Month: May 2021

As the Geek Native convention calendar reminds us, TryItCon is on right now. The purpose of TryItCon is to find…

Geek Native reviewed and enjoyed the Defiant RPG a year ago. It might seem odd to release a free quick…

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 is a 5e adventure module for 3 to 6 characters of levels 2 to 4. It’s…

The second edition of The Lord of the Rings RPG was Kickstarted by Free League Publishing, taking over the publishing…

At the start of the year, Geek Native had $50 worth of Geek House Coffee to giveaway. Entering the competition…

May is Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! In this blog, we wanted to give the members of our community the…

We’re choosing our favorite super powers and tights this week on RPG Spotlight as we join a super team and…

Welcome to another issue of Outside the box! This week with news from Infinity, Mantic Games, TT Combat, Para Bellum…

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It’s Friday, and as a friend of mine likes to say, “Welcome to the geekend!” Also, though, welcome to the…

Popular indie game platform and storefront Itch.io is running its first ever Creator Day throughout May 14th, funneling 100% of…

And now we’re going to take theory and put it into practice with one of our favorite products from Kobold…

Popular indie platform and purveyor of “unspeakable games” (according to Apple) Itch.io is giving 100% of its revenue to creators…

Authors and game designers like Kenneth Hite, James Lowder, Matthew Dawkins and Eddy Webb are working together on Ghost Show…

The last few weeks have been awfully ACE! Quite literally. Last week’s blog took a tour of the stars as…

Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…

Inspirisles is a successful Kickstarter campaign that uses a system around Belief to support empathy and magic rules that teach…

Three new bundles have been launched for Vampire: The Masquerade, saving new players and fans looking to complete their collection…

Welcome to May’s Fallout Friday round up, this might be the one many of you have been waiting for. After…

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, a restaurant management board game, into trade in Q3. In…

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‘Bridge of the Broken Moon’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Find more vivid, surreal art at…

Last March, when we shifted physical gaming to digital spaces, the Online Region Venture-Officers wrote two guest blogs focused on…

Ancestry Guide Chapter Opener, artist Victor Manuel Leza Moreno With PaizoCon coming up, the OP team is hard at work…

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla fans who loved to squat in longhouses and over tree stumps for matches of the in-universe dice…

Available Now! In the Green Ronin Online Store, and DrivethruRPG!Cross the Wine-Dark Sea and Storm the Walls of Troy Again!Fantasy…

I backed The Elephant & Macaw Banner RPG two years ago on Kickstarter, and I’ve had it for months now.…

I backed Broken Compass last year as it looked great. I only just got my package yesterday. In part, that…

Wizards of the Coast is beginning the transition back to in-person Magic:The Gathering play, and is aiming to bring back…

Tove Lund Jorgensen and Erik Jorgensen of Midnight Tower have a new Kickstarter up for a Dungeons & Dragons Fifth…

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-designer Isaac Vega is making a new horror board game to be published by the studio he…

Three seasoned veterans of the European tabletop game industry have formed All About Games, a new consultancy focused on game…

Perchance.org is a powerful and simple site. You use it to create random generators, and it is designed for tabletop…

When we think of a typical Dungeons & Dragons adventure, what comes to mind are scenes of might, magic, and —…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Storm Weavers – Solo RPG This is a single-person…

Trapped on a planet with fanatical Jinsul, the Starfinders fight to survive in a growing storm. Hope comes in the…

Crafting dungeons can be tiring work. We’re here to make things easy and interesting with our Dungeon Tables! Whether a…

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 prints onto a single sheet of paper, and when folded up, becomes a zine RPG about innocence…

If, like me, you’ve fallen completely in love with the upcoming Green Knight movie, you’ll want to check out its…

Upcoming tabletop roleplaying game Necrobiotic looks to combine the customisability of deck construction and deckbuilding card games with the storytelling…

WizKids unveiled Dungeons & Dragons: Full-Sized Drizzt Foam Statue for release in September. WizKids is releasing another new offering as…

Thumbnail art by David HarringtonWe are not even close to Halloween (172 days away in fact) but WotC decided to…

Former editor in chief of Worldbuilding Magazine and lead game designer for Smunchy Games, Adam Bassett, joins me on the…

Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at the ships you can fly in Fantasy…

It’s not as if we need any proof that the demographics around tabletop RPGs have changed for the better, but…

' Talisman Adventures Game Master’s Kit' and 'Talisman Adventures RPG Accessory Pack' Pegasus Spiele announced Talisman Adventures Game Master’s Kit…

If you enjoy this sample chapter, you can get the full Season here. What once had been two living, breathing…

Covid-related delays on international shipping, which have been tied to erratic release dates, rising costs, and general supply chain mayhem,…

