Free to Download: Dune – Adventures in the Imperium Wormsign Quickstart
Dune: Adventures in the Imperium is, finally, out as Modiphius bring the iconic sci-fi setting to their 2d20 system. In…
Going Rogue (Again)
All-New Battlefronts Recently, we’ve been talking a lot about our brand new and light fantastic tabletop RPG, the Awfully Cheerful…
‘Cartoon Action Hour’ Let’s You Become Your Saturday Morning Cartoon Hero: RPG Spotlight
Get a big bowl of your favorite sugar cereal and sit way too close to the TV as we revisit…
Arcadia Issue 4 Breakdown
All art belongs to MCDMIt took 4 emails for James Introcaso to send me the correct copy of Arcadia. He…
Outside the Box – May 28th
Welcome back to Outside the Box, this week with Para Bellum Wargames, Knight Models, Great Escape Games, TT Combat, Microworld…
Publishers Announce Physical Presence at Gen Con Indy 2021
A number of publishers, including some major exhibitors, have announced their anticipated physical presence at Gen Con Indy 2021 in…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #102
As the weather begins to make a slow turn for the better here in Scotland, let’s take a second to…
Heralds of the Yawning Void: Denizens of the Utter Black
Perhaps the worst aspect of this cult is their relationship with the creatures that lurk in the Void. These fanatics…
Finder’s Archive – New (Old) Worlds Open
Those who have been following here a long time should know that I have a liking for Magic the Gathering…
D&D’s Sleeper Hit – ‘Solasta Crown Of The Magister’ Launches Today
Solasta: Crown of the Magister is the single most faithful adaptation of 5th Edition D&D–and a top-tier dungeon delve–and it’s…
All About Prestige
Prestige is a rating of how famous (or infamous) a character is. Adventurers start play with a Prestige of 0…
Wizards of the Coast Releases a ‘Magic: The Gathering Booster Selling Guide’
Wizards of the Coast released a Magic: The Gathering Booster Selling Guide, a tabloid that outlines which of their booster…
Save 20% or More at the PaizoCon Sale
From now through May 31st (Pacific time), take 20% off a single order* on Pathfinder and Starfinder products at the…
Three New ‘Pokemon’ Video Games, Museum Hosts Tabletop Game Conference, Site Adds Game Review Aggregation Feature
We round up several recent stories with impact on the tabletop games business here. Next Three Pokemon Video Games AnnouncedThe…
Thursday Art Assault – Shadow and Flame
‘Shadow and Flame’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Find more fantastical art at…
MTG: The Legendary Chef Of Modern Horizons 2 – A Name Too Big For A Mana Cost
The longest-named card we’ve seen in a while makes a debut among the legendary cards of Modern Horizons 2. Hope…
Mythbusting: Can you Instagram your Hero Forge models?
Hero Forge is a leader in the world of 3d-printing for tabletop miniatures. You can design your own, tailoring the…
PaizoCon Online 2021 Agenda for Friday, May 28
Welcome to an extended weekend of adventures at PaizoCon 2021 Online! Here is tomorrow's schedule of seminars and live-plays running…
Guidance’s Request
Ehu Hadif paced back and forth in the Cortex server room, his anxious footsteps beating a staccato rhythm against the…
D&D: Tony DiTerlizzi Reveals The Sounds Of Planescape
Tony DiTerlizzi defined the look of Planescape, the worlds-spanning setting that changed D&D. Now, he’s revealed the sounds that inspired…
Solo roleplaying game Journey releases bundle deal ahead of Dungeon Con
As the Geek Native convention calendar shows, one of the good looking online conventions vying for your attention this weekend…
The inevitable Dungeons & Dragons edition of Monopoly has been released
Two hugely popular series have finally been combined into a single board game with the newly released Monopoly: Dungeons &…
Vampire: The Masquerade 5E welcomes followers of the Dark Father in an upcoming supplement
Horror roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade expands its roster of fearsome antagonists with the addition of the dark and fanatical…
Morra Cinematic Game System: An Interview With Jason Andrew and JN Childs (Mighty Narwhal Productions)
Jason Andrew and JN Childs of Mighty Narwhal Productions have a new tabletop RPG system campaigning on Kickstarter. Jason and…
The Op Announces ‘Monopoly: Dungeons & Dragons’
The Op announced Monopoly: Dungeons & Dragons, a new edition of Monopoly, which is on preorder for retail. Two…
Green Ronin announce the Summer of Starhaven
Green Ronin Publishing make the popular Mutants & Masterminds sci-fi RPG, and they’ve a lovely, innovative idea for the game.…
Experience the Finale of Starfinder: Scoured Stars with Episode 10 | Decisive Strike!
