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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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Zombie Road TTRPG: Character sheets, cheat sheet and crowdfunding success

September 23, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Zombie Road, you play as yourself, and one of you is a traitor. That really is an uncommon and exciting pitch for a TTRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crowdfunding, gamefound, zombies

Ember: 25,000 hexes and perhaps a new TTRPG style born from VTT

September 22, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ember will be a game, a setting and a sandbox. While Foundry VTT is needed, only one person in the group must have the paid-for system running. Y

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, foundry, kickstarter, software

High-quality fairytales: A review of Rackham Vale Paintbox Edition

September 22, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Inspired by the fantasy and folklore art of the 19th-century golden age illustrator Arthur Rackham, Rackham Vale is a drop-in setting for Old-School Essentials.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crowbar creative, old school essentials, rackham vale, reviews

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #275

September 21, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Scotland Loves Anime expands to London with tickets and dates now available! Chaosium to publish Elf Quest. Support Doctors Without Borders with Roll20Con’s impressive charity bundles. Pre-order Space: 1999 TTRPG and Critical Role’s Daggerheart RPG. Exciting week for tabletop fans!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, daggerheart, elfquest, roll20con, routinely itemised

Pathfinder offers a Halloween deal with the Bundle of the Dead

September 20, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The spooky deal will run through October 10 and includes $811 retail value of content. This includes Book of the Dead, the complete six-part Blood Lords Adventure Path, the associated Foundry VTT modules, and many more titles.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, horror, humble, paizo, pathfinder

D&D 2024 Players Handbook debuts with mixed success

September 20, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest revision (or, as some argue, ‘edition’) of the 2024 Player’s Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons is out. It’s very early days, but the signs of success are mixed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dmsguild, Dungeons & Dragons, Fantasy Grounds, roll20, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: FiveEvil Splinters

September 19, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Handiwork Games have made the first of their FiveEvil supplements free, and FiveEvil Splinters is out now for download.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fiveevil, free to download, handiwork games, morgan davie

Corpus Draconis for 5E+ offers 10 new dragon subtypes and roasts Kickstarter targets

September 19, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native readers may remember when Dream Realm Storytellers was a promising RPG design studio in Turkey, and we were spotlighting their talent.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dream Realm Storytellers, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Unravel mysteries in Victorian London: Baker Street RPG bundle offer

September 19, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Baker Street, a Victorian investigative RPG designed by Bryce Whitacre, offers a compelling gameplay experience with its robust investigation mechanics.

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

Acid-fantasy gaming awaits: Dive into the Troika! 2024 bundle offer!

September 17, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Since the Bundle of Holding’s initial Troika! deal in 2021, the Melsonian Arts Council and collaborators have expanded this weird RPG universe with numerous new titles.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

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