Voyages of the Vagabond: More than $50,000 pledged to make travelling in RPGs less boring
Do you struggle to run a scenario when the PCs decide they need to travel 100 miles across country? Or…
Starfinder: Alien Archive Is Here – PDF Wednesday
Starfinder’s newest Alien Archive is the weirdest one yet. Full of alien creatures from the banal to the bizarre, you’ll…
DUNE#3 What’s So Special About Dune?
By Andrew Peregrine Dune is one of the greatest works of Science Fiction, one easily compared to Lord of the…
DUNE#4 What’s So Special About Dune
By Andrew Peregrine Dune is one of the greatest works of Science Fiction, one easily compared to Lord of the…
Hark! News From the Warrens!
Kazoos both jubilant and sad are sounding from the warrens today because I have some rather sizable news. Starting today,…
Flash Gordon board game headlines a 40-year celebration of the campy cult-classic film
A “retro-style family” Flash Gordon board game will launch on Kickstarter to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1980 space…
Astral Projections – Bionic Dog for Genesys
Nearly everyone would love a pupper as a present, including cybernetically enhanced superspies. Some years ago, I created Mutants &…
PAX Unplugged dated for December 2021
PAX Unplugged will return in 2021 following the physical tabletop convention’s cancellation this year as the result of COVID-19. PAX…
Handiwork Games launch Handimonsters subscription
New monsters every month is the offer from Handiwork Games and Handimonsters. The Patreon powered subscription model allows backers to…
Elder Scrolls Call to Arms: Updated Release Schedule
As many of you will be aware, we’ve had some big issues with shipping. The reality is that global logistics…
40K’s Uriel Ventris, Ahsoka Tano, D&D’s “Advanced” Ranger, GW’s New Releases, Nic Cage’s Best
This weekend 40k: Uriel Ventris returns with a new mini, check out Ahsoka Cosplay, D&D “Advanced” Ranger rules, & Guide…
Seven Seas Nabs 'Lupin III' Manga
Plus 'Bloom Into You Anthology,' 'Hello World,' 'Great Pretender,' 'Mars Red,' More The manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment had a…
To Dream, Perchance to Sleep: A review of Drift of Dreams
In Tikor, when humans sleep, their minds enter a dimension known as the Tapestry. The Tapestry is a realm where…
Rolling For Initiative — Who Could Buy WotC?
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
D&D: Playtest The “Advanced” Ranger Today
What happens when a Ranger stops being a hybrid spellcaster, and starts being effective? Check out the latest from Level…
RPG: Aliens Unleashes Colonial Marines
Fria Ligan’s Alien RPG opens up the colonial marines experience with a new supplement. Load your pulse rifle and watch…
Final hours on the Fragged Cyberpunk
Blink, and you'll miss it. Wade Dyer gave Fragged Cyberpunk just a week to run on Kickstarter, and we're down…
Cryptographers Guild: Sell your own cyberpunk 5e-powered creations
One of the lesser-known but hugely satisfying cyberpunk RPGs out there is Entromancy. It’s an agile 5e-powered game and I…
D&D: Roll20 Presents Rime of the Frostmaiden – Episode 6
Are you ready for winter’s chill? Join our adventurers as they attempt to survive and thwart Auril’s endless winter! Icewind…
Level Up Survey: Ranger v2
Earlier we released the second playtest candidate for our Ranger class. This is the accompanying survey. This survey is for…
Level Up Playtest: Ranger v2
Welcome to the 7th Level Up playtest document. This playtest contains a second candidate for the game’s ranger class. The…
Spawn of Cyclops Con will cover D&D as well as DCC
Goodman Games’ next conference is Spawn of Cyclops Con. The online convention will use New York’s timezone (UTC -5) and…
RPG Spotlight: Our Last Best Hope
Assemble your team and come up with a fourth contingency plan this week as we try to avert the apocalypse…
Aliens, Robots and Interstellar Humans
A Galaxy-Spanning Career Continuing our look at the forthcoming Judge Child supplement for Judge Dredd & the Worlds of 2000…
Boom with a Capital B – Rapid-Fire villains!
