https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EszwYNvvCjQ This is quite a turn up for the books… and yet it makes sense. This presentation by Cornelius Berthold in the History Park Bärnau reveals why our fantasy RPG characters probably shouldn’t be walking in the way we do. It’s not widely understood how people in medieval Europe walked. It’s all down to the […]
An exclusive extract from The Jericho River
The Jericho River: A Novel About the History of Western Civilization is a novel from David W. Tollen that’s won a whole bunch of awards (London Book Festival, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, et al) and which should appeal to RPG fans. The novel sets about presenting history as an adventure story. The Jericho River […]
Competition: Win Giovanni’s Island
Giovanni’s Island is a full length anime movie that tells the story of the Russian occupation of strategic Japanese islands after World War II. This is an important event that many people in the UK don’t even realise happened. Geek Native was lucky enough to see the movie at Scotland Loves Anime and the review […]
Competition: Saints and Soldiers – The Void
101 Films has a dramatic World War II movie out this month. Saints and Soldiers – The Void tells the story of Sergeant Jesse Owens; an African-American soldier put in charge of an all-white tank crew with one final mission. It’s the last few days of World War II but there is still a platoon […]
The A-Team set in a supernatural Western, Pariah book 2 on Kickstarter
It’s never easy to do a book two on Kickstarter. You tend to automatically exclude everyone who’ve not read book one. Andres Salazar and Decade Brothers have gotten around that problem by providing PDF copies of the first graphic novel at the lowest pledge level. [Back this Campaign] There are previews for both graphic novels available […]
Short film: Minimus
Imagine the scene – it is ancient Rome, the armour-clad gladiators are in the Colosseum and these powerful men are ready to fight and die in front of the crowds. An honourable death awaits these powerful, experienced warriors. And then there is Minimus. He is the weediest gladiator the arena has ever seen. How much […]
6 fairy tales that originally had surprisingly horrible endings
Most gamers know that the Brother Grimm’s fairy tales, and the others, were much darker than the popular variants known today. The Disney cartoons based on fairy tails are especially prone to fluff – rightly so, imagine the reaction of 7 year-olds and their parents to the collection above? Via Imgur.
RPG Ideas: Weird fashion helmets
This is a real helmet. It’s part of a display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Arms and Armory Collection. A 16th century knight in what is now Germany wore this once. Here’s what the museum site has to say; This helmet is remarkable for the three-dimensional figure of a rooster’s head in the center […]
10 RPG communities on Google+ to check out for #TableTopDay
Today, March 30th, is International TableTop Day. It’s a chance for local stores, gaming groups and even households to get some gaming in. It’s been created by Geek & Sundry and you can, in a way, even have Felicia Day or Wil Wheaton make an appearance at your gaming table! Can’t get out? You can […]
LEGO turns 80: The LEGO story
LEGO is a brand with an incredible family story attached. August the 10th, 2012 was LEGO’s 80th birthday. This video is about 20 minutes long but I found it very easy to watch. It tells the story of the carpenter who started LEGO, where the name came from and how the LEGO brick system was […]
