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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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Defiant Guide to Orgies brings sex-positivity to the Game Machinery’s adult RPG Advanced 5e: Level Up crowdfunds their Gate Pass Gazette Annual 2023 Routinely Itemised: RPGs #239 Atlas Games announce Ars Magica: Definitive Edition Troll King brings solo gameplay and tactical 5e orc PCs

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Defiant Guide to Orgies brings sex-positivity to the Game Machinery’s adult RPG

January 15, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

While this guide’s topic is quite adult, no graphic descriptions or explicit art is used throughout. The idea was to make it as “safe for work” as the main Defiant rulebook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: defiant, Defiant Awakening, game machinery

Advanced 5e: Level Up crowdfunds their Gate Pass Gazette Annual 2023

January 14, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Every year, EN Publishing releases, via a crowdfunder, a hardcover gazette to compile the previous editions of the Advanced 5E Level Up magazine.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, kickstarters, level up

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #239

January 13, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wowzers, is it the weekend already? Here’s the RPG news summary of summaries to kick us off.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: routinely itemised

Atlas Games announce Ars Magica: Definitive Edition

January 12, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Atlas Games have announced Ars Magica: Definitive Edition, that they are looking for feedback from the community and are linking to Backerkit sign-ups as a way to get more info about the project. The game will be crowdfunded, but Atlas seem confident that the campaign will hit targets. Ars Magica is set in Mythic Europe, […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ars magica, Atlas Games, jonathan tweet, mark rein-hagen

Troll King brings solo gameplay and tactical 5e orc PCs

January 12, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The solo rules come with d8 tables to summon up the Troll King’s army for battle and give the solo gamer a challenge to fight through.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chamomile has adventures, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, solo rpgs

Black Scrolls map-titles offer up a Bundle of Holding deal

January 11, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Imagine sprawling medieval cities bustling with life, complete with quaint village homes, towering castle ramparts, cosy inns, grand arenas, sacred cathedrals, and mysterious dungeon crypts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, cartography, virtual tabletop

Evolved: The 600-paged Dungeon Crawl Classics-powered superhero RPG funds

January 11, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Those passing through time portals found that they were transported into the future of the year 2051 … and the future depicted was frightening.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, dungeon crawl classics, kickstarters, superhero

Has Ravensburger entered the TTRPG market with Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls (Disney Edition)?

January 9, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Combining role-playing, storytelling, cooperation and the approachability of a board game format, Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls (Disney Edition) creates an immersive adventure game that allows players to experience Disney heroines in whole new ways while they work together to win.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: disney, ravensburger

The Sprawl is a cyberpunk Apocalypse Engine RPG in a bundle deal

January 8, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG publisher Ardens Ludere has The Sprawl in the Bundle of Holding, offering an alternative to Cyberpunk RED or Shadowrun. The Sprawl’s Touched supplements even introduce magic to the game world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Cyberpunk, powered by the apocalypse

The Calvin RPG: A game as precocious as a six-year-old and as swift as a tiger

January 8, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a magical world out there, we’re told. We have fun, we’re urged. So, I did and bought the two-page download.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

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