Ben Riggs
Geek & Sundry
Milwaukee, WI, United States
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We’re Seriously Coveting This Jaw-Dropping Codex of Fantasy Maps
Chuck Clutterbuck's Codex of Cartography contains eye-blasting fantasy maps printed on gallery-quality canvas in a book bound with hand-smithed steel. Oh, and → Read More
Legendary Designer John Scott Tynes Returns to Delta Green With Labyrinth Kickstarter
Delta Green is the role-playing game of modern horror and conspiracy from Arc Dream Publishing. In it, players take on the role of a conspiracy within the → Read More
Masks of Nyarlathotep Campaign for Call of Cthulhu Reissued In Mind-Blasting New Edition
It's 1925 in New York. Your good friend, Jackson Elias, is discovered by you in Room 410 of the Hotel Chelsea, gutted like a fish, with his intestines piled → Read More
RPG Overview: Fall of Delta Green Makes Cthulhu Scary Again
In The Fall of Delta Green, players take on the role of DELTA GREEN agents, members of the United States government tasked with eliminating alien, otherworldly, → Read More
The Best Fantasy Campaign You Haven’t Heard About – Swordfish Islands
Swordfish Islands (which includes a 2017 funded project on Kickstarter) is a fantasy campaign that takes all your expectations of what a fantasy campaign should → Read More
Only the Library Committee Can Save Us In This New Cthulhu Kickstarter
Each week here at Geek & Sundry we take a look at new and upcoming exciting titles on Kickstarter! This week’s Kickstarter of the week is Miskatonic → Read More
Is Your Mini Hot or Not? A Brief History of CMON Games
Geek & Sundry's Painters Guild is our show where host Will Friedle goes on a journey to learn how to paint miniatures. Last season, he learned basic → Read More
Tarot Cards Told Him to Start a Game Company: The Dawn of Chaosium
If you love RPG shows, be sure to check out our streams on Twitch and Alpha for shows like Shield of Tomorrow (our Star Trek RPG show), Critical → Read More
The Story of D&D Part Three: How 3rd Edition Became the Mother Of Many RPGs
To catch you up on the history of Dungeons & Dragons, your nerdmates at Geek & Sundry are providing you with this handy-dandy series of stories on the → Read More
The Story of D&D Part Two: How Wizards of the Coast Saved Dungeons & Dragons
To catch you up on the history of Dungeons & Dragons, your nerdmates at Geek & Sundry are providing you with this handy-dandy series of stories on the → Read More
The Story of D&D Part One: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons
To catch you up on the history of Dungeons & Dragons, your nerdmates at Geek & Sundry are providing you with this handy-dandy series of stories on the → Read More
Lock & Load for This Bug Hunt RPG with an Exclusive Preview of ‘Xenomorphs’
Geek & Sundry got an exclusive first-look at Xenomorphs, a roleplaying game of aliens, space marines, and the colonists they defend which is clever beyond → Read More
‘Numenera 2’ Kickstarter Combines A Brain-Bending Setting With Revolutionary Mechanics
Each week we highlight a new and exciting game from Kickstarter! This week, we're looking at Numenera 2: Discovery and Destiny. Numenera 2: Discovery and → Read More
This New Cthulhu RPG Setting Will Get Your Tentacles Slithering
What if Cthulhu cultists ran an entire American city in the 1930s? That is the question asked by Cthulhu City, a new setting book for the Trail of → Read More
Who Will Survive? Recap of the Final Episode of Sagas of Sundry: Dread?
Will anybody make it out of the nightmare slaughterhouse that is Sagas of Sundry: Dread? The final episode finds our heroes at a gazebo in a garden, → Read More
Learn to Fear the Dead in Sagas of Sundry: Dread Ep. 5
What's going on with Sagas of Sundry: Dread? Our five heroes have become four. Last episode, Tanner sacrificed himself to a ravening horde of shambling dead → Read More
The Shocking Events of Sagas of Sundry: Dread Ep. 4
Death is always a loss, but sacrifice gives it meaning. The sacrifice of a human life to save others was the fate of our five - now four - heroes this week on → Read More
Dread Episode 3 Recap: The Monster That Looks Like You
In Episode 3 of Sagas of Sundry: Dread, our heroes confront the thing in the farmhouse and find new horrors under the ground. When last we left our heroes, → Read More
Sagas of Sundry-Inspired Techniques for Spookifying Your Tabletop
How does Ivan Van Norman make every episode of Sagas of Sundry so absorbing, nerve-racking, and downright creepy? He uses a number of techniques on Sagas of → Read More
Dread Episode 2 Recap: Creepy Kids Are The Worst
In Ep. 2 of Sagas of Sundry, our brave (or foolish?) heroes find valuable clues, and confront a foe that may be beyond any of them. When last we left Kayden, → Read More