Free to Download: Latin American Monsters 5e preview
On the 17th of August, Legendary Games will launch their next Kickstarter for a softcover bestiary of D&D 5e monsters.…
Pokemon meets the Wild West in Monster Wrangler RPG
Blackout Games are on Kickstarter with a project about training monsters, going on adventures with them and doing battle. Take…
Ex Libris crowdfunds a digital platform for RPG content discovery
Ex Libris Mork Borg exists already. It’s a website that you can list your Mork Borg content and help other…
The latest Star Trek Adventures tabletop RPG comes as cosplay
The Tricorder Collector’s Edition Boxed Set for Modiphius’ Star Trek Adventures can be used as cosplay. “The first wearable roleplaying…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #112
It’s Friday, and the big news here at Geek Native HQ this that nerdy blogger will soon be on the…
Arkhaane: The Netflix of D&D and homebrew RPG content
Arkhaane is pronounced arcane and wants to be the Netflix of third-party RPG content. The Kickstarter pitches mainly towards content…
Geeky discovery: Good Strong Toes
In recent weeks, Geek Native has given away copies of Good Strong Hands. That’s an RPG inspired by stories like…
Designer demons: A review of XII – Inner Demons
I backed XII: Inner Demons on Kickstarter. It’s been out for nearly a year, but that’s what you get when…
Flying Buffalo, the oldest RPG publisher in existence, bought by fulfilment company Webbed Sphere
Flying Buffalo is the tabletop RPG publisher behind Tunnels & Trolls. Tunnels & Trolls is the second-ever traditional tabletop RPG…
Wholesome D&D: Enjoy Teatime Adventures in the Verdant Isles
In Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, you’re not in a dungeon crawl that has you hack through goblins because they’re small,…
Highmoon Press to delete all PDF titles and give away print products
Daniel Highmoon of Highmoon Press has emailed previous customers to say that on September the 1st every all the company’s…
Magpie’s Avatar Legends RPG Kickstarter takes $1m on the opening day
There are very few tabletop RPGs that have broken the million mark on Kickstarter. Magpie Games’ Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying…
Free to Download: Fragments of the Past Quickstart RPG
Fragments of the Past is a bronze-age tabletop game that is in development and looks good. In exchange for joining…
Geek Native Patron Gift: The Gunblade
Geek Native runs a small Patron program through which you can tip the blog every month. The money raised in…
Helm Greycastle: New Latinx fantasy comic includes 5e one-shot adventure
Henry Barajas, creator of La Voz De M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo! has a new latinx fantasy comic series. In Helm Greycastle…
The complete Earthdawn 4e RPG comes to the FoundryVTT
The Earthdawn character sheet for 4e is already on the pay-once virtual tabletop challenger Foundry, as is the Compendia and…
Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone’s Dungeon World supplements surface at the Bundle of Holding
The 2014 bundle of Apocalypse Engine fantasy RPG content from Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone is back in the…
You’re gonna die and you might like it: A review of A Good Death
A Good Death is a solo RPG and journal game from Trent Seltzer. It’s a Name Your Own Price download…
Publishers Spotlight: September 2021 poll open for Patrons
Does your D&D Wizard have the 1st level Conjuration ritual “Tenser’s Floating Disk” but struggles to find a use for…
Fading Suns sails into New Frontiers
Ulisses Spiele is expanding the Fading Suns RPG through a successful crowdfunding campaign. New Frontiers will take characters into barbarian…
Free to Download: Supernatural correction of The Unworld Mysteries
The Unworld Mysteries is an entirely free, alpha release of a supernatural, fast-paced and rules-light noir RPG. The roleplaying game…
Metal cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toon theme? Leo can
The stalwart and productive Leo Moracchioli’s stream of heavy metal successes continue. Some companies convert franchises to RPGs; Leo turns…
D&D Beyond cancels anniversary competition after a backlash
D&D Beyond’s Frame Design Contest has been cancelled after artists expressed it asked for too much and offered too little.…
Looking for a big baddie for your RPG? Liches: Dance Macabre offers the Sorrow Lords for 5e and Pathfinder
Texas in August Studio astutely points out that Liches may be a good choice for big bad in RPGs, but…
Free to Download: At One With Nature a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror
A Miskatonic Repository book, At One With Nature, is a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror from Graham James, with potentially…
Humble Bundle launches RPG Heroes putting $113 worth of computer games on offer
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It’s been a busy day for Humble…
WizKids to launch paint range and sprue-based miniatures range this year
WizKids created the eCommerce mini store DnDMinis last year with Wizards of the Coast. Now, GamesRadar is reporting the company…
