Routinely Itemised: RPGs #112
It’s Friday, and the big news here at Geek Native HQ this that nerdy blogger will soon be on the…
Saints of Midgard: Stone-Saint Elharee
The Midgard Worldbook already details a score of saints dedicated to the war god Mavros, but the other deities have…
Nathon Fillion and cast of The Suicide Squad play as a band of rowdy goblins in Nerdist’s latest CelebriD&D
The folks over at Nerdist somehow wrangled Nathan Fillion, Flula Borg and Michael Rooker into roleplaying as a band of…
‘Avatar Legends’ Is Now The Biggest RPG On Kickstarter
Not even three days into its campaign, Avatar Legends: The RPG has surpassed all other tabletop RPGs on Kickstarter, and…
Cubicle 7 Unleashes ‘Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Steam and Steel’
Cubicle 7 unleashed Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Steam and Steel, a new weapons and war machines RPG sourcebook, for…
Arkhaane: The Netflix of D&D and homebrew RPG content
Arkhaane is pronounced arcane and wants to be the Netflix of third-party RPG content. The Kickstarter pitches mainly towards content…
Arcadia Issue 6 Breakdown
All art belongs to MCDMBetter late than never, right?This month’s issue of Arcadia is primarily focused for GMs. You DMs…
Seven (New Products) to Beam Up — Modiphius Entertainment Announces New Star Trek Adventures Releases
The First Wearable Role-playing Game Arrives with the Tricorder Collector’s Edition Boxed Set along with three new Division dice sets,…
Finder’s Archive – Cabal Coffers
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
Aquatic Hazards
I was so happy to have Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything expand the collection of hazards in 5e that I jumped…
TSR’s First Game Was All About Cavaliers And Roundheads – PRIME
TSR was created with the express purpose of publishing Dungeons & Dragons, the industry-defining RPG. Naturally, their first game was…
Among Sus is a free larping version of the video game
Turn your house into a space station and attempt to finish imaginary tasks in Among Sus, a free live action…
Dinosaurs invade Dungeons & Dragons in this supplementary campaign
Encounter prehistoric creatures and people whilst playing Dungeons & Dragons in the supplementary campaign, Planegea. Inspired by primordial history and…
WizKids Reveals Two ‘Critical Role’ Premium Figures
WizKids revealed Critical Role Premium Figure - Dieter and Monsters of Tal'Dorei - Ember Roc, for release into retail in…
The Complete Skelly & Girl Art Series
‘Skelly & Girl Series’ – 2019-2021 – J Edward Neill Find more haunting art at…
Beadle & Grimm’s Announces Critical Role Tal’Dorei Campaign Box
Beadle & Grimm's revealed today that they will be making a special boxed version of Critical Role's Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting…
From Akiton to Magaambya: New Releases from Paizo
Paizo’s new Pathfinder and Starfinder releases feature locations to let your imagination run wild! Adventure in a magic school like…
Geeky discovery: Good Strong Toes
In recent weeks, Geek Native has given away copies of Good Strong Hands. That’s an RPG inspired by stories like…
August 2021 Organized Play Update
OPA Musings The news last week about reduced scenario production is, of course, disappointing. We’re saddened that we won’t be…
Designer demons: A review of XII – Inner Demons
I backed XII: Inner Demons on Kickstarter. It’s been out for nearly a year, but that’s what you get when…
Wizards of the Coast Teases ‘Magic: The Gathering’ ‘Innistrad: Midnight Hunt’ Products
First Glimpses of Card and Product Images; 'Crimson Vow' Packaging Images Included! Wizards of the Coast teased Innistrad: Midnight Hunt,…
Avatar Legends becomes the highest funded TRPG on Kickstarter within its first week
Avatar Legends: The RPG has claimed the record for most money raised on Kickstarter for a tabletop RPG less than…
You Find Yourself in a Haunted House: The Beginning
Some locations—the wizard’s tower, the sunken temple, the haunted house—appear repeatedly in stories and adventures. In this series, we’ll explore…
