Games Workshop share Warhammer Fest 2021 schedule; pause all pre-orders
Last week, Games Workshop announced that all pre-orders would pause for the next couple of weeks. By May, everything will…
Wicked Ones gets solo RPG rules
Just last week, Bandit Camp’s Forged in the Dark RPG Wicked Ones became a free download. That’s hundreds of pages…
Tome Unbound: Keyhole Dragonette
Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a keyhole dragonette without modifying its challenge rating. Innate…
Call of Cthulhu’s epic Masks of Nyarlathotep shows the perfect way to run a RPG campaign over years
For many tabletop RPG creators, writing a campaign that can keep players hooked over an extended period of time is…
Try Before You Buy – Klingon Empire Quickstart (Star Trek Adventures)
TM & © 2021 CBS Studios Inc. © 2021 Paramount Pictures Corp.“Try Before You Buy” is an occasional segment of…
DUNE #15 – Faction Characters: The Spacing Guild
By Andrew Peregrine In Dune: Adventures in the Imperium there are several character types that offer special powers and abilities.…
The creator of The Resistance is launching 21 free social games to play with your hands
Don Eskridge, the designer behind social deduction game The Resistance, is making a collection of free ‘hand games’ to be…
Price drop on the Marvel Legends Punisher War Machine helmet
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Frank Castle is unrelenting as The Punisher.…
Rolling for Initiative — ‘Strixhaven’ Shenanigans and Farewell to Lou Rexing and Robin Wood
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
DTRPG Review: Tomb of the Twilight Queen
Written by M.T. BlackInterior art by Jesse MohnDM Experience: NovicePlayer Experience: NoviceReview: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐M.T. Black is a veteran D&D writer with…
Dungeons & Doom: A review of the 5e-powered Hellboy RPG
Phew. I backed Mantic Games and Red Scar’s Hellboy RPG on Kickstarter and am pleased with the output. I’m a…
Apotheosis Studio’s Sirens: Battle of the Bards sings on Kickstarter
Satine Phoenix, Jamison Stone and the team has a D&D 5e setting and campaign that will take characters from level…
Lightweight dystopia: A review of Space Street RPG
In about a week, SR 16 will publish a lightweight RPG that merges investigative noir and dystopian sci-fi. It’ll be…
Free to Download: Tension RPG
Tension is an one page RPG from Late Night Zen. The RPG blog introduces the ghost hunting one-page system by…
Nice to Meet You, Dr Drones!
Rip-Roaring Relic Hunting! We’ve been talking about our lightweight and entertaining Awfully Cheerful Engine! quite a bit recently. After dipping…
Pathfinder: Wrath Of The Righteous Second Beta Will Launch May 5th
Owlcat Games revealed this week that Pathfinder: Wrath Of The Righteous will be getting a second beta on May 5th.…
Free to Download: Sölitary Defilement solo RPG rules for MORK BORG
MORK BORG is a doom metal art inspired RPG that one Best Product of the Year at the 2020 ENnies.…
D&D’s ‘Slender Man’ Lurks In Van Richten’s Guide To Ravenloft
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft contains many horrors, including a brand new monster previewed in the latest Dragon+. Meet the…
Forbidden Planet lands signed exclusive copies The Final Girl Support Group ahead of TV series
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Tabletop RPG company raises $17m as big names back One More Multiverse
It might look like a computer game, but One More Multiverse insists it’s all about the tabletop. In the site’s…
Get a Sneak Peek at the Stargrave Rulebook
Whether you are getting in on the Stargrave Presales Campaign campaign or not, we have something interesting for you. This is…
No-Prep Character: Zhang Yong
By Vanessa Hoskins Zhang Yong, Spirit Tender In the great fighting tournaments across Tien Xia, a competitor will occasionally perish…
Is Strixhaven a good entry point for the Magic: The Gathering newcomers? Well, it’s complicated.
