Pinnacle Entertainment Group will take Savage Worlds back to Kickstarter this year. October 16th will see Shane Lacy Hensley’s RPG system, the winner of the 2003 Origin Gamers’ Choice Award, go back to the community to raise funds. The game had the internal codename ‘Savage Worlds Black’ and somehow that leaked, fans started to refer […]
Superhero Week: 10 of the most popular free superhero RPGs
Let’s be clear about this – DriveThruRPG’s ‘Pay As You Want’ allows you to pay nothing to download a high-quality RPG or accessory and very often that’s what the author encourages you to do. There’s a suggested price. Geek Native recommends paying what you think is appropriate, not what you want, and if the author […]
RPG Ideas: Running games in a historical context
Tim Chant is a gamer and author (and baker) based in Edinburgh. His latest project, The Frost Fair, asks ‘what if?’. What if history worked out slightly differently. Would the world be very different? Geek Native invited Tim to suggest some ideas for running RPGs in a historical context and he stepped up to the […]
11 Discord servers to interest tabletop and RPG fans
Update: This post is several years old and Discords come and go. Many thousand new Discords have arrived since this post was written. The green button on the bottom of your Discord app can be used for server discovery. Geek Native has (just) launched a Discord and you join here. If you notice any of […]
Mega-Cool: A Review of Savage Rifts: The Tomorrow Legion Players Guide
It doesn’t take much more than flipping through the first few pages of the Savage Rifts: Tomorrow Legion Players Guide to know that writer Sean Patrick Fannon has a deep love of the gonzo sci-fi setting first introduced to the world by Palladium Books in 1990. Fannon’s take on the material is significantly more than a straight […]
The Weird War I is coming
Weird War I is the last of Pinnacle Entertainment Group’s Weird War series. They’ve already covered Rome, Vietnam and World War II.
Urban fantasy meets Savage Worlds: Olympus Inc
Olympus Inc is an urban campaign setting for Savage Lands and it’ll be available if Fabled Environments are able to hit their $8,500 goal on Kickstarter. There’s more than two weeks left on the clock, at the time of writing, and they’re more than halfway there. For the latest stats check the campaign page. [Back […]
Victorian Horror: Rippers Resurrected comes to life on Kickstarter
Pinnacle Entertainment Group have another Kickstarter success on their hands. At the time of writing, there are just three days left on the Savage Worlds: Rippers Resurrected RPG campaign. PEG asked for $5,000 and have over $65,000 in the bank. You can check out the full details on Kickstarter. [Back this Campaign] People are thinking […]
Carolina Game Tables find their legs on Kickstarter
I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen a successful pitch for a specialised game table on Kickstarter until Carolina Game Tables came along. This one is a winner; asking for $15,000 and beating $20,000. At the time of writing there’s more than a day to go and a tally of $25,000 isn’t impossible. You […]
Hellish weaponry: Shane Hensley chats about the weird west and The Sixth Gun
It’s the story of six legendary weapons that have existed from near the beginning of time and have the ability to warp (maybe even “reset”) reality.
