Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is the greatest comic book RPG you haven’t played
When you ask most fans about a roleplaying game involving the Marvel universe, they think of TSR’s Marvel Super Heroes,…
Paizo Will Not Appear at Gen Con Indy in 2021
Paizo, Inc. announced that they will not have a physical presence at Gen Con Indy 2021. A few days before…
Karnivool, My Pandemic Band
The last concert I physically attended was a 10 Years concert on New Year’s Eve, 2019. We were able to…
Taliesin Jaffe’s Domain of Dread: Vendamir, a Land of Tomes and Ashes
Taliesin Jaffe joined D&D Beyond's Amy Dallen on stream to celebrate the release of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft! Together,…
MTG: Phyrexian-Language Praetors In MTG Arena And Secret Lair
Good news for dedicated souls out there trying to deciper the Phyrexian language, MTG: Arena will soon have all five…
NeverEnding version 2.0 to launch this week with beast heads and prosthetics
NeverEnding is a site that helps you generate character illustrations. You can use it for free or pay a little…
Let’s Concept a Creature for the Art of Paizo Panel at PaizoCon Online
On the Art of Paizo panel at PaizoCon (12 Noon Pacific on Sunday, May 30), artist Kent Hamilton will design…
Paizo’s Gen Con 2021 Update
Paizo will not have a physical presence at this year’s Gen Con Indy. Instead, like last year, we will focus…
RPG Accessories: D&D Under The Sea
Whether you’re playing an ocean themed game or just love a good day on the beach, there are RPG accessories…
BattleTech: A Time of War bundle includes everything you need to play the MechWarrior RPG for $13
Mech roleplaying game BattleTech: A Time of War is the star of the latest Bundle of Holding deal, stomping down…
Unprepared Casters breathes new life in D&D podcasts: Editorial
The surge of popularity in tabletop RPGs resulted in a plethora of D&D podcasts. D&D podcasts such as The Adventure…
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Eight
Welcome to Chapter 2: Group Patrons! You know what, I’m not even going to guess how far I’ll get in…
Finding a Big Bad: Aberrations
Aberrations are a monster class that does not lack for iconic and terrifying baddies to throw against your party. From…
Free to Download: Heavy Gear Blitz! 3e small format rules
Usually $19.99, the latest Heavy Gear Blitz! rules are a free download, in small book format, from DriveThruRPG. Dream Pod…
D&D: Dark Alliance 1st Act Gameplay Reveal And Xbox Game Pass Launch Day
Come take a look at the whole first act of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, as well as exciting game…
Frosthaven designer to address “harmful” tropes, decolonise its design and talks cultural consultancy
Frosthaven promises to be a massive game. The sequel to 2018’s Gloomhaven became the biggest crowdfunded game on Kickstarter and…
“We want to amplify that games are truly for everyone”: Keystone studio founders on championing diversity and community in tabletop
Earlier this year, Dead of Winter co-creator Isaac Vega and designer Lindsey Rode announced that they had co-founded their own…
Tidbits From the Q Continuum With a Little Help From My Galaxy-Class
In Star Trek Adventures, the crew rarely acts without amazing assistance. When the Conn Officer navigates asteroids, there are thrusters…
11–17 May 2021: The Last Gameboard; Powered by Lesbians
This week: The Last Gameboard, a digital tabletop game board, raises millions in its Seed round; Thirsty Sword Lesbians releases…
Myth & Goal wants to be a very different kind of fantasy football game from Blood Bowl
Upcoming miniatures game Myth & Goal wants to capture the strategy and challenge of managing a fantasy football team -…
Transformers deckbuilding game officially announced, Decepticons coming in future expansions
Save Earth from the tyranny of the Decepticons in the officially announced Transformers: Deck-Building Game, a tabletop title based on…
Science: Cinema screens make movies more exciting
Here in the UK, the cinema scene took a terrific knock during the lockdown, we’re still not in the clear…
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft Review
“The mists of Ravenloft are rising. Overcome your dread or forever be its prisoner!”Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft is now…
Gremishka: Terrify Spellcasters With These Tiny, Chaotic Monsters!
