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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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Competition: Win the ghostly Mystrerium board game

October 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Can you communicate with a ghost? Become a psychic investigator and solve a murder in the haunted Warwick Manor. Enter our competition to win the Mysterium board game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games, competitions, mysterium

Beyond the character sheet: How Vestiges explores the mechanics of memory

October 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Explore Vestiges, a haunting zine TTRPG where players are not a team of heroes, but competing aspects of a single mind trying to reconstruct a lost memory.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: nibiru, reviews, thousand year old vampire

The Far Roofs deal: Play a heroic rat fighting the god-monsters that are coming for you

October 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Discover a secret world on the rooftops in The Far Roofs TTRPG. Join intelligent rats to confront personal horrors in a game of wonder, mystery, and dread.

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

Lootrion app launches to move TTRPG shopping sprees out of the session

October 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A new web app, Lootrion, has been launched to help TTRPG groups handle shopping between sessions, saving valuable table time and keeping players engaged.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons

Routinely Itemised: RPG #329

October 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest roleplaying game news, TTRPG reviews, and new releases. This week covers Critical Role’s new campaign, D&D updates, and a host of crowdfunders.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, Jeremy Crawford, kickstarter, kobold press, routinely itemised

Another D&D video game bites the dust as Starbreeze scraps Project Baxter

October 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Swedish developer Starbreeze has cancelled its anticipated Dungeons & Dragons co-op game, codenamed Project Baxter, to concentrate on its core PAYDAY IP.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons

Board game publisher Devir turns to Backerkit for two high-concept TTRPGs

October 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Learn about Dracula vs. Hitler and Chaos & Chrome, two low-prep RPGs using the Roleína system, set for an English-language debut.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit

Demeo x D&D: Battlemarked is confirmed as 2025’s only official Dungeons & Dragons video game

October 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The only D&D video game of 2025 has been announced. Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked is a tactical strategy adventure coming to Steam, PlayStation and Meta Quest this November.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: battlemarked, demeo, Dungeons & Dragons, playstation, resolution games, Steam

Into the Abyss: Mammoth Factory on the Sumerian-inspired darkness of their 5E Kickstarter, Dark Descent

October 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Explore Dark Descent, the 400+ page 5E tome of dark survival. Features new subterranean races, blood alchemy, 70+ monsters, and over 200 high-quality STLs.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

The Strong Museum partners with Google for D&D’s 50th anniversary

October 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Strong National Museum of Play has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to release a free online exhibit exploring the first 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons, google

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