Andrew Girdwood

We’ve made it to the end of the week, but TSR Games (3) did not, nor did TSR Games (2),…

North Wind Adventures set a goal of $20,000 to bring a third edition of the swords, sorcery and weird science-fantasy…

Flames of Freedom is a Grim & Perilous RPG powered by Zweihander, and it is published by Andrews McMeel. It’s…

Bee and Crow are young adult creators who created and are giving away the core rules for The World of…

I began the day by calling TSR Games (3) a parody and finding an actual parody of “TSR Michael”. I…

Last week, in a surprise and only a few weeks after announcing a commitment to the game, Cubicle 7 announced…

The 7th of July is the final day of Superhero Week, an annual event that I hope brings us together…

Handiwork Games has launched the sign-up page for a|state on Kickstarter. Geek Native has some pictures, including the cover, to…

The back of The Spy Game success with 5e, Black Cat Gaming is bringing Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos to golden age…

Justin Handlin and Crit Academy are a D&D discussion podcast group that have been streaming their playtests for Capes &…

The Games Manufacturers Association has been going for 44 years in the United States. It was created to protect and…

Amazing Heroes! is a superhero RPG from Martin Lloyd. Martin is probably best known as the designer adamantine best-seller Amazing…

TSR Games has rebranded to Solarian Games to avoid confusion and drama around TSR Games, a new company they distanced…

Geek Native runs an RPG, fandom and geeky events calendar. Phew, well, I try to keep up. Firstly, if you…

Rod Waibel, who talked to Geek Native about OSR, has launched Chromatic Dungeons. The RPG is a clone of early…

Cubicle 7 have announced that they will no longer be publishing Lone Wolf roleplaying games. Unfortunately, due to some recent…

Sadly, it’s impossible to omit the ongoing drama around TSR Games (3) this week. I’m sure everyone is wishing we’d…

EN Publishing have blogged a look at the forthcoming Tour of Nu-Earth 1 sourcebook for Rogue Trooper. The publishing arm…

The Dungeon Dudes have more than a quarter of a million YouTube subscribers. They launched a Kickstarter campaign for the…

It’s been a saga, so here’s a quick recap. TSR Games announced their return, only to reveal they had simply…

R. Talsorian Games and Loke Battle Mats have revealed a new range of Cyberpunk Red battle mats. Cyberpunk Red is…

Sigil Entertainment Group has hundreds of backers, are thousands over their campaign goal and about three weeks left on the…

One of my weird lockdown discoveries was that sports, fashions and geekdom combine in shoes, and it seems Reebok is…

The extraordinary people who contribute $1 or more to Geek Native’s Patron can now vote to see who will be featured in the August…

There’s a new free adventure for D&D from Wizards of the Coast. In Scarlet Flames is available from the publisher’s…

Monte Cook Games will release eight adventures in sites connected to the datasphere in a supplement for Numenera. The book…

You can now pre-order Conan: Waves Stained Crimson Campaign from Modiphius has a physical book and secure a free edition…

The Red Book of Magic is a magic sourcebook for Chaosium’s RuneQuest. The supplement contains more than 500 spells for…

Fumble GDR has several hundred backers for their tabletop RPG Not The End, and that’s enough to make their Kickstarter…

Defiant is a mature RPG set after the end of the world and when powerful supernatural entities control their own…

Inspired by movies like The Neverending Story, Good Strong Hands is a tabletop RPG from NerdBurger Games. It’s a game…

Asmodee bought games maker Libellud last year and this year, they’re going to war for them. The purchase brought Dixit…

Goodman Games has wrapped DCC Day for the year, but the legacy of the Dungeon Crawl Classics event will live…

Pelgrane Press’ surreal and supernatural RPG, The Yellow King, did not have an easy ride from Kickstarter to today, but…

Nearly two years ago, even on the back of a successful Kickstarter, YARPS announced it was in trouble. The problem?…

At Arc Dreaming Publishing, Shane Ivey has revealed that he working on a new RPG of sorrow and cosmicism set…

TSR Games the third is a company that swooped on the rights to use the name TSR Games after the…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Iron Studios are taking pre-orders on this…

Palladium’s sci-fi setting, in which Earth has become the dangerous battleground for all sorts of aliens and mutants, advanced science…

R. Talsorian Games used to publish a magazine for Cyberpunk 2020 called Interface. I found a copy of Volume 2,…

Is Olly Alexander the new Doctor Who? Bookies suspend betting as singer-actor, and LGBTQ advocate is named time to read:…

Ronin is a solo RPG from Cosina Verde. The game is available as a Name Your Own Price from Itch.io.…

I think Trying Times Comics should be a 10k plus Instagram series. It’s nearly there, now beyond 8K followers. Trying…

The disappointing unpleasantness around the new TSR Games continues with Gary Con and Luke Gygax making it clear that they…

Back in May, Rod Waibel got in touch with Geek Native with a heads up that Izegrim Creations’ Chromatic Dungeons…

There’s no pitch video, the system isn’t famous, yet Nick Butler launched their first Kickstarter to ask for more than…

Games Workshop’s Warhammer+ will launch on August 25th, but what is it? In summary, it’s a subscription model that merges…

Silver Vine Publishing has returned to Kickstarter to fund the English localisation of Floria: The Verdant Way, as they said…

After a successful Kickstarter, NerdBurger Games have this month released Good Strong Hands in hardcover and PDF. In the fairytale…

