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A thing of dark desire; the limited edition Keeper Rulebook to celebrate 40 years of Call of Cthulhu is a…

TaleSpire is an impressive 3d virtual tabletop and map-making software. Demiplane is a looking-for-group site that lets players find GMs…

Dwarven Forge has plenty of Kickstarter experience, $20 million worth of it. Now the module maker is moving into new…

The Oxford-based Midnight Tower team live within walking distance of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s former homes and near C.S. Lewis’…

I’m reminded of Heavy Metal. That’s to say, the French fantasy series which helped inspire a generation of fantasy authors…

Green Ronin’s Mutants & Masterminds is back in the Bundle of Holding. With 21 days still on the clock, the…

JstTerrain (pronounced “Just terrain”) just launched on Kickstarter, and there’s a “back within 48 hours” offer to add an extra…

Jon Peterson usually writes histories of game design. His latest book, Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons…

I’ve been wondering what to do with a set of mosquitos trapped in amber dice I have. It looks like…

The collection of magical items and companions Peculiar Discoveries is doing well on Kickstarter, hitting its funding goal several times…

Zäta Doe has the humble goal of €50 to Kickstart The BURST System for roleplaying games. However, to get a…

In the United States, due to climate change, Hurricane Ida has been catastrophic and hit Louisiana hard. A group of…

That was the week that was. Now it’s time for an RPG news summary, and a bullet-point speed headline look…

Alex Rinehart uses the fashionable indie Lumen to power a tabletop RPG in which characters are genetically engineered rats addicted…

Christmas tree dice really are a thing. There’s a successful campaign on Kickstarter with a few days left to run.…

Skyraiders of Abarax is the first new adventure world from Tracy and Laura Hickman since Dragonlance. The 5e setting as…

Mclain is a name your own price one-page RPG from AP Shanka intended to emulate movies like Die Hard and…

ZineQuest is a season, a time, on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, during which RPG creators are encouraged to launch small…

Mark Rein•Hagen created the World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade; now, for the first time, he’s bringing his world-building…

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Starships riding fire across the sky. Heroes and villains exchanging laser fire. Desperate spacers struggling against an alien monstrosity. Vast…

Spider-Man: No Way Home is due before the end of the year. Fandango says 17th December for the US and…

Monte Cook Games’ RPG Numenera is set a billion years in the future, and it’s never been in the Bundle…

We’re one step, and perhaps a flutter, from roleplaying adventures in the magical world of Thra. River Horse has opened…

Good Brother Studios will launch a Kickstarter campaign for a 5e superhero RPG called Legends of the MetaVerse on September…

Clawhammer Games are asking for $16,000 from the Kickstarter community to fund a gilded age tabletop RPG about mortality, growth…

Publishers of Chivalry & Sorcery, Brittannia Games, have launched a new tabletop miniature range. The publisher of C&S 5e and…

The 159-page Adventurer’s Guide for VAST – No Port Called Home is a free download. Citing Rice Boy, Mass Effect,…

Based on non-western and ancient mythologies, Ankur is an indie tabletop RPG that uses a d12 system. It’s been on…

The Malleus Monstrorum is an impressively large collection of mythos lore from Call of Cthulhu’s Chaosium. Impressive means mind and…

The Delver’s Guide to Beast World is a Kickstarter success in a week that’s seen no shortage of heavy-hitting campaigns.…

Geek Native often has a competition running, and you don’t have to tag three friends and like a page to…

September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission It’s a Friday and the start of the…

It’s a busy Kickstarter week and with several significant campaigns launching. When it comes to cash goals, the largest ask…

Panayiotis Lines, the designer of Shadow of Mogg, an appropriately brutal look at Brexit in the guise of a tabletop…

I have a weakness for gummies. I love their tasty chew… but they’ve never formed a raid party and attacked…

The war isn’t over: Netflix airs English subtitled The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light trailer time to read: Geek…

Mage Hand Press has a vast, 380-page, 10 new base classes, and incredible 150+ subclass touting 5e book up on…

Himbo Treasure Hunt is the latest “Name Your Own Price” RPG from Rowan, Rook and Decard. Specifically, it’s from Sasha…

Free League Publishing will produce a new edition of the weird-fantasy Into the Odd from Chris McDowall. Mork Borg’s Johan…

Once known as Cool Minis or Not, CMON is expanding further and into the controversial waters of Non-Fungible Tokens. NFTs…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.One of the characteristics of September and…

Billed as the Herbalism Book You Didn’t Know You Needed, the Herbalist’s Primer has now earned more than $333,333 in…

Those awesome companies and people who contribute to Geek Native’s Patreon can now vote in this locked poll. The Patreon…

The streaming show search engine JustWatch has given the most-watched movie slot for Netflix audiences in the States to The…

Warp Films are working on a Blades in the Dark TV show, as confirmed by John Harper in a Tweet.…

Wyrmworks Publishing has a spooky name, but a kind heart. Perhaps that’s just my Werewolf: The Apocalypse view of the…

Son of Oak’s City of Mist is a superhero detective noir RPG based on the Apocalypse Engine with custom tags…

Since bookmarking the 5e campaign setting Red Dawn: Into the Dawnlands as a Kickstarter to write up, I see it’s…

There Once Were Dragons is an old school vibe of a tabletop RPG from One Dwarf Army. It’s been out…

