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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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Free to Download: Iconic Adventuring System preview

May 9, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Alea Publishing has a Kickstarter for a deck-building TTRPG in which players build their PCs from cards as they adventure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kickstarters, previews

Pathfinder: Shardfall will bring patent-protected audio fantasy to mobile

May 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Paizo and Wanderword will bring Pathfinder: Shardfall to mobile this year, and soon.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: audio games, pathfinder

Free to Download: Incredible Items (5e) from Indie Games Cooperative

May 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We asked a number of artists to go wild and design original magic items from their own imaginations. Then, we recruited a host of writers to flesh out these fantastic images with lore and abilities.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download

Solo RPG: Tales from the Gods earns the belief of Kickstarter

May 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Alastor Guzman and Axo Stories have crowdfunded the solo roleplaying game about divinity, civilization and legends in which you play a God. And you don’t need a GM.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, solo rpgs, thousand year old vampire

Genre Police: The Many Faces Of Evil

May 8, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I hope this gives you something to think about and use in your game. Try designing a villain that fits each of these archetypes for your game, and see what you come up with!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

The Sustainable Gaming Forum launches Lunar Echos art & print fund

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Games include the titular Lunar Echos, Babel, the Floria and Lost Eons. If all goes well; David Blandy’s Lunar Echos will upgrade to recycled paper and perhaps even hardcover.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itch.io, itchfunding

The Heart of Fire faces a tricky conversion from D&D 4e to 5e

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The original approach to the dungeon was specially designed with 4e in mind, and each room was its own self-contained encounter. D&D 5e has a very different style.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Darklight Interactive, dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #151

May 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly RPG news wrap-up from Geek Native and other tabletop hobby blogs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chamomile has adventures, everyday heroes, evil genius productions, one more multiverse, routinely itemised, rpg research, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: The horror RPG Hollow

May 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Alone but not by yourself. You look around and see nothing, but hear their shuffles against the stony earth, their sniveling whimpers and the hot air of their ragged breathing bring a small glimmer of hope.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, horror

Kalymba is an RPG that brings African myths to the tabletop

May 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kalymba is an action-adventure TTRPG inspired by cultures and mythologies of the African continent.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

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