The Astonishing Adventures line blasts off into space this week with our very first cosmic adventure, Prodigal Sun by Larry Wilhelm.…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #77
December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Links may earn ad money Here in the North, it is…
Abrams Unveils Spring 2021 Slate
Abrams has rolled out the Spring 2021 title lineup for its Abrams Comicarts and Megascope imprints. Megascope is a new…
Emma Partlow joins us to talk Magic: The Gathering, D&D and the best Trivial Pursuit replacements on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast
On this week’s episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast, we’re joined by the wonderful Emma Partlow to chat about the latest…
DUNE #2 – Gaming in the Imperium
By Andrew Peregrine So, we’ve talked about what Dune is, and what it’s about, but what sort of game have…
Southlands Wallpapers
It’s December, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a high-adventure set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or whatever electronic…
Free to Download: Stone the Crows
Grant Howitt’s latest one-page RPG, delivered thanks to his Patreon backers, is about birds plotting to steal the Crown Jewels…
Chamber: John Harper’s Paragon system gets a new RPG
The year is 1968. Two years ago, on January 7, 1966, an alien energy, now known as THE SIGNAL, reached…
Quest RPG’s narrated rulebook melds tutorial, actual play and scripted audio drama
The Adventure Guild, publisher of Quest, has teamed up with actual play streamer No Initiative to record its roleplaying game’s…
Monte Cook Games supercharges Cypher System Creator
The Cypher System Creator Program is one which lets third party creators, people like you and me, create, sell and…
Finder’s Archive – Christmas Special Vol. 2 of 4
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.Last week we started week one (or days 1 – 7) of…
Kids on Brooms RPG ditches collaboration in favour of spell-slinging in card game Duel of the Wands
Kids on Bikes publisher Renegade Games will pit players against each other in Duel of the Wands, a competitive card…
Wizards of the Coast Teases ‘Secret Lair’ Drops for 2021/2022
Artist Series Drops features 'Saga's' Fiona Staples, Kaja and Phil Foglio, and New 'Ultimate Edition'
TableStar Games Returns to the Board Game Scene
Peter Hansell's Company has Recently Re-Opened After the COVID-19 Shutdown with 'Bike Route Sacramento' TableStar Games is back in the…
Organized Play Staff Update
Hi everybody! The end of 2020 sees a bit of reorganization going on right now in the editorial department, with…
Dungeons and Destiny: Destiny gets a 5e powered TTRPG
Dungeons & Destiny currently lives in a public Google Drive, and it's packed with information.
Alien RPG Receives New Colonial Marines Operations Manual
Free League Publishing revealed a new addition to the Alien: The Roleplaying Game with the Colonial Marines Operations Manual. Working…
Organized Play Monthly Update
Organized Play Monthly Update Thursday, December 03, 2020 OPM Musings In many ways, I’m relieved to see the home…
Pew Pew: Bounty Hunters in Space look to one-shot Kickstarter
Fainting Goat Games have a one-shot campaign that uses (slightly modified) Havoc Brigade rules on Kickstarter called Pew Pew. It’s…
7 best skirmish games for small-scale wargaming
What are the best skirmish games, and why should you care? Would you like to play a fun game where…
Colonial Marines Operations Manual enlists players for new Alien RPG adventures next March
Colonial Marines Operations Manual, a full campaign module for Alien: The RPG, will release in March 2021. The hardcover supplement…
IDW and Toho International, Inc. Ink Monster 'Godzilla' Deal
IDW and Toho International, Inc. have announced a multi-year licensing deal for Godzilla, as well as related monsters from the…
Colonial Marines Operations Manual expansion for the Alien RPG opens for pre-orders
Free League Publishing has announced a $39.99 Colonial Marines Operations Manual hardback supplement for their Alien RPG. The expanion is…
D&D: Kobold Press Goes To The Southlands
