully cheerful engine, black void, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, castles & crusades, Chaosium, Coriolis, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Delta Green, Dungeons & Dragons, fallout: wasteland warfare, feng shui, flames of freedom, Free League Publishing, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, Greg Stafford, hammerdog games, Into the Mother Lands, JVC Parry, kobold press, Larian Studios, Modiphius Entertainment, neon city overdrive, ontabletop, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, peril planet, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, roll20con, routinely itemised, soulbound, starfinder, steve jackson, Tekumel, the children of fear, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, tome of beasts, troika, warhammer, wizards of the coast, Wolfgang Baur, World Anvil, Zadmar Games

What was the first RPG?

August 29, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail. Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, blackmoor, Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, Tekumel, TSR, tunnels & trolls

Interview with Cavemaster’s Talzhemir Mrr

October 6, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Talzhemir Mrr is the co-creator of the RPG Quicksilver and the MMOG Furcadia. More recently, Mrr worked with Jeff Dee on the stonepunk RPG Cavemaster which has been picked up by Chronicle City. Talzhemir has kindly agreed to a Q&A interview with Geek Native to discuss Cavemaster. How would you describe “stonepunk” as a genre […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: quicksilver, Tekumel

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