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Patron Thank You gifts: Fading Embers and Grim discount

July 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Now and then, as a thank you, Geek Native can give away gifts to site and podcast patrons. You can see past gifts here. There have been a few in 2022, and now there are a few more!

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Corruption might be unexpectedly wholesome in your RPG

June 19, 2022 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Corruption comes in many forms. Regardless of differences, all of them are linked to the central premise that something once pure or good becomes infected, and slowly changes into something less than what it was, a damaged version of itself, often twisted into its very antithesis.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fading embers, rpg tips, valiant fox gaming

Tremendous karma and RPG goodness are in these generous Doctors Without Borders megabundles

March 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I don’t have the context; I just noticed the bundles going live and presume that we’ve the tabletop RPG community of publishers and creators rallying to raise money for war-torn Ukraine.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, charity, dms guild, drivethrurpg, Eclipse Phase, fading embers, Genesis of Legend Publishing, handimonsters, handiwork games, magpie games, posthuman studios, tab creations, valiant

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #143

March 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly column of RPG news from Geek Native and RPG sites around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, Brittannia Game Designs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Call of Cthulhu, carovea victor, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, eden studios, fading embers, fallout, Free League Publishing, frog god games, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hunter: the reckoning, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, masks, mcdm, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, onyx path publishing, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, roleplay elixir, routinely itemised, shield maidens, soulmuppet, spelljammer, strongholds & followers, swords of the serpentine, the merciless merchants, Titan Books, valiant fox gaming, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, warhammer, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #124

October 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news from the week that’s just been! Wizards win at court, Discworld hits DriveThruRPG, and there’s a bunch of bundle deals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, Arion Games, black monk, blade runner rpg, Call of Cthulhu, demiplane, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, edge, fading embers, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, game wizards, gila, Helmgast, horror, Legend of the Five Rings, Modiphius Entertainment, moonmares games, neverending, Nova, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, posthuman studios, R. Talsorian Games, relic, Renegade Game Studios, roll20, roll20con, routinely itemised, sandy pug games, Shotguns & Sorcery, spencer campbell, the troubleshooters, valiant fox gaming, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, zweihander

Inhospitable Settings: Restricting Magic in D&D 5e

May 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native held a round table discussion on Inhospitable Settings in which several RPG designers talked about the attraction of settings that are a bit different, the importance of not straying too far from science and world-building techniques.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fading embers, rpg tips

Round Table discussion: RPGs with inhospitable settings

April 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you thought about setting an RPG in an inhospitable such as a frozen world, dark planet or even in the ocean?

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Biohazard games, blue planet, discord, fading embers, geek native, nor cal mythos, valiant fox gaming

Fading Embers brings even more ice to 5e

October 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“This is not how the world ends” is the prophecy that brings some hope to the snowy realm of Nyth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fading embers, kickstarters, valiant fox gaming

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #68

October 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s weekly RPG news round-up with freebies, competitions, headlines, reviews and new releases all packed into some bullet points.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, alien rpg, bundle of holding, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cypher system, Dungeons & Dragons, fading embers, flames of freedom, idyll creations, Into the Mother Lands, Kate Welch, kobold press, Modiphius Entertainment, Necromancer Games, Paizo Publishing, power rangers, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, runequest, soulbound, star trek adventures, studio agate, the wagadu chronicles, through the breach, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures, Zadmar Games

Free to Download: Fading Embers Setting Primer

September 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It was a midsummer day when winter ambushed the world. Lakes turned to ice, and even the sun grew more distant. Crops failed, and wars over resources erupted. Temples were overrun by the hungry, but the gods were silent.

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fading embers, free to download, valiant fox gaming

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