Routinely Itemised: RPGs #71
Routinely Itemised is Geek Native's weekly RPG news summary, complete with a roundup of new releases, freebies, interviews and reviews.
Bite Club – When High School Really Sucks
Astonishing Adventures: Bite Club, is available now! High school – so many of us couldn’t wait to escape it, and…
Roll Up, Roll Up!
The Return of Cal Get ready, citizens of Mega-City One. It’s time to prepare for the return of everyone’s least…
Secrets of the Emerald Order: Emerald Order Initiate
The Emerald Order is one of the few organizations in Demon Cults & Secret Societies that is not actively malicious.…
RPG: Cyberpunk Red Has Lifepaths, And Here’s A Preview
Want to take a peek at the upcoming rules in Cyberpunk Red, due to release in November? Well you’re in…
We pick our ultimate Christmas board games and prove bigger isn’t always better on the Dicebreaker Podcast
This week’s Dicebreaker Podcast sees Matt, Lolies and Meehan hop back in the booth for another hour-and-a-bit of nattering about…
Outside the Box – October 23rd
Hello again, this week we have news from Fantasy Flight Games, Osprey Publishing, Artel W Miniatures, Victrix, Archon Studio, Mierce…
10 best zombie board games
'Tis the season for wandering hordes of undead descending on unsuspecting small towns. It didn't take long for the modern…
Finder’s Archives – Halloween Special Part 4 (of 5)
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.Today we continue the Halloween Mini-series. Like last time, we’ll be looking…
Roll Up Fortunes With 'The Zodiac Dice'
Steve Jackson Games will release The Zodiac Dice, a set of 12-sided dice with the zodiac symbols on them, in…
12 Masks of Halloween: #5 Anubis
Okay, even if you’re worried you’ve left it too late to order a mask for Halloween this Anubis is perfect…
Pathfinder Arena Board Game, Coming 2021
Giochi Uniti has announced it will release Pathfinder Arena, a new board game set in the Pathfinder roleplaying game’s fantasy…
Free League Publishing release new horror scenarios at Spiel.Digital
At the online version of Essen, Spiel.Digital, the award-winning Free League Publishing, announced Vaesen: A Wicked Secret & Mörk Borg…
Pathfinder Society October Previews
We’ve got another full month of PFS adventures, so let’s take a closer look at what the Society is getting…
Safe In Our World: 1st Anniversary Charity Bundle
The video games mental health charity Safe in Our World is celebrating its first anniversary with a charity bundle. The…
Loke launches laminated battle board at Spiel.Digital
The big book of battle maps company Loke today launched a brand new product at Spiel.Digital. Spiel.Digital is the online…
Warhammer audiobooks in Humble Bundle
Parts of the Black Library can be found in Humble Bundle as $748 worth of Warhammer audiobooks are available across…
Play D&D For A Good Cause This Weekend At Roll 20 Con
October 23rd through 25th Roll20 will be hosting 3 days of games and panels for charity with their 100% virtual…
October 2020 Starfinder Society Releases
“Lights! Camera! Extreme Adventure!!!” The flashing header of the incoming message stole whatever attention Venture-Captain Naiaj had for her other…
Giochi Uniti Announces a New Board Game Set in Paizo's 'Pathfinder: Lost Omens'
Giochi Uniti, alongside Paizo, Inc., has announced that they will publish Pathfinder Arena, a new board game set in Pathfinder:…
15% Off Curse of Strahd AND New Strahd Miniatures!
In honor of the release of Curse of Strahd Revamped, use the code strahd15 to get 15% off when you…
‘Dungeon-scrawler’ Paper Dungeons has players adventuring in a roll-and-write
Search for magic items and battle fearsome monsters by drawing a path through each room in the upcoming English-language version…
Death Divers: A Heroic Dark Setting Interview With Dustin DePenning (Will Power Games)
I’ve mentioned Dustin DePenning’s work on the Synthicide RPG and Heroic Dark in passing (here and here). His RPG creations…
D&D: Looking For Love In Baldur’s Gate 3?