Start your Starfinder adventures and help ComicBooks for Kids with unusual Humble Bundle
It’s a big one. Paizo Publishing has a Starfinder RPG bundle worth hundreds on Humble. Unusually, there’s a $50 tier…
SoulMuppet Publishing’s space western Orbital Blues RPG hits trailer
Published through a successful Kickstarter, a project that even a cassette tape, Orbital Blues is a space western homage to…
Competition: Win the GMD CORE RPG in softback
GMD Online is a British RPG publisher and community. There are two ways to get involved with the community; via…
The servant has become master: Warp Games funds Banality
A simple trifold brochure offers a worryingly realistic dystopian cyberpunk future. Warp Games’ Banality RPG has a focus on improvisation…
Jessa Blackthorne reveals new WizKids new D&D map range
I’ve noticed the rise of neoprene battle mats on Kickstarter and am tempted. A single large sheet that protects the…
Experience UK Games Expo’s shopping bonanza from afar with #SelfPromoTradeHall
UK Games Expo starts for most people as an in-person event on the 30th. That’s this Friday. It runs to…
By Night Studios offer two money-back Monthly Loot Coffins
Where are you with monthly subscription offerings such as Loot Crate? The model has had an ebb and flow. Now…
Games Workshop rewards staff with a £5,000 bonus and ready Warhammer Cafes for launch
Games Workshop thought they were in trouble when the lockdown hit and stores had to close. They’ve now handed Government…
Survivalist’s Guide to Spelunking launches today
How do you keep your character alive while exploring the dangers of underground dungeons? As a GM, how do you…
Pinnacle shares a comprehensive list of Savage Pathfinder updates
The partnership between Paizo and Pinnacle Entertainment Group to bring Pathfinder to Savage Worlds looks to be a firm hit.…
Dystopian sci-fi RPG a|state 2e funds in about an hour with a limited edition
The Forged in the Dark ruleset is used for the second edition of the dystopian sci-fi a|state. The cult hit…
Stealing Stories for the Devil: Play as reality warping thieves in Monte Cook’s latest RPG
The Devil Made Us Do It is Monte Cook Games’ latest Kickstarter, already an all-in success with over $150,000 pledged,…
Alien 5e: A review of Stargate SG-1 roleplaying game
I remember the buzz there was when Wyvern Gaming announced they’d landed the rights to do an official Stargate tabletop…
Humble Bundle: 2000 AD and Judge Dredd rally for Cancer Research and Save the Children UK
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.I’m used to seeing all sorts of…
Fire Ruby Designs brings Warlock! power to the Bundle of Holding
Channelling the spirit of early British roleplaying (I was there, ish) comes Fire Ruby Design’s Warlock! If OSR is a…
Trailer: Doctor Who’s upcoming season will be a single story
There was a time when each season of Doctor Who was a long story told over multiple episodes. That’s the…
9th Level Games has Mazes RPG t-shirts by Justine Jones
Justine Jones is a freelance illustrator who lives in Philadelphia. According to her bio, she likes to draw wizards and…
No Kid Hungry Charity Bundle at the DMs Guild: $195 of RPG goodies for $20 with all proceeds to charity
A few weeks ago, the Dungon Masters Guild Twitter account called out the unbelievable fact that 1 in 6 kids…
Over in 10 seconds: Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu idols summon an NFT bonanza at Veve
Geeky worlds collided in a flash of hypernet light that lasted 10 seconds as Cthulhu met the otherworldly temptations of…
Loke BatteMats announce three new product lines in time for UK Games Expo
Loke already announced the starter kit New Box of Adventure – Valley of Peril that contains maps, tokens and other…
Twistwood: If job hunting was like an RPG adventure
@ByTwistwood is a Twitter account to follow and to prove it, we’re going to show a strip from a few…
Competition: Liches: Dance Macabre for 5e and Pathfinder
Texas in August Studio will soon launch a Kickstarter for Liches: Dance Macabre. You can win a copy and a…
Teatime Adventures: Former US Department of Education games and education policy lead invents new collaborative D&D magic system
I had a chance to talk to Grace Collins (they/them), CEO of Snowbright Studio, Quill Kolat (They/Them) the Creative Manager…
Horizons Fellowship: GAMA find $30,000 to support underrepresented communities in tabletop gaming
The Game Manufacturers Association has launched the Horizons Fellowship. It’s a six-month accelerator to look for newly established creators and…
Pelgrane Press’s 13th Age makes a compelling Humble Bundle
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.There’s $383 worth of the highly rated…
Get out from behind the book: VoxStory brings tabletop RPGs to TV screens
Does your RPG have better moments in it than some TV shows? Would it be cool to sit on the…
Christmas in July: Chainmail, the game which became D&D, is on sale
The DMs Guild and DriveThruRPG’s Christmas in July sale feels a little late this year. It’s nearly August, but sometimes…
New D&D book from Critical Role: What’s in the Tal’Dorei revised edition?
