A billion years in the future and for the first time: Numenera Discovery in a Bundle of Holding
Monte Cook Games’ RPG Numenera is set a billion years in the future, and it’s never been in the Bundle…
The Dark Crystal RPG opens for pre-orders
We’re one step, and perhaps a flutter, from roleplaying adventures in the magical world of Thra. River Horse has opened…
Rosh Hashanah Paizo Celebration!
Hi all! For this latest community blog, we’re celebrating Rosh Hashana, the New Year of the Jewish calendar, which begins…
D&D Monster Spotlight: Keep An Eye On The Shadows
If one of your adventuring party doesn’t cast a shadow, watch out, they may just be being stalked by their…
Starfinder Evolutionist Playtest Update
There are just a few weeks left in the open playtest period for Starfinder’s upcoming evolutionist class. If you haven't…
Preview: Legends of the MetaVerse 5e superhero RPG
Good Brother Studios will launch a Kickstarter campaign for a 5e superhero RPG called Legends of the MetaVerse on September…
City of Cats: Wallpapers
It’s a new month, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a feline-tastic set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or…
Creature-infested 1890s Louisiana: Gravemire RPG comes to Kickstarter
Clawhammer Games are asking for $16,000 from the Kickstarter community to fund a gilded age tabletop RPG about mortality, growth…
D&D: The Delver’s Guide To Beast World Reimagines A Wagon-Filled 5th Edition
Beasts, wagons, merchant companies and more await you in a new campaign setting that looks to give 5th Edition a…
We cast the upcoming Blades in the Dark TV series on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast!
Lolies and Meehan are back in the pod booth as they join Matt to talk about what we’ve been playing,…
In swamp horror TRPG Gravemire, alligators are the least of your problems
Survive a myriad of horrors haunting the Louisiana swamps in Gravemire, an upcoming tabletop roleplaying game set in the Bayou.…
Force Wizard – Unmatched Ferocity SA (Warrior Career)
Welcome back, my padawans and disciples. Today we begin our study of the Warrior Signature Abilities (SAs) from Knights of Fate, with…
D&D: Ed Greenwood Kickstarting New Campaign Setting, Raises over A Million!
The creator of the Forgotten Realms joins Dragori Games to Kickstart the world of Tanares, a new Campaign Setting with…
Create cowpeople and fox-characters in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a supplement for D&D
Make anthropomorphic heroes with tails, ears and hooves in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a new supplementary sourcebook for…
Brittannia Games launch new Chivalry & Sorcery mini STL range
Publishers of Chivalry & Sorcery, Brittannia Games, have launched a new tabletop miniature range. The publisher of C&S 5e and…
Wheel of Time, Renaming ‘Slave I’, Multiclassing Paladins, and GW Talks Orks
Take a look at everything from the new Wheel of Time trailer, to how to multiclass Paladins in D&D, to…
Free to Download: VAST – No Port Called Home sci-fi RPG
The 159-page Adventurer’s Guide for VAST – No Port Called Home is a free download. Citing Rice Boy, Mass Effect,…
Kingdom of the Gods: Ankur RPG returns for a second edition
Based on non-western and ancient mythologies, Ankur is an indie tabletop RPG that uses a d12 system. It’s been on…
(Maternity Leave) RPG Accessories: Back To School With D&D
From notebooks to pens to pencil bags there are a ton of D&D accessories that are just as useful in…
How Ain’t Slayed Nobody used the Malleus Monstrorum
The Malleus Monstrorum is an impressively large collection of mythos lore from Call of Cthulhu’s Chaosium. Impressive means mind and…
D&D: Io, The Over-Dragon – An Adventurer’s Guide
Bahamut and Tiamat might be the gods of dragons, but there’s one to whom even they bow. Come and meet…
WizKids Announces New Line Of Critical Role Unpainted Miniatures
WizKids and Critical Role revealed this week that they're releasing a new line of Unpainted Miniatures straight out of the…
Crossing the Titan’s Garden
The Narrator quickly determines some details about the Region being traversed. We’ve already established that the Titan’s Garden is a…
Give your 5e RPG some options with The Delver’s Guide to Beast World
The Delver’s Guide to Beast World is a Kickstarter success in a week that’s seen no shortage of heavy-hitting campaigns.…
D&D: Check Out The Wrap-Up To Critical Role’s ‘Exandria Unlimited’
Critical Role wrapped up Exandria Unlimited this past week, and now you can watch the cast’s Q&A and go behind…
Time travelling tea drinkers prefer Stonehenge for a nice sit down
Geek Native often has a competition running, and you don’t have to tag three friends and like a page to…
Who in the Nine Hells Is Fizban? Find Out Here!
