Andrew Girdwood

New Comet Games has a successful Kickstarter on its hands as hundreds of gamers embrace the siren summons of Corsairs…

A small survey from Geek Native shows a surprising data point about D&D. Readers think that urban settings are the…

It’s not a typo; we have virtual virtual tabletops now. Virtual tabletops are online platforms that let us see dice…

Time-travel back to 2013, and we’ve news of Joe Dever taking Lone Wolf to Cubicle 7, splitting from Mongoose, to…

I don’t suppose you’ve ever had reason to imagine what your Wizard character would look like as a doughnut or…

Simon Washbourne’s superhero RPG Triumphant! will get a second edition in summer. Washbourne is probably best known for Barbarians of…

Geek Native tends to run plenty of competitions, but that does not mean the blog cannot do good at the…

Back in March, Geek Native gave Vulcania the thumbs up for excellent illustrations, nice mechanics and all-around good vibe. Now…

If you sign up for a Foundry Server account, you will now get some free AAW Games mini-dungeons in your…

Hexgaard offer up map hexagons to give your tabletop gaming a bit of a boost. These bundles, like this collection…

Freddie Taylor-Bell has today released the ashcan version of Briar & Bramble. Ashcan editions are generally the first look at…

In an interview with Wargamer, Chris Birch, Modiphius’ founder, has revealed a new RPG called Against the Gods Themselves is…

Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics is one of those systems that you might first encounter when someone recommends a game…

Following on from a successful Kickstarter in 2019, which I backed, Wicked Ones now has a free download which you…

Warchief Gaming has done it. Already. Within moments. Chris Metzen, ex-worldbuilder of Blizzard and a robust social ads campaign has…

It takes just a quick Google to find well researched and articulate essays on how horror and sci-fi reflect current…

Ghostfire Gaming has always done well with their Grim Hollow Kickstarter campaign targets. I’ve not backed, but people keep coming…

In just a few days, Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent opens on Kickstarter. In a world of 5e campaign settings…

In Storm Weavers, there is no party of heroes. There is just you. You’re Thymin, a dwarven mercenary travelling across…

Monkstone Miniatures made their debut this week, and social media likes what they see. The new British fantasy miniature maker’s…

Do you find it challenging to land a weekly RPG session? Sites Demiplane, Mindflayer and Crawlr are trying to help…

This RPG fan was very happy to give the Game Machinery’s Defiant the thumbs up after buying a copy. In…

April 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission Howdy, geeks. Once again, we find ourselves at…

Luke Crane, the designer of The Burning Wheel, has been in the news of late. The dramatically cancelled The Perfect…

When D&D 5e was young, fans became so frustrated that Wizards of the Coast were so slow to translate the…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.As Games Workshop are ramping up their…

The British Red Cross is running Operation Anti-Loneliness and there are 10 days to sign up. If you do, then…

Orbital Blues: A space-western RPG during an era of hyper-capitalism SoulMuppet Publishing is already at double their Kickstarter target for…

0one have a long history of superb cartography. I’ve covered them on this site back when it was known as…

Epic Games, the company owned by Tim Sweeney and China’s Tencent, announced it had raised a new $1,000,000,000 in funding.…

Free League Publishing have a million-dollar Kickstarter with The One Ring and while I doubt Ruins of Symbaroum will reach…

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

The Melsonian Arts Council will publish a fantasy for the “other world’s favourite fantasy roleplaying game”, and it will add…

Neithernor is a FATE Core powered game set in C.J. Bernstein’s Briarverse. The alpha digital edition is out today, and…

Mongoose Publishing have released a new series of Paranoia RPG supplements. The R&D sourcebook was funded by a Kickstarter. The…

GAMA has had a rough time since the pandemic which resulted in restructures and BLM backlashes. Things are looking up…

LUMEN is a system reference document (SRD) based on the RPG Light from Gila RPGs. The system was written for…

Inkwell Ideas are back on Kickstarter with a solution for GMs when players do something unexpected. Er, so all the…

Astral Tabletop is a browser-based virtual tabletop with free and paid for tiers. The platform has a partnership with DriveThruRPG.…

The actual play show Venture Maidens run by DM Celeste Conowitch and features Brittany Quintero, Naseem Etemad, Sage Stafford, and…

By Night Studios run, with permission, the World of Darkness Mind’s Eye Theatre LARP experience. Mind’s Eye Theatre has been…

French RPG publisher Studio Agate known for Shadows of Esteren and FateForge are in the process of crowdfunding Vermine 2047.…

FinalHorizon is a sci-fi RPG from GoodKnightGames that was published late in March and is available for free from DriveThruRPG.…

Invoking Playmobil, Dirty Vortex shared on Instagram this fantastically creepy illustration for Solemn Vale. Solemn Vale is a folklore horror…

Columbia Games have long provided Hârn in a three-ring binder format, and that has many advantages. However, it doesn’t make…

Cody Pondsmith, the lead designer of The Witcher tabletop RPG, has announced that A Tome of Chaos is the in-development…

Welcome to the weekend, geeks! If you want to keep up with the blog, even without even visiting the blog,…

Eric Bloat describes We Die Young as the spiritual successor to Dark Places & Demogorgons, another title from Bloat Games.…

In RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, it is often possible to create characters by assigning points or values to attributes.…

In the latest edition of Twilight Imperium Codex from Fantasy Flight Games, there are two pages of news that seem…

