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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…

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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…

The music video for When The Summer Dies, an electronic beat and single from deadmau5 was made using Core. Manticore’s…

The Wanderer’s Tome has funded and did so in hours, a tabletop RPG inspired by stories like Jeeves and Wooster.…

As a quick catch up, Wizards of the Coast have announced a new edition of Dungeons & Dragons for 2024.…

Athelen Publishing is running a Kickstarter for a new d20 RPG. Described as a dark and gritty tabletop roleplaying game,…

Fandom owns D&D Beyond, Fanatical and hundreds of fan wikis. It’s a company that reach a vast number of geeks…

At D&D Celebration on the weekend, Wizards of the Coast lit up the tabletop community by announcing the 50th-anniversary D&D…

Guts & Glory is a tabletop RPG mashup of the raid dynamics of games like Monster Hunter with OSR hexcrawl…

The Bundle of Holding has a rare and significant deal on, launched just tonight is the 5e Platinum Showcase. The…

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Gallant Knight Games’ TinyD6 RPG Mecha & Monsters was the publishers second game. It’s back on Kickstarter with Mecha &…

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At Wizard of the Coast’s D&D Celebration tonight, during The Future of D&D, a panel issues with Ray Winninger, Liz…

Are you planning to run some scary D&D this Halloween? What about a Pay What You Want adventure that the…

Campaigns & Companions: The Complete Role-Playing Guide for Pets is 100-pages long, but is so good it feels like only…

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Gnome Made Games’ Demiverse funded on Kickstarter in less than two days. It’s a campaign setting of up to 50…

It’s D&D Celebration this weekend, and an Amazon listing suggests we’ll be getting a prominent announcement as part of the…

By Brian Saliba and Craig Schaffer, Rackham Vale is an OSR setting zine based on the artwork of Arthur Rackham.…

It’s the week after Gen Con, and so, as predicted, there’s no shortage of RPG news and new tabletop releases…

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RPG publisher Onyx Path has another successful Kickstarter for their Werewolf: The Apocalypse line. A deluxe edition for a W20…

Compass Publishing House will launch EIDOL: the Endless Dungeon on Kickstarter on the first of October. The project alert page…

Perhaps the biggest surprise in the 2021 Q2 Roll20 report is the re-design. D&D is still the most popular game…

Perhaps the biggest surprise in the 2021 Q2 Roll20 report is the re-design. D&D is still the most popular game…

Outland have their next RPG project for Alan Bahr’s Tombpunk up on Kickstarter. Having created the fo-fi fantasy rule system,…

Pandaily, a site not yet reviewed by Newsguard for accuracy, is reporting official Chinese media raising concerns about some forms…

This is the Way is a two-page RPG by Emmeryn based on Disney’s The Mandalorian. I’m entirely sure they don’t…

Inferno is a tabletop RPG of Victorian fiction, in which characters might encounter the creations of Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens,…

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Alcon Entertainment and Free League Publishing will release an official Blade Runner Tabletop RPG series. It includes Blade Runner and…

Dungeon in a Box is back on Kickstarter, bringing with them 2D plastic minis or tabletop RPGs. Such minis are…

Wizards released The Wild Beyond the Witchlight today. In conjunction, the DMs Guild has launched the Dungeoncraft Spotlight. The DMs…

Fed up of Western RPGs? Kalymba is an RPG written by Daniel Pirraça, from Brazil. It was successfully funded in…

Edge, the Asmodee owned RPG studio that picked up tabletop roleplaying games from Fantasy Flight, has announced Adventures in Rokugan.…

Archives of the Empire Volume 1 is a high production quality, relatively thin 100-page hardback accessory for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay…

The pledge target for the next version of Into the Odd was met within moments of the Kickstarter launching. The…

Timed to coincide with the official release of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure the YouTube channel Splinterverse…

Goodman Games’ tabletop RPG of post-apocalyptic adventure Mutant Crawl Classics is in the Bundle of Holding. You can get started…

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