TroikaFest! is the perfect event for those who have never played the whimsical tabletop RPG
The one-week Troikafest!, running from April 5th through the 11th, invites new groups and designers to join the tabletop RPG’s…
WizKids announce the largest D&D “mini” they’ve ever made
The five-headed dragon goddess from D&D lore, Tiamat, is coming to tabletops. Due to ship in September, WizKids has announced…
Beyond the Mountains of Madness campaign for Call of Cthulhu RPG has been reprinted after over 20 years
Two “classic” campaign books for Call of Cthulhu, Beyond the Mountains of Madness and Horror on the Orient Express, have…
NeverEnding: An Interview With Jamie VanDoren
With their new Kickstarter campaign for NeverEnding II, it felt like a good time to talk with Jamie VanDoren about…
Publishers Spotlight: May 2021 poll opens for Patrons
Geek Native’s amazing Patrons can now vote to put an RPG publisher or creator in the Spotlight. Are you a…
Monster Hunter World: The Board Game shows the right way to adapt a video game for the tabletop
Board games based on video games are a mixed bag, to say the least. There are some truly excellent ones,…
Star Trek First Contact Day and other geeky April conventions
I’m hesitant to blog anything on the morning of April 1, but here we are with a look at the…
World of Darkness: Learn the 5e Vampire clans [infographic]
The World of Darkness team at Paradox published the first development blog since taking the RPG properties in house. And…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Terminator RPG, Gorgeous Gothic Busts, and Stellaris on the Tabletop
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Encyclopedia: Lore Book & Toolbox Encyclopedia is a 360-page…
International Transgender Day of Visibility
Today, the International Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate and recognize the lives of transgender people in our gaming community.…
Starfinder: Scoured Stars Returns Tonight for Episode 3!
Join for science-fantasy high jinks and adventure in Episode 3 of Starfinder: Scoured Stars tonight at 6 p.m. Pacific on…
How To Play Vampires Like Apex Predators of the Night
“‘Vampyr’ is my new name. I still lust for life and youth, and I curse the living that took them…
Open source Mythic Table launches Kickstarter for free VTT
Partnering with the Open Gaming Network and World Anvil, Mythic Table has launched a Kickstarter to get some full-time developers…
Ruins of Symbaroum: Free League announce Symbaroum 5e
In the wake of their million Dollar Kickstarter for Lord of the Rings, Free League Publishing have announced their next…
The Ratatosk: Magical Items and Equipment of the Squirrel-Folk
I hurled the enchanted acorn to the ground. There was a terrific flash of light and an odd popping sound,…
Sentinels of the Multiverse announce an anniversary definitive edition of its comic book card game
Sentinels of the Multiverse will celebrate its ten-year anniversary with an upgraded box that puts a polish on nearly every…
Modiphius opens the Fallout 2d20 RPG for pre-order
Today, London-based Modiphius Entertainment put their Fallout 2d20 RPG on pre-order, with a GM toolkit, dice, and special editions. The…
Kickstarter RPG VP Resigns In Wake Of ‘Perfect RPG’ Controversy, Issues Apology
Luke Crane, Vice President and Community Head at Kickstarter is stepping down in the wake of a now-canceled controversial project.…
Monthly Encounter #20: The Mummies’ Secret Lore (lvls 5-10)
Thmbnail art by Akos SzaboWe finally did it! 20 different encounters, once per month, have already been written. These are…
Monster Archetypes, Golems, Typhon with The Monster Professor
The Monster Professor returns again! Josh Woods, author, professor, and monster expert, and I talk monster archetypes which leads us…
Kickstarter Korner- Stellaris: Infinite Legacy
What is this project? Stellaris: Infinite Legacy is a board game version of the popular PC 4x game Stellaris. Beyond…
Dice: The ultimate ranking, from d4 to d20
Dice. You use them in a lot of tabletop games. To the naked eye, they may appear to be nothing…
23–30 March 2021: Candlekeep Controversy
This week, the release of Dungeons & Dragons’ latest adventure anthology brings controversy, with one contributor raising concerns around how…
D&D: The Birth Of Dark Sun, A World Of Apocalypse – PRIME
Dark Sun is a world unlike any other in the D&D cosmology–full of blazing hear, apocalyptic furor, and debilitating magic,…
Paizo Unveils ‘Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Pawn Collection’
Paizo, Inc. unveiled Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Pawn Collection, a collection of creature pawns for use Pathfinder RPG, for release in…
MTG: WotC Suspends Work With Artist After Crux Of Fate Scandal
Wizards of the Coast has issued a statement in response to the recent controversy surrounding the potentially copied art for…
Join us for Paizo LIVE, Episode 2!