Quebec-based Wendigo Workshop is Kickstarting a traditional RPG called Arkelon Chronicles which merges fantasy and sci-fi together. The game is…

Modiphius’ 2d20 RPG Dune: Adventures in the Imperium costs £250 for the Collector’s bundle and sold out. The good news…

Handimonsters is a Patreon-powered subscription service from Handiwork Games that delivers monsters. The contributors’ credits reads like a hall of…

Set in Berlin in 1942, telling the story of those persecuted by the Nazi regime, First They Came is an…

Do you use Discord and a virtual tabletop even though the VTT has a video chat solution of its own?…

Biohazard Games with Gallant Knight have taken the third edition of the acclaimed hard science Blue Planet RPG to Kickstarter,…

Demeo is a “virtual virtual” tabletop. That’s to say, it uses a virtual tabletop in which you can move your…

Vaesen is a horror RPG from the award-winning Free League Publishing. The game is based on the gothic art of…

Chivalry and Sorcery is one of the oldest fantasy RPGs still being published, and the 5th edition (that’s the C&S…

There’s a good cause RPG bundle on Itch.io right now, and for the next 24 days, in which you can…

Death in Space is two things; it’s a bleak view of life in space powered by capitalism and a work…

I’m happy to recommend Roll With Me.xyz as a good solution for making intelligent dice rolls online. What do I…

dScryb is a subscription site, with a free tier, that provides GMs and DMs with boxed text to read to…

Apocalypse 5e is an adaptable setting in which characters explore the world 700 years after humanity’s fall. How did the…

UFO Press has been absorbed into fellow British RPG publisher Rowan, Rook and Decard with founder Minerva McJanda joining the…

Incoming Call is a sci-fi RPG for 1 to 3 players, no GM, and it’s free to download. The game…

Geek Native readers have been robots chased by sharks. That’s to say, last year, this blog gave away a copy…

Spire is a tabletop RPG from Rowan, Rook and Decard about a towering city after a successful invasion that reduces…

The five-headed dragon goddess from D&D lore, Tiamat, is coming to tabletops. Due to ship in September, WizKids has announced…

Geek Native’s amazing Patrons can now vote to put an RPG publisher or creator in the Spotlight. Are you a…

I’m hesitant to blog anything on the morning of April 1, but here we are with a look at the…

The World of Darkness team at Paradox published the first development blog since taking the RPG properties in house. And…

Partnering with the Open Gaming Network and World Anvil, Mythic Table has launched a Kickstarter to get some full-time developers…

In the wake of their million Dollar Kickstarter for Lord of the Rings, Free League Publishing have announced their next…

Today, London-based Modiphius Entertainment put their Fallout 2d20 RPG on pre-order, with a GM toolkit, dice, and special editions. The…

It’s a busy time for Onyx Path Publishing. They’ve announced one of their RPG lines, Scion, has a TV show…

It’s a busy day over at the Bundle of Holding as Free League Publishing have launched two mixed bundles. Coriolis,…

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RPG publisher Onyx Path will have a TV developed from their Scion RPG line. Scion is a tabletop roleplaying game…

The Guardian called 2020 “the year of the Karen”, recognising the debate around the name, which has become a pejorative.…

Mythic Table’s Kickstarter promises to help integrate the open source virtual tabletop. Partnerships with The Open Gaming Network and World…

Journey, a well-received solo RPG that helps you design worlds, released edition 1.1 this week.  In Journey, you are a…

Red Box Vancouver, known for games like The Nameless Grimoire, Class Warfare and The Nightmares Underneath has rebranded to Chthonstone…

Tabletop gamers will get But a Jape and may well even have had a character who once said, “’tis but…

Will The Deck of Many Quests become discussed among GMs as D&D’s The Deck of Many Things is between players?…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.DriveThruRPG is holding a new sale and…

We’re nearly one-quarter of the way through 2021. Gulp! Let’s mark the occasion with some RPG news. First up, the…

British “chap hop” performer Professor Elemental has a tabletop RPG full of whimsy and inspired by Lasers & Feelings. If…

Justin Halliday’s adamantine best-seller Hero Kids is free to download, but only until April 1st. The award-winning RPG is designed…

Italian model maker Game Start is offering what they call “world’s first interactive miniatures” for tabletop games via a Kickstarter.…

Steve Jackson Games made money in 2020, although slightly less than in 2019 and managed to keep all staff employed…

Modiphius has steadily been building up their games and today announced Five Parsecs from Home will add to their Adventure…

Pierce Fraser’s Kickstarter for HC SVNT DRACONES 2.0: Mastered as met and exceeded the goal of $20,000. There’s still three…

If Blizzard was to design a tabletop RPG setting for D&D’s 5e edition, it would probably be built by Chris…

After three months of beta testing with a select group, Roll20 has now opened the beta test of the mobile…

The second teaser for I’m Standing on a Million Lives trailer is sung by a virtual idol time to read:…

In Southwest England, in the 70s, as Thatcher is taking on the trade unions and the miners, you can find…

Alberetor – The Haunted Waste is the fifth part in The Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns campaign for the…

Modiphius already makes Fallout Wasteland Warfare a skirmish game with an RPG spin-off accessory, but a 2d20 game is coming.…

DarkEnergy from Entanglement Interactive is an RPG set during the apocalypse. The game happens as events unfold and as the…