Call of Cthulhu

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

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

Dungeons and Dragons’s VanRichten’s Guide to Ravenloft and Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of’s Book of Skelos explores different…

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

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

In the first part of this two-part series, I reviewed the buildup to the launch of Avatar Legends, the tabletop…

Call of Cthulhu maker Chaosium has acquired two of the horror RPG’s popular spin-off series of supplements and scenarios, with…

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

Dark forests hide darker horrors and shadows of strange beings lurk at the edge of your vision in Vaesen; a…

The weird and horrific alternate history of tabletop RPG Achtung! Cthulhu 2D20 will officially release on September 28th, bringing players…

This week, after the death of RuneQuest co-creator, Steve Perrin, his colleagues & collaborators remember his impact on the industry.…

Roleplaying game designer Steve Perrin, best known as one of the creators of seminal 1970s RPG RuneQuest, has died. After…

Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Cubeamajigs Cubeamajigs are reusable gaming packs that allow you…

Delta Green, the roleplaying sourcebook created for Call of Cthulhu, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a new edition. Called…

It’s Friday, and the big news here at Geek Native HQ this that nerdy blogger will soon be on the…

There are two modes of Call of Cthulhu: Classic and Pulp. In Classic, you play everyday people, called Investigators, who…

DESIGNER’S NOTES – Part 2. By Kevin Ross  Hi all, here is second part of my overview to the upcoming…

A Miskatonic Repository book, At One With Nature, is a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror from Graham James, with potentially…

Chaosium Inc., publishers of Call of Cthulhu issued a statement supporting trans existence this Sunday after transphobic statements by the…

Okay, folks, I’m feeling good today, I think we’re finishing off who- or whatever Tasha has been cooking in that…

Geeky worlds collided in a flash of hypernet light that lasted 10 seconds as Cthulhu met the otherworldly temptations of…

Tabletop RPG Sigil & Shadow sounds like a combination of World of Darkness’ modern-day horror and the old-school dice-rolling of…

In time for Call of Cthulhu’s 40th birthday, Polyglot Studios have a range of Cthulhu and mythos models as rewards…

This week, the TSR controversy continues on its bewildering path. Meanwhile, it’s awards season, as we get the nominations for…

Magnetic Press Play, a brand new tabletop studio, is set to release expansions for the Call of Cthulhu series and…

Magnetic Press Play To Bring Back West End Games' D6 System for 'Carbon Grey RPG' Magnetic Press announced that it…

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Critical Role’s latest series Exandria Unlimited has introduced a brand new character, the enigmatic fire genasi monk Fy’ra Rai. While…

The winner of the Geek Native’s Patrons RPG Publisher Spotlight this month is Grognardia Games. Every month this group of…

Call of Cthulhu turns 40 this year, and is celebrating with a brand new Kickstarter for ‘Call of Cthulhu Classic’…

Four esteemed graduates from the College of Mysteries in Absalom are sent to a tiny desert village in eastern Thuvia…

The past two weeks have been dominated by one subject: the new TSR and all the controversies surrounding it. In…

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Horror RPG Call of Cthulhu is marking its 40th anniversary with a remastered collection of the seminal roleplaying game’s earliest…

DESIGNER’S NOTES – Part 1. By Kevin Ross  Greetings, sword-brothers and sea-dogs! My name is Kevin Ross, and I’m one…

In addition to D&D, TSR is collectively responsible for 20 different Role-Playing Games. Have you played ’em all? Find out…

Sail the seven seas during the Golden Age of Piracy and try to survive the cosmic horrors lurking below their…

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

The HeroQuest roleplaying game series will no longer be on sale from next month due to a transfer in trademark,…

Now that Critical Role’s second full length story arc has come to a close, you may not know what to…

Someone with a fair bit of cash could be the new owner of the manuscript for Deities & Demigods, a…

Wield both the ideological and literal weapons of WWII--era communism against the forces of Count Dracula in The Hammer and…

Jason Andrew and JN Childs of Mighty Narwhal Productions have a new tabletop RPG system campaigning on Kickstarter. Jason and…

April 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Links may earn ad money Hello, hello, and welcome to the…

This week big news on the media front as we learn of a World of Darkness TV universe in the…

Paizo is pleased to announce that Pathfinder One-Shot: Dinner at Lionlodge, a new liveplay adventure, will air at PaizoCon 2021…

For many tabletop RPG creators, writing a campaign that can keep players hooked over an extended period of time is…

New Comet Games has a successful Kickstarter on its hands as hundreds of gamers embrace the siren summons of Corsairs…

Fight a time-spanning war against cosmic horrors and cult leaders in a newly announced series of titles set in the…

There’s doom, darkness, horror, an in-game mechanism for calculating how close the end of days is, and award-winning graphic design;…

April 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission Howdy, geeks. Once again, we find ourselves at…

Luke Crane, the designer of The Burning Wheel, has been in the news of late. The dramatically cancelled The Perfect…

