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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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Red Markets TTRPG: Hebanon Games open second edition playtest

January 31, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Red Markets from Hebanon Games is a tabletop roleplaying game of economic horror. The second edition is being playtested, and you can pay what you want for a copy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: zombie

HELLGREEN: A solo TTRPG with free demo

January 30, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Naples-based artist and game designer Novecento Manfredi has hit crowdfunding targets for Hellgreen.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, solo rpgs

The Cabinet of Curiosities flashes a CBR+PNK deal

January 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The stripped-back Forged in the Dark pamphlet TTRPG CBR+PNK is up on the Bundle of Holding, but not for long.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, cbr+pnk, Cyberpunk

Bad Toad Games have a quick start for “Mercs, Mages and Monsters”

January 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“Mercs, Mages and Monsters” is a skill based TTRPG using a 3d8 roll under system. Set in the grim-lite yet humorous fantasy kingdom of Yogath.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: previews

Valentine’s Advent Calendars are a thing now (and a reason to get more dice!)

January 28, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The way to someone’s heart…. is a critical hit on a d20?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: calendars, dice

Immortals: Hubris & Glory – The darkness of mythic ancient Greece

January 28, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Immortals: Hubris & Glory runs on Kickstarter until March 1st and Black Lantern Productions estimates it’ll ship midway through April 2026.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: black lantern productions, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Bundle deal: Fantasy heists from Dusk City Outlaws

January 27, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dusk City Outlaws is a tabletop RPG from Scratchpad Publishing set in the fantasy world of New Dunhaven.

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

Celestial Empire 5e: Acheron Books shatter €100,000 with a TTRPG inspired by Marco Polo

January 26, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and explorer in the 13th century who travelled extensively throughout Asia.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #293

January 25, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Hello from Storm Eowyn. Geek Native HQ is by the coast, on a cliff face, but we’ve not been too battered by the strongest storm in the UK for years.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 3d printers, Dungeons & Dragons, iron kingdoms, routinely itemised, Steamforged Games

White Box Cyclopedia: Five decades of dungeon crawling fund on Kickstarter

January 24, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The pitch is that the White Box Cyclopedia is that it’s not the original Swords & Wizardry White Box with extra content (some 200 pages) but a ‘what if…’ of D&D’s Dave and Gary remaining friends.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Matt Finch, Mythmere Games, Swords & Wizardry

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