Free to Download: The World of Wyldrvir RPG from young game designers
Bee and Crow are young adult creators who created and are giving away the core rules for The World of…
High Risk, High Reward: New Releases from Paizo
From Mwangi to Smuggler’s Moon to an uninhabited planet in the Vast, from an international fighting tourney to a haunted…
The Queen’s Dilemma will expand the narrative legacy framework of its board game predecessor
A followup to The King’s Dilemma, 2019’s board game of monarchical decisions, has been announced. The Queen’s Dilemma reunites the…
RPG: The New TSR Saga Ends – No More TSR’s
After a whirlwind few weeks the TSR saga has come to an end as the final TSR rebrands in a…
Defiant RPG: An Art Interview With Marcin Kuczyński (Game Machinery)
Kate (Katarzyna Kuczyńska) and Martin (Marcin Kuczyński) of Game Machinery have a new project on Kickstarter, Defiant. This RPG, in…
“I’m hoping to offer something different in the co-op space”: Earthborne Rangers creator talks RPG influences and sustainability
Andrew Navaro has left his position as studio manager at Chip Theory Games - the publisher behind the upcoming Elder…
You can watch Tiffany Haddish, Seth Green and Patton Oswalt play Dungeons & Dragons next week
Comedians and TV stars Tiffany Haddish, Seth Green and Patton Oswalt will be playing Dungeons & Dragons next week as…
WizKids Returns to Barovia with Two New ‘D&D Icons of the Realms’ Sets
WizKids unveiled two more D&D Icons of the Realms: Curse of Strahd Premium Box Sets, Denizens of Barovia and Denizens…
TSR Games (3) now distances itself from TSR Games (3), rebranding to Wonderfiled
I began the day by calling TSR Games (3) a parody and finding an actual parody of “TSR Michael”. I…
Last chance to get this RPG? Cubicle 7 takes the lost Lone Wolf to Bundle of Holding
Last week, in a surprise and only a few weeks after announcing a commitment to the game, Cubicle 7 announced…
Tales From The Drift: The Monolith
From low atmospheric orbit, the crashed starship could have easily been mistaken for some great beast, slain in the heat…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Napoleonic Wars, Paranormal Investigations, and Archmagic
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Skeptics SKEPTICS is a cooperative, dice rolling game, where…
Welcome to the Expanse!
You’ve been waiting, and here it is! Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse is out today, coming out hot just before…
Tiffany Haddish, Patton Oswalt, Debrorah Ann Woll, and Others Announced for D&D LIVE 2021
Here is another press release for D&D Live 2021.TIFFANY HADDISH, CAST OF A.P. BIO, DRLUPO AND MORE ROUND OUT THE…
Ratatosk: Three Adventure Seeds
“How active are ratatosk on Midgard? Well, that’s quite hard to say. What is one more squirrel among the hundreds…
RPG: TSR Games, The One Not On Fire, Rebrands As Solarian
The tale of two TSR’s has come to an end as the company that makes ‘Top Secret’ rebrands itself as…
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to get a Pandemic-style board game adaptation
World of Warcraft and Pandemic might not sound like the most natural fit, but the venerated MMORPG will be the…
Superhero Week: Super Solo – A solitaire framework for superhero gaming
The 7th of July is the final day of Superhero Week, an annual event that I hope brings us together…
D&D: How To Make Fighting A Darklord (Or Other Boss) Spectacular
Now that Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft is here, and Darklords are back, you might be wondering, how do you…
Solo Role-Playing Games with Luke Miller
Game designer Luke Miller joins me on the podcast today. We talk gamemaster advice, writing, and running solo tabletop role-playing…
Rogue Squadron- Weapons Package
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
Power Rangers: Deck-Building Game’s first standalone set features more playable heroes and villains
Fight using the strength of the Zeo Crystal or command The Machine Empire in the first expansion for the Power…
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22 June–6 July 2021: The TSR Controversy
The past two weeks have been dominated by one subject: the new TSR and all the controversies surrounding it. In…
Exclusive: a|state 2e cover reveal and sign-up launch
Handiwork Games has launched the sign-up page for a|state on Kickstarter. Geek Native has some pictures, including the cover, to…
Free Short Story by John McGuire – The Secrets of Storytelling Part 1
A few years back I had the opportunity to write a short story for an anthology collection Beyond the Gate…
Warhammer 40K: Space Wolf Comes To Xbox
Looking to get your hands on some turn-based tactical action? Warhammer 40K Space Wolf has come crashing onto the Xbox…
8 D&D World Building Tips From Lou Anders and Travis Vengroff
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8 Worldbuilding Tips From Lou Anders and Travis Vengroff
Worldbuilding can be one of the most rewarding parts about playing Dungeons & Dragons. You get to take your friends into…
