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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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Asmodee will sell for €2.75bn to the video game owner of Gearbox, Koch and THQ Nordic

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Embracer Group is lined up to buy the board game powerhouse for €2.75bn. The sale was expected but it looks like they got €0.75bn more than initially thought.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, Borderlands, Catan, darksiders, embracer, fantasy flight games, Gearbox, money

The best selling family RPGs of 2021

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We have got the 20 best selling “Family” TTRPGs published this year. What makes a game a Family one, though? The need for kids? Of course not.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing heroes, amazing tales, Atlas Games, bandit camp, Chaosium, drivethrurpg, fairy trails, Fat Goblin Games, gallant knight games, jay dragon, My Little Pony, nerdburger games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Renegade Game Studios, river horse, silver vine publishing, summon skate, tinyd6, wanderhome, wardlings

Right for Reasons: A review of the Root RPG

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Getting the mood of the game right is critical. The art looks a bit cute, and while the Woodland is often in sombre autumnal colours, the animal-people are often highlights of colour.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: magpie games, powered by the apocalypse, reviews, root

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2021

December 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This league table looks like the top 20 fantasy RPGs published this year and sold the best.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, kevin crawford, m20 technocracy reloaded, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Monte Cook Games, Necrotic Gnome, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, Ptolus, R. Talsorian Games, sine nomine publishing, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, The Design Mechanism, warhammer, wizards of the coast, worlds without number

The Witchy Wilds is a cooperative TTRPG that’ll be developed in live streams

December 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Witchy Wilds uses divination techniques to accomplish actions. Most tabletop gamers are familiar with dice, which are sometimes used in divination, and the Witchy Wilds adds in tarot plus some others.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Loke Battle Mats 2022 release schedule

December 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are also some great looking products coming out next year, with award-winning Loke Battle Mats pushing further into supplements with titles like The Wilderness Book of Battle Matts and Untold Encounters of the Random Kind.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, Loke BattleMats

From $9,999 to $27.95: The Invisible Sun glows again in the Bundle of Holding

December 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How much is the digital Black Cube usually? $99.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, invisible sun, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games

Are we at the Oasis? Large scale VR MMOs

December 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Oasis is the alternative reality, a virtual world, that people escape to and perhaps become trapped in Ready Player One.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: kickstarters, virtual reality

Gun&Slinger SRD means you can create your own RPGs with Marked&Made

December 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gun&Slinger is a tabletop RPG designed to be enjoyed in episodic sessions with one optional GM (a Maestro), one player for the wanderer, and one for the weapon.

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

Carve out the best bits: A review of Legacy of the Soul Flame

December 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You are never far from the rising dead in this tabletop game. Your characters next step have a high chance of being met by a grasping skeletal hand bursting from the snow.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: reviews

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