Kobold Press’ new Kickstarter wants to take you to an all-new campaign setting. Come check out the Southlands, a new…
Nibiru supplement confirmed as the sci-fi RPG of memories and monsters expands
Nibiru is a sci-fi RPG with a focus on memories, set in a massive spacecraft in which people are the…
Monthly Encounter #16: Saving the giant, a Jinglemas Adventure (lvls 5-10)
Thumbnail image by Brent Rombouts Here at Tribality, we’ve decided to provide our readers with Encounters ready to be added…
Opera House, an RPG: An Interview With One-Person Show, Andrew Peregrine
For the 2017 ENnie Awards at Gen Con, I won the dream date/auction to sit with Cubicle 7. It was…
D&D: How To Do A Character Voice, No Accent Needed
Want to bring more vocal variety to your RPGs? Here are five different things you can try to add some…
Free League Publishing Announces a New 'ALIEN RPG' Campaign Module
Free League Publishing announced The Colonial Marines Operations Manual, campaign module for ALIEN RPG, which will release in March 2021.…
New Abrams ComicArts Book Explores the 'Magic: The Gathering' Multiverse
'Magic: The Gathering: Planes of the Multiverse' by Wizards of the Coast and Jay Annelli Abrams Books will release Magic:…
Pick up Warhammer 40,000 RPGs Black Crusade and Only War with all their expansions for under £14
Grab Warhammer 40,000 RPGs Black Crusade and Only War, along with all their available supplements and sourcebooks, for a song…
Warhammer 40K: The Only War Humble Bundle
Join up with the Imperial Guard today–you can find all of the Only War books under one single humble bundle.…
New Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts Are Here!
This week, our partners at WizKids released the thirteenth wave of Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts unpainted plastic miniatures. Thirteen! I…
Shieldice Studio’s world-building toolkit
Mentioned October’s Routinely Itemised: RPGs #69 was Jay Merritt’s Realm Fables Kickstarter project. The campaign to bring source-books of micro-settings,…
Cubicle 7’s Warhammer 40K Black Crusade and Only War RPGs list on Humble Bundle
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales. Black Crusade is a standalone RPG…
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: December 2, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Before the Stroke at Midnight – 5e Before the Stroke of…
The Elusive Shift, My New Book
Since Playing at the World came out, I’ve been asked now and again about extending its historical timeline for just a…
Otari Logger Marks
This week on our series of Otari-themed blogs, we’re looking at Otari’s primary industry: logging. While none of the pre-written…
Give a Gift, Get a Gift
Do you know a certain scaly someone who could use a dragon’s hoard of Kobold Press products for the holidays? Do you also…
Barbarian 101: Path of the Beast (from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything)
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D&D: Five Great Magic Items For Beginners
Magic items are great treasures for anyone… but these five magic items are perfect for players who are new to…
Blood Feud RPG designers deny their game is a male fantasy
Last week, Geek Native mentioned Blood Feud a new RPG from Bläckfisk Förlag which is offering free to download playtest…
Free to Download: Vortex Flux unique sci-fi RPG
Lando Baldur launched the roleplaying game Vortex Flux this week with version 0.01 [Alpha]. If that doesn’t sound like a…
Blades in the Dark creator John Harper talks Chamber, Paragon and new details on his Fast & Furious-inspired RPG
Blades in the Dark designer John Harper spent the last week teasing a new project on Twitter. The spooky art…
Total War: Warhammer II, The Twisted & The Twilight Review
Wood Elves are here, and with them, come all new units and legendary lords–but how does it play? Join as…
Midgard Alchemy: Potion Formulations
Typically, players find or are awarded magic items, but sometimes they wish to create them—or at least know how they…
Rogue Hyperspace
Holy points change, Batman! I was expecting new points to come out last week for the new ships released but…
