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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.

Stay ahead of the curve with our popular Routinely Itemised summary. This regular feature is your essential digest of the TTRPG industry, curating the biggest news, trends, and hidden gems into one unmissable roundup. It's the best way to stay informed on the business of tabletop gaming.

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New from Humble Bundle; a Book Bundle aimed entirely at gamemasters! Japanese TTRPG Fledge Witch: The Magical Apprentices of Elemeria casts a spell on Kickstarter Completely Unfathomable: NPCs Help Build a World Necrotic Gnome and Exalted Funeral take the Old-Schools Essentials’ Dolmenwood Kickstarter through a million Nightfall Games at Tabletop Scotland, Musketeers Vs Cthulhu, Maggot Machine and the future

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New from Humble Bundle; a Book Bundle aimed entirely at gamemasters!

August 21, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

If you’re a gamemaster, or have a favourite gamemaster who would really love some great resources to make life a bit easier/your games a bit more awesome, this book bundle from Humble Bundle is perfect! It contains an incredible 32 books, including tools such as random tables to help make your games a bit more […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humble bundle

Japanese TTRPG Fledge Witch: The Magical Apprentices of Elemeria casts a spell on Kickstarter

August 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Want to download Fledge Witch? There’s a Google Drive hosted sample, which we’re told does not reflect the final product. It looks pretty professional to me and is no ashcan version.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, LionWing Publishing

Completely Unfathomable: NPCs Help Build a World

August 20, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This month covers creating non-player characters to help build the world and bring it to life.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, rpg tips, world building

Necrotic Gnome and Exalted Funeral take the Old-Schools Essentials’ Dolmenwood Kickstarter through a million

August 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rife with intrigue, secrets, and magic, Dolmenwood draws travellers of adventurous spirit, daring them to venture within.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dolmenwood, exalted funeral, kickstarters, Necrotic Gnome, old school essentials

Nightfall Games at Tabletop Scotland, Musketeers Vs Cthulhu, Maggot Machine and the future

August 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Well, we’re looking at our publishing model to find a good way to get contributors paid their worth. We anticipate a lot more creator partnerships or hybrid relationships rather than traditional freelancing agreements.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: demon dog, Nightfall Games, tabletop scotland, terminator

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #217 & #218

August 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly column from Geek Native that summarizes RPG news, reviews, discoveries, tips, and interviews. It is published every Friday evening for RPG enthusiasts everywhere.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Battlefield Press, critical role, cubicle 7, daggerheart, darrington press, Dungeons & Dragons, evil genius productions, Fabula Ultima, fabula ultima atlas: high fantasy, need games, routinely itemised, strange machine games, warhammer

Hundreds of backers for the Dragonbane supplement Windheim & Horn of the Dawn

August 18, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Windheim is an island, a colony of the Bastionian empire ruling most of the known world of Eshfera. The bastionites are a human and halfling culture worshipping Thrakon, the ruling deity of the pantheon. On Windheim their power is strong but not quite as dominant as in the rest of the world

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragonbane, Free League Publishing, kickstarters

Shadows of the Demon Lord bundles for the Weird Wizard

August 18, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Purchases of either bundle support the charity Robert J. Schwalb selected, the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Robert J. Schwalb, Shadow of the Demon Lord, shadow of the weird wizard

Obojima Tales From The Tall Grass: Studio Ghibli & Legend of Zelda-inspired 5e races towards $1m

August 8, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you want to look at what the final Obojima Tales From The Tall Grass might be like, there are a few pages of free preview material online provided by 1985 Games to check out.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 1985 games, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, Studio Ghibli

D&D’s Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants! uses AI art, and WotC has changed the rules

August 6, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fans spotted details in the illustration, tell-tale signs that a machine had rendered the image in the D&D sourcebook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

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