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Play as the living or unliving! The official Return of the Living Dead TTRPG devours its crowdfunding target

June 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

For the Return of the Living Dead’s 40th anniversary, official and using the Everyday Heroes RPG system, there’s a Living Dead roleplaying game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: everyday heroes, evil genius productions, kickstarters, zombies

Think you know The Return of the Living Dead? TTRPG interview with Nick Lowe

May 7, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Return of the Living Dead, was a dramatic creative shift. There’s a tabletop Kickstarter in the works to bring us a TTRPG, and Geek Native’s been lucky enough to interview lead writer Nick Lowe.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: everyday heroes, evil genius productions, zombies

Evil Genius Games launch Sidekick (their D&D Beyond)

January 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sidekick is to Evil Genius what D&D Beyond is to Wizards of the Coast. It’s a website where you can read the rulebooks you’ve bought and where the core rules are free.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: everyday heroes, evil genius productions, virtual tabletop

PAX Unplugged: Return of the Living Dead TTRPG, film and VR

December 6, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Return of the Living Dead TTRPG is slated for 2025 and will be written by Nick Lowe, adding new rules and mechanics suitable for dark humour and undead mayhem.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dave scott, everyday heroes, evil genius productions, virtual reality, zombies

9 big name TTRPGs in Humble’s Evil Genius Christmas offer

December 24, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Now, a new Humble deal will put these RPGs in front of thousands of new potential fans and introduce Everyday Heroes, the ORC-licensed system that powers them.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, escape from new york, everyday heroes, evil genius productions, highlander, humble bundle, kong: skull island, Pacific Rim, Rambo, the crow, total recall

Everyday Arcana: Evil Genius confirm WotC copyright clash

August 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The rebooted Urban Arcana is now Everyday Arcana and Geek Native asked Evil Genius to confirm why the Everyday Heroes supplement changed names.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: everyday heroes, free to download, Rambo, urban arcana, wizards of the coast

Urban Arcana: The 10 semi-finalist 200-word pitches

May 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 35 Comments

Evil Genius has given each 200-word pitch a nickname or title, and Geek Native has put those in alphabetical order.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: everyday heroes, evil genius productions, urban arcana

Urban Arcana: Evil Genius reveals the 10 semi-finalists

May 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Evil Genius announced they’d reboot Urban Arcana and run a world-building contest earlier this year. Ten finalists who impressed judges with a 200-word proposal would be paid to expand that to 1000-word submission.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: everyday heroes, evil genius productions, urban arcana

Evil Genius Games’ d20 Modern/5e mashup grows Kong and Pacific Rim

May 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Everyday Heroes is a tabletop RPG engine born of d20 Modern and 5e, and it is by a company called Evil Genius Games, which appeared on the industry landscape with some incredible movie licenses.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: everyday heroes, evil genius productions, kickstarters, king kong, kong: skull island, Legendary Pictures, Pacific Rim

Urban Arcana: Evil Genius’ reboot competition to pay world-crafter competitive rates

March 16, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The competition is open from March 20th, and applications have until April 20th, 2023, to hit submit.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: everyday heroes, evil genius productions, urban arcana

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