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There’s been no shortage of weird and geeky gift suggestions on the blog in recent weeks. It’s the time of…

Beyond the Fire, A Manual of Perilous Creatures from Across the Black Diaspora, Volume 1 is a new release from…

The 3rd edition of Adventure System by Idyll Creations is out. The PDF is already available from DriveThruRPG, and the…

There’s a range of Cthulhu Mythos Saga adventures from Sandy Petersen Games for sale, and now you can sample one…

November 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💶 Links may earn ad money The weekend approaches, and that means…

Wannabe Games are crowdfunding a game set in a world in a crisis, a world in which megacorps are vying…

The Wizards of the Coast publisher account at DriveThruRPG has added three sets of D&D character sheets from legacy editions…

The forthcoming Demon Dog from Nightfall Games has been delayed. The tabletop RPG was to be the company’s fourth Kickstarter.…

Pathfinder maker Paizo has teamed up with model and toy expert Kidrobot for two adorkable plushies. Love that word or…

WizKids’ Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Scrawlers – Heroes of Undermountain is out. It’s only out in North America, and there’s…

Inspired by cult British TV like The Prisoner where No 6 is held in an oddball village filled with quirky…

The free edition of Bloodheist, released this week, is 30-pages long and a full tabletop RPG. Published by Graculus Droog,…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Humble Bundle’s Space, Sports, and Orcs is…

The DMs Guild has a softcover, standard colour print option now for CM8 The Endless Stair (Basic). The Endless Stair…

Infinite Black’s latest dice Kickstarter is pulling in the backers. No shortage of us appreciate the tabletop RPG mashup with…

I have fantastic memories of playing Tribe 8, and I only played a few one-shots. Tribes in the Dark, the…

Demiplane and WoD have today announced the World of Darkness Nexus. The platform will be the official toolset for Vampire:…

EN Publishing has today confirmed no more Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD products, as their license has…

Dungeons on a Dime will eventually give the contents of Carved in Stone away for free. The book is a…

Paizo has been in the news for lots of reasons, good and bad, lately. The publisher has dropped the word…

“Lovecraftian weird west steampunk RPG” are all words I like but don’t see together very often! They describe Through the…

The headline news from Roll20Con 2021 is the launch of the mobile app. It allows; Roll20 users to view character…

Punks raging against a relentless corporate hell and cybernetic misfits in a nano-infested doomsday RPG. Cy_Borg is a rules-light, rage-heavy…

Eyes Beyond the Torchlight is a new fantasy RPG from Workhorse RPG Studio. The game was released via DriveThruRPG in…

Inspired by the vast caves of Southeast Asia, Reach of the Roach God is the first campaign from A Thousand…

Cubicle 7’s Warhammer 4 likes to use the words “grim” and “perilous” to describe the game and accessories. It’s entirely…

Are you reading the Gears of War novel series from Titan Books? Gears of War: Ephyra Rising is the 8th…

Who else has a problem with hardback giants falling over in the dead of night? I’m looking at you; giant…

As a blogger who writes about tabletop games as a hobby, I’ve noticed a trend in original and inspirational games…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.I’m enjoying the advent calendar battle going…

The Gobin’s Henchman is on to a winner with the Weather Hex Flower. I’m very happy for you to pay…

I’m sick but have new shoes to distract me… and the wheel of RPPG news turns regardless. Wizards of the…

Part of Sidequest, Moonlight on Roseville Beach is a queer game of disco and cosmic horror from R. Rook Studio.…

The 2021 Q3 The Orr Report is out. That’s the Roll20 stats on what games are being played on the…

The solo adventure based in Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian Age GURPS Conan: Moon of Blood is now out in print.…

The Verge picked up a story today that dates back to the end of last year. It’s good enough to…

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Despite a yearning, I didn’t back Thirsty Sword Lesbians at Kickstarter because Evil Hat couldn’t/wouldn’t ship the book to the…

Dark Horse and Jagex will release Runescape: The First 20 Years – An Illustrated History on the 11th. Alex Calvin’s…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.After blogging Lord of the Rings Christmas…

A successful Kickstarter from Fainting Goat Games will bring the Goatlands Adventures Omnibus to life. It’s a collection of D&D…

Marvel’s Eternals movies triggers a search surge in people learning about American Sign Language (ASL) time to read: 2 min…

Bundles are popular on DriveThruRPG and DMs Guild. Typically, customers can buy multiple books, from one or more publishers, at…

Perfect bodies in a flawed world: Blade Runner – Black Lotus gets a new trailer time to read: 1 min…

At the Mountains of Madness, volume II will be released by Free League Publishing on November 23rd. If you have…

“lofi bards to study and relax to” is the name of the RPG, and while it does have wizards, it…

Yeraksys: Dying World BYTE RPG Setting Beta Version is free to download right now, and the usual price is $9.60.…

This is a quick review of Eaglemoss and Hero Collector’s Battlestar Galactica: Designing Spaceships. The 192-page hardback is due out…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.I was geeky and trigger happy enough…

Icon of Death is the sixth in the Tales of Red Ruin from Red Ruin Publishing. The solo Dragon Warriors…

Will it hit a million? Acclaimed sci-fi horror Mothership has taken to Kickstarter to fund a boxed set and a…