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons will be chock-full of dragon goodness when it drops on October 19. The Dungeons & Dragons…
GW, Warhammer, 40K & Fantasy Minis Trivia Challenge
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
Outside the Box – September 3rd
Hello again, and welcome to Outside the Box. This week we have news from Creature Caster, Para Bellum Wargames, Atomic…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116
September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission It’s a Friday and the start of the…
You Find Yourself in a Haunted House: Magic Items
Some locations—the wizard’s tower, the sunken temple, the haunted house—appear repeatedly in stories and adventures. In this series, we’ll explore…
DC's Animated Injustice Available October 19th
DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announce Injustice, an Elseworld story about a superhero civil war between Batman and Superman.…
Dungeons and Randomness return to Kickstarter with The Adventurer’s Guide To Theria Volume II: Ta’lor
It’s a busy Kickstarter week and with several significant campaigns launching. When it comes to cash goals, the largest ask…
WotC Is Sponsoring A Football Club, For Some Reason
Yes friends it’s true, Wizards of the Coast is sponsoring an EFL League 2 team for the 2021/2022 season. A…
I tell you, I tell you, The Dragonborn Comes!
Our hero, our hero, claims a warrior's heartI tell you, I tell you, the Dragonborn comesWith a voice wielding power…
Leyline Press: Brexit RPG designer co-founds new RPG company
Panayiotis Lines, the designer of Shadow of Mogg, an appropriately brutal look at Brexit in the guise of a tabletop…
Super Mario Labyrinth sends a plumber-themed board game classic stateside this month
Family board game Super Mario Labyrinth has been slated for a US release, bringing a Mushroom Kingdom twist to a…
Finder’s Archives – Calciform Pools
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D 5e Guide: How to Multiclass Paladins
Multiclassing in Dungeons & Dragons opens up a door of possibilities for PCs. Today we’re taking a look at how…
Sci-fi roleplaying game Stars Without Number gets a full hardcover release
Dive into a science fiction world filled with potential in Stars Without Number, a roleplaying game that’s seeing its first…
RPGs: When ‘The World Of Darkness’ Was A TV Show – PRIME
With two new RPGs getting their very own television shows, it's important not to forget the cautionary tale that was…
Crawlspaces & Critters: Edible gummies for tabletop battle maps
I have a weakness for gummies. I love their tasty chew… but they’ve never formed a raid party and attacked…
Transformers are driving, flying and jumping into a new tabletop RPG
An upcoming roleplaying game based on the beloved Transformers television series and toy line is coming from the publisher behind…
CMON Heads into NFT Market with Monsoon Digital
CMON announced that they will partner with Monsoon Digital to create a new series digital collectibles and promos using non-fungible…
The war isn’t over: Netflix airs English subtitled The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light trailer
The war isn’t over: Netflix airs English subtitled The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light trailer time to read: Geek…
Recent Eisner-Winners Provide Showcase Art for the Next 'Magic' Set
Wizards of the Coast revealed new art-related details and card images for Innistad: Midnight Hunt, the next Magic: The Gathering…
The Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Computer Game is Available Now!
