Free games and International Tabletop Day rush slams DriveThru RPG’s servers
Saturday April the 5th is International Tabletop Day. Names like Atlas Games, Stronghold Games, Asmodee, Days of Wonder, Mayfair, AEG, Ravensburger, Japanime Games, Looney Labs and Steve Jackson Games...
View ArticleVoid Star Studios turns to Kickstarter for Nova Praxis – Savage Worlds Edition
[Back this Campaign] Transhuman sci-fi games are hot right now. It’s a good time for Void Star Studios to take their Nova Praxis to Kickstarter and whisk up a Savage Worlds edition. The proof is in...
View ArticleExpert advice: How to manage magic and mystery without annoying your players
Hot Lead, Cold Iron @ Amazon Ari Marmell, aka Mouseferatu, is a novelist that many gamers know well. He’s written novels for the likes of Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf as well as RPG material...
View ArticleSuperhero Week: 10 brave superhero RPGs step into the wrestling ring
For the last two years we’ve put 10 superhero RPGs in the ring and Geek Native readers have voted for their favourites. Who deserves to win this year? Can’t see your favourite superhero RPG in the list...
View Article5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens
5 ENnie award winners already announced as voting opens Team EN World opened the voting booth for the 2014 ENnie Awards this week. Voting started with 5 winners being announced for the 2014 Judges’...
View ArticleDaring Comics make a brave return to Kickstarter
The last time Geek Native covered Daring Comics’s Kickstarter news was to report that the finance team had cancelled the project. The campaign had nearly succeeded but the money minds had looked at the...
View ArticleThis is Your Brain on Slugs: a Review of Brain Slugs from Planet X
Brain Slugs from Planet X! For the GM on a tight time-budget, the internet is overflowing with adventures for just about any RPG system, many of which are very affordably priced. Buyer beware, however,...
View ArticleA New Way for an Old System: A Review of Nova Praxis, Savage Worlds Edition
Nova Praxis For those of you who just want to hear the bottom line, here it is: Nova Praxis: Savage Worlds Edition is more or less exactly what you would expect. If you like the freaky transhuman...
View ArticleThe Last Parsec and Eris Beta-V
The Last Parsec is a Savage Worlds sci-fi from Shane Hensley’s Pinnacle Entertainment. As this post goes live there’s still about three weeks to run and the Kickstarter is about %600 funded. That’s...
View ArticleRoll20’s survey shows Dungeons & Dragons still dominates the RPG hobby
D&D or Pathfinder? That’s a question which has done the rounds. The market stats from ICv2 seem to have been telling a consistent story over recent years; Pathfinder rises and Dungeons &...
View ArticleHellish weaponry: Shane Hensley chats about the weird west and The Sixth Gun
Oni Press and Pinnacle Entertainment Group are running a Kickstarter for The Sixth Gun. It’s a weird west RPG based on the comic book The Six Gun. You can check out the pitch video below, the campaign...
View ArticleCarolina Game Tables find their legs on Kickstarter
I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen a successful pitch for a specialised game table on Kickstarter until Carolina Game Tables came along. This one is a winner; asking for $15,000 and beating $20,000....
View ArticleVictorian Horror: Rippers Resurrected comes to life on Kickstarter
Pinnacle Entertainment Group have another Kickstarter success on their hands. At the time of writing there are just three days left on the Savage Worlds: Rippers Resurrected RPG campaign. PEG asked for...
View ArticleUrban fantasy meets Savage Worlds: Olympus Inc
Olympus Inc is an urban campaign setting for Savage Lands and it’ll be available if Fabled Environments are able to hit their $8,500 goal on Kickstarter. There’s more than two weeks left on the clock,...
View ArticleThe Weird War I is coming
There’s two weeks left to add funds to Pinnacle’s Weird War I – Savage Worlds Kickstarter. They’re funded already; at $25,000 from nearly 350 backers as this post is written against a campaign goal of...
View ArticleMega-Cool: A Review of Savage Rifts: The Tomorrow Legion Players Guide
Savage Rifts: 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...
View Article11 Discord servers to interest tabletop and RPG fans
Discord is a popular gaming app available on desktop or mobile. It’s a cross between a voice system like Skype and a chatroom. If you’re familiar with Slack from work then you might find it similar....
View ArticleRPG 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?...
View ArticleSuperhero 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...
View ArticleBureau 13: Savage Worlds Black scores new RPGs before the Kickstarter is...
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...
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