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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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Continuing the archive of independent Games reporting (Archive Page 147).

Genre Police: The Adventure Begins

May 30, 2024 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Since I went full professional as a GM in 2020, not including any planning time, I’ve been at actual tables running games with players for a rough total of 2,544 hours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, genre police, planescape, the children of fear

Dream City Knights is a garagepunk TTRPG

May 30, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dream City Knights invites players to navigate the complex world of adolescence while exploring a fantastical dreamscape.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Guillaume Tavernier brings another Collection of Fantasy Maps to Kickstarter, and Geek Native has an exclusive sample

May 29, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Emerging from the unfathomable Mists of Premices, the Swallowed has always been known to the locals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters, virtual tabletop

Rifts Coalition Wars comes to the Bundle of Holding

May 29, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The return of magical energy has shattered reality, opening portals to other dimensions and unleashing a plethora of supernatural beings.

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

Castles in the Air uses Good Society for coming-of-age roleplaying

May 28, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Invoking stories like Little Women and Anne of Green Gables, Castles of the Air has characters begin as tight-knit children and then has them grow up.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: good society, kickstarters, storybrewers

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Calamity Punk Publishing

May 28, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this interview, we chatted with the creative director, Mike, and his brother, the systems designer Nick. As with many indie publishers, the talent behind Calamity Punk Publishing wears many hats.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: spotlight

Genre Police: If It Bleeds, We Can Play It

May 26, 2024 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Have you ever experienced a situation where you can’t shake an RPG session?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, larp, vampire

Get your hands on 7 beat ’em ups for less than £16 with Humble Bundle

May 26, 2024 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Time for another great deal from Humble Bundle, and this time it’s a Brutal Beat ‘Em Ups video game bundle that’s worth every penny! For just under £16 (or $20) you can get your hands on a total of SEVEN modern beat ’em ups valued at £129 ($164).

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: humble bundle

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #258

May 25, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Get your weekly dose of RPG news with Geek Native’s routinely itemised round-up. Stay up-to-date on the latest releases, interviews, and events in the tabletop gaming world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, paizocon, routinely itemised

Craving TTRPG: One d6, millions of zombies

May 22, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The search for water and food will be crucial, as will the search for precious and limited bullets and medicines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, zombies

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