Magic: The Gathering Strixhaven releases in physical form today and invites players into the ranks of fledgling mages at the…
Robotech: RPG Spotlight
This week we’re piloting our favorite mech suits and going to space and we take a look at the Robotech…
Outside the Box – April 23rd
Hello again, this week we have news from Artel W Miniatures, Manti Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Knight Models, Crooked Dice and…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #97
April 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Links may earn commission Howdy, geeks and happy birthday. It seems…
25% Off All Books in Our Marketplace!
Spring is here, and we're celebrating with a sale! All sourcebooks and adventure books in our marketplace are 25% off. You won't…
Warlock’s Apprentice: An Ode to Randomness
From the pages of Warlock 25: Dungeons! “Introduce a little anarchy. You know the thing about chaos? It’s fair!” (The…
Sea of Thieves RPG’s first big expansion adds ghost ships, ashen lords, vaults and emissaries
The Sea of Thieves RPG has received its first major supplement, introducing a number of recent updates from the seafaring…
Do we need a Metacritic for board game reviews? We discuss on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast!
On this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Lolies and Meehan clamber back inside the pod cockpit to jet through another week’s…
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft included in sale on D&D Beyond
Get the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook, Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, at 25% off its usual asking price on…
D&D: WotC Steps Up Production, Three More Products This Year
In a new design blog, WotC talks about the production cycle for Dungeons & Dragons–and reveals that five total products…
Finder’s Archive – Dungeon Creation (Part 7)
Hi everyone, Welcome to the final installment of the Dungeon Creation. This is where you’ll get the map and the…
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Seven
Folks, I have good news about this series: in this, the seventh article, we’re finishing the first chapter. It’s a…
Call of Cthulhu expands with Corsairs of Cthulhu
New Comet Games has a successful Kickstarter on its hands as hundreds of gamers embrace the siren summons of Corsairs…
Which environment type do you think is underused in D&D?
A small survey from Geek Native shows a surprising data point about D&D. Readers think that urban settings are the…
Fallout: Wasteland Warfare Mojave Wave: New California Republic
We sat down with Fallout: Wasteland Warfare’s designer, James Sheahan, to talk about the new profiles in the Mojave Wave. …
Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms Chapter 2 Overview Part 1 – The Steam and the Shadow
By Gavin Dady Right up front we need to talk about shipping (again). We make best efforts to get product…
Wizards of the Coast Announces ‘Magic: The Gathering’ ‘Dr. Lair’s Secretorium’ Superdrop
Wizards of the Coast announced the Magic: The Gathering Dr. Lair's Secretorium Superdrop, which includes ten new Secret Lair Drop…
Christian Petersen Company Buys Fantasy Flight Games Center
Gamezenter, Inc., a new company formed by former Fantasy Flight Games CEO Christian Petersen, has acquired the retail operations of…
MTG: Secret Lair Superdrop Spoilers – Mystical Archive, Concert Posters, Fulltext Lands, Culture Shocks
Want to get a look at three different sets of Secret Lair Cards? Mystical Archive arrivals, concert poster sorceries, and…
Creating an Organized Play Character
With PaizoCon Online coming up and Year 3 on the horizon, we thought we’d take a moment to talk about…
Dungeon Full Dive marches the virtual virtual tabletops forward
It’s not a typo; we have virtual virtual tabletops now. Virtual tabletops are online platforms that let us see dice…
Cubicle 7 renews Lone Wolf RPG and confirms new books
Time-travel back to 2013, and we’ve news of Joe Dever taking Lone Wolf to Cubicle 7, splitting from Mongoose, to…
Ruins of Symbaroum blazes a trail for 5th Edition players to explore its cursed forests
Dark Fantasy RPG Symbaroum plans to release a trio of books translating its popular setting into the 5th Edition rule…
April 2021 Starfinder Society Scenario Previews
I can’t believe it’s April already! Normally seen as a time of new beginnings, this April has some long anticipated…
D&D Dinner: RPG heroes reimagined as food!
I don’t suppose you’ve ever had reason to imagine what your Wizard character would look like as a doughnut or…
Beyond Belief Games announce a new edition of superhero RPG Triumphant!
