It is Teach your Kids to Game Week at DriveThruRPG and James Dawsey has kindly contributed to the cause by writing up his own experience. James runs Vigilance Press and is in the final week of a successful Kickstarter for the Wuxia RPG Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade. I was asked by my friend Andrew […]
Monsters In the Classroom
Today is the start of Teach your Kids to Game week at DriveThru RPG. There’s a sale of family RPG material all week and you can keep up with the events via their Facebook and Twitter profiles. Worth keeping an eye on if you’ve little minions of your own. Eden Jones-Hinds, formerly of Oak Mountain Intermediate […]
Dice are dead!
Do you have to use dice in your roleplaying game? Game designer Stuart Keating’s latest game “Three Days Until Retirement” has raised thousands on Kickstarter, many times more than target, plenty of time still to pledge (when this post goes live) and is one that uses a card-based resolution system. Dice are dead! OK maybe […]
Why Robin Hood is a psychopath
Toby Venables’ second novel for Abaddon Books is Hunter of Sherwood: Knight of Shadows. In it Robin Hood is a cold blooded killer and Guy of Gisburne the hero. Intrigued by the concept – everything you know about Robin Hood is a lie – Geek Native asked Toby to comment. Why make Robin Hood the […]
What makes a great leader?
Rowena Cory Daniells is the Australian author responsible for one of Solaris’ most popular series; The Chronicles of King Rolen’s Kin. It is a world of nerve-rending action, political drama and thrones likely to appeal to George R. R. Martin, Gail Z. Martin and Robin Hobb fans. The fourth book in the series, King Breaker […]
5 real London locations ideal for nightmare scenes
Tony Ballantyne is the sci-fi author of Twisted Metal, the Recurison series and Blood and Iron. His latest book is Dream London in which the city changes a little at night and the people change a little at day. The story follows Captain Jim Wedderburn as he investigates while the towers are growing and the […]
The music of Blood and Feathers
Here’s how Blood and Feathers: Rebellion was described to this Geek Native blogger; Driven out of hell and with nothing to lose, the Fallen wage open warfare against the angels on the streets. And they’re winning. As the balance tips towards the darkness, Alice – barely recovered from her own ordeal in hell and struggling […]
Superhero Week: What’s in a super hero character?
Randall C Ellis is the author of the fantasy RPG Sojourner’s Quest. As a games designer and world creator he has tackled the issue of game and character balance at a professional level. For Superhero Week he’s been kind enough to offer a quick opinion piece on how to think about game balance in a […]
From the Inkwell: How to select your author
Fearsome Journeys is a new anthology of fantasy adventure from Solaris. The collection has stories from authors like Trudi Canavan, Saladin Ahmed, Glen Cook, Daniel Abraham, Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch and is edited by Jonathan Strahan. Strahan, who lives in Australia, is the reviews editor at Locus. Jonathan kindly agreed to a “From the […]
The top 5 things I learned about gamers working on Standard Action
Tara Pratt is originally from Edmonton, Canada, and plays Wendy the Sorceress in Standard Action. You can often catch her on stage performing in Vancouver, and on screen in some of our local productions, most recently the hit show Fringe, and Emily Owens, M.D. Her favourite colour is purple, she’s a huge Star Trek: The […]