D&D: Check Out The Newest NPCs From Exandria – New ‘Critical Role’ Minis Announced
Get ready to venture once more to the world of Exandria and the continent of Tal’Dorei, WizKids has announced a…
Paizo, Inc. Unveils a New Standalone ‘Pathfinder Adventure’ for 2E
Paizo, Inc. unveiled Night of the Gray Death, a new standalone Pathfinder 2E Adventure, for release in Q4. Night of…
Adults buying board games as “stress relief” during lockdown has boosted tabletop sales – report
Adult board gamers picking up tabletop titles as a form of “stress relief” during the uncertain last year has reportedly…
Ex Libris is a digital Mörk Borg bibliography, and its creators hope they start a new trend
A team of web developers and designers have donned the mantle of archivists to collect Mörk Borg content - both…
D&D: Is Joe Manganiello Working On A Secret Dungeons & Dragons Project
Joe Manganiello doesn’t seem content to rest on the fact that his D&D character became “canon”–the powerhouse performer has a…
For the Love of Cthulhu Open the Magnificent Box
There are two modes of Call of Cthulhu: Classic and Pulp. In Classic, you play everyday people, called Investigators, who…
Flying Buffalo, the oldest RPG publisher in existence, bought by fulfilment company Webbed Sphere
Flying Buffalo is the tabletop RPG publisher behind Tunnels & Trolls. Tunnels & Trolls is the second-ever traditional tabletop RPG…
Wholesome D&D: Enjoy Teatime Adventures in the Verdant Isles
In Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, you’re not in a dungeon crawl that has you hack through goblins because they’re small,…
Highmoon Press to delete all PDF titles and give away print products
Daniel Highmoon of Highmoon Press has emailed previous customers to say that on September the 1st every all the company’s…
Iconic Encounter: Fighting Fire
“We can take it.” “But we don’t have to take it.” Coiling an arm around the vesk’s shoulder, Veerkea gently…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Rat Hordes, Bite Sized Adventures, and a Dog Called Murder
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Ravenous Hordes – STL Six Factions are part of…
Webbed Sphere, Inc. Acquires Flying Buffalo, Inc.
Webbed Sphere, Inc. announced that they have acquired Flying Buffalo, Inc. in a deal that was finalized on July 31.…
Field Guide to Memory co-creator Jeeyon Shim wins 2021 Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program
Designer and artist Jeeyon Shim has won the Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program for 2021, the first year this specific…
Community Spotlight: 10 Homebrew Magic Items We Love
Plate armor made of tableware. A mask carved from a hag's face. These are the kinds of homebrew magic items that inspire…
Catch up on the Secrets of Magic Liveplay!
In Episode 01 | A Lively Welcome: Four scholars are sent to a small desert town to investigate a wild…
‘Avatar Legends’ Is Kickstarting Now – Get In On The Avatar The Last Airbender RPG
The world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra comes to your tabletop in an brand-new RPG…
Add Unique Miniatures from ‘Critical Role’s’ Exandria to RPG Sessions
WizKids will release Critical Role: NPCs of Exandria - Set 1, a new miniatures set, into retail stores in November…
Adventure Zone DM Griffin McElroy and Bureau of Balance co-designers chat about their new board game
The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance is the very first tabletop adaptation of the beloved Dungeons & Dragons actual play…
Rogue Squadron – The Eternals
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
RPG Treasure Hunting, Looting with Archeologist Scott Smallwood
Archeologist Scott Smallwood returns to the podcast to discuss treasure hunting and looting in real life and in role-playing games.…
Dragon Riders of Literature and Film – PRIME
People riding dragons has a long history in media and literature. Let’s take a look. In Games Workshop’s Age of…
Dredd, Xenomorphs, 5E… Oh My!