Simon Washbourne’s superhero RPG Triumphant! will get a second edition in summer. Washbourne is probably best known for Barbarians of…
D&D: Making A Memorable Campaign
Whether you’re in it for the long haul or just playing for a couple of weeks, here are a few…
Into The Black is a lightweight RPG love letter to Mass Effect without the military trappings
Explore deepest space in a vain attempt to escape crippling debt with Into The Black, a new tabletop RPG inspired…
Thursday Art Assault – Soul Captivation
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D&D: Baldur’s Gates 1, 2 and Icewind Dale Get Major Updates, Plus Commander Shepard’s Voice
A major update for Beamdog’s enhanced editions of classic cRPGs Baldur’s Gates 1&2 and Icewind Dale brings bold new action…
Sirens: Battle of the Bards: A Discussion With Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone (Apotheosis Studios)
This is the first of two interviews I conducted with Satine Phoenix (The Sirens, Game Master Tips, and more) and…
Competition: History Heroes – Children
Geek Native tends to run plenty of competitions, but that does not mean the blog cannot do good at the…
12 best 1990s board games that are still worth playing today
The 1990s were a decade of cultural highs. In music, they brought us Nirvana, the Wu-Tang Clan and the Spice…
MTG: Oracle Changes – Mana Value, Shuffle, And More Updated
Just yesterday Magic: the Gathering released a swath of large templating changes that clarifies and codifies some key terms. Every…
Vulcania goes “Beyond the Storm” with their Kickstarter
Back in March, Geek Native gave Vulcania the thumbs up for excellent illustrations, nice mechanics and all-around good vibe. Now…
AAW Games and Foundry Server partner with free dungeons
If you sign up for a Foundry Server account, you will now get some free AAW Games mini-dungeons in your…
Starfinder: Scoured Stars—All Systems Go!
Starfinder Scoured Stars returns tomorrow night, Wednesday April 14, with “Episode 06 | All Systems Go,” at 6 p.m. Pacific…
A Little Bit About a Lot of Stuff
Hello readers! I have spent the better part of three months stagnating in a pool of demotivation and anxiety about…
Free to Download: Hexgaard’s Town Sheet
Hexgaard offer up map hexagons to give your tabletop gaming a bit of a boost. These bundles, like this collection…
Briar & Bramble: The sorrow of a Watership Down RPG
Freddie Taylor-Bell has today released the ashcan version of Briar & Bramble. Ashcan editions are generally the first look at…
The Ratatosk: Spells of the Squirrel-Folk
“Though they may not look it upon first glance, the ratatosk count clever and skillful spellcasters among their number. How…
New Cthulhu mythos RPG Against The Gods Themselves will span both time and several media formats
Fight a time-spanning war against cosmic horrors and cult leaders in a newly announced series of titles set in the…
D&D: The Kobold Guide To Monsters Offers New Perspective On Designing Monsters
Kobold Press is bringing their signature style and introspection to the art of fantasy monster design in the Kobold Guide…
Tabletop roleplaying has given players comfort, connection and control in a world that’s taken them away
Roleplaying games are far more than just a social hobby. They are a form of collaborative storytelling, whose roots extend…
How GMing made me an Extrovert, kind of – GM Tips & Tricks
Clickbaitey article name? Possibly. However, I wanted to talk about the ways I believe GMing has changed much of my…
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D&D: Chris Metzen’s New 5E Campaign Is The Best Way To Play A Salamander Person
Ex-Blizzard visionary Chris Metzen’s first foray into 5th Edition is Kickstarting now. Packed with new player content: Auroboros, Coils of…
Rogue Character- Anima Beyond Fantasy- Building a Ki Character
A few weeks ago I took an overview look at the RPG Anima Beyond Fantasy. This week we’re going to…
Streaming TTRPGs with Matt Jowett
Matt Jowett, Free League Publishing Twitch Director, joins me on the podcast. We discuss streaming tabletop role-playing games and Matt’s…
“They Sue Regularly” The Many Lawsuits Of TSR – Prime
Back in the 80s and 90s, people joked that TSR stood for “They Sue Regularly” and when you look at…
WizKids Will Release Two ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Single-Count Monster Packs
WizKids will release two single-count Magic: The Gathering Unpainted Miniatures packs, with their wave 15 offerings, which will be coming…