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms RED BAND TRAILER
Exciting news for fans of video game violence and animation. This weekend WB Home Entertainment released both a Red Band…
D&D Accessories: Summer Dice
Summer is time for cookouts, beach trips, and playing D&D inside with air conditioning. If it’s too hot outside, bring…
Out of this World: Horizons of the Vast Player’s Guide
“Welcome to Project: Horizon! As part of this onboarding seminar, we’ll be exploring some of the challenges you should expect…
‘Conan the King’ Arrives to Claim the Throne
Modiphius Entertainment will release Conan the King, a new sourcebook for Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, on July…
Cursed Captains of Cthulhu bring combines cutlasses and cosmic horror
The back of The Spy Game success with 5e, Black Cat Gaming is bringing Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos to golden age…
So You Want to Play a Dimension Hopping Trickster God for Some Reason, Part 1: Making a God in Modern AGE and Threefold
Let’s imagine that somehow, the cultural zeitgeist has moved to the unlikely place of trickster deities jumping through alternate universes.…
Record Times for Comics and Graphic Novels this Spring
The comics and graphic novel market had an excellent spring, with record sales for many, according to our interviews and…
Finding a Big Bad: Monstrosities
This week we take a look at one of the broadest categories of monsters in Dungeons and Dragons 5e: Monstrosities.…
‘Waves Stained Crimson’ Brings Pirates And Seafaring Adventure To The Conan RPG
Avast me hearties, the life of a pirate awaits in Hyborea with a new book for the Conan RPG, Waves…
The Workshop – Savage Worlds Pathfinder Review
Pathfinder copyright Paizo Inc, Savage Worlds copyright Pinnacle Entertainment GroupOne of the bigger stories at the end of last year…
How visionary comic book artist Moebius inspired a new wave of weird tabletop RPGs
The influence of comics artist Jean Giraud, better known by his pseudonym “Moebius”, stretches as far as the desert horizon.…
Goodman Games’ ‘DCC: Dying Earth’ Fully-Funded on KS
Goodman Games announced that its Dungeon Crawl Classics: Dying Earth Boxed Set, for DCC RPG, is fully-funded on Kickstarter. As…
Wizards of the Coast Anticipates Shortfalls in ‘Magic: The Gathering’ ‘Adventures in Forgotten Realms’ Products
Wizards of the Coast revealed that they are anticipating some shortfalls in the availability of Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in…
Rolling for Initiative – An Argument for the Distributor Magazine, and Congrats Mike Webb
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
EN Publishing News: Vampires, Coins and a Fine Shrubbery
Greetings everyone! It’s been a busy week at EN Publishing, with some upcoming Awfully Cheerful Engine! adventures that take on…
Tabletop Gallery: Separatist Captain Nemo Strikes
Prepare to repel boarders! Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure. From the Grimdark, to the…
Scrying on Subscriptions: Pathfinder Rulebooks
Let’s take a closer look at Paizo Subscriptions, what you can subscribe to right now, and what is coming next…
From the Deck of a Sandship: Of Ne’er-Do-Wells and the Roadrunner
Across the deserts of the Southlands, caravans full of riches travel between glittering spires and wealthy trading houses. Behind distant…
Move over MTG + D&D! We invent the RPG-card game crossovers that don’t exist (yet) on the Dicebreaker Podcast
This episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by Wild Bill's. Use promo code CHEERS15 for 15% off your first…
The 80’s D&D Cartoon Returns To Twitch This Friday
Grab your magic hat, your best friend unicorn, and your sense of adventure as the classic D&D Saturday morning cartoon…
Weird Stories wants to capture the strange mystery of David Lynch, Haruki Murakami and The Twilight Zone in a tabletop RPG
Upcoming RPG Weird Stories aims to bring the mysterious, surreal storytelling of David Lynch movies, Haruki Murakami novels and TV…
Astral Projections – Fever Dreamer, Braindancer (Cyberpunk Red)
Dreema Roman was a star ballerina in a corps sponsored by a Corporation – the kind of thing corps do…
D&D: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Reveals New Patch, Panel From Hell III
Larian Studios is gearing up for another Panel from Hell as a major update for Baldur’s Gate III releases later…
2021’s Best Cosplay, Plastic Horus Heresy, Age of Sigmar Launches, Star Wars Slave 1 Controversy
We’ve got everything from plastic 30K rumors, to AoS 3 launch news, the year’s top Cosplays, and Star Wars’ fandom…
Superhero Week: Capes & Crooks aims to bring superpowers to 5e
Justin Handlin and Crit Academy are a D&D discussion podcast group that have been streaming their playtests for Capes &…
44 years of tabletop gaming changed this weekend as GAMA votes in new membership structure
The Games Manufacturers Association has been going for 44 years in the United States. It was created to protect and…
Superhero Week: A review of Amazing Heroes!
