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December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Links may earn ad money Here in the North, it is…

It’s December, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a high-adventure set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or whatever electronic…

Fainting Goat Games have a one-shot campaign that uses (slightly modified) Havoc Brigade rules on Kickstarter called Pew Pew. It’s…

Kobold Press’ new Kickstarter wants to take you to an all-new campaign setting. Come check out the Southlands, a new…

Nibiru is a sci-fi RPG with a focus on memories, set in a massive spacecraft in which people are the…

For the 2017 ENnie Awards at Gen Con, I won the dream date/auction to sit with Cubicle 7. It was…

Mentioned October’s Routinely Itemised: RPGs #69 was Jay Merritt’s Realm Fables Kickstarter project. The campaign to bring source-books of micro-settings,…

Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Before the Stroke at Midnight – 5e Before the Stroke of…

RPG publisher Kobold Press has launched a Kickstarter for an updated re-release of its Southlands campaign setting, which will be…

In the game you play as a dark elf, part of the resistance in a city a mile high, trying…

In this fantasy setting, the rotting corpses of the defeated Titans have corrupted the world. The oozing blood as turned…

Uncover riches in abandoned underground crypts by playing The Well, an upcoming roleplaying game from an ex-developer for Dungeons &…

What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…

Following the success of Kal-Zar’s Bane, which was 7 one-shot adventures, the Laidback DM has returned to Kickstarter with a…

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

This Black Friday and Cyber Monday season has mostly but not entirely gone unmentioned here at Geek Native. Why? The…

Pathfinder Adventure Paths, but with Savage World’s rules? Sounds like the greatest crossover since the Flintstones met the Jetsons. Savage…

The Adventure Guild, publisher of fantasy RPG Quest, has officially announced a new card game called Queens, along with a…

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

Welcome back to Outside the Box, this week with news from Mantic Games, Corvus Belli, Atomic Mass Games, Artel W…

Previously, Yarro Studio has Kickstarted open flat map books and even invented a forever dungeon. Now the designer, Tanner Yarro…

Getting excited about an upcoming game is a wonderful thing, so this list is here to stoke those particular fires…

It will soon be possible to play in the Pathfinder setting using Savage Worlds. Pinnacle Entertainment broke the news on…

Deadlands creator Shane Lacy Hensly has Kickstarted a new bovine-focused campaign for the Weird West RPG called Blood Drive. The…

Barney Menzies of Parable Games reached to me at the Tessera Guild about their Kickstarter for SHIVER: “A Tabletop RPG bringing your…

Role is a virtual tabletop and community which took over $100,000 in a Kickstarter campaign. Today the platform announced that…

Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Zoolocaust Minis The animals [infected by a virus] started to become…

The Weird West Map shows the state of the American union during the era of Deadlands: the Weird West.

Dead Man’s Rust invites Dungeons & Dragons 5E players to use the Scarred Lands setting from World of Darkness publisher…

It’s the final days of Beadle and Grimm’s first ever Kickstarter–and one of the best ways to track your Pathfinder…

A group of roleplaying designers have added their games to an Itch.io bundle raising money for several support organisations as…

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Friends, We're very excited to announce that all unlocked Character Chronicles are now available for purchase as PDFs! The PDFs…

November 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💶 Ads: Links may earn us money Hello and welcome to another…

Hello again, this week we have news about Frostgrave, Infinity, Conquest, Star Wars Armada, Bolt Action, Dropfleet Commander and more!A…

Become part of a crew of sailors in a world where ships travel on top of trees in Wildsea, a…

This week has been beyond busy. Multiple long days for the day job and a reminder that working from home…

Shadows of Korea expands GeneFunk 2090 with 8 new class archetypes, 5 new engineered genomes (races), new equipment, new feats…

Venture into the depth of a dungeon in search of adventure in Perilous, an upcoming RPG that features story-prompting cards…

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

Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Perilous RPG Perilous is a dungeon crawling RPG about braving the…

Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote an article entitled “So You Want to Play in Midgard? (But You…

Travel back in time to the 1980s to investigate urban legends in Dark Places & Demogorgons, a new supplement for…

The world of Asunder, a new dark fantasy RPG designed by Adam Lawson (Escape the Night), is dying. More accurately,…

Fans of Absolute Tabletop’s streamlined take on mecha adventures rejoice, as the publisher is planning a supplement full of one-page…

This week: Paradox takes back the reins on the World of Darkness; controversy around Matthew Mercer's character on Haunted West;…

Matthew Sprange, the managing director of Mongoose Publishing, has shared the company’s State of Mongoose 2020. As you can imagine,…

CMON announced that it will team up with Warner Bros. to release three new tabletop games as part of the…

Evil Hat Productions will release Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a tabletop RPG, into trade in mid-2021 after a Kickstarter backer release.…

The third book of the Meatlandia old school RPG series from Knight Owl Publishing is on Kickstarter and raking in…

Whether you play D&D or Pathfinder with miniatures or you’re into Warhammer, Kings of War or any of the engaging…

On this week’s podcast, Matt, Johnny, Wheels and Meehan crack open a jar of tabletop news and fish out the…