Welcome to this week’s EN Publishing news update! This week we have new 5E content, a look at two upcoming…
WizKids Reveals Two New ‘Critical Role’ Character Sets
WizKids revealed Characters of Tal'Dorei - Set 1 and NPCs of Tal'Dorei - Set 1, two Critical Role character sets,…
Conan: Waves Stained Crimson Part 2
DESIGNER’S NOTES – Part 2. By Kevin Ross Hi all, here is second part of my overview to the upcoming…
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things – A Review
This past weekend I conned my wife into watching a Time Loop movie. Now, I normally have to qualify this…
Steamforged Games’ “Web Of The Spider Tyrant” Is Hair-Raising Fun
Steamforged Games, a well-known tabletop game design company whose games include Godtear, Guild Ball, and many licensed options, has announced the upcoming…
Magpie’s Avatar Legends RPG Kickstarter takes $1m on the opening day
There are very few tabletop RPGs that have broken the million mark on Kickstarter. Magpie Games’ Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying…
Free to Download: Fragments of the Past Quickstart RPG
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’s Kickstarter campaign is now live
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game launched its crowdfunding campaign on August 3rd, supporting an official adaptation of the widely popular…
Iconic Encounter: Swimming Lessons
“Alright Tuku. Today you’re going to teach me about water spirits!” Ija turned toward her companion and gave a fierce…
Keeping the Creative Panic at Bay (A Ronin Roundtable Guest Post by Nathan Burgoine)
One thing about being a writer with one foot in queer romance and the other in queer spec fic is…
Free League Revisits ‘Forbidden Lands RPG’ with Two New Books
Free League Publishing is offering The Bloodmarch and Book of Beasts, for Forbidden Lands RPG, through a Retailer Pledge reward…
Using Rumors to Create a Living World
As a DM it’s my goal to create a believable world for my players to explore, interact with, and change.…
The Workshop – MtG to D&D: The Poet’s Quill
Art by Anna Fehr, copyright Wizards of the CoastWe’re back this week with another magic item for Dungeons and Dragons 5e…
D&D: Five Ways To Build A Campaign Without Killing A God
Starting a new campaign and want a break from the same old “kill a being powerful enough to be a…
28 July–3 August 2021: Horizons & Hats
This week, a quick update from a quiet week: GAMA announces an accelerator programme for tabletop industry organisations from underrepresented…
The Game of Life: Super Mario Edition contains more Bowser and fewer bills
Travel along the path through the Mushroom Kingdom to defeat the dreaded Bowser in The Game of Life: Super Mario…
Lancer co-creator’s new post-apocalyptic RPG Icon has a free playtest version that’s worth a look
The next generation of heroes were born at the beginning of the Churning Age, a time when peace in Arden…
Geek Native Patron Gift: The Gunblade
Geek Native runs a small Patron program through which you can tip the blog every month. The money raised in…
Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance board game expansion “in the works”
The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance, a board game based on the Dungeons & Dragons actual play series, is getting…
The Dead Rise in ‘Pathfinder 2E’
Paizo, Inc. unveiled Pathfinder Book of the Dead, a new rulebook for Pathfinder 2E, which will hit retail in spring…
Helm Greycastle: New Latinx fantasy comic includes 5e one-shot adventure
Henry Barajas, creator of La Voz De M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo! has a new latinx fantasy comic series. In Helm Greycastle…
The complete Earthdawn 4e RPG comes to the FoundryVTT
The Earthdawn character sheet for 4e is already on the pay-once virtual tabletop challenger Foundry, as is the Compendia and…
Wizard 101: Bladesinging From Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Bladesinging is the subclass for wizards who want swordplay to supplement their spells. Alongside the Eldritch Knight — which fulfills the…
Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone’s Dungeon World supplements surface at the Bundle of Holding
The 2014 bundle of Apocalypse Engine fantasy RPG content from Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone is back in the…
Scrying on Subscriptions: Starfinder Rulebooks
Let’s take a closer look at Paizo Subscriptions, what you can subscribe to right now, and what is coming next.…
Starfinder Evolutionist Playtest Launches Today!
