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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 192).

Tabletop Scotland quits Perth and moves to Edinburgh

August 28, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletop Scotland 2024 will move to Edinburgh and the Royal Highland Centre. Despite the name, the Royal Highland Centre is further south than Perth and just outside Edinburgh.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, tabletop scotland

Community building OSR bundle: The Nightmares Underneath

August 28, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Johnstone Metzger’s innovative RPG has one further twist in that it is centred around community. The PCs invest Loot from the dungeon into her home village, making it more robust so that the PCs can buy better gear and return to the nightmare bubble.

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

New Hellboy Web of Wyrd trailer + we’ve got the release date

August 27, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

A new trailer has just dropped for Hellboy Web of Wyrd, and it looks like an awesome game – we’ve also learned it’s due to be released on October 4th. Spooky season! The trailer, released by Upstream Arcade and Good Shepherd Entertainment, looks incredible, with the most notable thing being the art, created in the […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: hellboy

Sanction RPG engine: A first look at the settings and goals

August 27, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sanction is a simple system for challenge-driven games, with player characters who are usually anything but heroes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, Paul Baldowski, the dee sanction

Love Mutants and the Idylls of the Rat King: Goodman Games brings DCC back to Humble

August 27, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A $25 spend will get you $1,047 in DCC value and a 20% coupon. We have until August 23rd to bag the deal.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, dungeon crawl classics, goodman games, humble bundle

Watch the live-action trailer for video game ‘Starfield’

August 26, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

If, like us, you love anything sci-fi, you’ll love this live-action trailer for upcoming Bethesda sci-fi game Starfield – it’s impressive to say the least.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: Bethesda, starfield, trailers, xbox

Beyond Cataclysm Games bought every d13 in the world for a solo RPG

August 26, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

First, said Dave, they bought up all the d13s in Europe and then had to go further afield to acquire enough dice. Beyond Cataclysm Games got to the point where they believed they had bought every spare d13 in the world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #219

August 26, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news summary column that features reviews, discoveries, tips, and interviews. It is published every Friday night for RPG enthusiasts everywhere.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: beowulf, black armada, cody pondsmith, handiwork games, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised

Handiwork Games hit by thieves and respond with Free to Download: King Beowulf – Of Kingdoms and Ring-Givers

August 25, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

US law enforcement are investigating theft of £25K worth of 5e RPGs from Scottish indie publisher

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: beowulf, Dungeons & Dragons, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson

Free to Download: Mazes Zero Prep Introduction to Fantasy Roleplaying

August 24, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mazes uses the Polymorph system, which does away with any form of maths. Each Polymorph game player only uses a single polyhedral die: a d4, a d6, a d8, or a d10.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, mazes, polymorph

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