Modiphius has made another Star Trek Adventures free available from their website. The third offering in the Briefs series is…

Leather, Steel, Blade & Bone is an electrum best-selling Zweihander RPG supplement by Jess Heising et al. Heising now works…

Amongst confusion as to whether TSR is back as TSR Games or just the previously established TSR Games finding a…

Atlas Games, who helm Ars Magica, Feng Shui and Unknown Armies, have announced a new 5e line called Planegea. A…

Following a successful Kickstarter, SCP The Tabletop RPG has now gone on general release. The early reviews give it 5/5…

Itch, the retail platform for game-makers, is increasingly getting into tabletop RPGs. Today, the Tabletop Selects Bundle launches and offers…

Blood Sword is an 90s gamebook series with enough renown to have its own Wikipedia page. Now, Italian start-up Tambù,…

Flying Buffalo is being sold to an undisclosed backer. The news was revealed in a post on Trollbridge by current…

Created by Ken St Andre, Tunnels & Trolls was inspired by D&D and came out shortly afterwards. It’s still going,…

Joshua Fox and Becky Annison have announced the second edition of Lovecraftesque is in progress. The first edition is available…

Did you ever think about the economic horror an outbreak of a dangerous disease would bring if it resulted in…

Fans of Forged in the Dark may soon get a best-selling indie RPG setting to be tempted by. Will Power…

Wizards of the Coast released an official “shape the future of D&D” survey, and it all got a bit messy.…

This review is the companion piece for Geek Native’s Death on the Reik review. The Companion itself extends the “director’s…

The average Kickstarter campaign request tracked by Geek Native is usually around £7,000. You can see that data in the…

A muddle of obscure press releases seems to suggest that a new TSR is on the block. But we’ve had…

A former “project we love” on Kickstarter, Cannibal Sector One Miniature Skirmish Game has had a tough life. Now it’s…

SIXMOREVODKA made DEGENESIS a free download last year. I think the hardcore sci-fi is worth splashing the cash to get…

Hey gang, thanks for reading. It’s been a week of RPG news and lots of heat and attention around Wizards…

This week Wizards of the Coast ran a survey to help shape the future of D&D. According to reports, some…

When the Defiant RPG came out, I bought a copy and published initial thoughts on the very same day. It…

After a very successful Kickstarter, one that funded in 7 minutes, Free League Publishing and their partners GDW and Amargosa…

The fandom calendar is filling up so let’s take a look at recently added events. Design an RPG webinar with…

Pathfinder Arena is a two to four-player game being made by a partnership between Paizo and Giochi Uniti. It’s a…

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

Chamomile Has Adventures has often featured in the weekly Kickstarter roundup in the RPG news summary Routinely Itemised: RPGs. There’s…

Honey Heist is an appropriately famous and popular one-page RPG from Grant Howitt. In Honey Heist, you are a bear…

You can download Dungeoneer from GITHub and run it on Windows. It’s described as a tool for lazy DMs, but…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.On Instagram, SkulSplitter Dice caught my attention…

Wizards of the Coast have told gaming stores part of the Wizards Play Network in the US that they will…

Rose of R-N-W is running a Kickstarter for a 5e supplement called Traveler’s Guide to the Soddenweald, which offers rules…

Bloat Games OSR-style, 80s horrors inspired, Survive This! games are inspired by The Goonies, Weird Science, Buffy and even some…

YouTube reviewer Mr.Tarrasque and JVC Parry will work together on a tier 2 5e adventure called Isle of the Dreaded…

Ken St. Andre is the designer of the world’s second traditional tabletop RPG Tunnels & Trolls. It was published in…

Peach Boy Riverside: Demons and humans can live together, just not always in peace time to read: 1 min Games…

Spencer Campbell is back on Kickstarter, with a success that not even misguided toxic energy from computer game fans can…

Guy Sclanders, of How to be A Great Game Master, has a new tabletop RPG out in the form of…

Marvelous Mutations & Merry Musicians is a post-post-apocalyptic weird wastelands tabletop RPG from Wendi Y. It’s on Itch.io, name your…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Do you use something other than a…

Geek Native has a prophecy generator and, to be fair, it’s one of very many out there. There’s something fitting…

Frank Chadwick’s Twilight: 2000 version 1 was added to DriveThruRPG late in May. The roleplaying game of military survival skills…

There’s only a few days left on the clock to back Outland’s Rogues Kickstarter for Tombpunk. Why so short? Tombpunk…

It’s OPP Con, the Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention and it’ll run until June 13th. The virtual convention is a…

Well, now, that was strange. I started putting together this issue of the RPG newsletter, the weekly Routinely Itemised summary,…

Often Geek Native is lucky enough to work with a publisher on competitions. Prizes help raise awareness. Not always, for…

It seems like Virtual Tabletop Maps: Digital Fantasy & Dungeons has had a great, a hundred downloads going in the…

Synthicide RPG is a post-apocalyptic RPG from Will Power Games. It’s in DriveThruRPG’s apocalypse sale right now, reduced from $9…

Synthicide RPG is a post-apocalyptic RPG from Will Power Games. It’s in DriveThruRPG’s apocalypse sale right now, reduced from $9…

In Mazes, you pick a die to represent your character and only ever roll that. For example, pick a d4,…

The original manuscript for AD&D’s Deities & Demigods is live on eBay and bids have taken the price beyond $10,000.…

Loke Battle Mats has announced and is open for pre-orders on Box of Adventure – Valley of Peril. Geek Native…