D&D: Five Things To Do With All That Loot
What’s the point of going on quests and hoarding gold if you’re not going to spend it on something awesome–here…
Join in the Fun, Mystery, and Action of the Secrets of Magic Liveplay!
Ding, they’ve all leveled up to 7! And they have new loot! Join a halfling summoner, dwarf wizard, half-elf magus,…
August 2021 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, Superhero Graphic Novels
With a Star Wars adaptation on the Superhero chart and Devil’s Candy on the Author chart, VIZ Media has a…
'Avatar Legends: RPG' Kickstarter Campaign Rakes in Over $9.5 Million
Magpie Games' Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game core book wrapped up its Kickstarter run on September 1, raising at total…
Free RPG Day Promises Pathfinder, Root, Dune, And More
This year’s Free RPG day promises to bring out the big guns, with quickstart rules, campaigns, and more from some…
SideQuest: Don’t wait for ZineQuest argues the Zine Creators Workshop
ZineQuest is a season, a time, on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, during which RPG creators are encouraged to launch small…
Indie initiative SideQuest bookends the year with a second zine-focused TRPG event
A designer collective has announced plans to host SideQuest 2021, an event similar to February’s Zinequest, in November of this…
Rogue Champions- Justice Supports, Upgrades, and Allies
Marvel’s Champions has grown over the years since its initial release. Each aspect now has a large pool of upgrades…
D&D: Matt Colville On 5th Edition’s Rulings, Not Rules
Are you a joyless pedant who can no longer feel joy but has settled for feeling “correct” instead? Well Matt…
Three Rules to Be a Great Dungeon Master with Joel “The Major” Burt
Long-time gamer, retired Air Force pilot, and game designer, Joel “The Major” Burt, visits the podcast today. Our conversation spans…
Avatar Legends RPG designers were prepared for success, but nearly $10m on Kickstarter changed things
Hardly anyone was surprised when Avatar Legends, the tabletop RPG adaptation of American animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and…
Prices for Arkham Horror, Cosmic Encounter and Mansions of Madness all set to increase due to rising costs
The retail prices for titles such as Arkham Horror: Third Edition, Cosmic Encounter and Mansions of Madness: Second Edition will…
The Curse of BloodStone Isle: The vile D&D 5e setting from the creator of Vampire: The Masquerade
Mark Rein•Hagen created the World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade; now, for the first time, he’s bringing his world-building…
What You’re Looking Forward To
The Full ListHere’s the rest of the list. Of course, there were folks excited about everything on this list, and…
Climb the 'Tower of the Lich Empress'
Steamforged Games unleashed Epic Encounters: Tower of the Lich Empress, a new miniatures boxed set, which is currently on preorder.…
Repel Undead Hordes in New 'Pathfinder Lost Omens' Book
Paizo, Inc. revealed Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall, a new campaign setting book, which will hit stores in Q3…
Dragon Con 2021 – Review
It was, as they say, a game-time decision. After the cancelation last year, our 2020 passes were rolled over to…
Tabletop Games Up 22% on Kickstarter in First Half 2021
Tabletop game projects funded and money raised were both up 22% on Kickstarter in the first half of 2021, behind…
Tinkered Tower is a 4-in-1 modular dice tower
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Florida based Tinker makes LARP, cosplay and…
Warlock 101: Fathomless Patron From Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
The ocean is a realm of both beauty and terror. Gentle giants like whales can inspire awe in a swimmer,…
Warhammer 40K Kill Team: A Casual Review – The Compendium
Today, let’s go through my initial thoughts on the new Kill Team Compendium. Hey everyone, Danny from TFG Radio here, What’s this…
Help Geek Grind Coffee Grow K-Cup Coffee Offerings!
