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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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Level Up your D&D: An Advanced 5th Edition rulebook impresses Kickstarter

October 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re promised more depth and diversity with nudges towards heritage and culture, from races, and some tactical renaming.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, kickstarters, level up, Russ Morrissey

Warhammer World Building: Power Behind the Throne

October 10, 2021 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Warhammer World Building creates campaign settings using Cubicle 7’s Warhammer RPGs: Soulbound, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and Wrath & Glory.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, cubicle 7, warhammer

Free to Download: Post-war fantasy superhero RPG quickstart

October 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The war was between two kingdoms. One had controlled magic and been dominant and controlling. The other developed technology, industry and won the war.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: defenders of the new century, free to download, superheroes

D&D’s untitled March 2022 book opens for pre-orders; October 12th reveal

October 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The only other clue we have is the weight of the untitled March 2022 D&D book. That’s 1.25 lbs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, spelljammer, strixhaven, wizards of the coast

Who’s topping DriveThruRPG’s Small Press Spotlight Sale?

October 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The search features at DriveThruRPG tell me there are 52,468 qualifying products in the sale! Hard to get noticed, huh?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 26 letter publishing, Alligator Alley Entertainment, Battlefield Press, bluebeard's bride, drivethrurpg, Esper Genesis, evil beagle games, magpie games, masks, Prowlers & Paragons, raging swan press, sales, scp, unity, w.m. akers

Time Bandits turn 40, and Terry Gilliam celebrates the Northumbrian Tin Soldier official tabletop mini collection

October 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

ightfolk model maker Northumbrian Tin Soldier also publishes the official range of Time Bandits figures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: models

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #121

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet-point speed as we look at where D&D might be going next, free Call of Cthulhu for year 40 and a host of promising new games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcanum Worlds, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, cyberpunk red, dice, dndbeyond, dungeon crawl classics, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, game wizards, gary con, goodman games, headless hydra press, holler, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, izegrim creations, James Ohlen, laidback dungeon master, level up, luke gygax, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, relics, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, SLA Industries, southlands, spelljammer, steve dee, strixhaven, survive this!!, the cthulhu hack, vast grimm, wizards of the coast

D&D brings back Spelljammer races with the Travelers of the Multiverse Unearthed Arcana

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The Travelers of the Multiverse offers up six new PC races, some from Spelljammer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, spelljammer, unearthed arcana, wizards of the coast

An interview with Louis Cassidy-rice, the man who’s found a way to make cheaper mushroom dice

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designer and GM Louis Cassidy-rice had done the clever maths, the schema and figured out the production. There was a way to make models, models of fantasy mushrooms, that were also dice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, kickstarters, terrain

A solo RPG: Secrets of the Vibrant Isle

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Craig Campbell and NerdBurger games have had a string of acclaimed Kickstarter successes. The latest campaign, Secrets of the Vibrant Isle, is a solo tabletop RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Craig Campbell, kickstarters, nerdburger games, solo rpgs

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