Spellcasters, beware! Tiny monstrosities are on the loose, and they love snacking on spellcasting components and familiars! But whatever you…
Crash into BattleTech: A Time of War as the RPG lists on Bundle of Holding
The last time Catalyst Game Labs’ BattleTech: A Time of War was available as a deal on the Bundle of…
Comic-Con and Magpie Games announce game design events
Comic-Con Museum has announced the D4: Tabletop Creative Conference for June 5 to 6. The creative conference is a two-day…
Tabletop Gallery: Sir – It’s Right BEHIND YOU!
Stormcast Eternals: Crunchy on the outside – chewy on the inside! Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up…
Transformers and Power Rangers Games Coming From Renegade Game Studios
It’s time to recruit a team of Autobots with attitude! Go, Go, Transformers! Renegade Game Studios has been blowing up…
D&D: Cursed Items – Magic Items To Make Life Intereting
Magic Items are a rewarding part of any adventure. Not these ones though. Here are five magic items that put…
Free to Download: Battle maps from the award-winning Paths to Adventure
Justin Andrew Mason is an ENnie award-winning and best-selling RPG author and RPG cartographer. You can follow them on Twitter…
Revisiting the Dragonborn With New Lineages From Unearthed Arcana
Dragonborn are the only core race in Dungeons & Dragons that allows players to live out their dreams of becoming something that…
Putting Your Fantasy AGE Adventures in the Trojan War
Fantasy AGE Trojan War, out now (and at DriveThruRPG) is a condensed guide to running Fantasy AGE adventures in the…
Trapmaster: Incremental Traps
In a previous article we discussed encounter traps (Chilling Encounters). These complex traps turn a simple trap into an entire…
Welcome Liv, Dicebreaker’s new video producer!
It’s very exciting news for the Dicebreaker team today, as we welcome a new video producer to the crew. Hello…
Astral Projections – The Sheik (NPC for use with CyberpunkRED)
© 2021 Linda WhitsonOman al-Ishaaq is not your usual ripperdoc, or cybernetic surgeon, as he prefers. (And it’s both polite…
Play D&D in VR with digital tabletop platform Dungeon Full Dive
Become immersed in playthroughs of roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons with Dungeon Full Dive, a digital platform that…
Wizards of the Coast Teases a Phyrexian ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Drop
Wizards of the Coast teased a new Secret Lair Drop Series set, for Magic: The Gathering, themed around the Phyrexian…
Life After Dungeon creators hope to let you play as your dead RPG characters
Upcoming roleplaying game Life After Dungeon looks to allow players to integrate characters from any other RPG or franchise -…
MTG: Wizards Of The Coast Sunsets Pro League, Refocuses On ‘Bottom Up Growth’
Wizards of the Coast announced late last week that the current season of Magic Pro League will be its last,…
Once More Into the Void is an RPG in which the crew get back together for one last job (in space)
Jason Pitre and Jamila Nedjadi have found Kickstarter success with Once More Into the Void, a sci-fi tabletop RPG with…
Exclusive: The first look at ARC’s alternative cover, the RPG to slay the apocalypse
External Funeral and momatoes have a doom RPG project heading for Kickstarter called ARC. That’s the same External Funeral you…
Warhammer World Building: River Life
🐙 Disclosure: The post contributor may earn affiliate commission on sales from this page.Warhammer World Building creates campaign settings using Cubicle…
Geek Native Patron gift: Buzzard! #1 and Buzzard! #2
Buzzard! is an action comic from Andrea Wolf, which has been described as Deadpool meets Kingsman. I think that fits.…
RPG Smart Box: Smonex offers up an all-in-one player storage box
The idea behind Smonex’s “RPG Smart Box” is that it has everything you need to be a player on D&D…
Onyx Path Publishing’s TryItCon bundles
As the Geek Native convention calendar reminds us, TryItCon is on right now. The purpose of TryItCon is to find…
Free to Download: Defiant Awakening – play as a fallen angel
Geek Native reviewed and enjoyed the Defiant RPG a year ago. It might seem odd to release a free quick…
Mech-dino horrors and Cthulhu-spawn (mostly): A review of Nightmares 1
Nightmares 1 is a collection of monsters for 5e by Cthulhu-famous Petersen Games. It gets a thumb up from this…
Knight of the Sun: The gorgeous moral dilemma of wicked 5e module
Knight of the Sun is a 5e adventure module for 3 to 6 characters of levels 2 to 4. It’s…
Free League Publishing predict a 5e version of The One Ring RPG
The second edition of The Lord of the Rings RPG was Kickstarted by Free League Publishing, taking over the publishing…
Have you ever invented a drink for an RPG?
