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Archeologist Scott Smallwood returns to the podcast to discuss treasure hunting and looting in real life and in role-playing games.…

People riding dragons has a long history in media and literature. Let’s take a look. In Games Workshop’s Age of…

WizKids revealed Characters of Tal'Dorei - Set 1 and NPCs of Tal'Dorei - Set 1, two Critical Role character sets,…

DESIGNER’S NOTES – Part 2. By Kevin Ross  Hi all, here is second part of my overview to the upcoming…

This past weekend I conned my wife into watching a Time Loop movie. Now, I normally have to qualify this…

Steamforged Games, a well-known tabletop game design company whose games include Godtear, Guild Ball, and many licensed options, has announced the upcoming…

There are very few tabletop RPGs that have broken the million mark on Kickstarter. Magpie Games’ Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying…

Fragments of the Past is a bronze-age tabletop game that is in development and looks good. In exchange for joining…

Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game launched its crowdfunding campaign on August 3rd, supporting an official adaptation of the widely popular…

One thing about being a writer with one foot in queer romance and the other in queer spec fic is…

Free League Publishing is offering The Bloodmarch and Book of Beasts, for Forbidden Lands RPG, through a Retailer Pledge reward…

As a DM it’s my goal to create a believable world for my players to explore, interact with, and change.…

Art by Anna Fehr, copyright Wizards of the CoastWe’re back this week with another magic item for Dungeons and Dragons 5e…

Starting a new campaign and want a break from the same old “kill a being powerful enough to be a…

This week, a quick update from a quiet week: GAMA announces an accelerator programme for tabletop industry organisations from underrepresented…

Travel along the path through the Mushroom Kingdom to defeat the dreaded Bowser in The Game of Life: Super Mario…

The next generation of heroes were born at the beginning of the Churning Age, a time when peace in Arden…

Geek Native runs a small Patron program through which you can tip the blog every month. The money raised in…

The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance, a board game based on the Dungeons & Dragons actual play series, is getting…

Paizo, Inc. unveiled Pathfinder Book of the Dead, a new rulebook for Pathfinder 2E, which will hit retail in spring…

Henry Barajas, creator of La Voz De M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo! has a new latinx fantasy comic series. In Helm Greycastle…

The Earthdawn character sheet for 4e is already on the pay-once virtual tabletop challenger Foundry, as is the Compendia and…

The 2014 bundle of Apocalypse Engine fantasy RPG content from Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone is back in the…

In a particularly Nice episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Wheels and Meehan reimagine some of our favourite board games…

With her toned physique and straight-backed gait, Namazzi appears to be a much younger woman than she is. Her wise,…

WizKids has announced ‘Frameworks’ a new line of customizable, sprue-based miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying games. WizKids…

A Good Death is a solo RPG and journal game from Trent Seltzer. It’s a Name Your Own Price download…

Etiquette & Protocol (E&P for short) is an occasional feature where I venture into the sometimes thorny OOC arena of…

With a new Drizzt novel out this week, and Dragonlance novels not far behind, WotC sets the record straight on…

Modiphius Entertainment revealed SPECTRE: The Board Game, a new James Bond tabletop game, which will release in spring of 2022.…

Check out news of an upcoming Hasbro price increase & our 5e Artificer Guide, 40K Grey Knight Stat Updates &…

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

The 2021 Game Devs Of Color Expo revealed their first set of speakers coming tot he online event, along with…

Do you hate it when someone manages to use the rules of an RPG game to make a character that…

Does your D&D Wizard have the 1st level Conjuration ritual “Tenser’s Floating Disk” but struggles to find a use for…

Ulisses Spiele is expanding the Fading Suns RPG through a successful crowdfunding campaign. New Frontiers will take characters into barbarian…

The Unworld Mysteries is an entirely free, alpha release of a supernatural, fast-paced and rules-light noir RPG. The roleplaying game…

The stalwart and productive Leo Moracchioli’s stream of heavy metal successes continue. Some companies convert franchises to RPGs; Leo turns…

Just released today from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is a quartet of few fresh images from Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle…

D&D Beyond’s Frame Design Contest has been cancelled after artists expressed it asked for too much and offered too little.…

A new 100-card Historic Brawl queue is coming to Magic: the Gathering Arena, giving fans the closest thing yet to…

Texas in August Studio astutely points out that Liches may be a good choice for big bad in RPGs, but…

A Miskatonic Repository book, At One With Nature, is a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror from Graham James, with potentially…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It’s been a busy day for Humble…

WizKids created the eCommerce mini store DnDMinis last year with Wizards of the Coast. Now, GamesRadar is reporting the company…

This week we’re stepping into the shoes and the biplanes of the historical World War II era bomber regiment, The…

Critters rejoice! The Legend of Vox Machina animated series is coming soon to Amazon Prime. And to give us a…

Presented here are more adventure hooks for your mid-to-high level characters. As before, these can be used as single encounters,…

Photo by Konevi from Pexels (Public Domain)When should you End your campaign? This is one of those little nuggets that…

