I’m a backer on Trapdoor Technology’s Codename: Morningstar Kickstarter. This is a crowd-funding campaign to pick up a digital toolset that Wizards of the Coast pulled out of. The replacement software works with the Pathfinder Reference Document (PRD) instead. Geek Native was lucky enough to land an interview with Trapdoor’s founding director Chris Matney. In […]
Paizo launch RPG Superstar 2015
It’s not yet 2015 but Paizo have begun their annual search for their “superstar” of the yeah. This worldwide contest is an open call for gamers with design talents. The contest has been running for 8 years. The 2014 contest was won by Victoria Jacko and you can read an interview with her plus tips […]
Paizo and Dynamite team again for Pathfinder Origins comic series
Paizo has announced Pathfinder Origins as the next comic series based on the Pathfinder RPG. The Redmond company has again teamed with Dynamite Entertainment for the work. In Pathfinder Origins the early days of the iconic Pathfinder heroes will be told and each issue will focus on one of them (Valeros, Seoni, Harsk, Merisiel, Kyra, […]
The open playtest of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures
Pazio has kicked off a month long open playtest of Occult Adventures. The book is due out in July 2015 but this playtest will be live over this Halloween and that feels appropriate for the spooky supplement. Occult Adventures will have six new classes for Pathfinder and a new system to support psychic magic. Other […]
Sean K Reynolds’ Five Moons RPG passes Kickstarter goal
Veteran RPG designer Sean K Reynold’s latest project, Five Moon RPGs, has passed the $25,000 target on Kickstarter with a week still to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9QTQz3simg [Back this Campaign] Backers at just the $7 mark get access to the PDF Player Bundle and those at the $14 mark get the Corebook PDF. The print edition of […]
Roll20’s survey shows Dungeons & Dragons still dominates the RPG hobby
D&D or Pathfinder? That’s a question which has done the rounds. The market stats from ICv2 seem to have been telling a consistent story over recent years; Pathfinder rises and Dungeons & Dragons drops. The latest survey suggested D&D was in 4th place. There’s a catch though. It’s not just that few groups were buying […]
Dazzling fantasy, sci-fi and game art from Josh Corpuz
Josh Corpuz is an illustrator and character artist who may well have worked on some of your favourite games. He’s worked for Paizo Publishing (Blood of the Night and the NPC Codex), MKUltra Studios, Super Appli and Forged Chaos in just the last few years. You can check out more of his work over on […]
Good news for roleplayers as Gen Con breaks records
The RPG hobby scored a hit this week as Gen Con broke attendance records. A successful convention, whether you love it or loathe it, helps prove to companies that the industry is busy and worth paying attention too. This year Gen Con expanded by 14% which makes it the fourth consecutive year which the convention […]
The ENnie 2014 Awards: who are the winners?
It’s GenCon and that means one of the year’s biggest and most popular set of gaming awards: The ENNies. As usual competition was fierce. For almost all of the 20+ categories there were two prizes to fight for; gold and silver. Geek Native has the full list of winners below. Did anyone publisher thrash the […]
6 mighty mechs: The art of Daryl Mandryk
Daryl Mandryk is a Canadian artist who works with computer games. His website lists cients like Dark Horse, Hasvro, Radical Comics, Privateer PRess, Paizo Publishing as well as EA, Lucasfilm, Blizzard and Warner Bros. If you’re a fan of his style then you can see pleny more at his wordpress blog or at inprint.
