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There’s been no shortage of innovation in the world of tabletop terrain and scenery in recent years. Kickstarter is usually…

Do you use spell cards in D&D or other RPGs? It’s a straightforward and effective idea; rather than force players…

The latest update to The Augur adds new contextual drag and drop, new maps, locations, portraits and avatars.

Aurora Torchia has a tabletop RPG based on Blackjack and set on a future Earth where technology and sinister occult…

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Handiwork Games have shared an art preview from their upcoming 5e-powered Beowulf RPG and confirmed the game will be ready…

Derek Kolstad is the creator and writer of Keanu Reeves’ John Wick movie franchise, and the Hollywood Reporter has an…

Just before the new year, a deadly earthquake hit Croatia. Extensive damage was caused in Petrinja and Zagreb and surrounding…

January 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💶 Ads: Links may earn commission Hello and welcome to the end…

Matt Colville's company, MCDM, has launched a new D&D magazine. It's called Arcadia and its a test.

As a thank you to Geek Native’s Patrons, or anyone who becomes one before Monday the 25th, there will be…

Peach Garden Games have hit the $5,000 target for the Solo but not Alone RPG bundle twice. They’re heading for…

Adam Vaas’s tabletop RPG of lost kids and critters lost in an endless wood on Halloween is in Kickstarter to…

Last month, Wizards of the Coast made two old RPG map supplements free to download on DriveThruRPG. The World of…

Players travel by eldritch portal and non-Euclidean labyrinth and golden-sailed barge between the uncountable crystal Spheres strung delicately across the…

Geek Native has bought a $50 Geek House Coffee voucher, which you can spend if you are in the US,…

Liminal author, Dr Paul Mitchener, has put his latest RPG on Kickstarter. Dr Mitch has backed over 100 projects himself,…

Last year the Dragonlance authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman took Wizards of the Court to court over the games…

BASH! Ultimate Edition is a superhero roleplaying game from Chris Rutkowsky that’s a Platinum best-seller at DriveThruRPG and a previous…

I guess there’s no shortage of free battle maps on the internet these days. The RPG community is full of…

You might already be familiar with fonts like Wingdings that let you write in symbols rather than letters.

During ModCon, Modiphius streamed the premiere of their new 2d20 game Dune: Adventures in the Imperium. Line editor Jason Durall…

The roleplaying game City of Mist is perhaps closer to a TV show than an old school roleplaying game.

Svalbard is an RPG and adventure from the Norweigan publisher Two Starving Gnolls. The game uses a simplified system focusing…

January 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Ads: Links may earn us money Our first full week of…

The UK left the EU Single Market at the end of 2020 due to Brexit the year before. As a…

Wizards of the Coast will announce a new D&D book on the 12th of January and publish it on the…

Monte Cook Games’ Cypher System Edge of the Sun is due out in February, but a free to download preview…

Osprey Publishing have shared name generation tables for their Wuxia RPG Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades. [Download Generator] The RPG by…

Catalyst Game Labs will publish the Runner Resource Book “Shadowrun: Collapsing Now” for the 6th edition of their fantasy cyberpunk…

I recommend the John Carter of Mars RPG from Modiphius. Geek Native’s review says; I’m glad I made time for…

Fainting Goat Games have released the RPG Agents of BAMF on Itch.io. The OSR style tabletop game is a Name…

RPG Research is a charity that uses roleplaying games to make life better for people. Last month, Geek Native shared…

EN World has compiled thousands of votes and produced the The 10 Most Anticipated Tabletop RPGs of 2021. This year…

The Monsters Are Our Heroes is an RPG set in a modern-day America powered by gas and lightning. It’s modern…

Happy Hogmanay! ’tis the season for RPG blogs to write lists and predictions. Geek Native will try and keep those…

The Bundle of Holding is ending the year with two Traveller RPG deals. One is Traveller LBBS 1 which first…

There’s a free demo of James Lennox-Gordon’s lo-fi heist-fantasy 1400 Sneak RPG on Itch.io. If you like the game, the…

To the City of Brass is a free 21-paged PDF for D&D on DriveThruRPG from Wizards of the Coast. The…

Nightfall Games have released a 44-page Quick Start for their forthcoming The Terminator RPG. You can download it from DriveThruRPG.…

Wizards of the Coast added Three-Dragon Ante to DriveThruRPG in November. It’s a free download. Three-Dragon Ante is a card…

You can download and install a free Savage Worlds Adventure Edition for Foundry. However, you can also visit PEG’s store…

Titan Effect is a tactical espionage and science fiction RPG powered by Savage Worlds. Right now, you can grab a…

Arcane Anthems is a Patreon that creates free music for your tabletop RPGs. The sound files here are neither background…

There’s nothing unusual about mixing the life as an adventurer and as a pet owner. D&D rangers have animal companions,…

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Karl Nicolas’ Kickstarter to publish a compendium of over 100 unique and fully-illustrated magical tattoo for 5e is doing well.…

Xavier Deschenes has created environments in computer games for companies like EA and Ubisoft. Now they’re on Kickstarter with Ultimate…

Forged in the Dark RPGs are going in number and they’re powered by Blades in the Dark by One Seven.…

Guy Sclanders, the host of YouTuBe series How To Be A Great Game Master, has teamed up with Dungeon Fog…

A|State is a chilling dystopian sci-fi RPG set in a city you can never leave. Handiwork Games picked up the…

Modiphius has had the license from CBS to make Star Trek miniatures and the Star Trek Adventures RPG since 2016.