The Starfinder Scoured Stars liveplay ends with an epic assault in the final episode of this limited series! Join us…
Curses! Create Near-Incurable Curses Using Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft!
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Heaven meets Hell as a dual-system Graywalkers Purgatory tabletop RPG launches on Kickstarter
A modern fantasy in which the supernatural horror has brought parts of Heaven and Hell to Earth, reshaping the world…
Play with Class: Forge a Fabulous Fighter
Welcome to another installment of the Play with Class series where we will give you solid steps to run each…
The Summer of Starhaven is Coming!
Society is in chaos, a city is born, and Europa needs heroes!One of the most amazing things about starting Mutants…
Mörk Borg supplement Fisk Borg introduces fishing mechanics to the doom metal RPG
Hold tight a torch in one hand and a tackle box in the other because Fisk Borg ,a recently announced…
Brief Description of 5e Classes and Subclasses (Ideal to Show to your Players), Part 7
Thumbnail from Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft’s coverVan Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft came to spook us much earlier than Halloween, and…
Dark Art Extravaganza
Art lovers… From Wednesday, May 26th until Sunday, May 30th… 20% off almost every original painting in my shop. Take…
Xia: Legends of a Drift System creator’s long-awaited fantasy RPG board game Arydia finally gets a Kickstarter
After almost eight years in development, Xia: Legends of a Drift System designer Cody Miller’s ambitious ‘green legacy game’ Arydia:…
Rogue Review- 77 Ways to Play Tenzi
I came across this one recently and if you’re in the mood for a super complicated game that will last…
Interview with Director Sam Firstenburg (American Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III)
Feature film director Sam Firstenburg visits the podcast today. His most famous films include American Ninja, American Ninja II, Ninja…
New Agon supplement Realms of Khaos is less The Odyssey and more Thor: Ragnarok
Bid farewell to the gods and monsters of your home and trek amongst the stars in a new official supplement…
Competition: Horror movies and Uncharted Top Trumps
Do you remember Top Trumps? You may have played in years ago as a game where you pick values from…
The Witcher: Old World board game raises over £1.5 million on Kickstarter in less than a day
The latest tabletop adaptation of The Witcher video game series has successfully raised over £1.5 million via its Kickstarter campaign.…
Dungeons & Disabilities: Can tabletop RPGs redeem their problematic portrayal of disability?
When I played Dungeons & Dragons as a teenager in the late ‘90s, one of our fears was becoming disabled.…
Next Wave of ‘D&D Icons of the Realms Premium Painted Figures’ Incoming
WizKids revealed new miniature packs for the D&D Icons of the Realms Premium Painted Figures line, which will arrive in…
Books That Changed Me – Part 2
Like everyone, I go through phases where I don’t read a ton of books. Those are the days when time…
How To Make D&D Scary
Varieties of Fear By now, you’ve probably gotten the idea that there’s not just one way to make D&D scary,…
ICv2 Interview: Asmodee USA Head of Distribution Andre Kieren
We caught up with Asmodee USA Head of Distribution Andre Kieren for a Zoom interview recently, in which we discussed…
Meet the Iconics: Ija
In Kiutu, a quiet village on the eastern coast of Terwa Lake, young children often grow up listening to tales…
D&D Accessories: These Mage Tools Are Magic
Keep your remaining spell slots straight and your dice looking like magic with these spell caster and mage tool D&D…
Fantastic Worlds Productions: Reaching for the Stars While Keeping It 100
A blue-collar crew just trying to scrape by are forced by bad luck, corporate intrigue, and their empty bank accounts…
Sugar Dice: Shock, amuse and reward your players with candy dice
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Imagine the scene. You let the dice…
Exclusive: Explore inside Critical Hit – A Gaming Mystery
Novelist and game designer W.M. Akers has just launched their latest Kickstarter. Critical Hit is a mystery novel about murder…