November 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentAds: Sales from links may earn us money It’s Friday the 13th!…

Bardsung, the classic dungeon delve-turned-board game, has announced another guest writer as part of its Kickstarter stretch goals. Luke Gygax,…

We are back with another issue of Outside the Box, this time with news from Corvus Belli, Fantasy Flight Games,…

DISCLAIMER: I wrote a story for Bloat Games’ superhero anthology, Tales from Vigilante City (which I and the other authors discuss here).When…

Do you remember being young and skipping school with your friends to travel to a dimension made of purple sand?…

What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…

Renegade, the studio behind games including Kids on Bikes, Overlight and Clank!, has been named as the new publisher for…

Jordan (For the Dungeon!, Arcana Academy) Palmer has a new project on Kickstarter, Perilous Roleplaying Game. This GM-optional dungeon crawler…

Forgoing the tabletop’s industry’s usual crowdfunding platform of Kickstarter, Steve Jackson Games have a short campaign for weather dice on…

The virtual tabletop program Fantasy Grounds has released a new skin for the software which transforms it into a sci-fi…

Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Kabuto Sumo Take on the role of a tough beetle with…

There’s a growing range of RPGs for the impressively flexible Cypher System and with the Heroes of the Cypher System…

Any fledgling game master knows one of the more difficult aspects of running the table is describing with your mouth…

Defenders of the New Century is a good RPG in development that blends monstrosities and superhero-level powers into a setting…

Everything Epic, creator of the Rambo and Big Trouble in Little China board games, has expanded into gaming periphery with…

Heroes of the Cypher System, the newest project from Numenera designer Monte Cook Games, provides players with two books featuring…

Ex Stasis Games’ first product Caverns of the Wise Minister is now on Kickstarter, and there are some early bird…

Archery contests, battlefield events, herbalism, chases, and hirelings! Expanded rules for your 5th Edition game in a softcover book, now…

Kal-Zar’s Bane 2 – Mined Games is a collection of 7 one-shot adventures suitable for D&D 5e or OSR games.…

An RPG based in the universe of The Terminator was recently announced by independent Scottish publisher Nightfall Games, primarily known…

Geek Native has a rare opportunity coming up with a worldwide giveaway for one exclusive and limited prototype of a…

Straight from the Editorial Director’s snout, this monthly blog series provides a peek at current publications and projects headed from…

Mutants 'n' mullets in a post-apocalyptic Earth that's evolved to mix magic and science. Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland…

Steamforged Games, the publisher behind Dark Souls: The Board Game, Epic Encounters and Godtear, has revealed more details about its…

All Rolled Up and Paul Baldowski, the creator of The Cthulhu Hack, are successfully crowdfunding a new RPG in which…

Dragon Turtle, the publisher behind the D&D 5e-powered Carbon 2185 cyberpunk RPG are on Kickstarter again for the Terminal Overdrive…

RPG news all summarised into handy bullet-point lists. That’s the name of the game in this Friday’s Routinely Itemised. Let’s…

Hello again, in this issue of Outside the Box we have news from Artel W Miniatures, TT Combat, Knight Models,…

After a successful Kickstarter, the next evolution of the software-based virtual tabletop, Fantasy Grounds Unity released the first official version…

I’ve discussed 9th Level Games in some articles, but have yet to interview the crew behind Kobolds Ate My Baby!,…

Parable Games have a good looking and innovative horror RPG called Shiver that uses special dice and suits many different…

Sometimes we want to escape into a world filled with ancient mysteries, incredible magic and extravagant headgear - and that’s…

A trio of big-name guest writers have been announced for Bardsung, the upcoming dungeon-crawler from Dark Souls: The Board Game,…

Against the Darkmaster is a whopping 550-paged RPG from Open Ended Games. It was Goldfinger who said, “No Mr Bond,…

Too Many Bones creator Chip Theory Games has announced its latest board game Burncycle, launching on Kickstarter next week. Burncycle…

Danial Rashidi is a Swedish computer game designer who’s worked in DICE and on projects like Battlefield and Battlefront. Danial…

Magpie says they've redefined what's possible with Powered by the Apocalypse games in the last few years and want to…

Ex Stasis Games will launch their first game Dreadful Realms: Caverns of the Wise Minister on Kickstarter. The dark fantasy…

Beadle and Grimm’s first ever Kickstarter is already a massive success–and one of the best ways to track your character…

Rollinkunz, creator of Fragnarok, has a card system to help you design dungeons. To bring the Dungenerator to life, the…

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…

Thorny Games won awards for Dialect a game communication and language. Their latest game Xenolanguage takes that up a notch…

What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…

Disclaimer: Egg Embry is one of the contributing authors for Tales from Vigilante City.Bloat Games released their superhero Old-School Revival…

If you’re into the tabletop gaming scene these days, chances are you have some miniatures to paint. It’s likely you’ll…

The horror game tackles a host of mind games, sex, gore and the horrors of humanity. Reborn in a 2016…

Quillhound Studios have found a partner in the publisher Mythopoeia which is good news as it means the promising and…