D&D: Five Magical Spheres
Magical spheres are a big part of many franchises, from The Prisoner to Destiny, and even in D&D you’ll find…
Behind the Scenes: Building an Organized Play Year
The concept of the beginning of a year is a bit of a strange one for those of us on…
Outside the Box – September 17th
Hello and welcome back to Outside the Box – this week with news from Atomic Mass Games, Corvus Belli, Artel…
Saints of Midgard: St. Khurgrin, the Lovestruck Saint
The Midgard Worldbook already details a score of saints dedicated to the war god Mavros, but the other deities have…
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Sanguine Games
Geek Native’s Patreons voted for Sanguine Games this month. That’s why the publisher has been getting a mention at the…
Gen Con’s day-one crowd left attendees and online onlookers worried despite safety guidelines
Gen Con, the largest board game convention in the US, held its first day of events and exhibition on September…
D&D: Check Out ‘Advanced 5th Edition’s’ Take On The Tarrasque
Level Up, the upcoming ruleset for ‘Advanced 5th Edition’ is previewing one of fantasy’s most iconic monsters: the tarrasque, bigger…
Finder’s Archives – Caldera Lake
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
Prepare for Launch
If you have been following our blog recently, you will very much be aware that things are about to get…
BoLS PRIME: How Minds Eye Theatre Changed The World Of Darkness
Vampire: the Masquerade and theatre kids practically go hand in hand. And back in the 90s, one LARP made its…
Fawlty Towers inspired RPG Flabbergasted invites players into the ridiculous world of high society
Become a member of high society and blunder your way through in Flabbergasted, an upcoming roleplaying game set during the…
QUEERZ! RPG based on the manga and powered by City of Mist launches Kickstarter
We’ve had the free download sample of the inclusive super sentai RPG Queerz. In the game, characters are superheroes who…
Voices of Warhammer 2021: Sigmar, 40K and Warhammer audiobooks in a bundle
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.The Black Library and Humble launched a…
Steamforged Games Hires Ross Thompson
Steamforged Games hired Ross Thompson as their new Head of Trade Marketing. Thompson comes to SFG as a veteran of…
Welcome Wastelanders to September’s #FalloutFriday
By Jon Webb Releases This month our New Vegas adventures continue as Marcus and Lily arrive to further reinforce your…
Dungeons & Dragons Announces D&D Celebration For Next Week
Wizards of the Coast has announced a new Dungeons & Dragons event happening next week as they're throwing a D&D…
Paizo will launch Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite for third party content in October
It’ll get easier for third party writers to write and sell content for Paizo’s Pathfinder and Starfinder RPGs. At the…
Get the Dice of Heroism Set With Your D&D Beyond Subscription!
You've delved dungeons and slayed dragons. Now, it's time to collect your prize. September's free subscriber perk is the Dice…
Paizo at Gen Con Keynote with Publisher Erik Mona
Join Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer Erik Mona for a peek at upcoming Paizo releases! [embedded content] highlights include:…
Announcing Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite
Today at Gen Con, we announced a new way for members of the Pathfinder and Starfinder communities to create content…
D&D Celebration – D&D Celebrates the Community with Live Games & More
Get ready for a whimsical, wicked weekend filled with D&D games featuring community luminaries, product previews, virtual games, panels and…
Chart a magical fishing trip through a bespoke landscape in minimalist RPG Riverbend
There’s something inherently mystical about a small boat on a river. Myths and legends from all corners of the world…
Warhammer 40K: Kill Team – More Kill Team Sets On The Way
It’s a new Kill Team boxed set featuring T’au vs the Adepta Sororitas – and they are brand new models!…
D&D: Cook The Books With These Five Magical Tomes
Looking to accomplish a little light reading? Why not try one of these magical tomes that are sure to help…
Game Wizards: TSR Financials
Underpinning the business story of Game Wizards is the financial model shown here of TSR as a company, from…
Awkward small talk is the whole point of Humans, a party game for aliens in disguise
At some point in a rapidly indeterminate past, people held events called parties. Several to dozens of these people would…
Gen Con Preview: 'D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: Gargantuan Tiamat'
WizKids featured a physical prototype of D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: Gargantuan Tiamat (see "Tiamat Miniature!“), and its packaging…
Cosplay: The Hawkeye Initiative Shoots Down Sexism in Comics
Can you see Clint Barton in this position? These Cosplayers channel the Hawkeye Initiative in their work and take aim…
RPG: They Made A Vampire The Masquerade Battle Royale?