Amazing Heroes! is a superhero RPG from Martin Lloyd. Martin is probably best known as the designer adamantine best-seller Amazing…
Advanced Concepts
Levelling Up Your Game We’ve been talking an Awfully lot about recent kickstarters (see what we did there?) and upcoming…
TSR Games (2) rebrands to Solarian Games
TSR Games has rebranded to Solarian Games to avoid confusion and drama around TSR Games, a new company they distanced…
Fandom conventions update for July
Geek Native runs an RPG, fandom and geeky events calendar. Phew, well, I try to keep up. Firstly, if you…
D&D: Catch The First Episode Of Exandria Unlimited
Exandria Unlimited is the newest series from Critical Role, bringing in a new DM, Aabria Iyengar, while Matt Mercer joins…
Old school feel with modern sensibilities: Chromatic Dungeons
Rod Waibel, who talked to Geek Native about OSR, has launched Chromatic Dungeons. The RPG is a clone of early…
How to Make a Gorgeous Resin Axe & Dagger
Create this unique ice ax in a weekend using easy-to-find materials. Fabricating this glass-like axe is more time-intensive than difficult,…
4 Fey Creatures That Will Drive Your Party Wild
The Feywild represents the intrinsic power of nature: its wildness and beauty, its chaos and unscrupulous dangers. Denizens of the…
Mwangi Expanse: No Place Like Home
Our latest book, Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse is already trickling into the hands of our subscribers ahead of…
Cubicle 7 separate from Lone Wolf
Cubicle 7 have announced that they will no longer be publishing Lone Wolf roleplaying games. Unfortunately, due to some recent…
RPG Spotlight: Dishonored
Combining a videogame known for its success and a rules system we’re already familiar with, the Dishonored RPG was designed…
Pathfinder Encounter: Red Waves Aflame
Red Waves Aflame — Moderate 15 The city of Bloodcove, on the western coast of the Mwangi Expanse, is one…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #107
Sadly, it’s impossible to omit the ongoing drama around TSR Games (3) this week. I’m sure everyone is wishing we’d…
Chapter 2 Update 3 – War is coming…
by Gavin Dady Three important updates this week Firstly, the good news is that by the time you read this…
Free Dungeons & Dragons adventure In Scarlet Flames replaces Magic: The Gathering’s usual short fiction
Those Magic: The Gathering players looking for traditional fiction set in the Dungeons & Dragons-tinted world depicted in Adventures in…
RPG: ‘Conan Exiles’ Brings Basebuilding To Cimmeria – Now In Print
A new sourcebook for Modiphius’ Conan RPG pulls in the exploration and survival of Conan: Exiles, the videogame. Pants not…
Superhero Week: Tour of Nu-Earth 1 preview for 2000 AD’s Rogue Trooper
EN Publishing have blogged a look at the forthcoming Tour of Nu-Earth 1 sourcebook for Rogue Trooper. The publishing arm…
D&D Live: Professional Wrestlers Ember Moon, Xavier Woods, And More Join The Carnival Of Chaos
WWE’s “Most adventurous superstars” are joining the upcoming D&D Live Event for a Carnival of Chaos led by Critical Role…
Finder’s Archives – D&D, its friends and which game is for you
Welcome everyone – today we’re going to take a quick look at the D&D gaming landscape, and the various games…
Dungeons of Drakkenheim: On track to become a $1m RPG Kickstarter campaign
The Dungeon Dudes have more than a quarter of a million YouTube subscribers. They launched a Kickstarter campaign for the…
Chow down on some delicious D&D with 5E RPG supplement Fat Magic
Cook up some spicy spells and indulge in a smörgåsbord of food-based adventures in Fat Magic, a roleplaying supplement designed…
TSR Games (3) say they have replaced the voice of TSR Games
It’s been a saga, so here’s a quick recap. TSR Games announced their return, only to reveal they had simply…
WizKids Reveals a New ‘D&D’ Premium Statue