D&D: The Summer Of Drizzt Heralds A New Novel
In case you missed it, this Summer is going to be the Summer of Drizzt. What is that all about?…
Finding a Big Bad: Beasts
The Beast class of monster is hugely varied from the common Frog to the monstrous Tyrannosaurus Rex. Beasts do cap…
Transmissions into Unified Space
Welcome to the first transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current events and…
The Workshop: Heroes on Demand – Roger Stevens “The Shield”
Sentinel Comics The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook CoverI’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the Sentinel Comics Roleplaying…
Start playing RPGs Tales from the Loop and Symbaroum for under £1
If you’re looking to take your first steps into the retro-futuristic sci-fi universe of Tales from the Loop and dark…
Pandemic, Catan and Pathfinder RPG publishers pull out of physical Gen Con return
The publishers behind major board games including Pandemic, Catan, Arkham Horror and Ticket to Ride, as well as fantasy tabletop…
Heroes of Barcadia is a drinking dungeon-crawler that wants to be fun without getting drunk
A drinking board game inspired by an April Fool’s Day joke is headed to Kickstarter next month, hoping to give…
Warlock 101: Undead Patron in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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Tabletop Gallery: Drakespawn March of Malerion
Drakespawn Knights patrolling a Realmgate Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure. From the Grimdark, to…
Heroes Of Barcadia Kickstarter Campaign Goes Live On June 7th
Self-proclaimed "ThinkGeek minions"-turned-game-designers Rollacrit are launching the official Kickstarter campaign for Heroes of Barcadia, a drink-based role-playing game that originally started…
Find One Eyed Willie’s Rich Stuff in ‘The Goonies’ Board Game
Make sure to bring a Baby Ruth bar. You know, just in case. Funko Games has announced The Goonies: Never…
Begin your adventures with Tales from the Loop and Symbaroum for less than a quid
Humble Bundle and Free League Publishing have today launched a bundle offer for several award-winning RPGs. Tabletop roleplaying games like…
PaizoCon Europe Online 2021: Tickets, GM Signups and More
Bonjour and Güten Tag, players and GMs! We know you’re all getting ready for PaizoCon Online this weekend, but we…
Shawn Tomkin has reached the stars with Ironsworn: Starforged, but he couldn’t do it alone
Designer Shawn Tomkin never really expected Ironsworn to achieve its current level of success and popularity. The touted low-fantasy tabletop…
Somninauts: Dreamy mystery adventures in RPG form
Fish in the Pot have a rules-light RPG up on Kickstarter that’s attracted a “Project We Love” label from the…
Rogue’s Gallery: Brahm the Venturer
Brahm is tall and broad shouldered like most of his kin. He keeps his chest and back uncovered so as…
Licensing, Support, & Compatibility
This article is a little different to the previews we’ve been sharing over the past months. In this article, we’d…
Ships of the Expanse – Welcome Aboard
This is the book you’ve all been waiting for! The first major supplement for The Expanse RPG is all about…
Game of the Year turns the tabletop into a video game studio hungry for awards
Could a video game about Cthulhu driving a taxi with incredible hair physics win an award? Game of the Year,…
Can you guess popular board games from their worst one-star reviews? It’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Dicebreaker’s new video producer Liv joins familiar faces Matt, Wheels and Lolies to talk through what we’ve been up to…
A Crash Course on Four Common Types of Art Print
So… You say you’re in the market for some art prints. First of all, awesome. After all, art prints have…
Astral Projections – Cyberpunk RED Play Experience
Finally, a few weeks ago, my gaming group was able to play CyberpunkRED (CPRED), which I was really hyped for.…
D&D: WotC Adds Three New Types Of Drow, Retcons Drow Lore
With the ‘Summer of Drizzt’ looming over us all, WotC has unveiled three new types of drow: Udadrow, Aevendrow, and…
CMON Announces ‘Army of the Dead: A Zombicide Game’
CMON announced Army of the Dead: A Zombicide Game, a new board based on Netflix's hit movie. Army of the…
