Andrew Girdwood

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…

Sinister Beard Games have hit the funding goal for the Powered by the Apocalypse roleplaying game about found family, queerness…

OSRIC, Old School Reference and Index Compilation, is a recreation of AD&D 1e published in 2006. It’s one of the…

Tomorrow, Grim and Perilous will remove seven Zweihander supplements from DriveThruRPG. A bundle deal currently offers all seven, at a…

Loot Tavern’s Kickstarter for the 5e-powered Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting asked for $15,000 to fund. At the time of…

Risus, one of the first RPGs to push away large rulebooks favouring a single sheet, was bought by Dave LeCompte…

“World’s Largest Bundle” is a collection of d20 RPG supplements from Alderac, including The World’s Largest Dungeon and Largest CIty.…

A Tweet from D&D has confirmed not only the leaked cover for The Wild Beyond The Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure,…

It was a runaway success, and I wanted a copy. Still, I didn’t back Evil Hat Production’s Powered by the…

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Green Ronin are the publishers who did the first Critical Role RPG with Critical Role: Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting, helped Wil…

Old Mages Games Studio’s Kickstarter for Altas – Rise or Die immediately got my attention by blasting into Dio’s Holy…

In February, Geek Native had a copy of Pew Pew! Bounty Hunters in Space as the prize for a giveaway…

Round dice? Blaster Light has crossed the €300,000 in pledges mark as gamers are persuaded by their spherical dice. Will…

Do you prefer to use a single solution for your video chat and virtual tabletop? If so, then you’ve a…

It’s been a dramatic few months for The Game Manufacturers Association in America. They proposed a restructure in October to…

It feels like a spicy week, with plenty of news and a noticeable uptick in Kickstarter activity. Oh, and the…

The latest newsletter from DriveThruRPG has warned customers that prices will go up dramatically. The retailer says, As of July…

Smunchy Games, the creator of games like the deck-building TTRPG Parselings has acquired Inkblood Book Company. Inkblood is a dark…

We know Wizards of the Coast are working to bring some old D&D settings to 5e. What do you think…

What do you think the second most common monster in D&D is? That’s to say if someone was dedicated enough…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Badgers Bunker is an Etsy boutique that…

Supported by a Patreon community, MonkeyDM has released a free level 2 one-shot called Scales of Justice. The game has…

Collector is a micro RPG from the game development collective Ideal Hands. It’s set in a dying realm where characters…

Games Workshop announced a new set of rules of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, including developments in the story with the…

Venger’s Decks, aka Scott Docherty, has made a free encounter pack available via their Patreon. It’s made possible thanks to…

Roleplay Elixir’s Carovea Victor funded in less than two days. The 5e sourcebook introduces a fantasy world inspired by ancient…

Can you turn your hobby into a paying job? It wasn’t that long ago that a wargames magazine posted a…

Game designer momatoes and Exalted Funeral has launched the Kickstarter for ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG. I swear I clicked on…

As a GM you might be populating a world full of magic, gods might battle in the skies and demons…

You can now spend $30 to download a scanned copy of The Complete Starter Set: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game…

Christian Nommay’s Titan Effect (preview) updated today with Titan Effect’s Bio-Augmented Soldier rules. There are two ways to get the…

Mongoose has two different offers on the Bundle of Holding to offer up the iconic Traveller sci-fi. The starter set…

Paranormal Affairs Canada is a tabletop RPG from Tom Hart. In the game, characters are agents who protect Canada, and…

Tech company Foundry Six work with companies like Sony and Paramount on Augmented Reality. Today they’ve launched a Kickstarter for…

To help raise awareness of book one of The Fateful Force, The Tome of Syyx, the author has created an…

The Four Horsemen are human mercenary companies that feature in The Revelations Cycle (the first book of which is Cartwright’s…

Jackals is a tabletop RPG from Osprey Games that arrived on my desk at the perfect time. I’d just finished…

Routers is a tabletop RPG or a roll and write from clutterArranger, and it’s entirely free. Available from Itch.io, the…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.You may well have heard of the…

The artist behind RPG Roles in the Body, Shen Comix, has a delightfully smol Cthulhu character. [Shen Comix] Ready for…

Dune: Adventures in the Imperium is, finally, out as Modiphius bring the iconic sci-fi setting to their 2d20 system. In…

As the weather begins to make a slow turn for the better here in Scotland, let’s take a second to…