Baldur’s Gate 3 contains some hidden and not-so-hidden romance. Want to know who’s into you? Check out our guide to…
Thursday Art Assault – King of Carpathia
‘King of Carpathia’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Find more insane art at:
STA Dev Blog 003: A Guide to Star Trek Adventures
By Nathan Dowdell, 2d20 System Developer At the heart of the gameplay of Star Trek Adventures are two resources which…
Steamforged Games Announces 'Pac-Man: The Card Game'
Steamforged Games announced Pac-Man: The Card Game, a family game featuring the classic arcade game, which will launch on November…
ICv2 Insider Talks Livestream – Games Track
An ICv2 Release. The sessions for the hobby games track of the ICv2 Insider Talks Livestream, planned for 2 p.m.…
Store your dice in this Dwarven hammer!
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Beadle and Grimm’s Complete Character Chronicle update.
We launch our kickstarter on the 27th, and we wanted to reach out and give you an update on our…
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: October 21, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Terrors & Tommyguns RPG Terrors and Tommyguns is a Cosmic Horror…
Hell Rides to Hallt announced for Warhammer FRP
Cubicle 7 has announced Hell Rides to Hallt for Warhammer Fantasy Role Play. As with Soulbound’s Fateful Night, the Warhammer…
Ninja Disney Princess: Raya and the Last Dragon
Disney’s next animation brings us a warrior princess, and the setting is inspired by Southeast Asia. There are kabuki masked…
Chris Perkins, LYSK on Barovia
With so much D&D news, it would be impossible to list it all here. Listen to our opening news segment…
Tales from the Drift: First Shift
Chronicler’s NoteSince before the Gap, dwarven miners used a custom numbering system known as “shifts” to determine the passing of…
DriveThruRPG’s Halloween sale includes one $225 bundle for $10
It’s approaching Halloween, Geek Native is doing the 12 Masks countdown and DriveThruRPG has 12,055 RPG titles in their special…
RPG Cinematic: Animate your D&D character, even your whole world, in Unreal Engine
The Unreal Engine is used to make computer games, and now programmer and animator Luke Cosgrove is using it to…
Dungeon Tables: Instant Town
A GM’s work is never done, so to make things easier on you, we’re providing a series of tables to…
Terminator RPG Spotted In The Wilds
Nightfall Games, publishers of SLA Industries, is apparently working on a Terminator RPG, according to a newly spotted Facebook page.…
3 Halloween-themed magic items for your players
Thumbnail art by Nuno Nobre This next Thursday it’s going to be 2 years since I started working for Tribality.…
Rogue Review- The Rise of Red Skull
Last month we took a look at Marvel’s Champions game and we’re going to follow up on it with a…
Why Are There So Many Comedy Actual Play RPG Podcasts with Jon Cohen
Tabletop RPG podcaster Jon Cohen joins me today to discuss his podcast the Tale of the Manticore. The conversation ranges…
The Seventies Were A Wild Time For RPGs – Prime
Roleplaying games might have begun in the 70s, but they almost died there, too. Join us as we look back…
More Heroes Join 'Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts'
Five new character packs are planned for WizKid’s Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts line of unpainted miniatures, including two Halflings, an…
Gloomhaven and Frosthaven are being adapted into a book series
Popular dungeon-crawling board game Gloomhaven is being adapted into a series of novels. Based on the world of Gloomhaven, a…
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast sued by Dragonlance authors
The authors of long-running Dungeons & Dragons book series Dragonlance are suing the tabletop RPG’s publisher Wizards of the Coast…
Wizards of the Coast Extends 'Magic: The Gathering' In-Store Play Suspension Till January
Wizards of the Coast updated the status of its in-store organized play in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and…
Seven Years and Counting
I totally forgot about the anniversary of this site and this blog last week. As I was sitting here, thinking…
Soulbound: Fateful Night horror adventure out for Halloween
Are you looking to give your Age of Sigmar: Soulbound characters a bit of a Halloween treat? A Halloween threat?…
Meet The Authors!