Repost – Forget Me Not
I wrote this blog during the very first year of doing blogs, and it hit upon me as I was…
Who We Are And What We Do
Author: Ray Winninger Welcome to our new Studio Blog! We created this space to give you a glimpse behind the…
Against The Gods Themselves: Modiphius announce a new RPG
In an interview with Wargamer, Chris Birch, Modiphius’ founder, has revealed a new RPG called Against the Gods Themselves is…
The cheap way to start Dungeon Crawl Classics
Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics is one of those systems that you might first encounter when someone recommends a game…
High Magic and Unconventional Heroes: New Compatible Products
Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible publishers submitted fourteen new products to paizo.com. Lands of Theia — 2nd Edition (PF2E) PDF Compatible with…
Free to Download: Wicked Ones lets you play as the dungeon baddies
Following on from a successful Kickstarter in 2019, which I backed, Wicked Ones now has a free download which you…
Designer of subverted fantasy RPG Wicked Ones explains decision to offer core book for free
Wicked Ones, a Forged in the Dark RPG about monsters gradually building a dungeon lair and combating pesky heroes, is…
$100,000 earned by Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent in the 5e setting’s opening minutes
Warchief Gaming has done it. Already. Within moments. Chris Metzen, ex-worldbuilder of Blizzard and a robust social ads campaign has…
Designing a Realistic Map For Your Campaign
When designing your map there are a few rules of thumb to keep in mind. These mostly have to do…
The Workshop – Bardic Inspiration Volume 1
Hey you. Yeah, you. I’ve got a question for you. Do you like Dungeons and Dragons? Do you like music?…
D&D: Take A Look Behind The Scenes Of Dark Alliance
Come and take a behind the scenes look at the making of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, the upcoming D&D…
Keystone: North America is the next big board game for nature lovers after Wingspan
Grow and nurture ecosystems in Keystone: North America, an upcoming board game about the importance of protecting fundamental species. Keystone:…
12–19 April 2021: Pandemic; Free League; Future
This week, a few articles again reflect on the pandemic, and what the future will mean for our industry —…
Disability representation in tabletop gaming matters – here are the games doing it right
Over the past decade there has been a surge of disability representation in pop culture, from movies and TV shows…
Magical Kitties Save the Day RPG is scampering back to Kickstarter next month
The family-friendly roleplaying game, Magical Kitties Save the Day, is returning to Kickstarter for another campaign later this month. Called…
Wizards of the Coast Releases Photo Teasing the Next ‘Magic: The Gathering’ ‘Secret Lair’ Release
Wizards of the Coast released a new clue as to the what cards will be featured in the next Secret…
MTG: MrBeast Is Giving Away $25,000 On Magic: Arena This Friday
This Friday, two lucky participants will win $25,000 playing games against YouTuber MrBeast in Magic: the Gathering Arena. YouTuber Jimmy…
Spring into Action with the April Showers Sale!
All Paizo PDFs and digital products are 25% off through Sunday, May 2nd! Just click on the “On Sale” tab…
Can you help prevent suicide by playing TTRPGs?
TTRPGs and Mental Health Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs) and mental health go hand-in-hand in today’s world. TTRPGs have become a…
Tabletop Gallery: The Doctor Will See You Now
In the right circumstances, Fabius Bile does house calls. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You…
Warhammer Quest: Cursed City is Too Big To Fit In One Article
For all the talk surrounding Cursed City, we still haven’t been able to discuss everything about it. But we’re doing…
Biohazard Games: Jeff Barber on using RPGs as a lens for modern concerns
It takes just a quick Google to find well researched and articulate essays on how horror and sci-fi reflect current…
400 grimdark monsters for 5e’s Grim Hollow
Ghostfire Gaming has always done well with their Grim Hollow Kickstarter campaign targets. I’ve not backed, but people keep coming…
Read an illustrated playthrough of solo RPG Thousand Year Old Vampire via Twitter
Live vicariously through the documented exploits of a centuries-old creature of the night while browsing Twitter, thanks to one person’s…