WizKids revealed Dungeons & Dragons Githyanki Premium Statue for release on July 23. This new statue features a monster sculpt…
Outside the Box – July 2nd
Hello again, this week we have news from Wargame Exclusive, Atomic Mass Games, Creature Caster, Para Bellum Wargames, Mantic Games,…
Thursday Art Assault – Sacrilege of Sundown
‘Sacrilege of Sundown’ – 2021 – J Edward Neill Find more dark, surreal art at…
MTG: Adventures In The Forgotten Realms Makes Magic 2nd-Person Spectacular
Many new cards introduced in Adventures in the Forgotten Realms capture the moments when a DM prompts players with a…
Loke Battle Mats announce official Cyberpunk RED license
R. Talsorian Games and Loke Battle Mats have revealed a new range of Cyberpunk Red battle mats. Cyberpunk Red is…
July 2021 Organized Play Update
OPA Musings Recently, I foolishly declared that because a couple of our major conventions were delayed, this summer wouldn’t be…
Superhero Week: Battling biological essentialism from superheroes with S5E – Superheroic Roleplaying for 5th Edition
Sigil Entertainment Group has hundreds of backers, are thousands over their campaign goal and about three weeks left on the…
Superhero Week: Reebok Power Ranger shoes
One of my weird lockdown discoveries was that sports, fashions and geekdom combine in shoes, and it seems Reebok is…
RPG Kitchen is a creator-focused digital storefront for renting tabletop RPGs
RPG Kitchen is a digital service currently under development that wants to provide tabletop RPG players a storefront for renting…
Publishers Spotlight: August 2021 poll open for Patrons
The extraordinary people who contribute $1 or more to Geek Native’s Patron can now vote to see who will be featured in the August…
Star Trek Adventures: Missions Briefs 003 – Anamolies
By Al Spader, STA Contributing Writer Space as an Antagonist Star Trek is at its best when telling stories about…
RPG: TSR Games Claims To Be Attacked By WotC
Ernie Gygax Jr. and Stephen Dinehart deactivated their Twitter accounts yesterday after claiming WotC was assaulting TSR Games. After a…
Tidbits From the Q Continuum Everybodys Gotta Have One
This week I present you with a full adventure to challenge your starship crew with. It’s a tale set during…
D&D: ‘In Scarlet Flames’ Is A Free 8th Level Adventure Inspired By MTG
The Red Wizards are up to no good in a free 8th level adventure WotC is releasing alongside their new…
My Body is a Cage is a “Persona-esque” tabletop RPG about mind dungeons and mundane tasks
Complete everyday chores and interact with ordinary people by day, and explore dangerous dungeons by night, in the upcoming RPG…
Conan The Exiles Sourcebook
Earlier this week we released the physical version of The Exiles Sourcebook for Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of.…
Mike Webb Hired by Paizo, Inc.
Paizo, Inc. announced that they have hired Mike Webb to become their new Vice President of Sales and E-Commerce. Webb's…
Free to Download official D&D: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
There’s a new free adventure for D&D from Wizards of the Coast. In Scarlet Flames is available from the publisher’s…
Wizards of the Coast Unveils a New ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Gift Edition
Wizards of the Coast unveiled Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Bundle Gift Edition, for Magic: The Gathering, which will release…
Jump Into ‘Magic: The Gathering’ with the ‘2021 Arena Starter Kit’
Wizards of the Coast will release Magic: The Gathering 2021 Arena Starter Kit into retail on August 6. This new…
Let’s Play D&D With The Sailor Senshi
This week we’re finding our talking animal guides and transformation wands and inviting the Sailor Senshi to play some D&D.…
Free to Download: Vertices preview from Monte Cook Games
Monte Cook Games will release eight adventures in sites connected to the datasphere in a supplement for Numenera. The book…