With the Lost Omens Pathfinder Society Guide now out, I wanted to delve a little further behind the scenes to…
Tome of Beasts 2
From the creators of the original Tome of Beasts! Kobold Press has wrangled a new horde of wildly original, often…
Official The Terminator RPG announced
Nightfall Games, the makers of SLA Industries, have announced an official The Terminator RPG. And they haven’t said much more.…
RPG Accessories: This Halloween Dress As Your D&D Character
Halloween may be all but canceled this year, but that’s no reason not to dress up as your character for…
Things are Strange at Ilvermorny
Things are Strange at Ilvermorny is stand-alone adventure for the Genesys Roleplaying Game using the Harry Potter and the Theme…
D&D Virtual Play Weekends
D&D Virtual Play Weekends The success of virtual play offerings at events such as D&D Live and D&D Celebration has…
Crown of the Oathbreaker: 2,000 D&D fans on the best arch-villains
Publisher Elderbrain ran a survey to find out which class made for the best D&D arch-villain, which realm was more…
Starfinder’s Next Adventure Sets Its Sights On Firefly
Paizo aims to misbehave with their next adventure path, Fly Free or Die, setting players on a Firefly inspired adventure.…
Kevin’s Spellbook: Heat Metal
Welcome to a new series in which I explore and expound upon my favorite spells. In this series, we will…
Para Bellum Draws 'First Blood' for 'Conquest'
Para Bellum Wargames is launching Conquest: First Blood, a free new skirmish-scale version of its tabletop miniatures wargame Conquest: The…
That’s How I Roll: The World’s Greatest Screen, A Review
Landscape interior, full GM screens are pretty nifty. They provide a GM a summary of the most important rules and…
D&D Accounts For More Than 60 Percent Of Roll20 Games
D&D is bigger than ever, according to the latest data gathered from Roll20’s, D&D accounts for more than 60% of…
Learn to communicate with aliens in Arrival-inspired tabletop game Xenolanguage
Make contact with aliens and discover a way to communicate in Xenolanguage, an upcoming storytelling game inspired by science-fiction film…
Plenty of Demons: Two Shadows of the Demon Lord deals in The Bundle of Holding
Has Robert Schwalb’s horror RPG Shadow of the Demon Lord been on your radar? There’s now a chance to plunge…
Wild Beasts Roam into 'WizKids Deep Cuts'
WizKids will release three new packs of wild animals as part of its WizKids Deep Cuts unpainted miniatures line in…
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Sue Wizards of the Coast Over Cancelled 'Dragonlance' Books
Legendary fantasy authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, collectively with Margaret Weis, LLC., have filed suit against Wizards of the…
12 Masks of Halloween: #2 Surgical Raver
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Cyberpunk RPG Carbon 2185 Returns to Kickstarter!
