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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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The Raven RPG takes flight on Kickstarter with gothic horror inspired by Poe

February 24, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Raven – A Gothic Horror Roleplaying Game funding project is meant to produce a superbly and beautifully illustrated book. Written by the horror and mystery narrative award-winning author Daniel P. Espinosa and illustrated by the renowned gothic international talent Abigail Larson.

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

What did Roll20 see during D&D’s OGL drama?

February 24, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Roll20 have informed Geek Native that they will no longer be releasing detailed stats on which campaigns are being created on their platform. Sorry.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, cyberpunk: edgerunners, Dungeons & Dragons, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, roll20

Broken Cities is a diceless, GMless RPG in ZineQuest

February 24, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The diceless and GMless zine RPG asked for €2,500 and has hit that target. There’s still two weeks left to get involved.

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

Shield Maidens: Yggdrasil burns, Daughters of Freya, raise your shields as Mongoose releases a new RPG range

February 24, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mongoose’s first new IP is Alison Cybe’s Viking-cyberpunk Shield Maidens.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, Mongoose Publishing, shield maidens, vikings

Dungeon Denizens from Goodman Games crosses 1/4 of a $million by expanding DCC and 5e with 500 monsters

February 23, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Non-5e publishers have had an excellent start to the year, thanks to the OGL crisis. Goodman Games, the publisher of Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC), has timed Dungeon Denizens well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, goodman games, kickstarters, monsters

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Random Rambling Press

February 23, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let’s get indie RPG publishers some attention. Writing, designing, producing and publishing a game is especially hard. Imagine trying to market it at the same time?

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

The Rot: 1880 – Horror RPG comes to the golden age of the wild west

February 22, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The townsfolk have been disappearing without a trace in the night. No one knows what evil is lurking on the outskirts of town, but one thing is for sure- don’t go out at night.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kickstarters, western

R’lyehwatch: Lifeguards and elder gods in a rules-light RPG

February 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

R’lyehwatch will be an RPG zine, 40-page and 5.5″ x 8.5″, full colour, saddle-stitched print and have a PDF version too.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Tricube Tales, zinequest

Geek Native tracks the hottest RPG week on Kickstarter since records began

February 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The idea is Kickstarter Heat is a measure of how bullish publishers are feeling. If confidence is high, it is more likely that there will be many launches asking for higher campaign targets.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: geek native, kickstarters, stats

It’s a bundle deal! Arcana of the Ancients is Numenera for 5e

February 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A successful Kickstarter in 2019 took the Numenera world and shaped it into the 5e-powered Arcana of the Ancients.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dungeons & Dragons, Monte Cook Games, Numenera

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