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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

Cannibal Halfling Gaming is a site that sprung out of the Mad Adventurers Society, and like the MAS sought to 'put an adventure on every table' CHG seeks to bring games and players together. Whether we're spreading the word about an interesting game, providing material for you to use, explaining the mechanics of a gaming system, or sharing fun stories and helpful advice, our goal is to help others have an enjoyable time around the table with their friends. Links cannibalhalflinggaming.com - Official website patreon.com - Patreon page discord.gg - Discord page

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

Get in the Trunk is an anthology series playing through various Delta Green scenarios by Arc Dream Publishing, such as Last Things Last, The Last Equation, A Victim of the Art and Ex Oblivione. In 2022, Season 4 began the first long-form Delta Green campaign — Impossible Landscapes. Links youtube.com  - Youtube playlist spotify.com  - Spotify feed glasscannonnetwork.fandom.com  - Get in the Trunk wiki

Actual Play featuring Free League's new Dragonbane TTRPG. Step into the rich history of the Misty Vale. Once the heart of a long forgotten empire, it has been a wild and untamed place for nearly a millennia, hiding secrets and treasures in its towers & crypts. Join our diverse band of adventurers—Dane, the astute human scholar; Quiverwing, the Mallard Mage; Brains, the Wolfkin Thief; Sigyn, the Elven Huntress; Karyn, the Halfling Bard; Korgan, the Halfling Fighter; and Balor, the Dwarven Smith. Together, we’ll explore the ancient secrets of a long forgotten empire, facing challenges and forging our destiny in a world where every castle, cave and crypt holds echoes of a bygone era. Get ready for an epic journey filled with laughter, suspense, and unforgettable moments in the Misty Vale! Links youtube.com - Youtube playlist theaarpgs.com - Podcast website

A local-first battlemap display tool for game masters. Cast a map with fog of war to a second "player" screen while you control everything from a private GM panel. Lodestar runs entirely in the browser with no build step and no dependencies. It runs entirely in your browser. No install, no account, nothing to download if you don't want to. You open it, load a map, click "Open player display," and drag that window over to your second screen. You control everything from your own DM panel, and your players only see what you choose to reveal. /images/general-media/1780915788_spLeMCfy.pngLodestar is completely free and open source, so you can use it, fork it, or tear it apart however you like. Maps — load high-resolution map images from local disk; pan and zoom freely. Player display — open a second window, drag it to another screen, and cast the map to your players. The player window can go fullscreen. Fog of war - Trace polygon areas and click them in reveal mode to show/hide on the player display. - Name polygon areas with a GM-only label. - Paint or erase fog with a round or square brush of adjustable size. - GM sees fog as an adjustable tint/opacity; players see solid black. Multi-floor — build multi-level locations; each floor has its own map, fog, tokens, and stairs. Navigate with the on-screen floor widget. Stairs — place GM-only staircase markers that link floors; they scale with the grid and zoom and are invisible to players. Tokens — drop, drag, label, color, and size them in grid cells; they snap to the grid and appear on both displays. Grid — toggle and adjust size, offset, color, opacity, and token snapping. Ping — Alt+click draws an animated marker on both displays. Measure — reports distance in grid cells and feet. Splash / blackout — show a splash image or a plain black screen on the player display instead of the map. Library — save full setups (image, grid, fog, tokens, floors, views) to a local IndexedDB library; export/import the whole library as JSON for backups or moving machines. When you save a map, it's stored locally in your own browser, not on a server somewhere. Nothing gets uploaded, so your maps stay on your machine. The catch is that the saved library is tied to the browser and device you saved it on, so it won't follow you to another computer or survive clearing your browser data. If you make maps you want to keep, use the Export button to save your whole library to a file. That file is your real backup, and you can import it on any device. Links uncleplants.github.io - Lodestar web app(no download) github.com - Source code