Often – and it should be always, but I forget – when Geek Native alludes to legal decisions, options or…

Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent does three things, two of which might be seen as a shakeup. The third…

Call of Cthulhu turns 40 in October. That’s an impressive run for the amazing RPG, and Chaosium is making sure…

When Matt Colville announced that MCDM would start a magazine, he was very clear about the commercial requirements. Arcadia would…

August 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Sales from links may earn us money As Friday rolls around…

Wizards of the Coast have a new RPG system in the ecosystem to be mindful of, and it’s connected to…

Wizards of the Coast have a new RPG system in the ecosystem to be mindful of, and it’s connected to…

Gamers introduced to RPGs by the success of D&D 5e and shows like Critical Role seem to lean more heavily…

Nightfall Games are looking to bolster their stable of SLA Industries books with two more through Kickstarter. The campaign has…

I paid $3.00 for Searching for my Solemate a GM-less tabletop RPG from Ninja Penguin. Based on what else I…

In Dungeons & Dragons 5e, several spells have a range/area described as 30 ft long and 5 feet wide. For…

Games Workshop has revealed a new partnership with Koyo, and this shouldn’t be cute, but it is Nurgling plushie. Nurglings,…

There’s a new Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur’s Gate on the way, and it’ll be Wizard of the Coast’s…

Jayson Elliot, who set up one of the later TSR’s and The Gygax Magazine, has a Premier Issue of The…

The indie RPG studio Runehammer, the company behind the multi-world, streamlined d20 Index Card RPG has teamed up with Modiphius.…

Live until September 13th, the Shadowrun Stories deal at the Bundle of Holding has Shadowrun fiction and rulebooks from the…

Do you have a dice that’s shaped like a Christmas tree? Or a miniature Christmas tree that spins like a…

Negocios Infernales (Infernal Negotiations), a diceless, GM-less, collaborative, “two-shot” role-playing game from the husband-wife team, Carlos Hernandez (The Assimilated Cuban’s…

There’s no shortage of generous and free to download previews for Legendary Games’ Boricubos: Latin American Monsters and Adventures. The…

There’s no such thing as the Priest character class in D&D 5e, but back in AD&D there was. The original…

Chaosium has announced they’ve acquired Cthulhu Britannica and World War Cthulhu from Cubicle 7. The two lines were produced by…

Warning: Sexual assault, stalking and emotional abuse. GAMA has announced they are working on a code of conduct that members…

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Righty-ho, this will be a slightly differently shaped Routinely Itemised RPG news summary. Why? I’ve moved. Therefore Geek Native HQ…

It’s the physical side of tabletop gaming, and it looks gorgeous. Wyrmwood has wooden titles to roll dice, count health,…

This blogger remembers going to the school library purely to read Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine. That was mainly for…

Created by James M. Ward (make of that what you will given recent TSR drama and who may or may…

It’s been seventeen years, but author Alastair Reynolds has turned to the Revelation Space series. Reynolds has a PhD in…

I still think of Dream Realm Storytellers as the young publishers behind Svilland. In fairness, though, they’ve probably spent more…

Whether you want to play Star Trek Adventures from Modiphius or the free to download World of Dungeons-based Phasers +…

The grass so often looks greener, and sometimes all that’s needed is a change. Those are two truisms that help…

DC’s Tom Taylor, who writes for Nightwing, Injustice and DCeased and artist Yasmine Putri takes the DC a-team and puts…

The fan-based ENnies, once part of EN World but spun out as an independent body in 2018, have announced the…

Losing Games and Isaac Williams have taken to Kickstarter to fund a box set and brand new adventure collection for…

It’s Friday the 13th, and so Pelgrane Press has picked today to make free to download 13th Age RPG quickstart…

Cubicle 7 has released the digital version of the Doctor Who RPG second edition. Despite an excellent looking TARDIS edition…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It’s been a busy bundle day! And…

The Cthulhu Mythos RPG of dark conspiracy and urban horror Delta Green has an impressive 25th anniversary Kickstarter on the…

The Indie Game Developer Network runs the IGDN Diversity Sponsorship and a mentor program. It’s a way to make contacts,…

Ron Lundeen is perhaps best known as Paizo Publishing’s lead developer for their Adventure Paths. This week, Iron GM Games…

Free League Publishing, always busy, have added modules for Tales from the Loop and Mutant: Year Zero to the challenger…

Dungeons & Dragons has an official NERF gun in the shape of NERF DragonPower Emberstrike Blaster. NERF, sister company to…

Shane Ivey and Dennis Detweiller of Arc Dream Publishing have a new edition of the iconic and appropriately highly regarded…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Farshore’s licensed D&D Annual is a stitched…

The official D&D Adventurers League series Ravenloft: Mist Hunters launched this week. The Adventurers League is Wizards of the Coast’s…

In time for the movie, entirely fitting for your growing sci-fi RPG collection and simply stunning comes this Dune Sandworm…

In May, Games Workshop announced a new edition of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. Cubicle 7, the publishers of Age of…

Paleo Gaming has a dystopian sci-fi RPG of space conflict and unique systems up on Kickstarter. The game is Omega…

The second edition of the Doctor Who RPG is out, using an updated version of the Vortex system that is…

R. Talsorian Games, CD Projekt Red’s partner for bringing The Witcher game to the tabletop, has expanded the RPG with…