Denis Villeneuve, the filmmaker responsible for Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival, is rebooting Dune. Frank Herbert’s novel has become legendary, lasting beyond his death and first seeing a big picture adaptation by David Lynch in 1984. In the original movie, Kyle MacLachlan played the lead role as Paul Atreides and according to The Hollywood Reporter […]
Wizards of the Coast spent over $500,000 on marketing last year; appoints The Martin Agency to spend more
Wizards of the Coast spent over $500,000 on marketing last year; appoints The Martin Agency to spend more Wizards of the Coast are having a good year. The community liked D&D 5e and Magic: the Gathering is well suited to esports, Twitch and collectables. More than that, a new generation found tabletop roleplaying via programs […]
D&D: Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron published for 5e today
Hours ahead of when the official news was expected, Wizards of the Coast’s social media announced that in addition to Ravnica that the latest campaign setting for D&D 5th edition would be Eberron. And you can buy it today from the DMs Guild. This isn’t a review of the book but an executive summary of […]
D&D Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Amazon is listing D&D Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica in their catalogue and this unexpected book may just be the next official setting for Dungeons & Dragons. At the time of writing Wizards of the Coast has said nothing and their European PR team pays no attention to Geek Native but ‘leaks’ like this on Amazon aren’t […]
Ivan Van Norman announces kids D&D book deal with Wizards of the Coast
Ivan Van Norman is a geek with many talents. He has a production credit on Kung Fu Panda, is the GM on Geek & Sundry’s We’re Alive: Frontier stream and is part of Hunters Books the company behind Outbreak: Undead. Now he’s writing kids D&D books illustrated by Caleb Cleveland. The A, B, Cs of […]
Dungeons & Dragons 5e: Can a multi-class druid wear metal armour?
This blog rarely gets into the nitty-gritty of game mechanics of specific systems but the issue of druids and metal armour in D&D 5e is an interesting one as it overlays In Character roleplay decisions on character building mechanics. In D&D it says this in the proficiencies section of the druid character class; Armor: Light […]
7,764 free RPGs! It’s Free RPG Day
It’s Free RPG today. Gamers around the world are encouraged to pop into their local store and try a new RPG for free today. It’s made possible by a host of sponsors which Geek Native thank and will mention a little later on. Since 2014 Geek Native has been tracking the number of free RPGs […]
Surprise Waterdeep adventure: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Wizards of the Coast announced their next storyline would be Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. In it, characters would take on one of four powerful villains in a running urban treasure hunt. It would be enough to get heroes up to level six. The next day, in The Stream of Many Eyes, they announced the second part. […]
Ennies 2017 winners!
Free League Publishing’s RPG Tales from the Loop took Best Game and a host of other Ennies in 2017. The game’s rules are based on Mutant: Year Zero and while you can get the game from FLP’s site now you’ll have to wait until September for it to arrive on Amazon. In 1954, the Swedish […]
Chaosium leads the 2017 ENnie nominees. Can you pick a winner?
In this post you’ll get a list of all the nominees for the 2017 ENnies. We’ve added up all the nominations each publisher has picked up. Our math puts Chaosium up in front but the chasing pack is strong. Who do you think will be there? First of all you’ve a chance to vote for […]