November 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Links may earn commission Gang, it’s been a long week! Fortunately,…

Thrones for your math rocks? Painted, LED enhanced and sculpted displays that can be used as terrain or even counters…

Salvage Union is a new RPG from Leyline Press, the publisher created by Aled Lawlor (Mew-Tants) and Panayiotis Lines (Shadow…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It’s Fanatical’s birthday and we benefit from…

Porcupine Publishing, the talent behind the excellent and trope-busting The Elephant and Macaw Banner RPG, have released a beta edition…

The award-winning Cthulhu Hack is back on Kickstarter. It’s been five years since the award-winning RPG came out, mixing simple…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It seems like a ripe harvest at…

There are two ways to use Tabletopy, and it is a good combination. The first is Tabletopy.com. The website loads…

Lewis Johnson’s Defenders of the New Century is a post-war tabletop RPG where the island nation finds efforts to rebuild…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Advent calendars seem to be a hot…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.The Cartographer’s Collection from ProFantasy is back…

Monte Cook Games are running a Kickstarter called the Path of the Planebreaker which opens up D&D’s multiverse to even…

Goatlands is a campaign setting from Fainting Goat Games that uses D&D’s 5e system. The setting has typical D&D high…

Traveller’s Little White Book that reproduces the 1981 rulebooks and the brand new Classic Traveller Fascimle Edition are found in…

SideQuest launched today. It’s a project to gamers discover RPG zines and for their creators to promote them. Inspired by…

Geek Native gave a glowing review to Shotguns & Sorcery, the Cypher System and Robert J Schwalb’s design work on…

Adam Lee has worked for Wizards of the Coast for nearly 12 years. Starting as a narrative and game designer…

Geek Native’s Patrons support the site by funding commissioned articles and art. Money does not go to technical posts. Occasionally…

It’s Halloween right now, and people are dressed up as all sorts of monsters. I’ve seen some pretty scary costumes…

The One Ring 2nd edition is the Lord of the Rings RPG from Free League Publishing. The lead writer and…

Monte Cook Games’ latest Kickstarter is for 5e and from Cook himself, Bruce Cordell and Sean Reynolds. Planebreaker is a…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Humble Bundle has a three-tier Numenera RPG…

Paradox Press Games’ GLOOM is a Name Your Own Price storytelling game. It’s two pages long. Itch frustratingly doesn’t tell…

A Kickstarter for Traveler’s Ironsworn: Deluxe Edition has two weeks left to run and is healthy beyond the funding target.…

A Redditor on Reddit’s Judaism community spotted a culturally minded policy change at Paizo. The Pathfinder publisher will stop using…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It’s Halloween leading into the first shipping…

Bandit Camp’s latest RPG, Relic, is about camaraderie, teamwork and exploring the wilderness. It’s a wilderness in which you might…

Laura and Tracy Hickman are known for fantasy worlds and D&D settings like Ravenloft and Dragonlance. The couple’s latest project,…

The shipping crisis, Brexit and the lockdown have all made logistics a nightmare for publishers. It’s much harder getting physical…

Last week, Roll20 kindly suggested some spooky games to play over the Halloween season. I’ll share those in just a…

The complete RPG and 4th edition of the Discworld Roleplaying Game is now available as a PDF and print-on-demand softcover…

Matt Forbeck and the Bundle of Holding launched a single-tier Shotguns and Sorcery offer. It’s a wisely timed deal as…

Paizo Publishing, fresh with the newly recognised union, has partnered with Demiplane to launch the official digital toolset for Pathfinder.…

CZRPG’s Amazing Encounters and Places for D&D is now live. It’s a Kickstarter for a cartography enriched D&D 5e supplement.…

Tomb of the Colossus Gods is a Kickstarter slated for February 2022 and a dark campaign setting for 5e. The…

The Bundle of Holding has a collection of horror RPGs in its sixth deal on standalone RPGs and scenarios for…

Set in a post-human Earth, The Desert is a short animation in which only our creations are left to navigate…

Relic is a soon to launch Kickstarter from Bandit Camp, that’s the indie RPG publisher behind the innovative Wicked Ones.…

Musician Jenny Owen Youngs discovered D&D during the lockdown and now her latest EP, Echo Mountain, as a musical homage…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It’s not common at all to have…

Craftando Games has been publishing RPGs in Brazil for five years, and now with this English-language version of the Kalymba…

I don’t need a festive squig wearing embarrassing Christmas antlers. I want one. Games Workshop will start selling them too.…

Behind the scenes, it’s been an important week for the RPG industry. Paizo staff have a Union, thanks to freelancer…

Degenesis was an amazingly well-illustrated RPG set in a dreadfully bleak post-apocalypse Europe. It used a novel but hard to…

Don’t have a copy of Steve Jackson Games’ generic universal roleplaying game GURPS? There’s now a Kickstarter for GURPS Girl…

Geek Native of the upcoming Amazing Encounter & Places, Vol 1 a 5e supplement with encounters, locations, plot and some…

Paizo, the publisher behind RPGs like Pathfinder and Starfinder, was reportedly unable to publish due to unofficial strike action. It…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Cubicle 7 have a Humble Bundle in…

Robotech: Homefront is an expansion for the tabletop RPG of Robotech: The Macross Saga covering The Masters, ASC, UEEF and…