At the start of the year, Geek Native had $50 worth of Geek House Coffee to giveaway. Entering the competition…
Celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021!
May is Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! In this blog, we wanted to give the members of our community the…
‘Mutants and Masterminds’ Let’s Anyone Become A Superhero: RPG Spotlight
We’re choosing our favorite super powers and tights this week on RPG Spotlight as we join a super team and…
Outside the Box – May 14th
Welcome to another issue of Outside the box! This week with news from Infinity, Mantic Games, TT Combat, Para Bellum…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #100
It’s Friday, and as a friend of mine likes to say, “Welcome to the geekend!” Also, though, welcome to the…
Indie platform Itch.io’s inaugural Creator Day eschews revenue cuts for 24 hours
Popular indie game platform and storefront Itch.io is running its first ever Creator Day throughout May 14th, funneling 100% of…
One-on-One Roleplaying: Adapting Tales of the Old Margreve
And now we’re going to take theory and put it into practice with one of our favorite products from Kobold…
Today Is Itch.io’s First Creator Day – All Sales Go Directly To Devs
Popular indie platform and purveyor of “unspeakable games” (according to Apple) Itch.io is giving 100% of its revenue to creators…
Transgressive Horror digs into the scary movies that broke the rules
Authors and game designers like Kenneth Hite, James Lowder, Matthew Dawkins and Eddy Webb are working together on Ghost Show…
An Eye to the Future
The last few weeks have been awfully ACE! Quite literally. Last week’s blog took a tour of the stars as…
Finder’s Archive – Boulderloft Pathway
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
Free to Download: Inspirisles – the all-ages RPG that teaches sign-language
Inspirisles is a successful Kickstarter campaign that uses a system around Belief to support empathy and magic rules that teach…
Vampire: The Masquerade’s Summer of Blood bundles bite up to $150 off the gothic RPG
Three new bundles have been launched for Vampire: The Masquerade, saving new players and fans looking to complete their collection…
Fallout Friday 14th May 2021
Welcome to May’s Fallout Friday round up, this might be the one many of you have been waiting for. After…
Gather Intel on Megacorporations with ‘Shadowrun Power Plays’
Catalyst Game Labs will release Shadowrun Power Plays, a new sourcebook for Shadowrun RPG, which will hit retail on June…
Pegasus Spiele Will Release a New Edition of ‘Kitchen Rush’
Pegasus Spiele will release a new edition of Kitchen Rush, a restaurant management board game, into trade in Q3. In…
Journey to Har’Akir: A Desert Domain Where the Dead Never Rest
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Thursday Art Assault – Bridge of the Broken Moon
‘Bridge of the Broken Moon’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Find more vivid, surreal art at…
Playing Games at PaizoCon
Last March, when we shifted physical gaming to digital spaces, the Online Region Venture-Officers wrote two guest blogs focused on…
Great Moments in Games: Community Edition
Ancestry Guide Chapter Opener, artist Victor Manuel Leza Moreno With PaizoCon coming up, the OP team is hard at work…
Roll bones like a real Viking with the physical Orlog game from Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla fans who loved to squat in longhouses and over tree stumps for matches of the in-universe dice…
Fantasy AGE Trojan War: Now Available!
