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Necrotic Gnome and Exalted Funeral take the Old-Schools Essentials’ Dolmenwood Kickstarter through a million

August 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rife with intrigue, secrets, and magic, Dolmenwood draws travellers of adventurous spirit, daring them to venture within.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dolmenwood, exalted funeral, kickstarters, Necrotic Gnome, old school essentials

Free to Download: Necrotic Gnome’s Dolmenwood preview

July 15, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The goal of Dolmenwood is to bring mystery back to the tabletop for even veteran players. In Dolmenwood, old pros should not comfortably be able to work out what is likely to happen in a scene or encounter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dolmenwood, free to download, Necrotic Gnome, old school essentials

Necrotic Gnome cancel plans for a revised Old-School Essentials

March 9, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Necrotic Gnome will continue reprinting the current Old-Schools Essentials tabletop RPG with new supplements and adventures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dolmenwood, Necrotic Gnome, old-school essentials

Pay what you want for mythic adventures and old-school RPGs

August 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Essential Classic Fantasy RPG Collection is a five-tier Humble offer with Necrotic Gnome’s OSE goodies, Classic and Advanced Fantasy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, humble bundle, Necrotic Gnome, old school essentials

Old-School Essentials Treasures are available as extra low-cost treasures until May

April 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This B/X retro-clone has had two successful Kickstarters, the original in 2019 and then the more recent Exalted Funeral supported boxed set.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Necrotic Gnome, old school essentials

Six bundle deals headline “New Year, New Game” at DriveThruRPG

January 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the start of the year, it’s a DriveThruRPG tradition to offer a good sale, and it’s happening again this year. There’s 50% off a range of titles to persuade you to try a new RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2300 ad, Achtung! Cthulhu, Arc Dream Publishing, Delta Green, dms guild, drivethrurpg, elemental, fat dragon games, gildor games, index card rpg, kobold press, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Necrotic Gnome, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, Pelgrane Press, runehammer games, sales, scion, southlands, the yellow king, unity

The best selling horror RPGs of 2021

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Horror is more straightforward of an RPG genre to assign to games; if the designer says, “this is supposed to be horror, ” it’s horror with less debate.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, Arc Dream Publishing, Chaosium, Cults of the Blood Gods, Delta Green, drivethrurpg, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, greg gillespie, joseph mccullough, mothership, Necrotic Gnome, onyx path publishing, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, Tuesday Knight Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, wyrd miniatures

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2021

December 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This league table looks like the top 20 fantasy RPGs published this year and sold the best.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, kevin crawford, m20 technocracy reloaded, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Monte Cook Games, Necrotic Gnome, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, Ptolus, R. Talsorian Games, sine nomine publishing, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, The Design Mechanism, warhammer, wizards of the coast, worlds without number

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #67

September 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s bullet-point summary of RPG news. Catch-up on stories on the site, from around the web as well as new releases and gaming tips.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, agon, batman, blue rose, Chaosium, chronicles of darkness, critical role, cubicle 7, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Evil Hat Productions, flames of freedom, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, good strong hands, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, grim & perilous studios, HeroQuest, holler, icewind dale, James Introcaso, jetpack 7, Jim Zub, mcdm, Modiphius Entertainment, monolith, mork borg, Necrotic Gnome, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, powered by the apocalypse, rime of the frostmaiden, roll20, routinely itemised, sara thompson, skullkickers, soulbound, star trek adventures, starfinder, the yellow king, tiny dungeon, wizards of the coast, world building

Your ENnies 2019 dashboard!

July 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native has popped all the runners and riders into a wee database so you can quickly navigate between categories.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2CGaming, 9th level games, AAW Games, Ashley Warren Writes, Chaosium, Dwarven Forge, Free League Publishing, Helmgast, hunters entertainment, kobold press, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Necrotic Gnome, nerdburger games, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Porcupine Publishing, questing beast, Renegade Game Studios, Saturday Morning Scenarios, Shawn Tomkin, Stygian Fox Publishing, Tuesday Knight Games, World Anvil

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