The Worldwound. A cursed land that threatens all life. Not a wasteland, or the site of a natural disaster, but…
We Are Delighted to Announce…
We raise our kazoos high in song to celebrate our very own Streaming & Video Producer, Dot, as she makes…
D&D: Five Ways To Find A Secret Door
Secret doors are a longstanding tradition in Dungeons & Dragons, and just as longstanding a tradition: inventive ways to convince…
September 2021 Organized Play Update
OPC Musings Those of you with high Perception modifiers will notice that this section has a new title. As of…
Exclusive preview: Fancy a “Player’s Handbook 2” for 5e? Visit Valda’s Spire of Secrets
Mage Hand Press has a vast, 380-page, 10 new base classes, and incredible 150+ subclass touting 5e book up on…
The GI Joe, Power Rangers, And Transformers RPGs Are Officially Announced
The Transformers, GI Joe and Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers RPGs are unveiled at last. Come take a look at the…
Talent-studded D&D 5E setting Tanares earns over $1m in first day of crowdfunding
Tanares is a new tabletop RPG setting compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 5E that raised seven figures on its first…
Thursday Art Assault – Window to a New Soul
‘Window to a New Soul’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Find more dark, surreal art at…
For the Love of Cthulhu Try Folk Horror
Dungeons and Dragons’s VanRichten’s Guide to Ravenloft and Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of’s Book of Skelos explores different…
D&D Celebration 2021 – Registration Open For Wild Beyond The Witchlight
Come and take part in the virtual weekend of adventure, live games, and a preview of the Wild Beyond the…
10 board games to look for at Gen Con 2021 – preview
Gen Con is back for 2021, with a slew of exciting upcoming board games for players to experience at the…
Himbo Treasure Hunt: RPG a well-meaning muscled hunk
Himbo Treasure Hunt is the latest “Name Your Own Price” RPG from Rowan, Rook and Decard. Specifically, it’s from Sasha…
Cyberpunk Red RPG studio R. Talsorian becomes latest publisher to exit Gen Con 2021 over COVID-19 concerns
R. Talsorian Games, the RPG publisher behind Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk Red, has become the latest publisher to withdraw from…
Free League announce Into the Odd Remastered with Chris McDowall partnership
Free League Publishing will produce a new edition of the weird-fantasy Into the Odd from Chris McDowall. Mork Borg’s Johan…
Players Roll Out and Transform in 'Transformers Roleplaying Game'
Renegade Game Studios will release the Transformers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and themed accessories in March. In the Transformers Roleplaying…
Acronym alert: CMON does NFT ASAP
Once known as Cool Minis or Not, CMON is expanding further and into the controversial waters of Non-Fungible Tokens. NFTs…
Watch Secrets of Magic Liveplay on Thursday!
While the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic liveplay is usually on Wednesdays at 6 pm Pacific, we are taking the night…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Black Rose Wars, Picaresque Roman, Flatline City, and More
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Blurgh A party game of bad language, crazy drawings,…
The Avatar Legends RPG Surpasses $8 Million Heading – Last Chance To Back
Avatar Legends, the RPG of elemental bending and cabbages has broken many Kickstarter records, surpassing $8 million heading into the…
New Releases: Secrets Revealed
In every adventure, the heroes face adversity to win the day. Likewise, these thrilling new tools and tales have overcome…
GRIMtember: Save $108 on Grim & Perilous Zweihander RPG titles
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.One of the characteristics of September and…
Magic: The Gathering's Terrifying Innistrad ARG Story Experience
Wizards of the Coast, creators of the premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering, have always been quite detail-oriented in their…
Herbalist’s Primer: A system-neutral RPG guide to plants pushes past 1/3rd of a million on Kickstarter
Billed as the Herbalism Book You Didn’t Know You Needed, the Herbalist’s Primer has now earned more than $333,333 in…
High-powered, high fantasy RPG Exalted will receive a live action television adaptation
A live action television series based on the anime and mythology-inspired tabletop RPG Exalted has been announced. The adaptation will…
The G.I. Joe Roleplaying Game has been officially revealed
The G.I. Joe Roleplaying Game, based on the line of toy soldiers, has been officially unveiled by publisher Renegade Game…
Publishers Spotlight: October 2021 poll opens for Patrons
Those awesome companies and people who contribute to Geek Native’s Patreon can now vote in this locked poll. The Patreon…
