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The Zweihander RPG powers Andrews McMeel’s Flames of Freedom. The game is set at the dawn of the American Revolutionary…

Pinnacle Entertainment Group, the publisher behind Savage Worlds and Deadlands, has teamed up with Odd Bard Games and author Tim…

We’ve been tracking The Wagada Chronicles since the start of the year. It’s always looked great. Earlier this month, the…

The Bundle of Holding has two sets of Tiny bundles. The first is Tiny Dungeon the popular streamlined dungeon-crawler fantasy…

Gears of War: Bloodlines is the official tie-in to both Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. Written by Jason M. Hough,…

Geek Native’s RPG Publisher Spotlight publisher In Search of Games has announced additional owners today. Chris Mennell, the founder, is…

Here’s a nice story of death, horror and dungeon terror. SoulMuppet is a British indie RPG publisher that’s been slogging…

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JDrift01, aka The Cannibal Orange, reminds us that sometimes death can be such an abstract concept some people struggle with…

The trend of tabletop games launching support apps to rocky or, at best, mixed responses continues with Modiphius’ Fallout: Wasteland…

The original Blue Rose was published by Green Ronin in 2005, used a modified version of the D&D system at…

The Scarlet Citadel is an old school style multi-level dungeon for Dungeons & Dragon’s 5e rules. Kobold Press set the…

September 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Links may earn ad money PAX Online and D&D Celebration 2020…

Romance of the Perilous Land was one of the first roleplaying games published by Osprey. It has a fond spot…

Tomorrow is the start of D&D Celebration 2020 and Wizards of the Coast’s attempt to run 600 virtual tabletop games…

Slime Cave of Norwal is a “pay-what-you-want” D&D adventure from James Introcaso and Jeff Stevens. Regular Geek Native readers will…

Monte Cook Games’ latest supplement for the Cypher System is We Are All Mad Here. The setting is based on…

In previous years, Paizo used to run a competition called RPG Superstar which had game designers submit entries for monsters,…

Deven Rue is a popular tabletop cartographer. How popular? Deven produces maps for Critical Role and Wizards of their Coast.…

The much-delayed Cortex Prime is out and making a splash. It’s powering the Dragon Prince RPG, Masters of the Universe…

A year ago, MGM and Wyvern Gaming announced a D&D 5e-powered Stargate RPG. The game has been open for beta…

Atma is a sci-fi RPG that uses cards and pre-genned characters so you can get playing quickly and get a…

Virutal tabletops have become the mainstay of many RPG groups during the lockdown. In particular, virtual tabletops are especially useful…

Monsters of Murka was a Kickstarter hit last year with a satirical take on the politics of the United States…

In the 80s, the rise of the religious right and the conservative branch of Christianity began to entrench itself in…

Honey & Hot Wax is an anthology of erotic art games edited by Sharang Biswas and Lucian Kahn, the designer…

If an alien entity from beyond the stars offered you a deal… would you take it? In D&D, Warlocks are…

Nerdvana Games have their official Gearbox approved Bunkers & Badasses open for pre-order. [embedded content] There are two versions of…

Monte Cook’s Cypher System has had some recent wins, I’d argue, with the likes of Pandemonium Noir picking it, Shotguns…

September 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Links may earn ad money Subscribers of the daily digest email…

Want to create material for MORK BORG the book that one Product of the Year at the 2020 ENnies? You…

Ah man, the subtitles in this pitch video alone make the Kickstarter worth watching. The Skullkickers, those tough fantasy mercenaries,…

Roll20’s virtual conference is back and slated for October 23rd to October 25th. Code2040, Roll20’s charity partner, will be the…

DriveThruRPG is one of the biggest forces in the tabletop gaming world. It’s a huge eCommerce site where people can…

An update today from Mike Pondsmith’s R. Talsorian Games urges us to stay safe in the streets and confirms that…

Onyx Path have their latest Scion RPG up on Kickstarter. The series of RPGs is set at different power levels…

Paizo Publishing are planning to bring out Pathfinder Secrets of Magic in July 21st. The supplement will add new spells,…

Brandon Dixon’s Swordsfall afropunk RPG has signed a deal with publisher Andrews McMeel. Swordsfall is both an art book and…

The island of Neverland is home to stories about Peter Pan, mermaids and pirates. Parents have passed on stories set…

There’s little over a day left, at the time of writing, to back Studio Agate’s Creatures: Complete Monster Compendium for…

Last month Geek Native listed the Acheron beta as a free to download RPG. I’m now told Dark World Studios…

Ultraviolet Grasslands is an award-winning tabletop RPG by Luka Rejec inspired by psychedelic heavy metal and the Dying Earth genre.…

If you had searched for Red Opera before this week, you would have found an album by a band called…

Within an hour of punk band the Dead Milkmen’s 5e D&D adventure going live on Kickstarter it had funded. It’s…

Cubicle 7 have made their Free RPG Day adventure Rain of Mercy free to download. Rain of Mercy is an…

Game designer Andrew J Lucas has a unique superhero RPG setting called New Bristol up on Kickstarter. Never heard of…

Adamant Entertainment has launched Star System: Every Star A Destination which marks the return of several prominent writers to the…

Unusually, this bundle includes FUDGE-based RPGs that are not yet on sale anywhere else.

