Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: October 28, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! The Science & Séance Society The Science and Séance Society, designed…
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! The Science & Séance Society The Science and Séance Society, designed…
This week, Beadle & Grimm's launched their first-ever Kickstarter for a brand new Pathfinder project, and it's already been funded. The…
BlackVault has launched a book of mythos inspired monsters on Kickstarter which includes monster tactics and new horror rules for…
Stalk the streets of a supernatural city in Urban Shadows: Second Edition, the latest entry in the tabletop roleplaying series…
By the time you read this, we'll be live! In the meantime, we've been furiously updating the Kickstarter page based…
Beadle & Grimm's is publishing a new line of Character Chronicle books for Pathfinder 2E meant to distill the game's…
Abascanto Press have released the BYTE Roleplaying Game Rulebook. The RPG is a successful Kickstarter which took more than €10,000…
YARPS' Kickstarter backers are being offered their money back.
The rigid corpse of the dead bird blocked my usual view of the coastline. Feathers tugged as the chill wind…
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ed Jowett, the lead creator and writer of “Era:…
The print-and-play option for WanderSquares takes a pledge of $24 and has an expected delivery date of February 2021. Sadly,…
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Hello again, this week we have news from Fantasy Flight Games, Osprey Publishing, Artel W Miniatures, Victrix, Archon Studio, Mierce…
'Tis the season for wandering hordes of undead descending on unsuspecting small towns. It didn't take long for the modern…
Giochi Uniti has announced it will release Pathfinder Arena, a new board game set in the Pathfinder roleplaying game’s fantasy…
Giochi Uniti, alongside Paizo, Inc., has announced that they will publish Pathfinder Arena, a new board game set in Pathfinder:…
I’ve mentioned Dustin DePenning’s work on the Synthicide RPG and Heroic Dark in passing (here and here). His RPG creations…
We launch our kickstarter on the 27th, and we wanted to reach out and give you an update on our…
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Terrors & Tommyguns RPG Terrors and Tommyguns is a Cosmic Horror…
The Unreal Engine is used to make computer games, and now programmer and animator Luke Cosgrove is using it to…
Popular dungeon-crawling board game Gloomhaven is being adapted into a series of novels. Based on the world of Gloomhaven, a…
Publisher Elderbrain ran a survey to find out which class made for the best D&D arch-villain, which realm was more…
Make contact with aliens and discover a way to communicate in Xenolanguage, an upcoming storytelling game inspired by science-fiction film…
Back on Thursday, Dragon Turtle Games launched a Kickstarter to reprint Carbon 2185 and publish a new sourcebook called Terminal…
Mike Evans is an animator and an artifact designer at The Imperial Forge. The animation is the day job, designing…
The World of Critical Role is a look back over the last five years of Critical Role. From its unlikely…
MORK BORG won Best Product of the Year at the 2020 ENnies. Putrescence Regnant is a “bog crawl” adventure for…
Imaginarium Games is gearing up for a Savage Worlds Adventure Edition Kickstarter. The project is The Secret Files of Section…
Regular Geek Native readers will be familiar with The Wildsea. We had the August free to download August playtest and…
At the start of last year, Geek Native blogged about the launch of Carbon 2185. The post hit a chord,…
We mark the second anniversary of Greg Stafford’s passing this week. Chaosium did so with style by presenting both the…
What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…
Bleak tabletop RPG Mörk Borg is getting a new adventure releasing as a vinyl album, complete with a built-in GM…
Looking for 1920s action noir and cosmic horror, but not Lovecraft’s take? Then Terrors and Tommyguns might be the RPG…
Fall in love and face off against various foes in Thirsty Sword Lesbians, an upcoming tabletop roleplaying game about exploring…
Roll20 announced that Code2040 would be the charity partner for their 2020 convention. Code2040 tackles racial disparity in the tech…
Jeff Steven’s book of short adventures for D&D’s 5th setting is compatible with the basic rules and creatures but also…
I’ve written about Richard A. Knaak a couple of years ago when his Rex Draconis novels had a RPG Kickstarter…
Evil Hat Productions has launched a Kickstarter for the Powered by the Apocalypse RPG Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Within hours, the…
Winter is nearly here, and this campaign – live on Kickstarter now – is prepared for the cold and the…
Inspired by political settings like The Expanse and the demonic horrors of Doom and Event Horizon, Death Divers is a…
Questlings, a children’s book series about roleplaying fantasy characters, is releasing with an upcoming tabletop RPG co-created by Banana Chan,…
A new tabletop RPG coming to Kickstarter next year is borrowing from the world of comic books for a quick,…
Darrin Anderson is looking to bring his D&D 5e setting the icy city of Dalreth to life in books and…
I liked the look of The Alhami Sky when it hit Kickstarter last August. It was, however, an ambitious multimedia…
It’s not common for RPGs to hit the $100,000 mark on Kickstarter, although it happens. The Worlds Without Number campaign…
Last year, Shades of Vengeance Kickstartered Era: Forbidden an RPG about warring devils and angels invading our world with magic.…
Phew! Speaking for myself, what a busy week this has been and I’m glad to make it to the weekend.…
I imagine if you merged LEGO, magnets and gaming accessories together, you’d end up with a system that was a…