The latest Historic Anthology set on Magic: the Gathering Arena have been bringing back classic cards like Ojutai’s Command, Stifle,…

The PATHFINDER: FUMBUS! Kickstarter campaign, featuring Pathfinder’s iconic goblin alchemist in his first comic book adventure, has been fully funded!…

Carrionettes make a terrifying return to Dungeons & Dragons in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. These toy-like creatures are born out…

You don’t need to be playing Big Eyes Small Mouths to add a little anime to your next RPG game,…

Want to add some spice to your roleplaying? What about five NPCs that lean villainous, but might make unlikely foils/allies…

Studio Passerine’s Icosa RPG is free. I’ve called it a free to download RPG as you don’t need to pay,…

Welcome back to this series where I explore different monster types, showcasing monsters that can be used as monsters of…

One-Shot adventures are a great space to try new things that you wouldn’t if you were worried about things like…

Artist unknown. All rights reserved.Sigurd was born in a small, sleepy fishing village and he learned from an early age…

This week: the rise of LARPing in China; D&D’s big plans for Summer releases; and the conflicting stories about who…

New Spell Deck by Paizo, Inc. Paizo, Inc. will release Pathfinder Spell Cards: Secrets of Magic, a new spell deck…

You’ve seen Tiamat, you’ve seen the Vorpal Sword, but these aren’t the only previews from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms.…

Scouring through the polyhedral the dice available to early gamers, you can sometimes stumble across a peculiar looking ten-sided die…

I’m putting my money on the Custodes on this one. Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop…

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For a game known for its dungeons and its dragons, it sure is filled with some astoundingly good dogs. Here…

We want to know what you think of D&D—and if you play D&D we want to hear what you have…

TCGplayer unveiled their April data for sealed product prices which showed some of the trends developing in the TCG collectibles…

Straight from the Editorial Director’s snout, the Dispatch provides a sneak peek at upcoming publications and projects headed from the…

Some of Alex’s first freelance work for Green Ronin was in this very book!Hello heroes! My name is Alex Thomas…

Black Box and World Anvil, who might be better known as a campaign management solution, have come together on “The…

 By Tilly & Susan Bridges, STA Contributing Writers We’re so excited we get to play in The Next Generation era a…

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” is my series on the Force & Destiny Careers’ Signature Abilities. Both Signature Abilities (SAs) for the Seeker…

By Andrew Peregrine In Dune: Adventures in the Imperium there are several character types that offer special powers and abilities.…

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 is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…

Even in a sleepy village on the quiet corner of a fantasy map, it need not be the case that…

Mutant Year Zero is a tabletop RPG from Free League Publishing that has gone on to spawn computer games and…

If you’re wondering how D&D measures up in real life, you’re not alone. Presenting the unsung hero of RPGs, the…

Special guest Professor Meg joins Lolies, Meehan and Matt to chat Gloomhaven, Oath, Unmatched, Keyforge and Lolies’ newfound love of…

Consistent readers of this column might remember my ‘dials series‘. I identified some elements of roleplaying games we took for…

If you’re publishing RPG content via sites like DriveThruRPG or the DMs Guild, you might be using the open source…

Owlcat Games, the video game developer behind Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, has announced that the game's finalized iteration will launch…

The Slovenian boutique La Muci Design has two weeks left on their Kickstarter, and €160,000 pledged for their augmented reality…

It’s the final day of Warhammer Fest, and we have Games Workshop’s mystery announcement. The wargame maker is releasing a…

Shadows Over Sol is a dark sci-f RPG published by Tab Creations in 2016. Since then, the game has had…

Stopping at a tavern is an iconic part of any adventure–here are some great dishes that you can serve up…

R. Talsorian Games today posted free DLC for the tabletop Cyberpunk RED RPG. Hardened Mooks are optional rules to let…

Have you seen Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone by Monster Fight Club yet? It’s taking over Kickstarter. This 35mm Cyberpunk miniatures…

Civilization has collapsed and the Frost Shepherds are coming, but you have fifty two weeks to prepare when you play…

PaizoCon is nearly here! On the Organized Play front, we’ll have nearly 1000 tables of Pathfinder Society, Starfinder Society and…

The tavern is an iconic location to kick-start an adventure and get player characters to meet one another. As a…

Hello again! Last week’ s issue apparently got lost in the Warp, so let’s get straight in and catch up!Wargame…

We’re into May, we’re through Star Wars Day, and although it’s summer here in Scotland, we’ve had snow. At least…

The Midgard Worldbook already details a score of saints dedicated to the war god Mavros, but the other deities have…

Wizards of the Coast revealed new spoilers for Modern Horizons 2, which included Counterspell, as well as more product details…

Odd as it is that publisher Wizards of the Coast waited nearly three decades to smash its two biggest games…