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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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Luddite: Cogito Ergo Meeple merges a graphic novel and a Roll and Write

July 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cogito Ergo Meeple is back on Kickstarter, following up their Solar 175 Euro legacy game with a Roll and Write game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Big Heckin’ Two-Day Prime Day: Shut up and take my money board game deals

July 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this curated selection of geeky highlights, the glare of the shopping eye turns to board games and board games that might be hard to resist.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazon, Days of Wonder, dixit, exploding kittens, hasbro, mysterium, pandemic, prime day, sales, stonemaier games, Ticket to Ride, z-man games

Root TTRPG gets a flash sale as the animals go wild

July 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Root RPG sale runs only until July 31st and is an all-new offering from the bundle site.

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

Your next BBEG: TSR’s Dragon contributor Jerry Joe Seltzer brings on the villains

July 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These are not just antagonists; they are cataclysmic forces capable of reshaping entire worlds, providing high stakes challenges that will push your heroes to their limits.

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

Genre Police: The Deaths Of The Author

July 10, 2023 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

Do I run them how the original creators thought about them? I certainly don’t run them the way the latest owners intend them to be run.

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

Urban Arcana: Vote Evil Genius finalists

July 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 39 Comments

Previously, Geek Native could reveal the ten semi-finalists; we can announce the three finalists in this post. The winner will be paid by Evil Genius, get full credit, and their setting goes into print.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: evil genius productions, urban arcana

Goblin Dice offer 5e adventures, merch and loads of misfits and mayhem mathrocks

July 8, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Backers at £14 get one dice set from any of the designs that have been unlocked. At this tier, there’s that free 5e adventure and access to the add-on store for those t-shirts and other goodies.

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

Superhero Week: Avatar of Gaia RPG is as cheap as you want it to be

July 8, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As part of the Superhero Cinematic Universe, Avatar of Gaia is a one-shot that can but does not need to be, used in conjunction with the others. If you take the latter route, you build a longer narrative.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: superhero week, w.h. arthur

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #212

July 8, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s Geek Native’s news round-up with news US newspapers taking pot-shots at schools for using D&D, PocketQuest deals, and chaos rift reminders.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cohors Cthulhu, ENnies, lancer, Modiphius Entertainment, routinely itemised

You’ve been evil: Rectify is a solo horror RPG about death

July 7, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Gaia Complex designer Chris Shepperson, aka Shep, has crowdfunded a new and solo tabletop RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chris shepperson, horror, kickstarters, solo rpgs

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