our new monthly two-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about all things Pathfinder and…
PRESS RELEASE: Symbaroum for 5E on Kickstarter April 13
The acclaimed world of Symbaroum has enticed and fascinated fans of tabletop roleplaying games since the launch in 2016. Now this dark…
Track Your RPG Character’s Health with Innovative and Beautiful Hero Pins
Add Hero Pins to your game to make keeping your health stats fun and easy for your whole party to…
Punch a Nazi: Onyx Path easily fund Trinity Continuum – Adventure!
It’s a busy time for Onyx Path Publishing. They’ve announced one of their RPG lines, Scion, has a TV show…
D&D Accessories: Starter Sets To Get Your First Dungeon Crawling Adventure Going
Whether you’re the only first-time adventurer at the table, or in a completely fresh-faced party, these starter sets will make…
Celebrating Women in our Community Part 2
Last Thursday, we shared a blog highlighting the presence of women creators and professionals in the Paizo community. We have…
Eke out a grimy, blue-collar existence amidst the void in rules-light RPG Death in Space
Assemble a rag-tag crew and stave off cosmic corruption with Death in Space, a new rules-light RPG on Kickstarter that…
Kickstarter’s Head of Community and The Perfect RPG campaign creator leaves company
Luke Crane, former head of community for Kickstarter, quit his position and left the company March 26th after posting what…
Make a Quick Character Portrait with NeverEnding
I am always on the lookout for new tools to add to my tabletop RPG arsenal. So when I was…
Five New D&D Streams That Aren’t Critical Role That You Should Watch Anyway
There’s a whole wide world of D&D streams out there, and though they’re too new to have animated specials for…
The Tales from the Loop RPG is currently featured in two different deals
Tales from the Loop, a sci-fi themed roleplaying game set in 1980s Sweden, is discounted in two separate Bundle of…
Champion’s Spotlight #3 – Celeste
This week we’re going to take a look at the second of the “Core 12” Champions – Celeste, a cleric…
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Six
It’s the sixth article in this series and we’re sixty-five pages into this book! this-is-fine-dog.gif. Anyway, this time I’ll be…
The official Fallout tabletop RPG launches tomorrow
The official RPG based on the Fallout video game series will launch tomorrow, according to a tweet from publisher Modiphius.…
‘Upzone’ Pop Up Terrain Comes to Trade
Everything Epic will be offering the Upzone Pop-Up Terrain System into distribution this spring, with three sets now on pre-order. The Upzone…
House Greyjoy Battles for Control in ‘A Song Of Ice And Fire’ Tabletop Miniatures Game
CMON has released details the new House Greyjoy expansions, for the A Song of Fire & Ice: Tabletop Miniatures Game,…
Terrain Options for Miniatures and TTRPG Customers
Miniatures terrain and TTRPG terrain tiles have been a growing category of products in game stores, and the task of…
MTG: New Strixhaven Crux Of Fate Card Fuels Questions of Plagiarized Art
An artist on Twitter has pointed out some striking similarities between the Strixhaven Crux of Fate art, and a 2016…
Free League launch huge Coriolis & Tales from the Loop deals
It’s a busy day over at the Bundle of Holding as Free League Publishing have launched two mixed bundles. Coriolis,…
Warhammer 40K Tabletop Gallery: Cadia Stands (maybe…) Lelith Hesperax vs Astra Militarum
This one might be more a case of a “dead man standing”? Just in time for the new Drukhari codex!…
Fanatical launches computer game and tabletop RPG crossover sale
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.For the next 15 or so hours…
Solo RPG The Wretched is a fantastic, if unintentional, pandemic anniversary game
[Spoilers for The Wretched RPG below] Like countless others across the world, I’ve now spent the last year and change…
PaizoCon Worldwide!
