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Welcome to the heart of Geek Native: the Tabletop & RPGs category. This is your primary source for the latest RPG news and essential TTRPG news, from blockbuster releases to indie Kickstarter discoveries. We provide in-depth reviews of roleplaying games, board games, and card games, helping you decide what's worth your time and your shelf space. Whether you roll dice, shuffle cards, or push miniatures, you'll find your community and your next obsession right here.

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The Amethyst Dragon’s Hoard of Everything: The “Volcanoes: More Than Just Liquid Hot Magma ” preview Litter Tray: Farplace Animal Rescue Kickstarts a shit cat game Free to download: “:Otherscape” cybershrine update Ars Magica 5th Edition Definitive’s prelaunch brings in thousands Apotheosis: Second Edition on Kickstarter to build society and story

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The Amethyst Dragon’s Hoard of Everything: The “Volcanoes: More Than Just Liquid Hot Magma ” preview

August 22, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The book has new and revised rules for players, GMs and even worldbuilders, including but not limited to the following…

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

Litter Tray: Farplace Animal Rescue Kickstarts a shit cat game

August 22, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To win Littler Tray, you let your army of cats fill up litter trays with poop until you dare not risk a mess.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, charity, kickstarters

Free to download: “:Otherscape” cybershrine update

August 20, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native, wowed by the :Otherscape art asked permission to show some of it off in a gallery.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: :otherscape, free to download, Son of Oak Game Studio

Ars Magica 5th Edition Definitive’s prelaunch brings in thousands

August 20, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ars Magica is a seminal tabletop RPG that pioneered the troupe-style play, where players collaboratively shape the story and world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ars magica, Atlas Games, backerkit, crowdfunding

Apotheosis: Second Edition on Kickstarter to build society and story

August 20, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Apotheosis, embark on a captivating journey of collaborative storytelling, where a group of 1-4 players shapes the destiny of a society’s most well-known myth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis, kickstarters

DriveThruRPG launch Cosmic Horror and Cthulhu Mythos RPG sale

August 19, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

DriveThruRPG has launched a sale for Cosmic Horror and Cthulhu Mythos, which is the usual double-feature with some headline bundles.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, alien, alien rpg, bundles, Delta Green, drivethrurpg, hellboy, horror, never going home, sale, tiny cthulhu

Medieval Tales: A TTRPG set in 15th-century war-torn folklore France

August 19, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“Medieval Tales” departs from Dominic previous games in many ways, but it shares a common thread: a fascination with apocalyptic eras.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Big TTRPG Bundle: A dungeon with 1,600 encounters, a toolbox of 4,000 pages and more

August 18, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Bundle of Holding calls this the The World’s Largest bundle because it contains products like The World’s Largest Dungeon and The World’s Largest City.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Studio 2 Publishing

Scoundrels: A sci-fi TTRPG of spice smugglers and pirates

August 18, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Given all those successes, Chamomile Has a Project is approaching 100 Kickstarters and quite a following. However, Scoundrels is a bit different and not a 5e supplement. The game uses its own sci-fi system.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chamomile has adventures, kickstarters, sci-fi

Free to Download: Monte Cook’s Tidal Blades RPG preview

August 17, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designed by Shanna Germain and in a world created by Mr. Cuddington, Tidal Blades is a Cypher System tabletop RPG set in a beautiful archipelago where peoples cooperate… but the Fold is failing. The monsters it once kept at bay are coming.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, free to download, Monte Cook Games, Shanna Germain

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