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Alexandra Clinton’s Powered by the Apocalypse game of psychics and investigators researching the mysterious and sometimes dangerous world of the…

DriveThruRPG and the DMs Guild are to change the printer technology used for print-on-demand books. The essential move is due…

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Soulbound is the tabletop roleplaying game from Cubicle 7 set in Games Workshop’s Warhammer Age of Sigmar world. Out of…

Monte Cook’s Ptolus: City by the Spire is a $150 RPG but the Player’s Guide is free. At least, the…

Oldhammer has dug up and remastered TV footage of author Ben Elton introduce the British public to Dungeons & Dragons…

It’s not unusual to read tabletop roleplaying games suggest that you think of a game as a cooperative writing project…

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Patrick Kindlon is the lead singer of the rock band Self Defense Family, and Z2 will publish his Run the…

For about a year now, I’ve been tracking online, offline and new hybrid (best of both) geeky conventions. As with…

Based on the rules found in Honey Heist in the Heresy & Faith RPG, you are an acolyte of the…

With over two weeks still to run on the project, publisher A Couple of Drakes has successfully romanced Kickstarter with…

Geek Native held a round table discussion on Inhospitable Settings in which several RPG designers talked about the attraction of…

It has been a long while since I’ve dabbled in wargames, even skirmish games that use a dozen models rather…

You’ve been able to buy Oumcraft’s dice eyeballs for a little while, but as all good ideas from indie crafters…

In March, Zak Smith filed paperwork to sue Gen Con and its owner, ex-WotC boss, Peter Adkison. Now, a screengrab…

The awesome Patrons who contribute $1 or more to Geek Native’s development coffers are now able to vote in the…

The cost of a monthly subscription to Roll20 will increase from July 1st, the virtual tabletop has announced today. The…

April 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Links may earn ad money Hello, hello, and welcome to the…

The Prophecy of Nine Omens trilogy is a 5e Kickstarter from Midnight Tower, an indie publisher based in Oxford. The…

A credit that I’ve started to see in new RPGs is “sensitivity reader”. I think it’s fair enough to wonder…

RUSH is a 16-page, Name Your Own Price, RPG from Horoscope Zine. The Name Your Own Price suggestion is generous…

Q-Workshop has sets of official The Witcher gaming dice on Kickstarter. The sets are called “hybrid dice” because they’re made…

It’s a soft launch, meaning there could be all sort of bugs and quirks, but the Bundle of Holding’s Starter…

Tomkin Press’ sci-fi sister RPG to Shawn Tomkin’s rightfully very popular Ironsworn is a hit. The Kickstarter community is eager…

VoxStory might look a little like Minecraft but it’s an evolution of an older game; the traditional tabletop. Using the…

As expected, TxK Gaming Studios have taken their virtual reality project Dungeon Full Dive to Kickstarter. The software plays like…

Cubicle 7 secured the Doctor Who RPG license in 2008 and have since published 40 game books, dice and other…

Handiwork Games have released a set of phat Beowulf d20, which due to pressure from fans, went on sale early,…

Dusk City Outlaws is a tabletop RPG fantasy heist from Scratchpad Publishing. The game is designed by Rodney Thompson, who…

Grimdark is a term used to describe gritty fantasy in which bad things are likely to happen. Sequestered Industries’ RPG…

Last week, Games Workshop announced that all pre-orders would pause for the next couple of weeks. By May, everything will…

Just last week, Bandit Camp’s Forged in the Dark RPG Wicked Ones became a free download. That’s hundreds of pages…

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Phew. I backed Mantic Games and Red Scar’s Hellboy RPG on Kickstarter and am pleased with the output. I’m a…

Satine Phoenix, Jamison Stone and the team has a D&D 5e setting and campaign that will take characters from level…

In about a week, SR 16 will publish a lightweight RPG that merges investigative noir and dystopian sci-fi. It’ll be…

Tension is an one page RPG from Late Night Zen. The RPG blog introduces the ghost hunting one-page system by…

MORK BORG is a doom metal art inspired RPG that one Best Product of the Year at the 2020 ENnies.…

Forbidden Planet lands signed exclusive copies The Final Girl Support Group ahead of TV series time to read: 1 min…

It might look like a computer game, but One More Multiverse insists it’s all about the tabletop. In the site’s…

April 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Links may earn commission Howdy, geeks and happy birthday. It seems…

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…

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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…