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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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No Mercy For Monsters: A solo journaling game about toxic co-dependency
No Mercy For Monsters is a solo journaling game from Jess Pendley and Keith Pendley, which is running in Zimo 2025 and has been funded on BackerKit.
Art Gallery: Immortals the dark fantasy TTRPG
We’ve got some artwork from Black Lantern Productions Immortals TTRPG
Going For Broke: You’re still young and cool, right? (the TTRPG)
Avery Alder is crowdfunding on BackerKit, a tabletop RPG called Going for Broke.
The Archivium: How to play the dark academia cosy horror solo RPG
LichLight Imprints is a small publisher focusing on solo RPGs. Just over a week ago, the company launched The Archivium, a journalling game about mystery, knowledge and dread.
Quest for Zines: An interview with an RPG creator every day for a month
The Zine Quest success “Quest for Zines” will see 28 interviews with zine creators. The result? A zine with those interviews. You can support the community and the project over on Kickstarter.
Not the Witcher: Gardar Realm brings alternative Slavic mythology to 5e
Heretical Fun House are back on Kickstarter for a Slavic-inspired tabletop RPG setting. As the pitch video makes clear, it’s not the Witcher.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #295
This week’s TTRPG news roundup highlights the impact of Zine Month on Kickstarter, DriveThruRPG’s publisher fulfillment test, Atlas Games’ concerns about tariffs, Green Ronin’s 25th anniversary, a deluxe Dark Tower edition, and the surprising relevance of trade wars and anti-fascism in the hobby.
Publisher Fulfilled: DriveThruRPG experiments with retail versions of TTRPGs
Until this week, if you’ve wanted a softback or hardcover from DriveThruRPG, you would need to have found a TTRPG for which the publisher has submitted the right layout files and then ordered a print-on-demand.
Double back and leap forward: Three Champions 4e TTRPG offers
Right now, and until February 25th, the Bundle of Holding has three Heroes 4e TTRPG deals on the go.
