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Geek Native is an independent news site and community for tabletop roleplaying games, board games, anime, and geek culture. It covers tabletop mechanics, industry news, and reviews with a critical but welcoming tone. Whether you’re a player, a Game Master, or somewhere in between, it’s a solid place to find content that actually holds up. It also publishes practical tools for session prep and world-building -  things like spaceship name generators and lists of oddly unsettling phrases to throw at your players. Alongside those, there are columns on the psychology of gameplay and table dynamics. It’s been around long enough to build a genuine community, and it shows. Links geeknative.com - Website

Unto the Roll is an actual play anthology where the players learn a new system, play a short campaign, and then review it. Sometimes they even get the rules right. Serious stories.  Slightly less serious players.  Shenanigans ensue.

Legion of Myth exists to spotlight tabletop RPGs, ideas, and play styles that gamers may never have seen - or may have forgotten - broadening horizons across the hobby.  The unofficial home of Palladium Books! | USAF Veteran RPG Die Gest  Our mission is to expose tabletop gamers to the breadth of role-playing games beyond the usual suspects - (either by showcasing systems we know well from long experience or by discovering new ones alongside our viewers) - through live read-throughs and candid commentary that reveal how each game actually plays at the table. Game Master Insight Our mission is to expose game masters and players of every experience level to diverse ideas, philosophies, and methods of play through focused, no-nonsense conversations, so viewers can decide what fits their style and sharpen how they run and enjoy tabletop RPGs. Links youtube.com - Youtube channel rumble.com - Rumble channel legionofmyth.tv - Legion of Myth website discord.gg - Discord server ko-fi.com - Ko-fi page

Small Embers is a Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) actual play podcast blending cinematic storytelling, immersive roleplaying, and epic fantasy adventure. Follow a group of unlikely heroes as they uncover ancient secrets, challenge powerful empires, and shape the fate of the richly detailed world of Elestia.

The Real Housewives of Anaheim embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they're dropped into a fantasy world and must learn to (cat)fight for themselves. All the drama and devastation of the Bravo franchise meets the danger and delirium of Dungeons & Dragons in this hit actual play podcast from Reality RPG. Links spotify.com  - Spotify feed patreon.com  - Patreon page

13th Age is a heroic fantasy tabletop roleplaying game built on the d20 rules tradition, published by Pelgrane Press. The first edition was released in August 2013 and designed by Rob Heinsoo, lead designer of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, and Jonathan Tweet, lead designer of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition. It won the 2014 Silver ENnie Award for Best Rules. The Second Edition, funded on Kickstarter in May 2024 and released in 2025, splits the core rules into a Heroes' Handbook and a Gamemaster's Guide, reworks the nine core classes, monsters and magic items, and is designed to stay fully compatible with first edition books. The system is heavily inspired by Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, with several ideas borrowed from 4th Edition. Description Players take on heroes tied to the Icons, thirteen archetypal figures of power in a default setting that is meant to be reshaped at the table. The Game Master (GM) runs a story in which the characters' backgrounds and personal ties to the Icons drive the plot as much as the monsters do. Play favors big fights and big gestures over careful dungeon bookkeeping. The game asks a table to be loose with the setting. Players write their own history and invent a trait that has no rules attached, and the GM is expected to fold those into the story. It suits groups who like crunchy d20 combat but would rather invent than look things up.