At last, an excuse to play Vampire the Masquerade the way you’ve always wanted to. A new World of Darkness…
Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse: Beyond Thunder City: An Interview With Derek A. Kamal (Shoreless Skies Publishing)
At AndoCon 2018, I played Derek A. Kamal’s Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse. Playing as a mouse on a motorcycle turned…
D&D: Temple Of Elemental Evil 5E – Out Now
One of the most iconic D&D adventures from the days of yore is here once more with the official release…
It’s horrible, it’s dark, and it looks good: Blackbirds RPG Powered by Zweihander launches on Kickstarter
Andrews McMeel’s new RPG project, Blackbirds from Ryan Verniere, the creator and lead developer, powered by Daniel D. Fox’s Zweihander,…
Monstrous Creatures Invade 'Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures'
WizKids has announced eight new single-monster packs for the Dungeons & Dragons Nolzur’s Marvelous Miniatures line, releasing in December. Each…
Star Trek Adventures: The Shackleton Expanse
By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager The Star Trek Adventures Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide is nearly here! After introducing this…
New D&D Race! Get a Sneak Peek at Harengons From The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is Dungeons & Dragons' first adventure set in the Feywild. It will introduce two playable races…
Humble Bundle urges gamers to be bad with Mafia and Legend of Keepers deal
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.The latest computer game deal, one that…
British government paying £47,007 per annum for a Wargaming Analyst
Yeah, the annual pay is £47k plus 007. Some civil servant’s idea of a joke. Hopefully, the job offer for…
RPGs & Mental Health: A RPG designer on games as self-discovery
With Gen Con approaching, I thought it would be good to talk RPG shop with some of the talent behind…
Join us Tonight for Inferno Bloom, the Conclusion of the Pathfinder Secrets of Magic Liveplay!
When the Pathfinder Secrets of Magic Liveplay began, four esteemed graduates from the College of Mysteries in Absalom were sent…
Vampire: The Masquerade Second Inquisition & Book Of Nod Revealed
Renegade Game Studios has revealed more details about two new sourcebooks coming to the Vampire: The Masquerade TTRPG. Earlier this…
Kickstarter Round-Up: An Army of the Dead, an Army Ready for Cold, and an Alternate History RPG
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Crimson Escalation Every few years or so, incredible…
Mausritter adventure Sanctum of the Ori Magi is genuine, folded-paper magic
A substantial part of my work day is spent on Twitter, following conversations and tracking trending topics. While it’s one…
Cosplay: ‘Castlevania’s Carmilla is Out for Blood
The Queen of Conniving is fierce and fabulous in this series of Castlevania Cosplays! It’s hard work rising up against…
D&D: Five Spells Perfect For Making Friends
Magic solves just about every problem in D&D. But if there’s one thing we know from every movie, friendship is…
WizKids Unleashes New 'Magic: The Gathering' Unpainted Miniatures
WizKids unleashed new Magic: The Gathering unpainted miniatures packs, which will release into retail in December. These new single-count and…
Free to Download: A Player’s Guide to the D&D setting of Al-Qadim
Al-Qadim is an official D&D setting for AD&D 2e, created by Jeff Grubb and published by TSR in 1992. The…
Play with Class: Rally a Ruthless Rogue
Welcome to another installment of the Play with Class series where we will give you solid steps to run each…
“I’m constantly trying to outdo myself”: Dinosaur Island and Cryptid artist on the rise of board game illustrators and the struggle to innovate
It’s 1am in the morning in Kwanchai Moriya’s neck of the woods and, yet, the board game artist is wide…
Business 3×3: Kathy Sprague at Safari Pearl
In Business 3x3, a business retailer or executive will share their experience with three things they’ve done right, three things…
D&D: Now You Can Pre-Order ‘Wild Beyond The Witchlight’ From Beadle & Grimm’s
It should surprise nobody that Beadle & Grimm’s are offering a deluxe version of Wild Beyond the Witchlight, but did…
DUNE #19: Changing the Outcome
By Andrew Peregrine One of the most complex parts of any game is combat and conflict. So, it seems worthwhile…
