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,…
D&D: Neutral Evil…Allies? Let’s See About That
Want to add some spice to your roleplaying? What about five NPCs that lean villainous, but might make unlikely foils/allies…
A free introduction to the irradiated meta-wizards of the Icosa RPG
Studio Passerine’s Icosa RPG is free. I’ve called it a free to download RPG as you don’t need to pay,…
Finding A Big Bad: Constructs
Welcome back to this series where I explore different monster types, showcasing monsters that can be used as monsters of…
D&D: Running One Shot Adventures Is The Best And Here’s Why
One-Shot adventures are a great space to try new things that you wouldn’t if you were worried about things like…
Heroes on Demand – Sigurd, Human Swashbuckler
Artist unknown. All rights reserved.Sigurd was born in a small, sleepy fishing village and he learned from an early age…
4–10 May 2021: Conflicting Histories
This week: the rise of LARPing in China; D&D’s big plans for Summer releases; and the conflicting stories about who…
Manage Spellcasting with ‘Pathfinder Spell Cards: Secrets of Magic’
New Spell Deck by Paizo, Inc. Paizo, Inc. will release Pathfinder Spell Cards: Secrets of Magic, a new spell deck…
MTG: Iconic D&D Items And Spells Reborn As Magic Cards
You’ve seen Tiamat, you’ve seen the Vorpal Sword, but these aren’t the only previews from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms.…
The Sansu Set d10
Scouring through the polyhedral the dice available to early gamers, you can sometimes stumble across a peculiar looking ten-sided die…
Tabletop Gallery: Heretic, YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
I’m putting my money on the Custodes on this one. Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop…
Unlock These Preorder Perks With Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft!
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D&D: The Five Best Dogs In Dungeons & Dragons
For a game known for its dungeons and its dragons, it sure is filled with some astoundingly good dogs. Here…
D&D Survey
We want to know what you think of D&D—and if you play D&D we want to hear what you have…
‘Strixhaven’ Gets ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Its Sealed Sales Groove Back
TCGplayer unveiled their April data for sealed product prices which showed some of the trends developing in the TCG collectibles…
Kobold Dispatch: May Edition
Straight from the Editorial Director’s snout, the Dispatch provides a sneak peek at upcoming publications and projects headed from the…
Welcome Alex Thomas to the Ronin Roundtable!
Some of Alex’s first freelance work for Green Ronin was in this very book!Hello heroes! My name is Alex Thomas…
Broken Tales offers a dark RPG of upside-down fairytales where villains seek redemption
Black Box and World Anvil, who might be better known as a campaign management solution, have come together on “The…
Star Trek Adventures: Mission Briefs 002: Disasters
By Tilly & Susan Bridges, STA Contributing Writers We’re so excited we get to play in The Next Generation era a…
D&D: Harkon Lukas’ New Look Has People Talking
Over the weekend WotC debuted a new look for one of Ravenloft’s oldest dark lords–the evil bard/shapeshifter, Harkon Lukas. Meistersinger…
Force Wizard – Unexpected Demise SA (Seeker Career)
“Force Wizard” is my series on the Force & Destiny Careers’ Signature Abilities. Both Signature Abilities (SAs) for the Seeker…
DUNE #16 – Faction Characters: Mentats
By Andrew Peregrine In Dune: Adventures in the Imperium there are several character types that offer special powers and abilities.…
Age of Sigmar 3 Announced, 40K New Guard Minis, D&D Real Life 5-Foot Squares, Lola Bunny
This weekend was crazy with Age of Sigmar’s next edition and battletome, new 40K minis, D&D 5-foot squares and good…
Rolling for Initiative — ‘Magic’ Release Rescheduling and Farewell to Richard Halliwell
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Fantasy festival generator
Even in a sleepy village on the quiet corner of a fantasy map, it need not be the case that…
The People at the End of Time: An impressive fan-made Mutant Year Zero RPG trailer
Mutant Year Zero is a tabletop RPG from Free League Publishing that has gone on to spawn computer games and…
D&D: Five-Foot Squares In Real Life
If you’re wondering how D&D measures up in real life, you’re not alone. Presenting the unsung hero of RPGs, the…
What should hobby newcomers play after gateway games? Professor Meg joins us on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Special guest Professor Meg joins Lolies, Meehan and Matt to chat Gloomhaven, Oath, Unmatched, Keyforge and Lolies’ newfound love of…
Genre Police: Dialling Back In
Consistent readers of this column might remember my ‘dials series‘. I identified some elements of roleplaying games we took for…
Free to Download: Interstellar Troops and a Scribus template
If you’re publishing RPG content via sites like DriveThruRPG or the DMs Guild, you might be using the open source…
Pathfinder: Wrath Of The Righteous Releases On September 2nd
Owlcat Games, the video game developer behind Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, has announced that the game's finalized iteration will launch…
Tarot goes augmented reality: The Fantôme multidimensional deck
The Slovenian boutique La Muci Design has two weeks left on their Kickstarter, and €160,000 pledged for their augmented reality…
Games Workshop announces a new edition of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
It’s the final day of Warhammer Fest, and we have Games Workshop’s mystery announcement. The wargame maker is releasing a…
Jovian Whispers adds more The Expanse and Terminator horror to Shadows Over Sol
Shadows Over Sol is a dark sci-f RPG published by Tab Creations in 2016. Since then, the game has had…
D&D: Hungry Adventurers? Serve Up One Of These Five Meals That Isn’t Stew
Stopping at a tavern is an iconic part of any adventure–here are some great dishes that you can serve up…
Free to Download: Optional rules for tougher Mooks in Cyberpunk RED
R. Talsorian Games today posted free DLC for the tabletop Cyberpunk RED RPG. Hardened Mooks are optional rules to let…
Futuristic Battles Take Over Kickstarter with Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone
Have you seen Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone by Monster Fight Club yet? It’s taking over Kickstarter. This 35mm Cyberpunk miniatures…
We’re Building A Civilization At The End Of The World With ‘The Quiet Year’: RPG Spotlight
Civilization has collapsed and the Frost Shepherds are coming, but you have fifty two weeks to prepare when you play…
Things to Do at PaizoCon Online 2021
PaizoCon is nearly here! On the Organized Play front, we’ll have nearly 1000 tables of Pathfinder Society, Starfinder Society and…
Ditch the Tavern! 7 Other Settings to Kick Off Your First Session
The tavern is an iconic location to kick-start an adventure and get player characters to meet one another. As a…
Outside the Box – May 7th
Hello again! Last week’ s issue apparently got lost in the Warp, so let’s get straight in and catch up!Wargame…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #99
We’re into May, we’re through Star Wars Day, and although it’s summer here in Scotland, we’ve had snow. At least…
Saints of Midgard: St. Andares, the Locksmith
The Midgard Worldbook already details a score of saints dedicated to the war god Mavros, but the other deities have…