Snuggling on the sofa is fun. Imagine what would make it even more fun – if one of the entities on the soft was a tentacle monster. [This is for meeee!] Thanks to the clever monkeys at Think Geek this dream is now a reality. Originally this was an April Fool’s joke but it was […]
Archives for May 2018
Will we volunteer as cyborgs? Health divides us
Geek Native occasionally has goodies to giveaway in a competition, and when that happens, we like to run a little poll. Some years back we had a copy of Ghost in the Shell: Arise to giveaway so we asked a question about cyborgs. We wanted to know whether readers thought in the future people would […]
Hot Lunch manga aims to improve reading
London’s own manga publisher mayamada is back on Kickstarter and with a new project. Hot Lunch is a manga graphic novel for all ages and is about a tiger in a suit (a nice suit) on a heist. The company is asking for £5,000 in all or nothing campaign which you can follow online. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/401125455/hot-lunch-the-all-ages-manga-style-graphic-novel/ […]
12 different ways to roll up your DnD character
The official Player’s Handbook in Dungeons & Dragon’s 5e offers two suggested ways of discovering your character’s six attributes. You can either assign points from a balanced array of numbers or roll 4d6 and drop the lowest dice. The method is to create PCs who are likely to be a bit more notable than the […]
Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries conjure up Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
The Bodleian Libraries are describing the most significant gathering for public display of Tolkien goodies – some 200 items – in the 1st June to 28th of October as a once-in-a-generation opportunity. They’re probably right too unless you can get to Paris for late 2019 where the Bodleian Libraries and Bibliotheque Nationale de France will […]
This castle turns into a dice rolling DM screen
This clever and unfolding DM screen was built by Jeremy Mortensen. The Oregon based gamer completed the craft project all without the aid of a design and made heavy use of scrap materials. Now, after sharing the video on Facebook, other gamers are asking him for blueprints or whether or not there are plans to […]
This dice Kickstarter just raised $700,000
You’ve seen Kickstarters for RPG dice before. Geek Native has covered many of them. Kraken Dice’s Kickstarter is different. At the time of writing, it has nearly $700,000 in the pot and a whole day left to run. You can check it out for yourself and check it’s true. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1871258192/iconic-mythical-collection-rpg-dice-sets-by-kraken [Back this Kickstarter] Unless there’s […]
Tree stump pillows for your gaming den
Want to decorate your gaming den, so it adds to the atmosphere of your favourite game? Also, want to be comfortable? What about these tree stumps? They’re pillows! [I need these] The catch? They come from China so will take a while to ship from you. Yeah, sure, there are dozens of boutique Shopify clones […]
Original Deadpool earrings
Spanish Etsy site Troppa Manga Style have a hit on their hands with this earring (buy one or as a pair). [Gimme!] As you can see the Deadpool earring is original but not official. It’s handmade from polymer clay and doesn’t cost all that much. The owner of the store, David Sanchez, is likely to […]
New Ingress levels expected after Ingress Prime
Ingress is the game that enabled Niantic to take the lead in location-based augmented reality. The smartphone game has players roaming the city and the countryside marketing down places of interest to transform them into in-game portals. This database of knowledge is what enabled Pokemon Go to have gyms. This lack of information is why […]
