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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 best selling modern RPGs published on DriveThruRPG 2023

December 22, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

All the RPGs, supplements and accessories in this list were published on DriveThruRPG this year and tagged by the publisher or author as modern.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Delta Green, drivethrurpg, onyx path publishing, stats

The Crystal Dragon doubles up as BBG and dice tower

December 22, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Play Conveyor pitches the dragon exclusively as a miniature representation of a melee encounter. I can see many gamer groups going for that.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

The best selling horror TTRPGs published on DriveThruRPG 2023

December 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Following our reveals of the best selling fantasy and sci-fi TTRPGs, Geek Native and DriveThruRPG turn now to horror!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, horror

Birds & Boroughs RPG: Pay What You Want for this 5-star quick start

December 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Birds & Boroughs is a tabletop RPG where you play as a bird! Explore vast and varied environments, solve puzzles, and beat up baddies in turn-based battles.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: pay what you want

SpeedyRPG: Five Sided Fates take their 5-minute game to Kickstarter

December 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the game, characters have three stats: Heart, Mind and Body, and these are used with actions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

The best selling sci-fi RPGs published on DriveThruRPG in 2023

December 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native can reveal the best-selling sci-fi tabletop RPGs of the year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cubicle 7 Entertainment, drivethrurpg, imperium maledictum, stats, warhamemr 40k

Kobold Guides: Bundle deal your way to being a better GM and game designer

December 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Kobold Guides bundle has more than 200 essays, although some appeared in previous Worldbuilder Toolkit offers. We’ve until January 2nd to take the discounts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, kobold press, rpg tips

Pay What You Want: The Take5 RPG system

December 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jaiden Waterloo’s Take5 RPG system is now available through DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: pay what you want

Two bundles, one new for the Ninth World RPGs: Monte Cook Games brings Numenera to the Bundle of Holding

December 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Numenera RPG is about exploration, including the eight worlds that came before and uses the excellent Cypher System.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, cypher system, Monte Cook Games, Numenera

Free to Download: Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20: Quickstart Pack

December 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Battle fanatical cultists, crazed scientists, evil sorcerers, deadly Deep Ones and bizarre alien threats!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, cthulhu, free to download, Modiphius Entertainment

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