Virtual Tabletop Gaming Live has been announced. It'll run from September 26th to the 28th, and will be composed of…

Adult Swim is gearing up for the second season of Tigtone. To get you interested, they’ve competition and a free…

There are only a couple of days to pounce on the 2020 Tabletop Itch.io bundle. A small but perfectly formed…

The Churn RPG is set on a fantasy world in which, 100 years after a cataclysm wove people, machines and…

There’s a new Fighting Fantasy book coming. Crystal of Storms is written by Rhianna Pratchett, and that’ll make her the…

You have heard tales of a place…a passage hidden away in the ruins of a forgotten castle, full of terrible…

The first prize is a full set of wave 1 wheelchair minis and each of the first two Epic Encounter…

The first step in the origin creation process is deciding on a heritage.

Silver Vine Publishing announced their launch today. The company, founded by Ben Gessel and Zack Wells, will specialise in bringing…

There are six races; Human, Elf, Dwarf, Spriggan, Skorn and Minotaur, which is an unusual mix

September 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentAds: Sales from links may earn us money For many of us,…

In September, D&D will hold a multi-day event, attempt to hold the world’s largest virtual tabletop. Wizards of the Coast…

There has never been a better time to be a tabletop gamer in search of battle maps. There are Patreons…

Would you like to win one of the best card games in the world? Wolfgang Kramer’s 6 Nimmt is really…

Remember the impressive and ambitious The Wagadu Chronicles from near the start of the year? Developer Twin Drums launched a…

Weird Tales Magazine was founded in 1922 and published the early work of H.P. Lovecraft – including Call of Cthulhu…

Shotguns and Sorcery is a series of novels by Matt Forbeck, which I have not read, and then thanks to…

There are audio games like Pazio’s impressive Starfinder for Alexa that features Nathan Fillion and Critical Role’s Laura Bailey or…

Nathan Black is, among other things, an indie RPG designer. You can find his Search and Destroy and Sigil Seekers…

Frog God Games has an extensive collection of Old School Revival (definition pending) RPGs up at Humble Bundle. How large?…

Geek Native was lucky enough to have a chat with Will Munn of Adept Icarus about Arium last month. It’s…

The McEloys responded to growing concerns on Twitter this week on how artists contributing to the best selling The Adventure…

In 2019 Mike Melsode and Grace Kendall put their money where their mouth was and established the Tabletop Mentorship Program.…

Punks The Dead Milkmen have been active on and off since 1983 and recently released their political ballad (We don’t…

Over $68 worth of Savage Worlds supplements has been reduced to below $34 to celebrate the second anniversary of Pinnacle…

Not only do Geek Native patrons get an occasional gift, they get to help pick indie RPG publishers and creators…

There is a week left on The Grinning Frog’s successful Kickstarter for Abracadabra: A Guide to Becoming a Magical Games…

It's now possible for DriveThruRPG publishers to sell Astral modules.

The rise of virtual tabletops means that more gamers than ever are looking for tokens to represent their characters and…

D&D has a new gorgeous and official DM’s screen. The four-panel folding screen shows a dragon infested wilderness on the…

A fan-project uses the Open D6 system to make a fan-made Jurassic Park RPG.

Beam Saber is a successful Kickstarter and a Forged in the Dark mecha RPG. In the game, the organisations at…

Jim Likes Games was the online evolution of the brick and motor stores Modern Myths. However, the small business has…

Cahal’s Rage roars in the latest Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood trailer time to read:

You remember the combat wheelchair, right? Geek Native and Steffie de Vaan talked about wheelchairs in Legendlore and then Sara…

There are some dominant players in the virtual tabletop space. These are program or browser-based web apps that allow GMs…

Got the Epic Games launcher? No objections to installing it? If you’re also a Shadowrun fan, then there’s good news.…

August 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💶 Ads: Links may earn us money It’s coming up to the…

Free League Publishing announced that they and partner publishers would be making a fourth edition of the military Twilight: 2000…

BattleMapp.io is a free to use 3d virtual tabletop that has sprung up almost overnight and very quickly become impressive.…

Hugely popular sci-fi The Expanse has its own RPG from Green Ronin, and now it is well on its way…

Titan Books and Blizzard have put together The World of Warcraft: Comic Collection: Volume One into a print edition from…

Knights of the Table is a weekly web comic about tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons. I think it deserves…

Hello fellow humans, illustrator and game designer Rollinkunz has invented a tabletop RPG about Vikings encountering alien technology and using…

We last caught up Zach Stoppel and Bartholomew Klick’s with this comic about metagaming. Now their alternative design for D&D…

9th Level Games won Best Rules for their RPG Mazes at the Indie Groundbreaker Awards so they clearly know how…

There are two sets of Warhammer first edition RPGs and supplements in the Bundle of Holding, and one is entirely…

Free League Publishing have made their acclaimed Tales from the Loop RPG available on Roll20. A bundle of Tales from…

Manticore Games have partnered with Wizards of the Coast to bring Dungeons & Dragons to Core. To encourage tabletop gamers…

Geek Native covered the Legends of Avallen beta test back in June, and it is good to see a successful…

Last week, Green Ronin launched their “new” fedual fantasy RPG Sword Chronicle. Sword Chronicle is a fantasy RPG with lords…

Wizards of the Coast have two big books coming out. Icewind Dale’s Rime of the Frostmaiden is due September 15th…