Back on Thursday, Dragon Turtle Games launched a Kickstarter to reprint Carbon 2185 and publish a new sourcebook called Terminal…
Former Barnes & Noble Buyer Joins Rebellion
Jim Killen has joined Rebellion Publishing as Editor-at-Large, based in New York, the company announced. He’ll be a member of…
Tabletop Gallery: Grimdark Fury Road
Who really rules the Wasteland? Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A…
Liars Night 2020 | Wave 2
Posted on Oct 19, 2020 | The nights grow longer, and the chill in the air, more biting. Settlements increase…
Rogue 101: Arcane Trickster
We’ve completed our second full rotation of the twelve classes in the Player’s Handbook, not to mention taken a deep…
Gamers rally to rescue injured pet pig
Warning; this news story contains a recount of an animal in distress. Today, Fat Goblin Games, Geek Native’s feature in…
Free to Download: 100 RPG standees from Paper Page
Paper Mage creates paper miniatures for tabletop RPGs like D&D. Paper representations of heroes and monsters on battle maps are…
Behold the bling of The Amulet of Life hit point tracker
Mike Evans is an animator and an artifact designer at The Imperial Forge. The animation is the day job, designing…
D&D BREAKING: Dragonlance Creators Sue WotC Over Breach Of Contract
Dragonlance creators Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are suing WotC over an alleged breach of contract surrounding a canceled three…
This Week on Twitch, Oct 19 – Oct 25
Check out what we have in store this week on Twitch! Also if you’re interested in running your own Pathfinder…
Escape the Dark Sector board game review – a ghost train ride through sci-fi nostalgia
Escape the Dark Castle sparks an odd kind of pleasure in me. I have no personal experiences of tabletop gaming…
Racism and sexism blamed for ruining multi-million Dollar Dragonlance deal as Wizards of the Coast are taken to court
Racism and sexism blamed for ruining multi-million Dollar Dragonlance deal as Wizards of the Coast are taken to court time…
Aldean Arcana in the Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide
While The Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide makes use of the core Fifth Edition spells and spellcasting classes, it does make…
Expanding Codex: Ghost Dragon
Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a ghost dragon without modifying its challenge rating. Possess…
WizKids Goes Big with 'Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts'
WizKids is bringing more big monsters to its Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts unpainted miniatures line in March with the release…
D&D: Critical Role’s New Book Is A Critter’s Delight
The World of Critical Role is a look back over the last five years of Critical Role. From its unlikely…
Level Up Survey: Druid
Last week we released the playtest candidate for our advanced Druid class. This is the accompanying survey. As always, it’s…
Catch our chat with Games Workshop co-founder Ian Livingstone about Warhammer, Fighting Fantasy and more later this week
Ian Livingstone is a living legend of gaming. From co-founding Games Workshop to his involvement with the creation of hugely…
The Fall of Castle Carrick – A Goodreads Giveaway
Enter here for a chance to win one of 100 copies of The Fall of Castle Carrick! Alex O’Riley has…
Astral Projections – Mage-Hound (D&D 5e)
Astral Projections presents A Literary Halloween! For October, I am providing stats inspired by tales from some of my favorite…
D&D: Racial Ability Mods Were Never About Balance
D&D’s lead rules designer weighs in on what racial ability scores were all about–and it turns out, it was never…
Wizards of the Coast Reveals 'Magic: The Gathering' 'Secret Lair: Extra Life 2020'
Wizards of the Coast has revealed Secret Lair: Extra Life 2020, a card set for Magic: The Gathering that will…
“Ultimate edition” of RuneQuest creator’s King Arthur Pendragon RPG on the way, 6E quickstart and adventure out now
King Arthur Pendragon RPG is getting a new sixth edition described as the “ultimate edition” of the epic fantasy roleplaying…
Genre Police: Character Assassination
This Article is part of a series about the dials. Find the first dials article here. Characters are a pain…
GAMA, the Game Manufacturers Association, to restructure beyond game manufacturers
GAMA is a non-profit organisation with a remit to help the hobby games industry. The group has had a tough…
Slice and Dice: Store your dice in weapons!
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D&D: Playtest The “Advanced” 5th Edition Druid Today
Are you looking for more out of your Druids? Then come check out the latest from Level Up, the “Advanced”…
Putrescence Regnant: An Ear-shattering, rot reeking bog crawl for MÖRK BORG
MORK BORG won Best Product of the Year at the 2020 ENnies. Putrescence Regnant is a “bog crawl” adventure for…
King Arthur Pendragon 6th edition announced with free preview
Chaosium is marking the second anniversary of Greg Stafford’s death this week. Stafford was the publisher’s original creative mastermind and…
You don’t have to play bards like this
You can play a bard or any RPG character any way in keeping with the argued tone and guideline of…
Free to Download: The Secret Files of Section D – Taster Edition
Imaginarium Games is gearing up for a Savage Worlds Adventure Edition Kickstarter. The project is The Secret Files of Section…
The Wildsea RPG gets a reveal trailer
Regular Geek Native readers will be familiar with The Wildsea. We had the August free to download August playtest and…