Is there a more elegant way to title this post? Probably, but this is the most direct. Hey there, my…

The investigators are all on the governing body for the Buffalo Terminal Restoration Group. They sit in the boardroom as…

Astral Tabletop is a browser-based virtual tabletop with free and paid for tiers. The platform has a partnership with DriveThruRPG.…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Dungeon Notes Dungeon Notes is a brand new system,…

Your favorite adventures and livestreams owe more to Sandy Petersen’s Call of Cthulhu than Gary Gygax’ Dungeons & Dragons. Here’s…

Roleplay one-to-one sessions of the Call of Cthulhu RPG with Does Love Forgive?, a set of scenarios designed to be…

Welcome to another issue of Outside the Box, this week with news from Wargames Atlantic, Raging Heroes, Wargame Exclusive, Warcradle…

Two “classic” campaign books for Call of Cthulhu, Beyond the Mountains of Madness and Horror on the Orient Express, have…

The numbers are in for the Fall, and while Dungeons & Dragons rules the roost, it looks like the Alien…

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We’re nearly one-quarter of the way through 2021. Gulp! Let’s mark the occasion with some RPG news. First up, the…

The investigators returned to their Cairo suite of rooms after visiting the deranged archaeologist laying low in the squalid storage…

This week: the GAMA expo brings interesting insights into the RPG industry; an ill-thought-out Asian-themed sourcebook is pulled from production;…

By Nathan Dowdell First appearing in 2013 with Mutant Chronicles 3rd edition, the 2d20 System has been a part of…

In February, there was a sea of fresh RPG offerings via Kickstarter. Many of them were Zine Quest 3 products,…

Those who run tabletop campaigns often shoulder a lot of creative labour between and during sessions, not to mention the…

Modiphius Entertainment has today opened up the pre-order for Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20.  The launch has different books. You can pre-order…

By John Houlihan  Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 launch day is here and we’re really excited to finally share with you nearly…

The band of investigators emerged from the ever-winding corridors beneath the Sphinx to find a chamber longer and wider than…

Digital roleplaying platform Roll20 released its annual Orr Group Industry Report on February 18th, sharing some hand-picked insights behind the…

The numbers are in, and to nobody’s surprise, Dungeons & Dragons is still #1, but Call of Cthulhu has surged…

HP Lovecraft imagined a world of unknowable horrors from the depths of the ocean and beyond the stars with the…

I recently completed a year-long trek through the epic Call of Cthulhu campaign Masks of Nyarlathohotep. The players were from…

Two board games created by late RuneQuest designer Greg Stafford and set in the fantasy world of Glorantha are returning…

The video game adaptation of Blood Bowl, the fantasy football spin-off from the Warhammer universe, is getting its third entry…

Horror roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu has overtaken Dungeons & Dragons’ popularity in Japan, with its success driven by an…

Dark fantasy, horror, and good old fashion tabletop roleplaying fun mix this week on RPG Spotlight as we dive into…

The Call of Cthulhu release Dead Light and Other Dark Turns is now available on Roll20! Two unsettling encounters on the road……

Upwind, a roleplaying game inspired by the likes of Studio Ghibli and the Disney film Treasure Planet, has seen a…

By John HoulihanAs January, always the longest month of the year, draws to a close, we’re edging ever closer to…

If you want to play a creepy horror game but don’t want to deal with a lot of complex rules,…

The Dicebreaker Podcast is back for a brand new year, but with the same ol’ tangents as Matt, Wheels and…

A summary of 2020 RPG stats, a round-up of the news, lots of reviews and product releases all together in…

This week D&D hired a new senior game designer, an army of monsters appeared on Humble Bundle, publishers backed New…

Cut down gamemaster prep time with D100 random tables. Use these random tables to enhance your RPG campaigns and have…

November 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn ad money Hello and welcome to another week of…

Here’s something new to play if you’re staying in over Thanksgiving – our latest Solo Call of Cthulhu release, Alone Against…

Modiphius has shared the first teaser from their highly anticipated Dune RPG. Dune: Adventures in the Imperium will use Modiphius’…

When I saw Midnight Tower’s latest Kickstarter, A Mystery Adventure Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe for 5e, I knew I…

Thumbnail image from Netflix show Dark With all other time-traveling methods out of the way, we end up with my…

Jesse Covner and Patrick Chandler from the Sons of Singularity join me on the podcast to discuss the Journal d’Indochine,…

We're facing a Friday the 13th this weekend. More importantly, we also have a host of RPG charity events to…

Call of Cthulhu is more popular than ever, making a big splash on places like Roll20 and now… Astral Tabletop.…

In 1925 your expert detectives work to keep a post-war and divisive world from falling apart.

If you encounter something indescribable and weird and can keep your wits about you, you may be approached and asked…

October 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💶 Links may earn commission Looking for an RPG news summary? You’re…

Free League Publishing – Oct 27, 2020 14:00 GMT “I can’t lie to you about your chances, but … you…