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.…
D&D Accessories: Gamer Gear
From console skins to minis that remind your players to look for Materia and watch out for the cute monsters,…
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…
Picaresque Roman is part competitive RPG, part social deduction game inspired by Yakuza
A hit Japanese indie RPG that combines roleplaying with the hidden traitor of social deduction games like Werewolf is headed…
When the Developer Plays: Miscellaneous Insights!
Over several articles in this series, I’ve talked about a few insights I’ve acquired playing a Threefold setting Modern AGE…
Finding a Big Bad: Undead
In our final article of this series, we’ll take a look at a group of monsters so varied and vast…
RPG: Call Of Cthulhu Creator Faces Backlash After Transphobic Statements
Chaosium Inc., publishers of Call of Cthulhu issued a statement supporting trans existence this Sunday after transphobic statements by the…
D&D: Strixhaven Book Drops Subclasses, Adds Relationships
D&D players prove that they hate fun and fear change: WotC has announced they’re dropping new subclass concepts from the…
The Workshop – MtG to DND: Blight Sickle
Blight Sickle. Art by John Avon. Copyright Wizards of the CoastI was scrolling through TikTok the other day (things I…
Dueling Fops of Vindamere is an RPG that’s “Bridgerton, only extremely violent”
Fall in love and try not to fall in a fight with Dueling Fops of Vindamere, an upcoming roleplaying game…
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,…
Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming Segment Sales Surge in Q2
Sales in Hasbro’s newly created Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming segment more than doubled in Q2 2021, behind…
MTG: Arena’s New Jumpstart – Historic Horizons Adds Digital Only Cards
A new set coming exclusively to MTG Arena next month is going to add 31 new cards that are only…
Tabletop Gallery: The Alpha and the Omega
The Long War goes ever on… Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure. From the Grimdark,…
Solo card game Spire’s End: Hildegard is “card game comfort food” but looks like a full plate
A mysterious package begins an otherwise inauspicious journey through the world of Spire’s End: Hildegard that will send its heroine…
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…
Trapmaster: Traps That Aren’t
There has been some discussion online about the failure of monster challenge ratings to keep up with leveling characters and…
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Ten
Okay, folks, I’m feeling good today, I think we’re finishing off who- or whatever Tasha has been cooking in that…
The Co-Creator Of Eureka Is Working On The D&D TV Show
Eureka co-creator and founder of Boom! Studios, Andrew Cosby, has been confirmed to be one of the minds behind the…
Force Wizard – Unmatched Vigilance SA (Sentinel Career)
This second Sentinel Signature Ability (SA) is the one which provides some benefits for allies as well as the Sentinel.…
Queerz! is an RPG based on the LGBTQ+ manga inspired by Power Rangers and Sailor Moon
Channel pride and rainbow power to fight back against bigotry in the Queerz! TTRPG, adapted from the LGBTQ+ manga inspired…
The Shining and The Babadook are inspirations for this horror D&D supplement
Take a risk and cast a spell with The Book of Gaub, an RPG supplement for Dungeons & Dragons that’s…
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…
Rolling for Initiative — Two Publisher Promotions that Worked
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Humble Bundle Releases New 13th Age Bundle For Oceana
Humble Bundle has launched a brand new charity drive featuring the books of 13th Age, with proceeds going toward Oceana.…
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…
Review: ‘Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Dominion’ (Miniatures Game)
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: DominionPublisher: Games WorkshopRelease Date: July, 2021MSRP: $199.00Designers: The Warhammer StudioNumber of Players: 2Product #: 5-011921-138036 (UPC)Age…
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…
Genre Police: Meta-Lurgy
Meta. The term is mentioned a lot in D&D circles. When someone does something outside of what their character knows,…
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…
D&D: What Happens In Sigil, Stays In Sigil – The City Of Doors
There’s a city that is full of doors to places you can’t even imagine. Welcome to Sigil. That’s right. It’s…
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…
RPG Spotlight: Zombie World
Powered by the Apocalypse meets the zombie apocalypse for a game that’s just as fun as it is brutal and…
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…
Outside the Box – July 23rd
Welcome back to Outside the Box, this time featuring Knight Models, Para Bellum Wargames, Creature Caster, Perry Miniatures and more!…
Itch.io’s Creator Day returns to give 100% of revenue to devs and designers on the indie marketplace
Indie marketplace Itch.io is currently running its second Creator Day, giving 100% of revenue to creators on the platform for…
Into the Wilderness: Random Encounters
Random encounter tables are a great tool for wilderness play. Out of character, they allow you to procedurally generate content,…
Now You Can Pre-Order The Homeworld RPG
Homeworld: Revelations captures the magic of the Homeworld series and brings it to your tabletop. Now it’s available for pre-order…