Cultural Respect, Reactive GMing with Archeologist Scott Smallwood
Archeologist and tabletop role-playing game designer Scott Smallwood joins me on the podcast today. We learn about Scott’s history with…
Southlands sends Dungeons & Dragons to mythical Egypt in updated setting from Kobold Press
RPG publisher Kobold Press has launched a Kickstarter for an updated re-release of its Southlands campaign setting, which will be…
STA Dev Blog 005: A Guide to Star Trek Adventures
By Sam Webb, Head of Product for Modiphius Entertainment Extended Tasks in Star Trek Adventures While they may seem daunting,…
Worlds Upon Worlds
The Crossing deals directly with parallel worlds where all that we’re limited by is what crazy idea Robert, Sean, or…
Warhammer Quest Silver Tower Gets An Expansion
Warhammer Silver Tower introduces a deathly new expansion featuring the forces of Nagash. As the undead swarm the Silver Tower,…
Join the dark elf resistance as Spire comes to the Bundle of Holding
In the game you play as a dark elf, part of the resistance in a city a mile high, trying…
Edge Studio share some early Midnight D&D 5e concept art
Midnight is an RPG setting based on the concept "What if the baddies won?" in a Tolkien-style fantasy world. What…
RPG Accessories: Snowy Dice
Even down here in Austin it’s starting to get cold, and it’s the perfect weather to curl up with a…
Star Trek: Discovery stars share their exploits and lessons from playing Dungeons & Dragons together
Blu del Barrio simply wanted to find a way the cast of Star Trek: Discovery could spend time together, again.…
Blades in the Dark designer unveils Chamber, a sci-fi RPG setting inspired by X-Files and Control
Secure. Contain. Playtest.
Paizo, Inc. Reveals First Stand-Alone Adventure for 'Starfinder RPG'
Paizo, Inc. revealed Junker's Delight, the first stand-alone adventure for Starfinder RPG, for release on August 5, 2021. This first…
Adventure Calendar unwraps a holiday RPG one day at a time
One-page indie RPG whizz Grant Howitt has announced a new collaboration with artists and designers called Adventure Calendar. One new…
UK Games Expo plan a June 2021 Expo
The nations of the United Kingdom are still in various states of lockdown, travel between tiers is restricted (and a…
Character Spotlight: Sassa the Lorehunter
I’ve recently become obsessed with creating characters on D&D Beyond. I lovingly craft them, going back over feat choices, spell…
RPG: Take A Look At The New Dune RPG
Theere’s a new Dune RPG in the works, which you can pre-order soon. Get ready to explore the sands of…
Publishers Spotlight: January 2021 poll opens for Patrons
Geek Native runs a Patreon. Why? It started in response to a request to support the site without ads and…
D&D: Is Hasbro Preparing To Sell WotC? ICv2 Seems To Think So
With two lawsuits on the horizon, and recent board game moves, rumors swirl that Hasbro might be prepping to sell…
Cyberpunk RED: A Review
Disclaimer: I received a free pre-release copy of the PDF to review. New from R. Talsorian Games, Inc. (RTG) comes…
Standalone adventures are coming to Starfinder RPG next year
First release is called Junker’s Delight.
“It’s more important for us to be deeply loved than to be deeply successful”: How dark fantasy RPG Blackbirds took flight
Lead designer Ryan Verniere talks team building and trusting vision to others.
Paizo, Inc. Announces ‘Pathfinder Secrets of Magic’
New 2E Rulebook for Magus and Summoner Classes
WFRP: Explore The Reikland In Five Quick Adventures
A new release from Cubicle 7 opens up more of the Reikland than ever before. With five adventures, ready to…
Tabletop Gallery: Vampyres of Baal
“The Monster vs the Witch” Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A…
This Week on Twitch, Nov 30 – Dec 6
This Week on Twitch, Nov 30 - Dec 6 Monday, November 30, 2020 Check out what we have in store…
Indie RPGs: Ind of the Year 2020 Itch bundle
The Ind of the Year 2020 bundle of indie RPGs launched on Itch.io today.
Free to Download: Chrome Shells & Neon Streets
Chrome Shells & Neon Sheets is a one-page (two sides) RPG from Zadmar Games. You can get it for less…