Available Now! In the Green Ronin Online Store, and DrivethruRPG!Cross the Wine-Dark Sea and Storm the Walls of Troy Again!Fantasy…
The refreshing touch of change and death: A review of The Elephant and Macaw Banner
I backed The Elephant & Macaw Banner RPG two years ago on Kickstarter, and I’ve had it for months now.…
The next season of the Broken Compass RPG is on Kickstarter and running wild
I backed Broken Compass last year as it looked great. I only just got my package yesterday. In part, that…
Wizards of the Coast Begins the Transition Back to In-Person ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Play
Wizards of the Coast is beginning the transition back to in-person Magic:The Gathering play, and is aiming to bring back…
The Prophecy of Nine Omens Trilogy: An Interview With Tove Lund Jorgensen & Erik Jorgensen
Tove Lund Jorgensen and Erik Jorgensen of Midnight Tower have a new Kickstarter up for a Dungeons & Dragons Fifth…
First board game from Critical Role publishing studio is coming later this month
The Critical Role founded publisher Darrington Press will be launching its first official board game this May with Uk’otoa. An…
Dead of Winter co-creator is working on a new horror board game that’s “actually scary”
Dead of Winter co-designer Isaac Vega is making a new horror board game to be published by the studio he…
Euro-Game Troika Form Consultancy
Three seasoned veterans of the European tabletop game industry have formed All About Games, a new consultancy focused on game…
The Loot Shop for D&D and other Perchance generators
Perchance.org is a powerful and simple site. You use it to create random generators, and it is designed for tabletop…
How to Introduce Psychological Horror in Your Next Campaign
When we think of a typical Dungeons & Dragons adventure, what comes to mind are scenes of might, magic, and —…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Goblin Adventures, Adorable Cat Dice, and Nordic Heroes
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Storm Weavers – Solo RPG This is a single-person…
Live, Tonight! Starfinder: Scoured Stars— Thunderhead!
Trapped on a planet with fanatical Jinsul, the Starfinders fight to survive in a growing storm. Hope comes in the…
Dungeon Tables: Random Encounters in Ruins
Crafting dungeons can be tiring work. We’re here to make things easy and interesting with our Dungeon Tables! Whether a…
Critical Role Announces Darrington Press’ Inaugural Game: Uk’otoa
Critical Role's tabletop gaming division Darrington Press revealed their first board game on the way with Uk'otoa. The name of…
A Lugubrious Lullaby is an RPG about innocence lost
A Lugubrious Lullaby prints onto a single sheet of paper, and when folded up, becomes a zine RPG about innocence…
The Green Knight RPG Begins With A Quest For Honor – Step Into The New RPG
If, like me, you’ve fallen completely in love with the upcoming Green Knight movie, you’ll want to check out its…
Card-driven RPG Necrobiotic blends deckbuilding with roleplaying in a dark, dystopian future
Upcoming tabletop roleplaying game Necrobiotic looks to combine the customisability of deck construction and deckbuilding card games with the storytelling…
Greet ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Players at the Door with a Ranger of the North
WizKids unveiled Dungeons & Dragons: Full-Sized Drizzt Foam Statue for release in September. WizKids is releasing another new offering as…
2 Spooky Puzzle Encounters for your RPG session
Thumbnail art by David HarringtonWe are not even close to Halloween (172 days away in fact) but WotC decided to…
Worldbuilding with Adam Bassett
Former editor in chief of Worldbuilding Magazine and lead game designer for Smunchy Games, Adam Bassett, joins me on the…
Rogue Squadron – Eta-2 Actis Interceptor
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at the ships you can fly in Fantasy…
Bisoulovely’s RPG inspired jewellery blasts through CA$1,000,000 on Kickstarter
It’s not as if we need any proof that the demographics around tabletop RPGs have changed for the better, but…
Pegasus Spiele Announces Two New ‘Talisman RPG’ Releases
' Talisman Adventures Game Master’s Kit' and 'Talisman Adventures RPG Accessory Pack' Pegasus Spiele announced Talisman Adventures Game Master’s Kit…
Free Chapter – Hollow Empire – Cassidy
If you enjoy this sample chapter, you can get the full Season here. What once had been two living, breathing…
International Shipping Delays Expected to Last Into 2022
Covid-related delays on international shipping, which have been tied to erratic release dates, rising costs, and general supply chain mayhem,…
MTG: Historic Anthology V Spoilers – Eight Blasts From Magic’s Past Now On Arena
The latest Historic Anthology set on Magic: the Gathering Arena have been bringing back classic cards like Ojutai’s Command, Stifle,…
I, You, We Be Goblins
The PATHFINDER: FUMBUS! Kickstarter campaign, featuring Pathfinder’s iconic goblin alchemist in his first comic book adventure, has been fully funded!…
Carrionettes: Play Killer Toys From Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Carrionettes make a terrifying return to Dungeons & Dragons in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. These toy-like creatures are born out…
D&D Accessories: Anime Inspired Dice
You don’t need to be playing Big Eyes Small Mouths to add a little anime to your next RPG game,…