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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…

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,…

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native's weekly RPG news summary, complete with a roundup of new releases, freebies, interviews and reviews.

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…