Hello again from Geek Grind Coffee! We are passionate gamers and lovers of all things that celebrate art and imagination!…
D&D: Five Things You Can Do With A Dagger Besides Stabbing Someone
The single most popular item in 5th Edition D&D is the humble dagger. Everyone from rogues to wizards to fighters…
Stellagama Publishing releases OSR sci-fi Cepheus Deluxe
Starships riding fire across the sky. Heroes and villains exchanging laser fire. Desperate spacers struggling against an alien monstrosity. Vast…
A whole web of Women of the Spider-Verse [infographic]
Spider-Man: No Way Home is due before the end of the year. Fandango says 17th December for the US and…
Book Mashup: Vaporwave Rose, Part 2
Last time around I started this mashup between Modern AGE and Blue Rose without knowing how much I’d get into…
Old-school inspired RPG Down We Go wants to make deadly dungeon delving approachable for all
Dying in a decrepit tomb or some twisted mage’s bastion is one of the most time-honoured traditions of the tabletop…
RPG: ‘Critical Role’ Goes To Space This Week
That’s right folks, strap in your grav-harnesses, and make sure you’ve got plenty of ammo. A new one-shot is here…
What Makes a Good Side Quest
When planning a campaign, a lot of energy and preparation time is spent on the main throughline or the main…
Let’s Talk Art – Part Deux!
Five more questions. Five fresh answers. A new red shirt! Have fun! Click my face to watch!!
1–6 September 2021: Exalted on TV
This week there’s yet another RPG to TV announcement, with a show based on the Exalted RPG headed to the…
'SolForge Fusion' Hits Kickstarter, Retailer Tier Available
Stone Blade Entertainment announced the Kickstarter launch of SolForge Fusion, a new hybrid deck game, which is scheduled to deliver…
D&D: Wild Beyond The Witchlight Spoilers Spotted
Come and take a look at some more art spoilers from the upcoming adventure The Wild Beyond the Witchlight. Mr.…
The Workshop – MtG to D&D: The Null Brooch
Art by Tony DiTerlizzi Art by Tony DiTerlizzi This week we’re going to take another card from Magic the Gathering and figure…
Pathfinder, Warhammer: Soulbound, Root RPG and more feature in this year’s Free RPG Day
Get a collection of roleplaying game content for nothing with this year’s Free RPG Day, including the likes of Pathfinder,…
Numenera Discovery Bundle opens up a discounted gateway into the sci-fi RPG
Explore the Ninth World for less with the Numenera Discovery Bundle currently featured on the Bundle of Holding website. Focused…
Rolling for Initiative — Supply Chain Shifts, a Conundrum for the Channel
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
A billion years in the future and for the first time: Numenera Discovery in a Bundle of Holding
Monte Cook Games’ RPG Numenera is set a billion years in the future, and it’s never been in the Bundle…
The Dark Crystal RPG opens for pre-orders
We’re one step, and perhaps a flutter, from roleplaying adventures in the magical world of Thra. River Horse has opened…
Rosh Hashanah Paizo Celebration!
Hi all! For this latest community blog, we’re celebrating Rosh Hashana, the New Year of the Jewish calendar, which begins…
D&D Monster Spotlight: Keep An Eye On The Shadows
If one of your adventuring party doesn’t cast a shadow, watch out, they may just be being stalked by their…
Starfinder Evolutionist Playtest Update
There are just a few weeks left in the open playtest period for Starfinder’s upcoming evolutionist class. If you haven't…
Preview: Legends of the MetaVerse 5e superhero RPG
Good Brother Studios will launch a Kickstarter campaign for a 5e superhero RPG called Legends of the MetaVerse on September…
City of Cats: Wallpapers
It’s a new month, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a feline-tastic set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or…
Creature-infested 1890s Louisiana: Gravemire RPG comes to Kickstarter
Clawhammer Games are asking for $16,000 from the Kickstarter community to fund a gilded age tabletop RPG about mortality, growth…
D&D: The Delver’s Guide To Beast World Reimagines A Wagon-Filled 5th Edition
Beasts, wagons, merchant companies and more await you in a new campaign setting that looks to give 5th Edition a…
We cast the upcoming Blades in the Dark TV series on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast!
Lolies and Meehan are back in the pod booth as they join Matt to talk about what we’ve been playing,…
In swamp horror TRPG Gravemire, alligators are the least of your problems
Survive a myriad of horrors haunting the Louisiana swamps in Gravemire, an upcoming tabletop roleplaying game set in the Bayou.…
Force Wizard – Unmatched Ferocity SA (Warrior Career)
Welcome back, my padawans and disciples. Today we begin our study of the Warrior Signature Abilities (SAs) from Knights of Fate, with…
D&D: Ed Greenwood Kickstarting New Campaign Setting, Raises over A Million!
