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🐙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…

Cruel giants and demons devastated the land, forcing people to use primal magic to create a safer haven and portals…

The One Page Dungeon Contest is decades old and still very popular. In 2021, the competition had 74 entries and…

All 135 pages of Hyper Light Drifter: Basic Rules are free to download from DriveThruRPG. Explore at your table a…

Tribe 8 is a post-apocalyptic RPG from Dream Pod 9 published in 1998. Designed by Phil Boulle, Josh Mosqueira and…

Astral Tabletop has emailed members to say that development is on hold. The virtual tabletop is partnered with OneBookShelf and…

Astral Tabletop has emailed members to say that development is on hold. The virtual tabletop is partnered with OneBookShelf and…

Here’s a wickedly handy convergence of dark stars; Halloween is nigh, and Call of Cthulhu is celebrating its 40th birthday.…

A 5e RPG expansion for the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem setting has attracted over 3,000 backers and shot well beyond $250,000…

Every year, Geek Native counts down to Halloween with the 12 Masks of Halloween. Why? Tradition! A chance to share…

The Deadlands Noir bundle last ran in 2016, that’s five years ago. But it’s back from the dead now, as…

Edge, the Asmodee company that picked up Fantasy Flight’s RPGs, have launched their website and used it to confirm the…

Dingo was talented enough to make a YouTube animated series of their D&D campaign. Two dozen episodes, millions of views…

Staff at Paizo Publishing, the RPG company behind the sci-fi Starfinder and the fantasy that once outsold D&D, Pathfinder, formed…

Spencer Campbell has put together a collaborative project with 10 authors writing for the Slayers RPG. Slayers, the winner of…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.These trackers from Brokenwood Gifts are gorgeous.…

Moonlight Maps has a charismatic and funny Kickstarter pitch video and a product that speaks for itself. Now funded, Atlas…

Free RPG Day is October the 16th. There are all sorts of freebies available for people who can venture out…

The Adventurers League, the official D&D organised play program, has released the latest Ravenloft: Mist Hunters scenario The Amber Dirge.…

Sticking within the licensing rules for MORK BORG third-party content, I believe, and thus meaning you need a copy of…

The listing that slyly appeared for an untitled D&D hardcover has been revealed as Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep.…

Jamila R. Nedjadi’s Our Haunt isn’t currently available from Itch.io. However, the second edition is up on Kickstarter, with a…

Rebecka Kjellin is a Swedish gamer with a new setting for 5e on Kickstarter. Frostmark is set behind a firewall,…

It can’t be easy running an international company as complex as Hasbro. There’s the shipping drama logistics to deal with,…

Richard J Sellati of R. Sell Games Publishing has published as a Pay What You Want an 8-page Safety Tools…

You can download the Rupture RPG: Quick Start Guide for free. If you like that sampler, then there’s the Kickstarter…

Morrus and team EN Publishing have a hit on their hands with Level Up. This is a standalone RPG that…

It’s tough out there in the Kickstarter arena. I liked the concept for Defenders of the New Century when it…

A listing on Amazon suggests Wizards of the Coast will reveal the name of a new D&D hardcover on Tuesday.…

There are four days left on the Small Press Spotlight Sale as this blog post goes live. That’s time enough…

Nightfolk model maker Northumbrian Tin Soldier also publishes the official range of Time Bandits figures. That’s to say there’s a…

RPG news from Geek Native as Routinely Itemised looks back at stories from this blog and others. Reviews? Gotcha. Interviews?…

Unearthed Arcana is the official D&D playtest system. Not every playtest makes it into production, but it can certainly give…

Do you ever use dice as markers on your tabletop? Are some games of Dungeons & Dragons ones where a…

Co-funded by Leo Zullo, Safe in Our World is a charity to keep the focus on mental health issues in…

Craig Campbell and NerdBurger games have had a string of acclaimed Kickstarter successes. The latest campaign, Secrets of the Vibrant…

Odyssey of the Dragonlords won’t be the only D&D 5e adventure setting from James Ohlen’s Arcanum Worlds Raiders of the…

Itch.io is a platform for selling games. It started off with indie computer games and has grown into a more…

I dunno if it’s a sales trick but the Merchoid Warhammer 40K ugly Christmas sweaters I had bookmarked to blog…

Monte Cook Games has released a 16-page Claim the Sky preview for the Cypher System. The tabletop RPG is a…

There’s a new D&D print book available today as Wizards of the Coast has made Minsc and Boo’s Journal of…

Odd Bard Games and author Tim Earley announced the Holler, a folk horror for Savage Worlds nearly a year ago.…

Yesterday, the Border Gateway Protocol’s for Facebook’s network vanished. As a result, it was no longer announcing its presence to…

Dice Kapital are on the hunt for £12,300 to Kickstart the printing of Ecopunk: 2044. The plain text version of…

Luke Gygax and Gary Con, the tabletop RPG convention named after D&D co-creator Gary Gygax, has issued a statement addressing…

Based on The Black Hat RPG, a system praised by many geeks in the know is Just Crunch Games’ Cthulhu…

The RPG supplement The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great GM pushes towards the £100,000 Kickstarter funding level as GMs,…

The Dhole’s House is a free site for Call of Cthulhu RPG fans, players and Keepers alike. Chaosium, the publisher…

Sinopa Publishing listed their 56-page illustrated Dungeons and Dames 2021 pin-up book on DriveThruRPG last month. It’s the first edition,…

Is there any life in the Terminator franchise? Nightfall is working on The Terminator tabletop RPG, a Kickstarter for the…

I nominated SLA Industries as one of my top 10 RPGs of 2020 for my local indie gamers zine. It…

There’s no doubting the value Mike Shea and Sly Flourish bring to the roleplaying games community. The seventh Kickstarter from…

An old school style, percentile-based, RPG Hack100 is now available for free. The 35+ page PDF is black and white,…

37 tabletop RPG creators have joined Librarians and Leviathans to contribute to a charity bundle. $20 will get you $267…

Vast Grimm is a MORK BORG third party RPG from Infinite Black. I backed the Gamefound for it, and the…

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Sales from links may earn us money The darkness is beginning…

Jacob Wood’s RPG takes us to a European Almshouse, in 1347 AD, during the Black Death. The village has succumbed…

If you’re a Geek Native patron and want a superhero duck then please make sure your address is in the…

On YouTube, Joe Manganiello of Deathstroke / Arkhan the Cruel / Alcide Herveaux fame has been helping promote the Kickstarter…

Birth of a Jackal is a free 7-page adventure by John-Matthew DeFoggi for Osprey’s RPG Jackals: Bronze Age Fantasy. Geek…

We don’t get Honey Badgers here in Scotland. We get the friendly Wind in the Willows types with black and…