Rogue Squadron- Jedi Helpers
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
The D&D Movie Is ‘Action-Packed And Funny As Hell’ Says Justice Smith
Has the D&D movie made the jump from unintentionally hilarious to funny on purpose? One of its stars, Justice Smith,…
Jiangshi co-creator’s next game is a LARPG anthology inspired by Get Out and Hannibal
Banana Chan - co-creator of Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall - is co-designing another horror roleplaying game called Suburban…
Virtual Reality Meets Tabletop RPGs with Je’Don Carter
CinnamonRoll Studios CEO Je’Don Carter joins me on the show today. We talk about his new virtual reality role-playing game…
Star Trek Missions is a board game that combines Fantasy Realms gameplay with the beloved sci-fi series
Fly across the galaxy in the Enterprise in search of the best team for the most dangerous expeditions in Star…
Call of Cthulhu marks the horror RPG’s 40th anniversary with a new Keeper Rulebook
Horror roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu is marking 40 years since its release with a limited-edition revision of the RPG’s…
Call of Cthulhu gets a 40th Anniversary Special and limited edition Keeper Rulebook
A thing of dark desire; the limited edition Keeper Rulebook to celebrate 40 years of Call of Cthulhu is a…
Dragon Con 2021 – Review Part 2
After taking Saturday to go hang with family (and watch the Georgia Tech Football game that I’m still not sure…
LFG RPG site Demiplane signs deal with TaleSpire VTT
TaleSpire is an impressive 3d virtual tabletop and map-making software. Demiplane is a looking-for-group site that lets players find GMs…
Get Exclusive Perks When You Preorder The Wild Beyond the Witchlight!
Mischiefs and whimsies await you in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight! The latest Dungeons & Dragons adventure takes players into the Feywild…
Boricubos: The Lost Isles – Support Latin American Monsters & Adventures!
The mythology of Latin America rarely features in RPG supplements. Pathfinder has gone beyond fantasy Aztecs and Mayans to find…
Dwarven Forge reveal dice reliquaries; dice thrones!
Dwarven Forge has plenty of Kickstarter experience, $20 million worth of it. Now the module maker is moving into new…
7–13 September 2021: Skyraiders and SideQuest
This week: a new RPG from the co-creator of Dragonlance; a new initiative looks to bring the magic of ZineQuest…
D&D: Cant-Miss Cantrips
Cantrips are every spellcaster’s best friend. But did you know they can do more than just 1d10 damage? Cantrips are…
Book Mashup: Apocalypse Freeport
Andrzej was getting tired. He swept his greatsword in a figure 8, pausing to lean slightly to let a crossbow…
Secrets of the Drow returns to Kickstarter as Midnight Tower hope to put the 5e trilogy into print
The Oxford-based Midnight Tower team live within walking distance of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s former homes and near C.S. Lewis’…
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Brings D&D To Borderlands In A Big Way
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands asks us all to look within our hearts, search our souls and answer the question: who’s ready…
How to Use Side Quests to Deliver Exposition
Today, as part of our ongoing series on side quests, we’ll take a look at how side quests can help…
How to RPG with Your Cat turns your feline friend into a furry d20
Every cat owner has been there - you’re playing a tabletop RPG with friends around the living room table when…
The Workshop – Heroes on Demand: Cullen, Young Paladin of Conquest (D&D 5e)
Art by @TempoMcFlurry on Twitter In order to celebrate the launch of the Pixel Remaster version on September 8th, I…
D&D: Five New Magic Items From Witchlight Plus Table Of Contents
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure is coming next week and with it new magic items with a…
Briar & Bramble weaves the hardy animal adventures of Watership Down and Farthing Wood into a tabletop RPG
RPG designer Freddie Taylor-Bell’s Briar & Bramble openly acknowledges the influence of The Animals of Farthing Wood and Watership Down…
D&D: Five Magical Orbs That Will Expand Your Spheres Of Influence
Orbs are just about the best shape you can be–but if you can’t be an orb, you can at least…
