It’s between 20 years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer first appeared on TV. Her fandom is still strong. Andrea Robinson is a New York-based writer, deep into vampire lore, and co-author of Vampire Diaries: Unlocking the Secrets of Mystic Falls. Robinson’s latest book is a collection of all the magic from seven seasons of Buffy. […]
Mark Rein•Hagen returns to Vampire
At Gen Con White Wolf announced that Mark Rein•Hagen, creator of Vampire: The Masquerade first edition, is coming back to the title. He’s joining the team developing the 5th edition of the iconic roleplaying game. ANNOUNCEMENT: World of Darkness creator and author of Vampire: The Masquerade First Edition Mark Rein•Hagen returns to the property to […]
White Wolf launch the Storytellers Vault
White Wolf have teamed up with DriveThruRPG to launch Storytellers Vault. This isn’t just a specialist site to download World of Darkness products. This is also a platform to create and sell your own non-canonical supplements. Here’s what the deal includes; Self-publishing platform. Storytellers Vault allows creators to publish tabletop RPG material or stories tying […]
Back from the Dead: A Review of Chill, 3rd Edition
Every long-time fan of tabletop role-playing has a game they consider amazing that slipped through the cracks, an unfortunate casualty in a hobby where only a few big names dominate the hobby’s attention. For many, that game was Chill, a horror RPG first released in the mid-80s. Overshadowed in the 80s by Call of Cthulhu, a second edition was released […]
Exclusive art from inside World of Darkness Dark Eras
World of Darkness Dark Eras is the latest of a string of successful Kickstarters from Onyx Path. At the time of writing there’s more than $70,000 in the coffers, well past the $40,000 funding goal and 18 days still on the clock. To see some exclusive art from inside the book scroll down or check […]
The anatomy of RPG adventures
Experienced tabletop gamers will know that certain games have certain patterns. It is possible to work out how close you are to the end of the game by comparing your actions against the anatomy of the adventure itself. The chart below shows seven popular RPG adventures that span a number of genres. Feel familiar to […]
Vampire meets Cthulhu as Orbis Aerden: Reign of the Accursed woos Kickstarter
Dead Eyed Shade Games offer up a multimedia story for Orbis Aerden: Reign of the Accursed for their Kicktarter pitch video. They’re open about their influences; this is a mixture of World of Darkness with Cthulhu and some Game of Thrones style political truths thrown in for good measure. [Back this Campaign] The Kickstarter has […]
White Wolf giving away free games
There has been “2103 is Dead” sale from White Wolf over at DriveThruRPG. It offered 25% off a range of titles. If you missed the news it is because it was announced over at the The Onyx Path. Yesterday, though, things changed. First they offered Exalted 2nd Edition in PDF form for free. Today Dark […]
Underworld: Awakening Trailer – all new, no White Wolf ripoff
Many moons ago, before there was Geek Native and this blogger was running the “prequel site” GameWyrd one of the most popular news stories on it was White Wolf trying to sue Sony over Underworld. Seen the original Underworld? Is it rather like the World of Darkness. White Wolf even had a clan of assassin […]
White Wolf hacked
The publishers of Vampire, Werewolf and Exalted have been hacked. White Wolf posted news of the computer security breach and reassured gamers that neither credit card nor mail addresses had been compromised. The hacking took place while White Wolf was upgrading it web presence. It was the old, retiring web server that was hacked – […]