We are pleased to announce some upcoming plans for the PaizoCon convention series! Keep reading for some exciting developments! First,…
Onyx Path Publishing land a Scion TV series
RPG publisher Onyx Path will have a TV developed from their Scion RPG line. Scion is a tabletop roleplaying game…
Dangerous: BigBad Tabletop introduce the Karen D&D monster
The Guardian called 2020 “the year of the Karen”, recognising the debate around the name, which has become a pejorative.…
Hardboiled Radio: A review of Golden Age radio plays
You might know the Bundle of Holding as a site supporting charities while also hooking you to special offers for…
Time Is Fleeting: Active Campaign Settings
Madness takes its toll … but before we launch into a chorus of “The Time Warp,” let’s talk about time…
Rogue’s Gallery: Tam Waltzing
Despite being fair of feature, dark of hair, and sharp of eye, Tam Waltzing is only noticed by people who…
Tribality Publishing – Level Up Your Background
We have a new publication on the DM’s Guild, as of last Friday. This is Tribality Publishing’s third DM’s Guild…
Fallout #3 – Helps You Stay Fighting Fit!
The Fallout games are never lacking in action-packed moments, and the perils of the Wasteland often require violence to resolve.…
D&D Tops The Charts, But Alien & Fate Aren’t Far Behind
The numbers are in for the Fall, and while Dungeons & Dragons rules the roost, it looks like the Alien…
Board Games Retailers Can Use as a Customer On-Ramp to Miniatures
Board games featuring miniatures or based around miniatures properties can be a useful tool to help introduce board game enthusiasts…
Kickstarter Korner – The Deck of Many Quests
© 2021 Lunch Break HeroesThis just in! Lunch Break Heroes has less than a week left on its Kickstarter for…
Spiritual successor to espionage RPG Spycraft gets a full retail release
After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2019, The Spy Game, an upcoming roleplaying game inspired by Spycraft, is seeing a…
Dune #13 – Factions: The Bene Gesserit
By Andrew Peregrine In Dune: Adventures in the Imperium there are several character types that offer special powers and abilities.…
Open source and free VTT Mythic Table announce partnerships and a Kickstarter
Mythic Table’s Kickstarter promises to help integrate the open source virtual tabletop. Partnerships with The Open Gaming Network and World…
Tabletop Roundup: Candlekeep Controversy, Warhammer Lumineth Rules, Rebel CR90, & Red Sonja Cosplay
We’ve got everything from D&D’s latest controversy, to Star Wars’ CR90 and what to do with Cara Dune. Age of…
Rolling for Initiative — A Matter of Miniatures
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Solo RPG Journey releases a new version
Journey, a well-received solo RPG that helps you design worlds, released edition 1.1 this week. In Journey, you are a…
Chthonstone Games is the new name for Red Box Vancouver
Red Box Vancouver, known for games like The Nameless Grimoire, Class Warfare and The Nightmares Underneath has rebranded to Chthonstone…
Villains with sympathetic backstories
Tabletop gamers will get But a Jape and may well even have had a character who once said, “’tis but…
An exclusive look inside The Deck of Many Quests
Will The Deck of Many Quests become discussed among GMs as D&D’s The Deck of Many Things is between players?…
D&D: Shape The Future Of Feywild Folk With New Survey
The Folk of the Feywild introduced some new player options and new lore for hobgoblins. Tell WotC what you really…
MTG: WotC Confirms The Strixhaven Spoiler Everyone Thinks Is A Fake Is Real
Have you ever released a card with art so experimental that the official company Twitter has to confirm it’s real?…
Welcome to Candlekeep: A Beginner’s Guide to the Realm’s Greatest Library
A majestic, many-spired fortress towering over the Sea of Swords, packed with hundreds of thousands of ancient books. This is…
DriveThruRPG offers 33% off at classic digital to TTRPG sales event
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.DriveThruRPG is holding a new sale and…
Cyberpunk RED: RPG Spotlight
It’s time to go back to Night City this week on RPG Spotlight as we take a look at a…
Something Rotten in Big Meg
Unlucky For Some It’s a fair statement to say that we strive to include plenty of scenario hooks and adventure…
Pathfinder Arena Art Revealed