Dungeon Tables: Random Encounters in Deserts and Wastes
Deserts and wastelands present a particular kind of challenge for adventurers. Though the landscape may look arid and vacant, there…
28 tabletop games have made $1m on Kickstarter in 2021 so far
Tabletop games have already raised $146 million on Kickstarter in 2021, with more than two dozen projects individually breaking the…
Are RPGs TV’s Next Goldmine? – ‘Blades In The Dark’ And ‘Exalted’ In Development
Not one but two different RPG franchises have announced TV shows in development. Blades in the Dark and Exalted will…
Despite a cinematic release, The Green Knight tops Netflix charts for August
The streaming show search engine JustWatch has given the most-watched movie slot for Netflix audiences in the States to The…
D&D: WotC Lead Designer Talks Bard Class Origins
It’s the 90s all over again, because D&D’s lead rules designer takes us all Behind the Music with Bards, celebrating…
Rogue Squadron- Black Flight
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
Publishing RPGs on DriveThruRPG Do’s and Don’ts with Adriel Wilson
DriveThruRPG’s Indie Publisher Representative Adriel Wilson joins me on the podcast today. We talk about the do’s and don’t of…
17–31 August 2021: Blades in the Dark on TV
This week, John Harper’s hit RPG, Blades in the Dark, will get a TV adaptation; Virtual Tabletop platform, Role, raises…
Wanderhome studio’s next RPG is a game about ghost families called Our Haunt
Our Haunt, an upcoming roleplaying game about being a household of ghosts, is the next RPG from the publishing company…
Blades in the Dark RPG to get a TV show
Warp Films are working on a Blades in the Dark TV show, as confirmed by John Harper in a Tweet.…
Blades in the Dark RPG is being adapted into a television series
Blades in the Dark, the dark fantasy roleplaying game about pulling off heists, is being adapted into a television series.…
Sequioa Games Announces 'Flex NBA'
Sequioa Games announced Flex NBA Trading Tile Board Game Starter Set and Series 1 booster set, which will hit stores…
Wizards of the Coast Sponsors English Soccer Team
Wizards of the Coast announced that it will sponsor the Leyton Orient FC, an EFL League 2 soccer team, for…
Repost: He’ll See Me On The Flipside
I’m 7-years old. The kid across from me has issued a challenge to me. We’re both to submit to the…
Nerds Gummy Clusters Reveals New Dungeons & Dragons Packaging
Today Nerds candy along with Dungeons & Dragons revealed the packaging for the new Nerds Gummy Clusters with a D&D…
Players Become a Real American Hero in the 'G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game'
Renegade Game Studios will release the G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and accessories later this year. In the G.I.…
Strength of Thousands: Magaambya Staff
The first chapter of the Strength of Thousands Adventure Path, Kindled Magic, is now available and contains an article describing…
Mortal Kombat Legend's Joel McHale Compares Cage to Winger & More
Mortal Combat Legends, Battle of the Realms releases today, and comedy superstar Joel McHale (Community, Stargirl) has once again been…
Lancer designers suspend work on planned sourcebooks, citing life changes and pandemic stressors
The creative duo behind popular mecha tabletop RPG Lancer has suspended development on three books originally crowdfunded through its Kickstarter…
Monsters and Dragons and Pirates, Oh My!
Monsters and Dragons and Pirates, Oh My! Tuesday, August 31, 2021 After over a year and a half of…
D&D: Five Worlds Your Characters Should Adventure In
D&D has countless worlds, as long as you can’t count very high. There are more than you’d think though! Everyone…
Book Mashup: Vaporwave Rose, Part 1
I really enjoyed writing Lost Ilium the other week. I didn’t know if the mashups were going to be a…
How to Easily Incorporate Side Quests
Side quests don’t have to be distracting fetch quests or the infamous escort quests so often present in MMORPG games.…
WotC Files Netrunner Trademark – Is A Rebirth In The Cards?
After Wizards of the Coast filed a new trademark for Netrunner, could a rebirth of the classic cyberpunk card game…
WizKids Launches 'D&D Prismatic Paint'
WizKids launched its D&D Prismatic Paint line of products, which are expected to hit stores in January 2022. This new…
Beat the superpowered streets of neo-noir RPG City of Mist on the cheap with latest Bundle of Holding
The latest Bundle of Holding offers both sourcebooks for the detective-meets-urban myth RPG City of Mist, plus a collection of…
RPG character backgrounds are rubbish – here’s how to make a good one
Creating a character for a roleplaying game is a labour of love. Coming up with a cool concept, poking and…