Tal’Dorei Reborn is the second edition of the D&D 5e-powered campaign setting created by Critical Role. The original book was…
Trans Atlantis Games: Ex-Wizards of the Coast VP Rob Watts sets up a new tabletop games company
Trans Atlantis Games is a new company from Bob Watts, the games industry veteran and ex-Privateer Press CEO, Steve Herbert…
Facedown the dreadful maw of the sandworm: Dune’s all-star trailer
Months of delays haunt Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, but, finally, Dune is coming to the cinema screens. October and the wait…
A spoonful of jam: Itch’s One-Page RPG Jam picks up speed
The one-page RPG jam on Itch launched a few days ago. It was empty, of course. The goal was to…
Best selling RPGs in Spring 2021: Cyberpunk RED RPG climbs the charts
Cyberpunk 2077 had a rocky ride, didn’t it? It’s based on a tabletop RPG series from Mike Pondsmith and R.…
Nightfall Games and Handiwork Games announce the Harrowvale 5e setting
Handiwork Games (Beowulf, a|state) and Nightfall Games (SLA Industries, The Terminator) have announced a collaboration for a 5e setting called…
Geek Native Patron gift: Good Strong Hands RPG
Did you miss out on the Good Strong Hands in lovely hardback? Geek Native has just wrapped a competition to…
Gold-plated mythos models among the rewards for Cthulhu Rises
In time for Call of Cthulhu’s 40th birthday, Polyglot Studios have a range of Cthulhu and mythos models as rewards…
The Doctor Who RPG Collector’s Edition is revealed to be a TARDIS
Cubicle 7 has revealed the stunning covers for the new edition of the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game. The long time…
UK Government sends studios reeling as the Tradeshow Access Programme is scrapped
For the last 30+ years, small to medium British businesses received financial support to attend international trade shows. It wasn’t…
Fena: Pirate Princess gets launch date as Crunchyroll and Adult Swim set sail together
The swashbuckling fantasy Fena: Pirate Princess now has a confirmed release date. Crunchyroll and Adult Swim will run the adventure,…
Space hulks and Genestealers invade Wrath & Glory: Redacted Records for the Warhammer 40K RPG
Polygon has the exclusive on Cubicle 7’s Wrath & Glory supplement Redacted Records. The Warhammer 40K RPG focuses on the…
D&D combat done better: A project to enhance 5e with Injuries and Vile Deeds comes to Kickstarter
Today, Lone Colossus Games launched a Kickstarter for “Injuries and Vile Deeds”, a 5e supplement that introduces nearly 200 new…
A world of machines: A review of Horizon Zero Dawn – Liberation #1
I know Horizon Zero Dawn, of course. The game looked gorgeous, the trailer compelled my internet, and Aloy is a…
Evil Hat brings $335 worth of FATE to the Bundle of Holding
The Fate rules shaped like Core, Accelerated and Condensed, and tokens make up the toolkit and a host of worlds…
D&D transformed: A review of Matthew Colville’s Kingdoms & Warfare
Kingdoms & Warfare made over $1.3m on Kickstarter, and very few RPGs have crossed the six-figure line. Is it any…
Reject authority and dream: The surreal Dreampunk RPG finds its wings
Xavid, a software engineer and award-winning LARP designer, has taken a tabletop RPG called Dreampunk to Kickstarter. Played with surreal…
Blackmoor: The world’s first D&D campaign setting is DriveThruRPG’s deal of the day
Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax created D&D to play Blackmoor. The setting is the first campaign world we had for…
The Menagerie offers incredible looking 3D printable minis with 5e adventure as a companion
Arcane Hound’s The Menagerie leads with the 3d printable model designs it offers to people with the technology at home.…
Ulisses Spiele shares previews of Fading Suns: New Frontiers
Fading Suns is a dystopian sci-fi RPG set in the sixth millennium after humanity’s greatest civilization has fallen, and a…
Free to Download: Radial Commune RPG – we’ll survive if we work together, but we won’t
Radial Commune is unlike almost any other roleplaying game I can think of. There are conditions for one player winning…
Son of Oak Game Studio allows third parties to write and sell City of Mist content
The narrative and award-winning superhero game set in the slightly disturbing City of Mist expanded this week. Son of Oak…
Bridgerton meets Cobra Kai: Dueling Fops of Vindamere TTRPG
Veteran game designer Greg Stolze (Unknown Armies) has returned to the lure of GM-less play with a game of fencing,…
