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Don’t miss the new tier in the “New Year, New Game” sale at DriveThruRPG What are murder hobos and where did the phrase come from? Bird with a Brush brings dice to life Mantic Games announce Kings of War RPG The best selling RPGs at DriveThruRPG in 2018

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Don’t miss the new tier in the “New Year, New Game” sale at DriveThruRPG

January 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Usually, at the start of January DriveThruRPG has a special offer on called “New Year, New Game!”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Alligator Alley Entertainment, amazing tales, changeling: the dreaming, cubicle 7, Esper Genesis, gallant knight games, magpie games, masks, onyx path publishing, pugmire, R. Talsorian Games, sales, star trek, Ulisses Spiele, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, white wolf, wrath & glory

What are murder hobos and where did the phrase come from?

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The discussion was around the use of the traditional 10-foot pole. Early D&D games were full of dungeons traps, and paranoid characters would use a long pole to check for pits, poke treasure chests (in case of mimic beasts) and try to push doors open.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

Bird with a Brush brings dice to life

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What if your roleplaying dice had adventures of their own?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: models, Reaper Miniatures

Mantic Games announce Kings of War RPG

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The lead designer is the ENnie award-winning Marc Langsworthy of Red Scar Publishing.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kings of war, mantic games

The best selling RPGs at DriveThruRPG in 2018

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native was lucky enough to be able to report on some of the successes at DriveThruRPG in 2018. We don’t have access to sales volumes but we did get the by-genre top ten. The genre charts looked to be quite a battle with some games storming up the rankings in only a matter of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, cd projekt red, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, Legend of the Five Rings, onyx path publishing, R. Talsorian Games, Shadowrun, the witcher, Ulisses Spiele, warhammer, wayfinder's guide to eberron, wizards of the coast, wraith the oblivion, wrath & glory

A “quick and easy” guide to picking your D&D 5e character class

January 1, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are some unexpected outcomes in the flow of decisions including the recommendation that you should pick the Artificer character class because you’re weird.

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

Heartbroken Matthew Mercer replies to frustrated DM

December 31, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Matthew Mercer, the DM of the hugely popular Critical Role, admitted a comment left by a fellow DM on Reddit’s DM Academy left him feeling a little heartbroken.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, Matthew Mercer

The ‘other’ best selling RPGs of 2018

December 31, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If your RPG doesn’t fit nicely into any of the provided genres or it can also be used in extra genres then DriveThruRPG provides the ‘Other’ tag as a place to put your game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, flatland games, genesys, Hero Forge Games, Hero Kids, Monte Cook Games, Numenera, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Ryuutama, savage worlds, torg: eternity

A look inside: Degenesis – The Killing Game

December 31, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Killing Game is a 208-paged hardcover that takes players deeper into the darkness of the southern coast of Franka.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: degenesis, sixmorevodka

The best selling Western RPGs of 2018

December 30, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To round off the year Geek Native and DriveThruRPG has been going through the best selling RPGs from the retailer’s genre tags.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dias Ex Machina Games, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, hunters entertainment, kids on bikes, runehammer games, through the breach, ultramodern5, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures

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