Finder’s Archive – Buried Ruin
Copyright Wizards of the CoastHi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of…
D&D: How R.A. Salvatore Wants To Fix The Racist Tropes Of Drizzt And The Drow
A new novel, Starlight Enclave, holds big changes for D&D as R.A. Salvatore moves away from the racist tropes underpinning…
Dixit and roleplaying collide with surreal RPG Dreampunk
Use a set of interpretive illustrated cards to navigate the surreal world of the unconscious in upcoming roleplaying game Dreampunk.…
The Crunchiest RPG This Side Of The 80s, Rolemaster – PRIME
Many games took the classic D&D formula and streamlined it–but Rolemaster took a look at all that math and said…
Modiphius Reveals its ‘Homeworld’
Modiphius Entertainment has revealed the first releases for its Homeworld: Revelations tabletop role playing game, which will launch this winter.…
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…
Become Entangled in the ‘Web of the Spider Tyrant’
Steamforged Games will release Web of the Spider Tyrant, a new Epic Encounters set, into retail stores on September 30.…
GAMA Unveils Horizons Fellowship Program
Includes $30,000 Accelerator Fund for Underrepresented Communities in the Games Industry The Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) has unveiled the Horizons…
MTG: Brainstorm Gets Suspended From Historic
A new Banned and Restricted Announcement takes effect today, and it looks like Brainstorm is abating, for now. Check it…
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…
Homeworld: Revelations By Modiphius Entertainment Now On Preorder
Modiphius Entertainment, a tabletop game design company known well for their licensed games such as Fallout: Wasteland Warfare and The Elder Scrolls:…
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…
Critical Role Announces Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn
Critical Role has announced their latest book from Darrington Press as they will be releasing Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn. As…
Critical Role sourcebook Tal’Dorei Reborn re-introduces players to the D&D setting
Revisit the world of Vox Machina with the new Critical Role sourcebook for Dungeons & Dragons, Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn.…
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…
Both RPG publishers once known as TSR divest themselves of the name, but questions remain
Two roleplaying game publishers, both claiming some right to call their company TSR, have since changed names. Solarian Games and…
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…
Will You Attend A Gaming Convention In 2021? PART TWO
In the first part of this three-part series, I looked at the pandemic induced rescheduling of a number of tabletop…
Battle meme demons and possessed smartphones in modern horror RPG Sigil & Shadow
Tabletop RPG Sigil & Shadow sounds like a combination of World of Darkness’ modern-day horror and the old-school dice-rolling of…
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.…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Diverse RPG Adventures, Dwarf Minis, & a Roman Strategy Game
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Black Mountain Clan Resin & Digital The Black Mountain…
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…
Tiny Library swaps your regular pack of playing cards for a deck of 50 micro RPGs
Upcoming RPG collection Tiny Library looks to offer dozens of indie roleplaying games in a deck no bigger than a…
Ratatosk: New Squirrel-Folk Variants (Part One)
“Consider, even the untrained ratatosk can hold their own in a conflict. Now, I want you to imagine a squirrel-folk…
Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade writer launches a dark fantasy supplement for D&D
Explore folk horror traditions by playing Dungeons & Dragons with Wickerpunk, a supplementary RPG book created by the lead writer…
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King introduces quests, mounts and miniatures to the Pandemic spin-off
Pandemic’s upcoming World of Warcraft spin-off Wrath of the Lich King will add new gameplay mechanics, including the ability to…
Redwall-esque RPG Mausritter is squeaking onto Kickstarter with a new box set and adventure collection
Indie RPG Mausritter is launching a Kickstarter next month with a revamped starter set and a new collection of adventures…
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…
Rogue Champions- Aggression Events
Marvel’s Champions has grown over the years since its initial release. Each aspect now has a large pool of upgrades…
D&D: Hey I’m Sorry, But 4th Edition Was Great
4th Edition is one of the better versions of D&D we’ve seen over the years, and you may disagree all…
What Not to Do When GMing with Ryan McHargue
Ryan McHargue, co-host of the Geezers of the Game podcast, joins me today on the show. We discuss what not…
The Green Knight RPG turns the standout fantasy film into a familiar adventure lifted by clever gameplay
Imitating the look and feel of a classic Dungeons & Dragons boxed campaign, The Green Knight: A Fantasy Roleplaying Game…
A Blades in the Dark style heist RPG is coming from the co-designer of D&D 3E
Pull off the perfect heist with Stealing Stories for the Devil, an upcoming roleplaying game designed by the co-designer of…
Hover Over ‘D&D’ Landscapes in a ‘Swamp Gas Balloon’
'D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight-Swamp Gas Balloon' WizKids will release D&D Icons of the…
Is It Enough?