Samurai dragons and blood: Iron Maiden’s new music video is pure metal fantasy
I’m reminded of Heavy Metal. That’s to say, the French fantasy series which helped inspire a generation of fantasy authors…
All new offers in this 3e Mutants & Masterminds superhero RPG offer
Green Ronin’s Mutants & Masterminds is back in the Bundle of Holding. With 21 days still on the clock, the…
Scrying on Subscriptions: Starfinder Adventure Paths
Never miss a product release again with subscriptions that suit your playstyle. From rulebooks, world guides, adventures and accessories to…
Design degistif: Apothecaria creator Anna Blackwell discusses creating a commentary for her solo RPG
I spent my first weeks as the town’s fledgling hedge witch curing a lumberjack cursed with hamster lycanthropy. After that,…
D&D Monster Spotlight: Gray Ooze
There is a good chance that your party may not even notice the Gray Ooze until it’s already eating through…
JustBard goes to Kickstarter: Replace battle maps with JstTerrain modules
JstTerrain (pronounced “Just terrain”) just launched on Kickstarter, and there’s a “back within 48 hours” offer to add an extra…
Well Hydrated Yellow? Tim's Magical Green? We fix miniatures paint names on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Matt, Lolies and Meehan talk about what they’ve been up to this week! Which, er, doesn’t include that many board…
Kobold Press and Foundry Partnership for Tome of Beasts
What started out as a fan asking in a tweet when Kobold Press was going to bring products to Foundry…
D&D: New Witchlight Minis Reveal Hags And Hare-Folk
Two new batches of minis from Wild Beyond the Witchlight have been revealed from Gale Force Nine. Check out the…
Art Video – The Making of Mirror of Ourselves
You voted. I listened. Here’s a fresh new video detailing the inspiration and creation of my painting ‘Mirror of Ourselves.’…
Murmurs From the Q Continuum: Tell a Story About Me!
If you want to have a session where everything’s taken to the extreme, then look no forward than your narrator,…
D&D: Alignment Is Back In Wild Beyond The Witchlight
After being conspicuously absent from the last two adventure books, it seems that alignment is returning to the monster stat…
Make weapons from beast parts in this Monster Hunter-like supplement for D&D 5E and Pathfinder 2E
Defeat a collection of over 100 deadly creatures and create equipment from their parts in Battlezoo Bestiary, a roleplaying game…
Blades in the Dark’s TV series could blow away the D&D film
Move over Dungeons & Dragons and your new attempt at a movie adaptation! As good as we all want the…
Xena Cosplay, D&D’s New Races, Star Wars KotOR Remake, 40K’s Bad Units
This weekend we covered some awesome Xena cosplay, looked at D&D’s new races, a remake of Star Wars: Knights of…
Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons on pre-order
Jon Peterson usually writes histories of game design. His latest book, Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons…
Game Wizards: My New Book
I have a new book coming out next month called Game Wizards. Unlike my previous books, which are histories of game…
D&D Accessories To Get Your Kids Into D&D
Convince your kids (or your friends kids or your nieces and nephews) that D&D is fun and forever be the…
Show off your dice addiction: The Dice Frame
I’ve been wondering what to do with a set of mosquitos trapped in amber dice I have. It looks like…
Competition: Peculiar Discoveries magic item and companion cards
The collection of magical items and companions Peculiar Discoveries is doing well on Kickstarter, hitting its funding goal several times…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide to Corellon Larethian
The game might be called Dungeons & Dragons, but it’s full of elves. And today we’re talking about their creator…
Neverwinter: Jewel Of The North To Receive First Battle Pass
Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios have announced that Neverwinter: Jewel Of The North will be getting its first battle…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To Titania
Wild Beyond the Witchlight is inviting players to the realms of the Feywild, so today we’re taking a look at…
D&D Adventure Hook: Night of the Wraith
Need an idea for an adventure? Then give the Night of the Wraith a try. When a spectre of a…