Experience adventures in outer space with the Starfinder RPG, which is currently available at a discounted price in a Humble…

Yes, the satanic panic gripped the nation and got D&D books banned, but another RPG had a brush with authority.…

Command a team of G.I. Joes against the nefarious forces of Cobra in the upcoming G.I. Joe Deck-Building Game. Based…

Hello friends. Today we are looking at the releases for July, including our first printed content expansion, Histories of the…

It’s a big one. Paizo Publishing has a Starfinder RPG bundle worth hundreds on Humble. Unusually, there’s a $50 tier…

Published through a successful Kickstarter, a project that even a cassette tape, Orbital Blues is a space western homage to…

GMD Online is a British RPG publisher and community. There are two ways to get involved with the community; via…

Descent: Legends of the Dark is a bold - and controversial - new direction for the beloved dungeon-crawler series. Like…

Dimension 20’s new D&D series, The Seven goes back to school–fantasy high school that is, with a look at “seven…

In the first two parts of this three-part series, I talked about how the pandemic induced rescheduling of a number…

From shorter adventures, to encounters with more of a roleplay focus built in, D&D’s lead designer confirms: actual play shows…

Find all the evidence you need to get yourself arrested for murder in Cluedon’t, a reverse version of the classic…

A simple trifold brochure offers a worryingly realistic dystopian cyberpunk future. Warp Games’ Banality RPG has a focus on improvisation…

Clerics are best known for being the designated healers of Dungeons & Dragons 5E. Which is actually a little limiting,…

Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons fans will notice a slight increase in prices sometime between now and the…

I’ve noticed the rise of neoprene battle mats on Kickstarter and am tempted. A single large sheet that protects the…

The Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game is time-travelling its way into a new era for the tabletop RPG with the…

UK Games Expo starts for most people as an in-person event on the 30th. That’s this Friday. It runs to…

WizKids released a massive preview of the D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Booster Set,…

Steamforged Games revealed the Stormbird Expansion, for Horizon Zero Dawn boiard game, which will be coming to preorder soon. The…

Where are you with monthly subscription offerings such as Loot Crate? The model has had an ebb and flow. Now…

Cubicle 7 Games revealed that they have released the Second Edition of Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game, available for pre-order.…

Every expression of D&D has its own canon. Our studio treats D&D in much the same way that Marvel Studios…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! War of Ashes – STL & Resin Minis Bigger!…

Adventuring in the wilds can be fun, but sometimes your campaign remains within the borders of a town, village, or…

Create characters who can harness the power of the heavens in Stargazer’s Guide to Aroria, a supplementary sourcebook for Dungeons…

Archon Studio announced that they will be bringing their line of Dungeons & Lasers RPG terrain to retail at the…

Do you eat your vegetables? Do you love a good artichoke? In that case, how about a game that’s all…

In a quarterly earnings call, Hasbro revealed that WotC is leading the way for all things digital, including a new…

RPG designer and writer, Shawn Merwin, joins me on the podcast today. We discuss Shawn’s history with role-playing games and…

This week, ICv2’s top-selling games show the success of Cyberpunk and third-party 5e games. Hasbro reveals its Q2 results, showing…

Lucky Duck Games launched Divinus, a new app driven tabletop game, for preorder on Gamefound. In Divinus, the Nordic Gods…

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How do you keep your character alive while exploring the dangers of underground dungeons? As a GM, how do you…

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

The partnership between Paizo and Pinnacle Entertainment Group to bring Pathfinder to Savage Worlds looks to be a firm hit.…

From console skins to minis that remind your players to look for Materia and watch out for the cute monsters,…

The Forged in the Dark ruleset is used for the second edition of the dystopian sci-fi a|state. The cult hit…

A hit Japanese indie RPG that combines roleplaying with the hidden traitor of social deduction games like Werewolf is headed…

Over several articles in this series, I’ve talked about a few insights I’ve acquired playing a Threefold setting Modern AGE…

In our final article of this series, we’ll take a look at a group of monsters so varied and vast…

Chaosium Inc., publishers of Call of Cthulhu issued a statement supporting trans existence this Sunday after transphobic statements by the…

D&D players prove that they hate fun and fear change: WotC has announced they’re dropping new subclass concepts from the…

Blight Sickle. Art by John Avon. Copyright Wizards of the CoastI was scrolling through TikTok the other day (things I…

Fall in love and try not to fall in a fight with Dueling Fops of Vindamere, an upcoming roleplaying game…

The Devil Made Us Do It is Monte Cook Games’ latest Kickstarter, already an all-in success with over $150,000 pledged,…

Sales in Hasbro’s newly created Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming segment more than doubled in Q2 2021, behind…

A new set coming exclusively to MTG Arena next month is going to add 31 new cards that are only…

The Long War goes ever on… Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure. From the Grimdark,…

A mysterious package begins an otherwise inauspicious journey through the world of Spire’s End: Hildegard that will send its heroine…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.I’m used to seeing all sorts of…