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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

RPG advice and discussion. Let's talk gaming! Actual play channel with multiple campaigns on Bandit's Keep Actual Play. Links youtube.com - Youtube channel discord.gg - Discord server patreon.com - Patreon page

Welcome to Bone Throwers Theater! We are a RPG actual play podcast. We play both long-term campaigns and one-shot sessions. Our current main campaign is called Wayfinders. It uses the OpenD6 Space System from West End Games. It is set in a world built using the games Microscope and Reliquary. The characters are crew members of a Wayfinders ship, whose mission is to keep the peace and provide aid to a galaxy trying to re-establish cultural connectivity and advancement after a galactic war spawned a “dark age.” Join us for regular new episodes of Wayfinders. Also, look out for one-shot episodes from a variety of systems such as Fiasco, Inspectres, Ten Candles, and more!

Australia’s most popular Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast! Set in the world of Ogg Nott, a place full of mystery and intrigue - if only the players knew it was ending. Listen to this award winning podcast as our heroes delve deep into adventure, with each season bringing a new story, new characters, and new threats to face. New listeners can start at any season, but veteran listeners will find themselves following a greater story, set over centuries. Links sanspantsradio.com - Official website spotify.com - Spotify feed podcasts.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed sanspants-radio.fandom.com - D&D is For Nerds wiki (part of Sanspants Radio wiki)

Follow the adventures of a rotating cast featuring the funniest comedians, actors and improvisors around. Listen as they attempt daring deeds, epic exploits and behave like buffoons in this comedy actual play series from Jasper William Cartwright. Started by Zac Oyama in 2020 the show is now entering a new era as from Arc 8 Jasper William Cartwright will be taking over the reigns as DM, continuing the story in the world of Amalar & beyond into Axis. Links headgum.com - Podcast feed spotify.com - Spotify feed patreon.com - Patreon page

Statblock Maker Pro is a free, always-online 5e D&D toolset with no account, no login, and nothing saved to a server. It covers the full prep-to-table pipeline: a creature/statblock maker and item maker (2014 and 2024 rules), a spell creator, a character creator, and a token stamp for VTT art. On the table side, the encounter maker and initiative tracker run combat live, with a combat difficulty calculator that shows 2014 and 2024 difficulty math side by side and a Monte Carlo battle forecast to sanity-check a fight before you run it.