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Flick through the pages of a dystopian future in The Labyrinth, the latest “narrative art book” by Simon Stålenhag -…
First revealed last month, Bardsung is the next big release from Steamforged, the British publisher behind miniatures games Guild Ball…
Astro Jones, Steven Cummings Arcana Academy character. Sketch by Steven Cummings COVID-19 and quarantine changed my tastes in roleplaying games.…
Grab a flashlight, a EMF reader and a camera for World of Darkness: Ghost Hunters, an upcoming companion sourcebook set…
Nazi Dracula Must Die! is a D&D 5e-powered micro setting from Crystal Quill Press. You can download a 9-page preview…
In the World of Darkness, people do not believe in the supernatural and yet that one possible tear in the…
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Fray: Champions of the Every-Verse Fray – Champions of the Every-Verse…
Acheron “They say whoever controls the flow of history, can write the future. For centuries, The Council has curated the…
Step through a portal to another planet in Stargate SG-1: Roleplaying Game, an RPG based on the ‘90s science-fiction television…
Concord, CA — October 1, 2020 – Randy Angle launches the Gruesome Ghoulies™ RPG Kickstart campaign, visit www.gruesomeghoulies.com. Gruesome Ghoulies™…
Horror roleplaying is intrinsically tied to what makes scary films, books and games so engaging. The audience gets to experience…
After lockdown delays, Wyvern Gaming’s official Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game powered by D&D 5’s ruleset is up on Kickstarter. Funded…
Colonial gothic RPG Flames of Freedom launched on Kickstarter today. Powered by Zweihander, the Grim and Perilous game is set…
DnD Mini.com is a new eCommerce site from WizKids that’s been launched in D&D branding, with Wizards of the Coast’s…
Arcana Games had one of the best selling fantasy games on DriveThruRPG in 2019 with Arkadia – The Greek Setting…
Kansas City, MO (October 5, 2020) – Andrews McMeel Publishing (AMP) announces the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for Flames of…
Suzerain Legends is a wrapper setting; with a focus on several worlds but the potential to include whichever environment you…
If you’ve already found The Wildsea then here’s good news; the Kickstarter notification page is in place. I’ve hit that…
These dice look as if they each contain a human tooth. Now, original dice were made from the talus of…
“This is not how the world ends” is the prophecy that brings some hope to the snowy realm of Nyth.…
Monster Fight Club is killing it on Kickstarter with their campaign, Monster Scenery: Ice Wilds. Recently I got my hands…
It’s a new month, and that means the end of 2020 is getting that closer. What plans do you have…
Here we go again, this week with news from Para Bellum Wargames, Artel W Miniatures, Mantic Games, Raging Heroes, Mierce…
The original roleplaying game that used Jenga blocks as a mechanic is the infamous 2006 Dread. Your character dies if…
What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…
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Dark World Studios have taken their grimdark Acheron to Kickstarter. Geek Native has been tracking the project since the free…
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With the Kickstarter for Creatures: Complete Monster Compendium for 5E from Studio Agate (Fateforge, Shadows of Esteren) nearing its end,…
Steam will host the Digital Tabletop Fest from October 21st to the 26th. You can find this and other online…
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Creatures: Complete Compendium for 5e Designed by the creators of Shadows…
A new Power Rangers tabletop RPG is on the way from the studio behind mighty morphin’ board game Heroes of…
Drinking Horn Games as a Kickstarter pitch video for Terrors and Tommyguns that doesn’t take itself too seriously but as…
Holy Rogues Gallery, Batman! The new Batman RPG has a veritable treasure trove of new bat-artwork on dispaly for the…
Flames of Freedom is a Powered by Zweihander RPG due for Kickstarter. You can click the notify me on launch…
In a close-run vote, Geek Native’s patrons voted Legendary Games into the RPG Publisher Spotlight. In just about an equally…
Norwegian indie computer game developer Rain has teamed up with Phil and Kaja Foglio to begin the madcap world of…
Valiant Fox Gaming’s Fading Embers Setting Primer is now a Pay-What-You-Want with a recommended price of $0.00. Fading Embers cover…
This week the timer on Avalon Hill’s new site, a countdown to HeroQuest, hit zero. Several things happened at once.…
Epic sci-fi board game Twilight Imperium and cyberpunk series Android - best known as the setting of living card game…
A tabletop RPG supplement that combines a seven-inch vinyl soundtrack with a fully playable dungeon-crawl adventure is launching on Kickstarter…
Mask up. Spill Blood. Drink the Rich. Brinkwood is a tabletop roleplaying game about overthrowing vampires, what more could you…
Welcome back to Outside the Box, this week with news from Raging Heroes, Mantic Games, Ninja Division, Fireforge Games, Knight…
Hasbro has been teasing us with a countdown for HeroQuest for a while now. So the news was released, and…
You can pre-order Beasts & Behemoths: A Young Adventurer’s Guide from Amazon or publisher Penguin Random House. The book is…
Here in the warrens, there has been much chattering and buzzing about all things Scarlet Citadel. We figured, why not…
Craig Campbell has a new RPG Kickstarter. We’ve attended AndoCon, Conapalooza, Gen Con, and Multiverse Con (and talked about his…
CMON has delayed the release of its ambitious Nordic and Celtic-inspired adventure board game Trudvang Legends into 2021. According to…
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Stat Trackers Friends & Foes Stat Trackers are a simple, but…
Nerdburger Games‘ latest RPG is on Kickstarter and it’s going very well. The campaign is a day old and is…