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Midnight Tower Reports

Maintaining an independent and critical perspective, Geek Native has provided original reporting on Midnight Tower for more than 6 years. This curated resource organises 11 articles, anchoring current news within a long-term historical context. This resource evaluates first-hand data from official industry announcements and crowdfunding mechanics.

The Body in the Mage Tower: Frankenstein-inspired Mystery launches on Kickstarter

July 19, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Midnight Tower returns with an 80-page, Frankenstein-inspired Gothic murder mystery adventure for fifth edition featuring scalable encounters and deep investigation mechanics.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, level up, midnight tower, tales of the valiant

Inside Midnight Tower’s UK Games Expo booth and their next 5e adventure

May 30, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An exclusive first look at Midnight Tower’s next 5e roleplaying game project for Eastern Farraway, blending a steampunk aesthetic with Frankenstein horror, revealed at the UK Games Expo.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, midnight tower, steampunk, uk games expo

100 hand-drawn fantasy ink illustrations: Midnight Tower’s Tove embraces gritty OSR

April 18, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Explore the dip-pen soul of Tove L. J.’s new art project, featuring 100 human-made ink illustrations with a commercial licence for TTRPG creators.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: midnight tower, Old School Renaissance, uk games expo

Midnight Tower co-founder Tove LJ launches solo ink art project

March 16, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Discover the new old school fantasy art resource from Oxford-based illustrator Tove LJ, featuring professional licensing for roleplaying games.

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: midnight tower, Old School Renaissance

Eastern Farraway: 5e that’s low on magic and whimsy but high on success – an interview with Midnight Tower

July 10, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I met Midnight Tower and UK Games Expo, knew The Adventurer’s Guide to Eastern Farraway was coming and especially wanted to tackle the pair’s approach to low/high fantasy. I shy away from comic book fantasy, too, even in D&D.

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

An Unexpected Wedding Invitation: A Jane Austen romance and D&D mashup is an unexpected success

March 29, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An Unexpected Wedding Invitation isn’t just a romance; it’s a mystery, as one of the guests has been found dead.

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

Secrets of the Drow returns to Kickstarter as Midnight Tower hope to put the 5e trilogy into print

September 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Oxford-based Midnight Tower team live within walking distance of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s former homes and near C.S. Lewis’ pond, and so it’s perhaps understandable and appropriate they’re back on Kickstarter for more fantasy.

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

Can you stop it?: The Prophecy of Nine Omens

April 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Prophecy of Nine Omens is funded several times over on Kickstarter and offers three classical fantasy RPG adventures for D&D.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #73

November 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news all summarised into handy bullet-point lists. That’s the name of the game in this Friday’s Routinely Itemised.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, agents of edgewatch, atomic ninja studios, beadle & grimm's, bundle of holding, castles & crusades, Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, Ex Stasis Games, fallout: wasteland warfare, Fantasy Grounds, foundry, Free League Publishing, Hero Kids, jackals, kobold press, limitless adventures, lion banner games, midnight tower, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quest, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Skeletonkey games, spelljammer, tasha's cauldron of everything, the children of fear, The One Ring, tome of beasts, Troll Lord Games, warhammer age of sigmar, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #51

June 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a look at Paizo Publishing’s product timeline, the arrival of Mythic Odysseys of Theros, freebies and RPG news from the week.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, Crystal Frasier, cubicle 7, curious monk, Green Ronin Publishing, humblewood, kobold press, Legendary Games, midnight tower, Mutants & Masterminds, mythic odysseys of theros, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, Russ Morrissey, Sandy Petersen, soulbound, Steffie de Vaan, warhammer, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil

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