The nominations for the 2013 ENnies are out. These are a big set of awards in the roleplaying publishing world. Counting by hand, I reach 57 publishers nominated and that’s up from just shy of 40 from 2012. Paizo Publishing and Pelgrane Press lead the pack with 7 nominations each, with Cubicle 7 in third […]
Is D&D Next bringing back Planescape and Spelljammer?
Yesterday Mike Mearls posted some information on how D&D Next, that’s Dungeons & Dragons 5, will cope with its Many Worlds. The designers wanted to maintain as much “story compatibility” as possible so you can convert an existing campaign over to D&D Next. For example, they’ve divided elemental planes into three rings so you can […]
Magic: The Gathering “Ignite Your Spark” art
Back in March Geek Native featured the Magic: The Gathering trailer for 2014 that made its debut for PAX East. It’s a firey one. The character featured in Chandra Nalaar. Over at CGHub we can sample the art by Brad Rigney (aka Crypt Crawler) for Chandra.
Download the Dungeons & Dragons Next wallpaper
Wizards of the coast have made a D&D 5 wallpaper available. The dragon design is available in lots of different sizes, for desktop, mobile and even Twitter and Facebook. The Twitter zip bundle includes an avatar icon.
Origins names nominees for the best tabletop games of 2013
The Origins Games Fair is a big one. It runs from June 12th to 16th this year in the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, USA. It showcases board games, tabletop roleplaying games, CCGs, miniatures, LARPs and has an electronic games room this year. The Origins Awards is run by The Academy of Adventure […]
The best selling RPGs of the winter; Pathfinder rules and D&D slips to third (2012)
ICV2 has released their figures for hobby game sales in the US for the winter of 2012. It’s good news for the year wrap-up with hobby store growth being at 15%, that follows from 20% the year before and in wonderful contrast to the 5% decline we saw in 2008. In fact, 2012 is the […]
Screenshots from the Neverwinter MMO Beta
So our fearless leader asked me if I wanted to cover the new Neverwinter MMO. As a long-time enjoyer of MMOs, D&D and the Neverwinter Nights games in particular, I said “hell yes!”. I’m about an hour in at the moment and almost level 5 with my first character, Baran Bitterblade, Half-Orc Great Weapon Fighter. […]
The PAX East Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers trailer is fiery
Ignite your Spark! is the call to action fo the 2014 version of Duels of the Planeswalkers. This time the computer version of Magic: The Gathering is making itself available on Android as well as iPad, Xbox Live, Steam and PlayStation Network. If you’re lucky enough to be at PAX Easy then booth #562 is […]
Creighton Broadhurst’s success tips as Raging Swan Press turns three
Creighton Broadhurst worked with Wizards of the Coast for nine years before founding the RPG publisher Raging Swan Press. Creighton says he runs the company for “fun and the joy in creation” and has steered the company safely to its third birthday. Geek Native wanted to know what the trick was. How do you have […]
Winter not coming. WotC insist “s’no new mana”
Wizards of the Coast tweted to insist the new snow mana symbol that had appeared in their Magic: The Gathering search engine was a mistake. (Jon) Winter is not coming. The snow mana symbol that is currently on Gather is a mistake. Fix coming soon. — Magic: The Gathering (@wizards_magic) February 27, 2013 You can […]