Map of the Witchlight Carnival
It’s D&D Live, and there’s lots of news, with much of the attention on Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons. However, Fizban…
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Grognardia Games
The winner of the Geek Native’s Patrons RPG Publisher Spotlight this month is Grognardia Games. Every month this group of…
Nightfall Games buy The StokerVerse RPG, S5S system and Kickstarter planned
Nightfall Games, the publisher of SLA Industries and the forthcoming Terminator RPG, has acquired the rights to The StokerVerse RPG.…
Steampunk RPG Victoriana gets heads to 5e
Cubicle 7 has announced a 5e-powered edition of the steampunk RPG Victoriana. In addition, the fantasy game with a Victorian…
Legends Untold is the latest impressive Virtual Virtual Tabletop (VVTT)
Okay, I think Geek Native may be the only site using the acronym VVTT to mean virtual virtual tabletop, and…
The Eye of Chentoufi: Gary Gygax’s son publishes a D&D adventure
Luke Gygax is the son of Mary and Gary Gygax and grew up during the development of D&D. He played…
Free Player’s Guide available as Mesopotamian mythology-inspired Lost Lights campaign setting launches
Side Quest Press has today launched Lost Lights on Kickstarter, a Mesopotamian and Mesopotamian mythology-inspired RPG setting for 5e and…
The deep dark world: A review of Sigil & Shadow by Osprey Games
Sigil & Shadow, out today, joins Osprey Games’ flock of d00Lite (with Jackals, for example) and I like it now…
Graphic and gory: the Svilland saga expands with Freya’s Tears
Announced last year, Freya’s Tears is a large scenario for Dream Realm Storytellers’ brutal Viking 5e Svilland setting. The adventure…
Character Generationer Updates: Savaged.us and Rifts upgrade their tech
Savaged.us is a site with lots of helpful Savage Worlds tools. Last week, it updated with character generation for Pathfinder…
Art-filled, punk-fueled OSR sci-fi RPG: Vast Grimm launches on Gamefound
A tabletop RPG on Gamefound, and if you back during day one, you get a free d20. Vast Grimm is…
UK Games Expo, one of the largest in the world, u-turns on COVID rules
On Friday 30th July and Sunday 1st August, one of the largest tabletop gaming conventions will try and push on…
Fragged! The tactical post-post-apocalyptic RPG Fragged Empire and its sequel hits the Bundle of Holding
As beings of the far future and emerging from a galaxy wrecking war, characters are generically engineered remnants on a…
Larks on carts: Fairy Trails RPG heads to a successful Kickstarter
Bandit Camp’s Fairy Trails is a Powered by the Apocalypse game in which you play fairies travelling around on a…
Magpie Games release free Avatar Legends: The RPG Quickstart and announce exclusive Kickstarter edition
Confirming the name of the official Avatar RPG as Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, Magpie Games have released a free…
Free to Download: Jailbreak by Greg Stolze
Veteran designer Greg Stolze has released a psychological horror classic from Gildor Games to DriveThruRPG. Jailbreak is a 26-page download…
Tears of a Machine: A slice of life RPG about giant mechs made from monsters and their pilots
Russell Collins and Robot Claw Design are funding mecha-drama The Tears of a Machine SC edition on Kickstarter, and there’s…
9 years of adventure: A review of Jackals – The Fall of the Children of Bronze
The Fall of the Children of Bronze is a campaign for Jackals, except it isn’t. Clearly, to take a stab…
A flooded and Savage World: The Drowned War RPG
Star City Savages are Kickstarting a Savage Worlds Official Licensed Product and a roleplaying game set in a drowned world.…
Fans finish D&D 80s cartoon by animating Requiem from original script
The brave teen heroes of the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon never got home. Why not? It wasn’t because Dungeon…
Irish mythology adapted for D&D 5e: Heroes of Tara Player’s Guide
Jacob Duerksen has crowdfunded an adaptation of 5e based entirely on Irish mythology. The result is the Heroes of Tara…
Stephen Dinehart and Giantlands quit TSR and won’t pay to use the trademark
Once billed as a co-founder of TSR Games (3), the company formed after the trademark on TSR Games (2) lapsed…
Unleash destruction: Humble Bundle on Warhammer 40K computer games and more from Slitherine
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Whether we like the new UX on…