DUNE #17 – Faction Characters: The Suk
By Andrew Peregrine In Dune: Adventures in the Imperium there are several character types that offer special powers and abilities.…
Create Magical Ornaments in ‘Winter Queen’
CrowD Games will release Winter Queen, a new abstract board game, which will hit stores on June 16. In Winter…
Paizo Will Release Two New ‘Starfinder RPG’ Card Sets
Paizo will release two new sets of Starfinder RPG cards in the second half of 2021. Alien Archive 1 &…
Dwayne Johnson in ‘Super-Pets’; Animated Drizzt Short; Bruce Timm’s New ‘Batman’ Series; New ‘Spidey’ Pre-School Series; ‘Mech Cadets’ Series, ‘Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two’
A raft of geek animation news broke in the last few days and we round it up here.Dwayne Johnson is…
Rolling for Initiative — Back to Normal? Not Quite
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Under pressure sci-fi excellence: A review of Last Fleet
Black Armada published the Joshua Fox designed Last Fleet after a successful Kickstarter. It’s an excellent game, truly it’s great.…
Exclusive extract from Transgressive Horror by Darren Watts
Darren Watts, along with Steve Long, founded Hero Games. That means he’s the president of the RPG publisher responsible for…
“So You Want The Tall Vampire Lady to Catch You” is an RPG for your personal collection
In Capcom’s Resident Evil: Village the most memorable villain might not be the big bad Mother Miranda, but the “big…
Genre Police: Just the Two of Us
I gaze into her eyes over the table. For a moment, we hold focus, wrapped up in the experience we…
ACE! The Awfully Cheerful Engine is a loving parody of 80s games
Live and funded on Kickstarter is Russ Morrissey (EN World, WOIN), Dave Chapman (Doctor Who, Star Trek Adventures) and Marc…
Here’s what the Satanic Panic looked like for D&D: Remastered 60 Minutes footage
In the years after D&D’s release, it did not go down well with some Americans. The concern arose from the…
D&D: Want To Crank Up The Tension? Use Rests Sparingly
The real power fantasy of D&D is that you can reliably get a good night’s rest, and wake up feeling…
The alien neo-noir post-post apocalypse: Favor RPG
Favor is an ambitious first project from Eclipse Entertainment and a post-post apocalypse RPG on Kickstarter. The game has a…
Make monsters your prey: A review of Wolf Hounds
Wolf Hounds is a tabletop RPG from Devin Fortman. It’s a Name Your Own Price game, published by Hare Trigger…
RPG Kitchen: Rent a tabletop RPG
You might have heard the joke or urban myth of the Millennial / Gen Z / Sagittarius saying, “What if…
The ‘Doctor Who’ Roleplaying Game: RPG Spotlight
Early episodes of Doctor Who may be lost to space and time, but you can still jump in your police…
Hideous Laughter Productions Presents: Bestow Curse!
Hello again Paizo-verse friends and family alike! It’s Steve from Hideous Laughter Productions, and I’m so thrilled to present to…
Trailblazing
It’s Alive! The kickstarter campaign for the Awfully Cheerful Engine is live, fully funded, and through it’s first stretch goal!…
Bard 101: College of Spirits in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Imagine a bard reaching for their instrument, seemingly about to buff a party member. Suddenly, an unnatural, dissonant melody echoes…
Release Update and Community Competition Winner
by Gavin Dady This week I’m going to give a general update on the status of the release schedule, and…
Into the Wilderness: Presenting Choice
Kareem pulled himself over the ridge, rolling to his feet to take in the valley. Waterfalls crashed over cliff faces…
Wizards of the Coast delivers a double dose of Drizzt Do’Urden in latest reveals
Everyone’s favourite drow snagged the spotlight during a May 20th livestream on Dungeons & Dragons’ YouTube channel, where publisher Wizards…
D&D: The Crew Behind Critical Role’s ‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ Talks RPGs
In another Legend of Vox Machina update, the cast and crew behind Critical Role’s upcoming animated series get down to…
Grid Force partners with LGBTQ+ non-profit It Gets Better
“You are not alone” is the message that many young lesbians, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people need to hear…