The creator of the Forgotten Realms joins Dragori Games to Kickstart the world of Tanares, a new Campaign Setting with…
Create cowpeople and fox-characters in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a supplement for D&D
Make anthropomorphic heroes with tails, ears and hooves in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a new supplementary sourcebook for…
Brittannia Games launch new Chivalry & Sorcery mini STL range
Publishers of Chivalry & Sorcery, Brittannia Games, have launched a new tabletop miniature range. The publisher of C&S 5e and…
Wheel of Time, Renaming ‘Slave I’, Multiclassing Paladins, and GW Talks Orks
Take a look at everything from the new Wheel of Time trailer, to how to multiclass Paladins in D&D, to…
Free to Download: VAST – No Port Called Home sci-fi RPG
The 159-page Adventurer’s Guide for VAST – No Port Called Home is a free download. Citing Rice Boy, Mass Effect,…
Kingdom of the Gods: Ankur RPG returns for a second edition
Based on non-western and ancient mythologies, Ankur is an indie tabletop RPG that uses a d12 system. It’s been on…
(Maternity Leave) RPG Accessories: Back To School With D&D
From notebooks to pens to pencil bags there are a ton of D&D accessories that are just as useful in…
How Ain’t Slayed Nobody used the Malleus Monstrorum
The Malleus Monstrorum is an impressively large collection of mythos lore from Call of Cthulhu’s Chaosium. Impressive means mind and…
D&D: Io, The Over-Dragon – An Adventurer’s Guide
Bahamut and Tiamat might be the gods of dragons, but there’s one to whom even they bow. Come and meet…
WizKids Announces New Line Of Critical Role Unpainted Miniatures
WizKids and Critical Role revealed this week that they're releasing a new line of Unpainted Miniatures straight out of the…
Crossing the Titan’s Garden
The Narrator quickly determines some details about the Region being traversed. We’ve already established that the Titan’s Garden is a…
Give your 5e RPG some options with The Delver’s Guide to Beast World
The Delver’s Guide to Beast World is a Kickstarter success in a week that’s seen no shortage of heavy-hitting campaigns.…
D&D: Check Out The Wrap-Up To Critical Role’s ‘Exandria Unlimited’
Critical Role wrapped up Exandria Unlimited this past week, and now you can watch the cast’s Q&A and go behind…
Time travelling tea drinkers prefer Stonehenge for a nice sit down
Geek Native often has a competition running, and you don’t have to tag three friends and like a page to…
Who in the Nine Hells Is Fizban? Find Out Here!
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons will be chock-full of dragon goodness when it drops on October 19. The Dungeons & Dragons…
GW, Warhammer, 40K & Fantasy Minis Trivia Challenge
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
Outside the Box – September 3rd
Hello again, and welcome to Outside the Box. This week we have news from Creature Caster, Para Bellum Wargames, Atomic…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116
September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission It’s a Friday and the start of the…
You Find Yourself in a Haunted House: Magic Items
Some locations—the wizard’s tower, the sunken temple, the haunted house—appear repeatedly in stories and adventures. In this series, we’ll explore…
DC's Animated Injustice Available October 19th
DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announce Injustice, an Elseworld story about a superhero civil war between Batman and Superman.…
Dungeons and Randomness return to Kickstarter with The Adventurer’s Guide To Theria Volume II: Ta’lor
It’s a busy Kickstarter week and with several significant campaigns launching. When it comes to cash goals, the largest ask…
WotC Is Sponsoring A Football Club, For Some Reason
Yes friends it’s true, Wizards of the Coast is sponsoring an EFL League 2 team for the 2021/2022 season. A…
I tell you, I tell you, The Dragonborn Comes!