Geek Native and DriveThruRPG have been looking at games published in 2020 and which sold well. Today we’re looking at…

I think Geek Native’s first mention of Exalted Funeral was around Halloween last year in the Seekers Beyond The Shroud…

A summary of 2020 RPG stats, a round-up of the news, lots of reviews and product releases all together in…

As the year comes to a close, DriveThruRPG and Geek Native have been looking back at RPGs published this year…

The final RPG Spotlight winners of 2020 are Thought Police Interactive. What a friendly bunch. Geek Native reached out to…

Seafoot Games is a Patreon that creates battle maps for D&D, Pathfinder and other RPGs. You can print the colour…

Pre-orders are open, collector’s editions are selling out, the movie is on the way, and now Modiphius has shown us…

The game will be written by World Anvil's Janet Forbes and River Horse's Jack Caesar.

Sign up to The Forge and click the "Try Foundry Now" button to enable Explorer Mode. That will create a…

Geek Native has a copy of Death on the Cards a game made in partnership with Modiphius and Agatha Christie…

DriveThruRPG has been kind enough to help Geek Native look back at 2020 and at which RPGs did well. We…

Alan Bahr’s Tombpunk as Outland look to bring the 102-paged, 5.5×8.5 black and white ruleset to life as a way…

It's the first supplement for the World of Darkness from the company after moving responsibility for the roleplaying games back…

The most recent tabletop RPG from R. Talsorian Games Cyberpunk Red and prequel to the now controversial Cyberpunk 2077 is…

Paradox taking the World of Darkness back in-house does not seem to have affected the in-development computer game Werewolf: The…

As we approach the end of the year, Geek Native and DriveThruRPG are looking back at RPGs that did well.…

Into the Duskworld is a good looking but sombre RPG from Italian publisher Alter Ego Games.

Green Ronin's core Modern AGE rules, Threefold and The Expanse RPG all available in this modern bundle.

DriveThruRPG has kindly pulled some data from their vast marketplace of RPG goodness, and we can now see which RPG…

The new rules for Paragon usage put Agon at the heart of the ecosystem as third-party games cannot quote from…

Janet Forbes, the co-founder of World Anvil and professional D&D player for Wizards of the Coast had to set the…

RPG Research is a 501(c)3 non-profit research charitable organisation that does good through roleplaying games. With roots reaching back to…

Dungeons & Dragons is a game of imagination, storytelling and atmosphere we can surely expect some impressive character backgrounds, concepts…

The Game Awards this week felt like a big moment with lots of big news. Hats off to Geoff Keighley,…

This week D&D hired a new senior game designer, an army of monsters appeared on Humble Bundle, publishers backed New…

The Complete Collection Bundle, which contains a GMs screen, dice and other goodies came in at nearly £250? Expensive? Well,…

It's cyberpunk week with the release of Cyberpunk 2077, the computer game from CD Projekt Red which expands Mike Pondsmith's…

Goodman Games’ The Dungeon Alphabet is now on Fantasy Grounds. Dungeon Alphabet is a system-neutral supplement for GMS that help…

Wood Project is a small company based in New York that's come up with an organiser for tabletop games that…

Outland Entertainment has revealed that they will soon launch a Kickstarter for the Tombpunk RPG.

Rivers of London is a popular urban fantasy series from Ben Aaronovitch about cops that do magic. Geek Native was…

See You In Hell is an RPG inspired by games like Doom from Silver Hoof Games. It costs US$9.99 and…

Pinnacle Entertainment Group have revealed a deal with the virtual tabletop Foundry. The SWADE pack is free for the platform.…

The pitch for Tall Tales is that too many other "creative games" lacked the constraints that make a game. These…

There's a Savage Worlds version of Rifts that uses the latest SWADE edition, and the Bundle of Holding is currently…

Is 2021 the year you become a gamemaster and run tabletop RPGs for friends and family? Publishers like Evil Hat,…

Do you struggle to run a scenario when the PCs decide they need to travel 100 miles across country? Or…

New monsters every month is the offer from Handiwork Games and Handimonsters. The Patreon powered subscription model allows backers to…

In Tikor, when humans sleep, their minds enter a dimension known as the Tapestry. The Tapestry is a realm where…

Blink, and you'll miss it. Wade Dyer gave Fragged Cyberpunk just a week to run on Kickstarter, and we're down…

One of the lesser-known but hugely satisfying cyberpunk RPGs out there is Entromancy. It’s an agile 5e-powered game and I…

Goodman Games’ next conference is Spawn of Cyclops Con. The online convention will use New York’s timezone (UTC -5) and…

December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Links may earn ad money Here in the North, it is…

Grant Howitt’s latest one-page RPG, delivered thanks to his Patreon backers, is about birds plotting to steal the Crown Jewels…

The year is 1968. Two years ago, on January 7, 1966, an alien energy, now known as THE SIGNAL, reached…

The Cypher System Creator Program is one which lets third party creators, people like you and me, create, sell and…

Dungeons & Destiny currently lives in a public Google Drive, and it's packed with information.

Fainting Goat Games have a one-shot campaign that uses (slightly modified) Havoc Brigade rules on Kickstarter called Pew Pew. It’s…