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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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44 years of tabletop gaming changed this weekend as GAMA votes in new membership structure

July 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

GAMA votes overwhelmingly to transform itself.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gama, Mark Diaz Truman

Superhero Week: A review of Amazing Heroes!

July 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I really like Amazing Heroes! and I want to begin this review with grumpy old git reasons why.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing heroes, amazing tales, Martin Lloyd, reviews, superhero week, superheroes

A new dimension to audio games: Storymaster’s Tales Spoken Adventures Game-Map

July 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Oliver McNeil has added just one thing to the Storymaster’s Tales series and added a whole new dimension, or at least a whole new perception; sight.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: audio games, kickstarters, oliver mcneil, sounds

TSR Games (2) rebrands to Solarian Games

July 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The TSR Games changing its name is the one that was founded in 2012 to honour Gary Gygax by Jayson Elliot, with the backing of the Gygax brothers, to run Gygax Magazine.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ernie gygax, gygax magazine, tsr games

Old school feel with modern sensibilities: Chromatic Dungeons

July 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As OSR fans might argue, there’s a concept of “rulings, not rules”, and therefore the feel of an old school game isn’t tied to the game mechanics era.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chromatic dungeons, izegrim creations, kickstarters, Old School Renaissance, rod wiebel

Superhero Week: Son of Oak reveals Queerz RPG powered by City of Mist

July 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The planned Kickstarter will attempt to fund a Basic Box as a learn-as-you-go experience, including a booklet for players, a booklet for the GM/MC, pregen characters, cards, maps, tokens and dice. Stretch goals will take it further.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: city of mist, queerz, Son of Oak Game Studio, superhero week, superheroes

Cubicle 7 separate from Lone Wolf

July 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Due to some recent unexpected developments, Cubicle 7 will no longer be publishing Lone Wolf roleplaying games with Holmgard Press.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, lone wolf

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #107

July 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary column, and this week we look at TSR Games (3) threatening OSR communities, new RPGs hitting digital and physical shelves, RPG reviews and discoveries.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcadia, black void, blood sword, brw games, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark alliance, dark sun, defiant, dms guild, dungeon crawl classics, Dying Earth, en publishing, Fantasy Grounds, gama, GURPS, hard wired island, indie groundbreaker awards, iron studios, izegrim creations, Loke BattleMats, Metal Weave Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, parable games, Pelgrane Press, peter rudin-burgess, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, Sanguine Productions, Shane Ivey, shiver, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound, soulbound starter set, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, Synthicide, the dee sanction, the fantasy trip, the yellow king, Tiamat, tsr games, Usagi Yojimbo, vaesen, wanderhome, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, wizkids

Superhero Week: Tour of Nu-Earth 1 preview for 2000 AD’s Rogue Trooper

July 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tour of Nu-Earth 1 is a collection of scenarios written for the Rogue Trooper roleplaying game. The anthology presents several adventures that can each be run as a solo scenario or easily dropped into an already established campaign.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: en publishing, judge dredd & the worlds of 2000 AD, previews, rogue trooper, sci-fi, superhero week

Dungeons of Drakkenheim: On track to become a $1m RPG Kickstarter campaign

July 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the time of writing, the Dungeons of Drakkenheim campaign for 5e has over 5,000 backers, 28 days still to go, and some projections suggest they’ll finish at nearly $4m.

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

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