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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 185).

Onyx Path’s post-apocalypse 5e setting lands in the Bundle of Holding

October 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once, the gods and titans warred for supremacy, and vast armies of mortal creatures fought beside their creators.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dungeons & Dragons, onyx path publishing, Scarred Lands

Headless horrors and local writers: Backwards: Regional American Gothic Horror

October 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Backwards Tabletop publishes the 5-star rated Backwater: Southern Gothic Horror Tabletop Roleplaying and has expanded it once through Kickstarter.

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

Mattel wins the race to sell the first board game with integrated AI

October 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s Google tech. Mattel’s new Pictionary uses the “Quick, Drawl!” artificial intelligence, which I’ve used loads and helped train the AI. It’s free to play.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, board game, google, Mattel

A look inside: Dungeons & Dragons Lore & Legends

October 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The book has more than 900 artworks, including photography, digs into the history of D&D and has been sculpted by an impressive team of writers and researchers.

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Jon Peterson, previews

Can an RPG go viral? Don’t Play This Game horror chain letter might

October 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once an Event is completed the Entity will select another. This repeats and your story unfolds until either you complete the game and are free, or you lose and, well, then really bad things happen…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kickstarters, parable games

Competition: Win a deluxe Cocaine Owlbear (yes, really!)

October 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 8 Comments

The new edition adds spells. That’s right, your wildlife creature can be high on drugs and casting spells. What could go wrong?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: competitions, Fainting Goat Games, Honey Heist, kickstarters

Defenders of the Wild is animals against machines in a TTRPG and board game

September 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Defenders of the Wild also has over 1,000 backers and is $10,000 through its funding target. There’s a little under two weeks to

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #224

September 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s RPG news summaries column that reaches out to RPGers everywhere on Friday evenings as a one-stop review, discoveries, tips and interviews posts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: black armada, calendar, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, evil genius productions, horror, Lovecraftesque, rebel moon, routinely itemised

Take on the zombies in Morticians RPG Crossroads

September 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As Morticians, the Player Characters explore, guard, and fight through Sanctuary Valley. They’ll encounter nomadic scavengers, bikers and zombies and few of these groups will be friendly.

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

Prep for NaNoWriMo: Novel Writing Game Tools 2023 bundle

September 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

One more piece of appropriateness! Chunks of money raised by this bundle go to support NaNoWriMo.

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

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