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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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Tabletop & RPGs Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 175).

Download for Free: The Nausicaa-inspired tabletop RPG Cloud Empress

September 26, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The core rules for Cloud Empress are out and free to download in PDF. The game uses the horror RPG Mothership for an engine and weighs in at 58 pages of ecological science fantasy. Publisher, worlds by watt, describe; Cloud Empress is an expansive, Nausicaa-inspired fantasy campaign setting for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. Cloud […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, mothership

Society of Rafa: Heal and deal with moral dilemmas

September 25, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rachel Atwood, Jonathan Davidson and the Society of Rafa team have hit their funding goal for the heartfelt RPG of healing and spirits. There’s time for stretch goals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Flying Circus: Aviation-fantasy RPG bundle

September 25, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We have until October 16th to join the Flying Circus with this ttRPG offer from Newstand and the Bundle of Holding

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

Feud: A supernatural dark-age RPG adventure of revenge

September 24, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Feud must go in Jonathan Denham’s 60-page zine RPG set in a low fantasy dark age that’s very different to typical worlds.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Genre Police: What’s My Motivation?

September 24, 2023 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

In 1895, the proto-structuralist theatre scholar Georges Polti suggested that in the making of drama, that there were really only 36 potential instigating situations that could be considered worth presenting.

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

Vynestra: Five books, 1,000+ pages and 5e for high-fantasy ancient Venice

September 24, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I met the switched-on Vynestra team at the UK Games Expo, learned a little about their plans and saw the quality of their work. Hundreds have joined their Kickstarter, pushing towards £50,000 in support in the opening days.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #223

September 23, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news roundup, delivered to your inbox every Friday night. It’s your one-stop shop for all the latest RPG news, reviews, discoveries, tips, and interviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragons, final fantasy, final fantasy xiv, Mongoose Publishing, paranoia, routinely itemised, Square Enix

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Coyote & Crow 

September 22, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Set in an America without colonisation, the game had a mighty success of a Kickstarter, delivered and picked up the Diana Jones Award for excellence in gaming and the CRIT Award for the best multiplayer RPG.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alternative history, coyote & crow, spotlight

The Yellow King is a reality-bending and price-warping RPG bundle

September 22, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pelgrane Press charges nearly £100 for The Yellow King RPG bundle, but that’s sold out, and the Bundle of Holding’s The Yellow King deal is for the PDFs. The deal runs to the 11th.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Cubicle 7 secure new Games Workshop Warhammer RPG license renewal

September 22, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cubicle 7 publishes the tabletop roleplaying games for Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play, Warhammer Soulbound, Warhammer 40K Imperium Maledictum and Warhammer 40K Wrath & Glory.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cubicle 7 Entertainment, games workshop, imperium maledictum, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer 40k, wrath & glory

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