The evolutionist is a new class for Starfinder that brings to bear the power of transformation over time. As an…
We give our first impressions of the new Descent, Fort’s first expansion and Avatar Legends on the Dicebreaker Podcast
In a particularly Nice episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Wheels and Meehan reimagine some of our favourite board games…
Rogue’s Gallery: Namazzi Akullo
With her toned physique and straight-backed gait, Namazzi appears to be a much younger woman than she is. Her wise,…
D&D: WizKids Announces Frameworks – Custom Sprue-Based Miniatures For Your Campaign
WizKids has announced ‘Frameworks’ a new line of customizable, sprue-based miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying games. WizKids…
You’re gonna die and you might like it: A review of A Good Death
A Good Death is a solo RPG and journal game from Trent Seltzer. It’s a Name Your Own Price download…
Etiquette & Protocol – TTRPG Safety Toolkit
Etiquette & Protocol (E&P for short) is an occasional feature where I venture into the sometimes thorny OOC arena of…
D&D: WotC Declares That Novels Aren’t ‘Canon’ For 5th Edition And Vice Versa
With a new Drizzt novel out this week, and Dragonlance novels not far behind, WotC sets the record straight on…
‘No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die’ in ‘Spectre’
Modiphius Entertainment revealed SPECTRE: The Board Game, a new James Bond tabletop game, which will release in spring of 2022.…
D&D Price Increase & Artificer Guide, 40K Grey Knight Stat Updates, Star Wars Mistakes
Check out news of an upcoming Hasbro price increase & our 5e Artificer Guide, 40K Grey Knight Stat Updates &…
Rolling For Initiative — Three More Effective Promotions
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Game Devs Of Color Expo Announces Starting Set of Panels & Speakers
The 2021 Game Devs Of Color Expo revealed their first set of speakers coming tot he online event, along with…
Genre Police: Wangrods and Warriors
Do you hate it when someone manages to use the rules of an RPG game to make a character that…
Publishers Spotlight: September 2021 poll open for Patrons
Does your D&D Wizard have the 1st level Conjuration ritual “Tenser’s Floating Disk” but struggles to find a use for…
Fading Suns sails into New Frontiers
Ulisses Spiele is expanding the Fading Suns RPG through a successful crowdfunding campaign. New Frontiers will take characters into barbarian…
Free to Download: Supernatural correction of The Unworld Mysteries
The Unworld Mysteries is an entirely free, alpha release of a supernatural, fast-paced and rules-light noir RPG. The roleplaying game…
Metal cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toon theme? Leo can
The stalwart and productive Leo Moracchioli’s stream of heavy metal successes continue. Some companies convert franchises to RPGs; Leo turns…
Brand New Images from Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
Just released today from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is a quartet of few fresh images from Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle…
D&D Beyond cancels anniversary competition after a backlash
D&D Beyond’s Frame Design Contest has been cancelled after artists expressed it asked for too much and offered too little.…
Keeping Faith
Drawing on our precognitive powers over the last few weeks,, we’ve been taking a sneak peek at the Judge Child…
D&D 101: A Quick Breakdown of Classes in Dungeons & Dragons
Welcome to Dungeons & Dragons, a roleplaying game where you'll create a hero to play as in adventures! One of the…
MTG: WotC Announces Commander Is Coming To Arena – Sort Of!
A new 100-card Historic Brawl queue is coming to Magic: the Gathering Arena, giving fans the closest thing yet to…
Looking for a big baddie for your RPG? Liches: Dance Macabre offers the Sorrow Lords for 5e and Pathfinder
Texas in August Studio astutely points out that Liches may be a good choice for big bad in RPGs, but…
Free to Download: At One With Nature a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror
A Miskatonic Repository book, At One With Nature, is a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror from Graham James, with potentially…
Humble Bundle launches RPG Heroes putting $113 worth of computer games on offer
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It’s been a busy day for Humble…
WizKids to launch paint range and sprue-based miniatures range this year
WizKids created the eCommerce mini store DnDMinis last year with Wizards of the Coast. Now, GamesRadar is reporting the company…
Tales From The Drift: Body Recovery
“Give it your allsix. Give it your allsix.” The chipper voice sang out in the spacious green and yellow interior…
RPG Spotlight: Night Witches
This week we’re stepping into the shoes and the biplanes of the historical World War II era bomber regiment, The…
The Legend of Vox Machina Shares Updated Voice Cast Production Details
Critters rejoice! The Legend of Vox Machina animated series is coming soon to Amazon Prime. And to give us a…
Expanding on the Expanse
Since the launch of Pathfinder Second Edition, we’ve released a number of adventures set in the Mwangi Expanse. The upcoming…
Harbingers of the Yawning Void: Cult Activities and Adventure Hooks, Part 3
Presented here are more adventure hooks for your mid-to-high level characters. As before, these can be used as single encounters,…
Finder’s Archive – Ending the Campaign
Photo by Konevi from Pexels (Public Domain)When should you End your campaign? This is one of those little nuggets that…