When is enough, enough? I’m in the process of doing an edit on my current novel: S.O.U.L. Mate and am…
Bob Watts Announces New Company
Games industry vet Bob Watts has announced the formation of Trans Atlantis Games, a new game and accessory company. The…
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,…
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…
When the Developer Plays: Let Me Tell You About My Character!
(No wait! Come back!)As many people know, telling random folks about your character is simultaneously the greatest temptation in RPG…
Using Monsters Beyond Their Stat Block: Oozes
The evil shampoos of the Dungeons and Dragons multiverse, oozes are classic monsters that no dungeon worth its treasure would…
TV Shows And Movies That Feel Almost Like D&D – But Aren’t
Sometimes a TV show or movie feels like a D&D adventure, whether it’s the group, or the random DM tormenting…
Get Fate Core, Fate of Cthulhu and more RPGs for less in Bundle of Holding deal
Create your own adventures or become immersed in one of many different settings at a discount with the Fate Worlds…
The One-Page RPG Jam 2021 invites creators to stretch their brevity for a second consecutive year
Tabletop designers can once again test their mettle against one blank paper during the One-Page RPG Jam 2021, which runs…
D&D: What You Need to Know About Gem Dragons Before Fizban’s
Gem Dragons are coming back to Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition in Fizban’s upcoming book, but what are they, exactly,…
Heroes on Demand – Elthana, Half-Elf Monk
Lyse from FF14. Copyright Square EnixBorn to a traveling troupe of entertainers, Elthana was raised surrounded by a variety of…
Mörk Borg-inspired miniatures game Forbidden Psalm returns with an expansion
Explore a dark fantasy world with a warband at your command with In the Footsteps of the Mad Wizard, a…
6–19 July 2021: The Good, The Bad, & the Baffling
This week, the TSR controversy continues on its bewildering path. Meanwhile, it’s awards season, as we get the nominations for…
WizKids’ ‘D&D’, ‘Pathfinder’, and Fantasy Figure Calendar for Q4 2021
This ICv2 calendar tracks WizKids' figure releases for their licensed fantasy lines as well as their own fantasy lines. It…
‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Tours ‘Magic: The Gathering’s’ ‘Strixhaven’ Campus
Wizards of the Coast will release D&D Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, a new sourcebook for D&D 5E, into retail…
WizKids Reveals New Deets on Two ‘D&D The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Starter Sets’
WizKids revealed new details on the new D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Starter Sets…
Top 5 Roleplaying Games – Spring 2021
This chart of the Top 5 Roleplaying Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2021 (January-April). The charts are based…
Top 10 Hobby Channel Card/Dice Games – Spring 2021
This chart of the Top 10 Card/Dice Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2021 (January-April). The charts are based…
Top 5 Non-Collectible Miniature Lines – Spring 2021
This chart of the Top 5 Non-Collectible Miniature Lines (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2021 (January-April). The charts are…
Top 10 Hobby Channel Board Games – Spring 2021
This chart of the Top 10 Board Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2021 (January - April). The charts…