By Tommaso Grossi, Communication ManagerGiochi Uniti Srl, Italy The most recent update on Pathfinder Arena includes plenty of exciting news.…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #93
We’re nearly one-quarter of the way through 2021. Gulp! Let’s mark the occasion with some RPG news. First up, the…
Level Up Survey: Warlock
Earlier we released the playtest candidate for our Warlock class. This is the accompanying survey.As always, it’s OK if you…
Strong 2020 Finish for Comic Stores
Comic stores ended 2020 on an up note, after what may have been the most challenging year ever for the…
Snag Tabletop Simulator and all of its DLC games for half price on PC this weekend
Tabletop Simulator continues to be one of the best ways for groups to enjoy board games online, an activity that…
Harbingers of the Yawning Void: Cult Activities and Adventure Hooks
Now that the goals of the Harbingers of the Yawning Void have been made clear, their leadership identified, and their…
Steampunk hip hop RPG: Welcome to Professor Elemental’s Garden of Escapades
British “chap hop” performer Professor Elemental has a tabletop RPG full of whimsy and inspired by Lasers & Feelings. If…
Free to Download: Hero Kids – Fantasy RPG
Justin Halliday’s adamantine best-seller Hero Kids is free to download, but only until April 1st. The award-winning RPG is designed…
Level Up Playtest Document #14: Warlock
What this isThis is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then answer…
Outside the Box – March 26th
Here we go again, this week with news from Atomic Mass Games, North Star Military Figures, PAra Bellum Wargames, Artel…
Dark revolutionary RPG Spire announces a new crowdfunded sourcebook
Return to the massive structure on the brink of revolution - or chaos - with Sin, an upcoming sourcebook for…
D&D: Candlekeep Author Requests Name Be Pulled After “Problematic” Changes To Adventure
One of Candlekeep Mysteries’ authors has requested their name be removed from future printings, claiming WotC changed the original work…
Finder’s Archive – Dungeon Creation (Part 3)
Well hello there! Welcome to the third (Part 1, Part 2) installment of the Dungeon Creation series. We’ve now looked…
‘Lizard Wizard’ Coming to Trade
Forbidden Games is poised to release the action-selection game Lizard Wizard into the hobby trade. The second game in Forbidden’s…
MTG: Arena Available On Mobile Today
Magic: the Gathering Arena is live now on the Apple App and Google Play stores, now you can bring your…
Thursday Art Assault – The Blood is the Life
‘The Blood is the Life’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Unearth more surreal secrets at:
Kickstarter Round-Up: RPG Wanted Ads, Fantasy Minis, & Beautiful Dice
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Architects of the Deep: Notice Boards Every tavern, in…
Ultra Rare ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Splendid Genesis Promo Card Auctioned Off by Heritage
Heritage Auctions dropped the hammer at $21,600 on Splendid Genesis, an ultra rare Magic: The Gathering promo card, at their…
Celebrating Women in our Community
Both in the office and in our works, Paizo honors the presence of women creators and professionals in our spaces.…
March 2021 Organized Play Scenario Previews
Illustration by Sebastian Rodriguez The organized play development team prepared quite a few treats for the community this month. From…
Game Start funds the world’s first interactive miniatures on Kickstarter
Italian model maker Game Start is offering what they call “world’s first interactive miniatures” for tabletop games via a Kickstarter.…
Splitting the Party – GM Tips & Tricks
Thumbnail image from Scooby DooWe’ve all heard about it. The classic “never split the party”. Why is it that people…
D&D 5E book Encyclopedia steps away from fantasy tropes to present orc cultures that aren’t “inherently evil”
Visit worlds featuring diverse orcish cultures removed from harmful fantasy tropes using the Encyclopedia lore and toolbox book for Dungeons…
D&D: The Temple Of Elemental, Reborn For 5E – Pre-Order Today
Can you survive one of the most famous dungeons in D&D? The Temple of Elemental Evil, reimagined for 5th Edition…
For the Love of Cthulhu, Reroll the Dice
The investigators returned to their Cairo suite of rooms after visiting the deranged archaeologist laying low in the squalid storage…