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Welcome to Geek Native's command centre for all things gaming. This is your primary hub for the latest news, reviews, and discoveries from the vibrant worlds of tabletop gaming. We delve deep into immersive tabletop roleplaying games, strategise over the latest board games, and shuffle up for compelling card games. Our passion is for the analogue experience, the roll of the dice, and the community around the table.

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Free League Publishing bring the indie RPG Black Powder and Brimstone to game stores

March 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Black Powder and Brimstone is a MÖRK BORG-compatible indie but standalone RPG packed with lore, explosions, magic, war, and demons.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, mork borg

Chainsaws and Canopies: Is The Wildsea Bundle the Weird Fantasy Your TTRPG Collection Craves?

March 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Wildsea is bizarre beauty and perilous adventure where you might play anything from a daring captain to, yes, even a character who is part of a hive collective!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, the wildsea

Critical Role celebrates 10 years with an exclusive whiskey

March 18, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Whitestone Courage offers notes of buttery biscuit, rich toffee, and a whisper of smoke. Its smooth, velvety texture is the result of careful aging in both charred oak and tempranillo casks, lending depth and a hint of maple bacon.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: critical role, drinks, find familiar spirits, Matthew Lillard

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Stonehome Games

March 18, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Stonehome Games won the RPG Publisher Spotlight this month, and I hope the timing works out for them because they’re a contender in the 5th Worldbuilding Awards in which you can vote.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs

Emmet Byrne’s “Beyond the Woods” is an Irish hexcrawl for survival

March 17, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is set in an Irish mythology-inspired Tir Nascath, a dark land where the magical Golden Oak has been protecting people from the undead Slaugh.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Emmet Byrne, kickstarters

Never Going Home: Haunted Trenches RPG bundle

March 17, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Never Going Home is a game of shared storytelling. Gaming groups collectively create a soldier Unit and play through their experiences.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, horror, never going home, wet ink games

Worldbuilding Amazing Adventures: More Monsters

March 16, 2025 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Amazing Adventures is a d20 game of modern adventure. Amazing Adventures uses familiar old school rules but keeps the roll high vision of later editions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing adventures, rpg tips, world building

Celebrate JAWS’ 50th anniversary with this updated version of ‘The Game of JAWS’

March 16, 2025 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

That’s right, it’s been 50 years since the classic shark horror movie JAWS was released – and now, one of the classic games, The Game of JAWS, has had a MAJOR update!

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: board games, jaws

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #300

March 15, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news: Origins Awards finalists, D&D on Yoto, Hasbro’s boss on AI, LOTR starters, and the Monty Python RPG (yes, it’s out!)

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crowbar creative, exalted funeral, Monty Python, Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, Paizo Publishing, routinely itemised, starfinder

Shadowdark smashes a million again with The Western Reaches setting and a premium edition

March 13, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In 2023, Shadowdark hit $1.3 million on Kickstarter and won multiple awards. Two years later, and Kelsey Dionne’s The Arcane Library looks set to repeat and better that tally with The Western Reaches setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, shadowdark, the arcane library

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