Our hero, our hero, claims a warrior's heartI tell you, I tell you, the Dragonborn comesWith a voice wielding power…
Leyline Press: Brexit RPG designer co-founds new RPG company
Panayiotis Lines, the designer of Shadow of Mogg, an appropriately brutal look at Brexit in the guise of a tabletop…
Super Mario Labyrinth sends a plumber-themed board game classic stateside this month
Family board game Super Mario Labyrinth has been slated for a US release, bringing a Mushroom Kingdom twist to a…
Finder’s Archives – Calciform Pools
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D 5e Guide: How to Multiclass Paladins
Multiclassing in Dungeons & Dragons opens up a door of possibilities for PCs. Today we’re taking a look at how…
Sci-fi roleplaying game Stars Without Number gets a full hardcover release
Dive into a science fiction world filled with potential in Stars Without Number, a roleplaying game that’s seeing its first…
RPGs: When ‘The World Of Darkness’ Was A TV Show – PRIME
With two new RPGs getting their very own television shows, it's important not to forget the cautionary tale that was…
Crawlspaces & Critters: Edible gummies for tabletop battle maps
I have a weakness for gummies. I love their tasty chew… but they’ve never formed a raid party and attacked…
Transformers are driving, flying and jumping into a new tabletop RPG
An upcoming roleplaying game based on the beloved Transformers television series and toy line is coming from the publisher behind…
CMON Heads into NFT Market with Monsoon Digital
CMON announced that they will partner with Monsoon Digital to create a new series digital collectibles and promos using non-fungible…
The war isn’t over: Netflix airs English subtitled The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light trailer
The war isn’t over: Netflix airs English subtitled The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light trailer time to read: Geek…
Recent Eisner-Winners Provide Showcase Art for the Next 'Magic' Set
Wizards of the Coast revealed new art-related details and card images for Innistad: Midnight Hunt, the next Magic: The Gathering…
The Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Computer Game is Available Now!
The Worldwound. A cursed land that threatens all life. Not a wasteland, or the site of a natural disaster, but…
We Are Delighted to Announce…
We raise our kazoos high in song to celebrate our very own Streaming & Video Producer, Dot, as she makes…
D&D: Five Ways To Find A Secret Door
Secret doors are a longstanding tradition in Dungeons & Dragons, and just as longstanding a tradition: inventive ways to convince…
September 2021 Organized Play Update
OPC Musings Those of you with high Perception modifiers will notice that this section has a new title. As of…
Exclusive preview: Fancy a “Player’s Handbook 2” for 5e? Visit Valda’s Spire of Secrets
Mage Hand Press has a vast, 380-page, 10 new base classes, and incredible 150+ subclass touting 5e book up on…
The GI Joe, Power Rangers, And Transformers RPGs Are Officially Announced
The Transformers, GI Joe and Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers RPGs are unveiled at last. Come take a look at the…
Talent-studded D&D 5E setting Tanares earns over $1m in first day of crowdfunding
Tanares is a new tabletop RPG setting compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 5E that raised seven figures on its first…
Thursday Art Assault – Window to a New Soul
‘Window to a New Soul’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Find more dark, surreal art at…
For the Love of Cthulhu Try Folk Horror
Dungeons and Dragons’s VanRichten’s Guide to Ravenloft and Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of’s Book of Skelos explores different…
D&D Celebration 2021 – Registration Open For Wild Beyond The Witchlight
Come and take part in the virtual weekend of adventure, live games, and a preview of the Wild Beyond the…
10 board games to look for at Gen Con 2021 – preview
Gen Con is back for 2021, with a slew of exciting upcoming board games for players to experience at the…
Himbo Treasure Hunt: RPG a well-meaning muscled hunk
Himbo Treasure Hunt is the latest “Name Your Own Price” RPG from Rowan, Rook and Decard. Specifically, it’s from Sasha…
Cyberpunk Red RPG studio R. Talsorian becomes latest publisher to exit Gen Con 2021 over COVID-19 concerns
R. Talsorian Games, the RPG publisher behind Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk Red, has become the latest publisher to withdraw from…
Free League announce Into the Odd Remastered with Chris McDowall partnership
Free League Publishing will produce a new edition of the weird-fantasy Into the Odd from Chris McDowall. Mork Borg’s Johan…
Players Roll Out and Transform in 'Transformers Roleplaying Game'
Renegade Game Studios will release the Transformers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and themed accessories in March. In the Transformers Roleplaying…
Acronym alert: CMON does NFT ASAP
Once known as Cool Minis or Not, CMON is expanding further and into the controversial waters of Non-Fungible Tokens. NFTs…