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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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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

The best selling fantasy RPGs published on DriveThruRPG in 2023

December 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Geek Native, once again, is fortunate enough to work with DriveThuRPG to reveal the best selling RPGs from genres and categories that were published this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, Fabula Ultima, fabula ultima atlas: high fantasy, need games, stats

Genre Police: Joining The Agency

December 17, 2023 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

One of the idioms about GMing games is about making sure your players have agency. And in basic principle this a very good idea. 

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

Free to Download: Rivers of London TTRPG releases its solo “The Domestic” adventure

December 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Spring, 2016: the Folly, also known as the Metropolitan Police Service’s “special magic branch,” has received word of repeated domestic disturbances at an address on Prince of Wales Road, London—and very odd ones, at that.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, free to download, lynne hardy, paul fricker, Rivers of London

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #235

December 16, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly summary of RPG news from Geek Native, mainstream media and other RPG blogs, forums and sites around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: darrington press, Dungeons & Dragons, hasbro, routinely itemised, wizards of the coast

The official Return to Dark Tower TTRPG is available as a download

December 15, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Return to Dark Tower Fantasy Roleplaying is an officially licensed, complete fantasy RPG based on the hit board game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, chris o'neill, polymorph, Restoration Games

Assault on Witchgate 13: A DCC module introduces the cut-scene mechanic

December 15, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the crown of the world, far beyond the furthest reaches of civilization, there lies a place of legend – a prison where even the mightiest beings are made to suffer for their ambition.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, kickstarters, Planet X Games

Free League launch an incredible core RPG bundle: Dragonbane, Vaesen, Twilight: 2000 and more

December 14, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The retail value here is $88, and it includes the Nordic horror Vaesen, the sci-fi Coriolis, the post-apocalyptic Mutant Year Zero and hexcrawl Forbidden Lands.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Coriolis, dragonbane, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, twilight: 2000, vaesen, vaesen: mythic britain, year zero engine

Stay alive: Starship Scavengers solo sci-fi takes on Station Thirty One

December 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This expansion includes the time limit on the game and emphasises replayabilty. It also comes with its adventure deck of cards (if you want) printed on tarot-sized 400gsm card stock.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, solo rpgs, the grinning frog

Calling All Gamers: Participate in ‘To Boldly Game’… at the National Space Centre!

December 13, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix 2 Comments

In some exciting and unexpected news, The National Space Centre in Leicester is teaming up with the UK Games Expo to bring us a board gaming event unlike anything we’ve ever seen! The event is called To Boldly Game and will be an entire weekend ‘celebrating the best of table-top gaming’ – as well as […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: uk games expo

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